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Sweet Somasi
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.