Pua To Break Your Karva Chauth Fast

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Pua is a special food item prepared on the festival of Karva Chauth. This dessert recipe basically hails from Uttar Pradesh. Pua is a sweet dish that has loads of religious significance. We all know that married women fast on Karva Chauth from dawn to dusk. They break their fast after praying to the moon for a long life for their husbands. In some communities, pua is eaten to break this fast.

This Indian sweet is not very extravagant. In fact, it is quite easy to prepare. You can prepare this dessert recipe with just 3 to 4 ingredients. It is a deep fried Indian sweet so it is not exactly diet friendly. However you can manipulate the amount of sweetness in it by adjusting the sugar content.

Serves: 6
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients

• Wheat Flour- 2 cups
• Sugar- 1 cup
• Milk- 1.5 cups
• Coconut- 1 cup (grated)
• Oil- 1 cup

Procedure

1. Take all the ingredients except oil and milk in a huge mixing bowl.

2. Pour a few spoons of milk at once and beat the mixture. Do this till 1.5 cups of milk gets used up and the mixture attains a thick consistency.

3. Heat oil in a deep bottomed frying pan. Wait till the oil steams. Then reduce the flame to medium.

4. Have small handfuls of the Puha mixture at once and drop it into the steaming oil.

5. Fry the pua balls for 3-4 minutes on all sides and strain them from the oil.

Pua is usually eaten with kadai ki puri (wheat flout puri). You can also have it as a dessert on its own.