Panjiri
Preparation Time
20 minutes
Cooking Time
10 minutes
Difficulty Level
easy
Meal Type
Dessert
Serves 12
Key Ingredients
- Whole wheat (sharbati) atta
About This Recipe
Panjiri is the Punjabi winter mix: whole wheat atta roasted in ghee until it smells nutty, sweetened with sugar and studded with nuts. It is eaten by the spoonful, plain or with warm milk, a small amount at a time, which is how a dense mix of ghee and sugar is meant to be eaten.
The atta is the whole dish: roasted slowly in ghee until light brown, because the roasting is where the flavour comes from. Sugar and crushed nuts go in off the heat, and the mix is spread on a wide plate to cool, so it stays loose and spoonable rather than clumping into lumps.
For dhania panjiri, roast two tablespoons of coriander seeds along with the atta and crush them in before the sugar; it is the sharper, more aromatic version. For the laddu-shaped winter sweet that binds the same atta and ghee with jaggery, see our methi ladoo recipe. Sharbati atta has a naturally sweet aroma, which is exactly what panjiri wants.
Ingredient List
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Panjiri
- Whole wheat (sharbati) atta — 1 cup
- Ghee — 8 tbsp
- White sugar — 8 tbsp
- Almonds, slivered — 2 tbsp
- Melon seeds — 1 tbsp
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Serving Suggestions
Eat panjiri by the spoonful with a glass of warm milk in the morning, or sprinkle it over warm milk as a quick winter breakfast. A spoonful beside a cup of chai works as a small sweet. It keeps in an airtight jar for weeks, so make it once and spoon it out all season.
Tips for Cooking Panjiri
Roast the atta low and slow; the smell turns from raw flour to toasted nuts when it is done, and that is the moment to stop. Stir in the sugar off the heat, or it melts into a sticky lump. Cool the panjiri on a wide plate and stir it once in between, so it stays loose. The hot pan keeps cooking the atta after you think you have stopped.
Chef’s Note
Panjiri is measured in spoonfuls, not plates. One serving of panjiri weighs about 30 g and comes to about 161 kcal; the ghee supplies more than half of that, and the sugar and the atta make up the rest, with the nuts on top adding a little more. Make it when the weather turns and spoon it out through the winter.
Per serving (approx.): 161 kcal, protein 1.1 g, carbs 16 g, fat 10 g, fibre 1.1 g. Computed from IFCT 2017 / USDA values for the listed quantities. Measures: 1 cup = 240 ml, 1 tbsp = 15 ml, 1 tsp = 5 ml.
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Sep 11, 2026
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