Ingredients

Wheat flour 2 cups

Clarified butter or ghee ¾ cup to 1 cup

Sugar/ Rock candy 1 1/2 cup

Cardamom powder 1 tsp

Cloves - 4 to 5

Nutmeg powder ½ tsp

Water 1 cup

Recipe steps;

Place a kadhai on a medium flame and add ghee or clarified butter. Let it melt.

Add wheat flour in it and roast them well till it changes its color to light brown. This will take around 5 minutes in a low to medium flame. A nice aroma of ghee and wheat flour will come. Switch off the stove and keep the flour aside.

Prepare separately the sugar syrup by heating water with sugar until it becomes a good thick syrup of one string consistency. Reduce the flame to low. Add cloves and Nutmeg powder in it and mix well.

Add the flour and ghee mixture into the sugar syrup and mix well for 2 to 3 minutes.

Once it leaves the edges and becomes a heap at the center, it is ready. You can add one to two table spoon of ghee or clarified butter at this moment and mix well.

Transfer into a greased plate and spread it evenly. Let it cool down for 15 minutes and then cut into small squares.

Jagannath Ballabha is ready for offering to Lord Jagannath.