Easy Churma recipe

Churma is a delicacy served with Dal-Bati. There are various versions of churma- churma laddoos, deep fried crumbly churma, etc.
My version is healthier (read less ghee :D), and a very easy recipe. Get all the right ingredients in right quantities, mix them and you are done.

Ingredients:
(for 6 people)

6 batis
Sugar: 1 cup or to taste
2 tsp Mishri: crushed coarsely
4 elaichi: crushed coarsely
Kesar: few strands
2 tsp Gulab jal
1tbsp raisins
1/4 cup broken unsalted cashews
1/4 cup unsalted pistachios
1 tsp black pepper: crushed coarsely

Method:

1. Make batis with this recipe without adding salt.
2. Once the batis are cool enough to handle, crumble them with hands and crush in food processor.
3. Mix rest of the ingredients and you are done!
4. Churma tastes great by itself . Also tastes great mixed with dal, try it to believe it :)

Bati recipe

Marwari food is incomplete without dal bati churma. Crispy hot batis drowned in melted ghee along with spicy dal, chutney, bharta with sweet churma is a party in mouth!
Recipes of each of the above will be given in separate posts.

After lots of hits and misses, have come up with the following recipe which always makes perfect batis. An ideal bati should have golden crispy crust and crumbly inside.

Ingredients for 6 batis-
(Please double the quantities for more batis)

1 cup wheat flour
1/2 cup sooji (the coarser the better)
1 tbsp yogurt
salt to taste
lukewarm water-about 1 cup
2 tbsp melted ghee( for dough)
1 cup melted ghee ( for dipping batis)

Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients except for water and knead till the mixture looks like crumbled bread.
2. Slowly add lukewarm water and make a dough. Please note that the dough should not be hard else it would make very hard and dense batis. (The dough should be harder than chapati dough but softer than poori dough)
3. Cover the dough and let it sit for half an hour.
4. Heat oven at 400F.
5. Make 6-7 balls, taper them a little at the center and heat in oven for 15 minutes.
6. After 15 minutes, flip them over and heat again for 15 minutes. While batis are heating, warm one cup ghee in a bowl.
7. Take the batis out from the oven. The color should be golden brown from both sides and should have cracks all over which means the heat has penetrated inside.
8. Immediately transfer the batis in melted ghee.
9. Enjoy with dal, chutney, bharta and churma.