Golap pitha

'Golap pitha', the beautiful, rose shaped pitha has two versions. One is dried one like 'gina’ or ‘pakon pitha', fried and coated with thick sugar syrup while the other is a soft, 'gulabjamun' style version, soaked in sugar syrup. The basic dough for both of them is same. The one I will be sharing today is the soft one.

Ingredients:
1 cup flour
½ cup milk
1 cup sugar
¼ tsp salt
1 tbsp ghee
1 pieces cardamom
½" cinnamon stick
Oil for deep fry
Cookie cutter
Method:
Make syrup with sugar, cardamom, cinnamon and 2 cups water. Keep aside the syrup because we need lukewarm syrup. Now boil milk with salt and when it comes to the boiling point, add flour. Turn the heat off and let it sit for 3-4 minutes under closed lid. Make a smooth dough with boiling flour and ghee. Divide the dough into 4 balls. Roll each ball into thin bread and cut with cookie cutter. We need 3 to make 1 rose. Need to bend or spread petals to give the look of exact flower. Give them a rose flower shape. Heat oil in a pan and fry the 'pitha' till it becomes golden brown. Take out fried from oil and soak in syrup for 3 minutes. Take it out from syrup and serve beautiful 'golap pitha'.