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Sweet Somasi

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Ingredients

For the stuffing:
Roasted Bengal gram- 2 cups
Grated dry coconut- 2/3 cup
Poppy seeds- 1 � tb.sp.
Cardamom- 7-8
Sugar- as required

For the outer dough:
Semolina- 2 cups
Ghee- 4 tsp.
Rice flour- 1 tb.sp.
Maida- a little
Salt- to taste
Water
Cooking Oil- for frying

Method:

  • Remove the skin of the cardamom and powder the cardamom.
  • Take all the other ingredients for the stuffing and mildly roast them one by one in a kadai.
  • Powder all the ingredients for the stuffing in a mixer.
  • Measure the powder and take equal quantity of sugar and powder it in a mixer.
  • Add the powdered sugar to the stuffing�s mixture.
  • For the outer dough, grind the semolina in a mixer.
  • All salt and 2tsp. of ghee to the powdered semolina and mix evenly.
  • Sprinkle water to the dough and knead well.
  • Add little oil to the dough to prevent it from sticking.
  • Divide the dough into 2 equal halves.
  • Add 2 tsp of ghee to rice flour and mix it well.
  • Roll one half of the dough like a chappati. Spread the rice flour paste on the chappati.
  • Roll the other half of the dough into another chappati and place it on top of the previous chappati.
  • Roll both the chappatis together tightly. Cut it into small pieces.
  • Roll each piece on maida and roll it like a poori. Cut it into a perfect circle.
  • Keep the filling in the center of the poori and spread water on the edges.
  • Close the poori in the shape of a semi-circle.
  • Heat oil in a kadai. Deep fry the pooris in a slow flame.