Badam Puri

Ingredients:

All purpose flour or Maida - 2 cups
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Ghee - 4 tbsp
Orange food color - Pinch
Grated dry coconut(copra) - To taste
Chopped nuts - To taste
Oil - For frying
For syrup (chashni / paka ): -
Sugar - 1 cup
Water - 1 cup
Cardamom powder - 1 tsp

Method:

In a large bowl, combine flour, food color and salt.
Now add water and make soft dough (like chapathi). Keep it aside for about 20 minutes.
Now prepare sugar syrup/chashni. Add 1 cup of water to 1 cup of sugar. Bring it to boil. Keep boiling till you get a thread like consistency.
Add cardamom powder and keep aside.
Make small lemon size balls out of the dough. Keep them covered.
Dust the working surface with little flour. Take a ball and roll into round shape. Smear ghee on the surface. Now fold it into half and again half. It should look like a triangle. Then press lightly with the rolling pin. Follow the same procedure for the remaining balls.
Heat oil in a frying pan, dip prepared triangular puris one by one. Deep fry in a medium flame till they become golden brown in color.

When you take out the puris from the oil, dip them in the sugar syrup.
Let the syrup cover all side. Now remove them from the sugar syrup and keep aside on the plate.
Decorate with grated dry coconut and chopped nuts on top of each puri.