South Indian Recipes
Karanji Recipe
Ingredients
For cover:-Plain flour or maida (1c), ghee (1tbsp) and water to knead.
For filling:-Fine coconut flakes (1/2c), ground sugar (1/4c), khoya (1/2c), crushed almonds (tbsp), poppy seeds or khuskhus (1tbsp), cardamom powder (1tsp) and raisins (10 to 15).
Method of preparation:-
Take a sauce pan, place it over heat. Roast khoya in it until it gets light pink over low heat by stirring it continuously. Keep it to cool and then break it in fine crumbs with your fingers. Now mix flour and ghee in it, mix it well and then add enough water to make soft dough. Cover it with clean cloth and keep it aside. To make the filling mixture, roast coconut flakes, cool them and then mix all the other ingredients of filling. Keep it aside. Now make small 4 inches rounds of the dough. Place about 1 teaspoon of filling mixture in one half of round. Fold over the other half to seal the mixture. Seal the edges by pressing the ends. Make more pieces in the same way. Place them on clean cloth for 30 minutes to dry them. Now put them in hot ghee for deep fry on low heat until get light brown on both sides. Drain them and cool them. When get completely cool then store them in airtight container.
Make – 13-15 pieces
Making time – 1 hour
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