Thursday, December 4, 2008

Kajji Kayalu (andhra sweet)

Ingredients

Maida(Allpurpose flour) - 150 gm
Jaggery(Sharkara) or sugar - 75 gm
Cardamom(Elakka) powder - 1 tsp
Cashewnuts - 25 gm
Raisins(Onakka munthiri) - 15 gm
Poppy seeds(Khashakhasha) - 1 tsp
Roasted ground nuts
(Kappalandi) - 25 gm
Dry coconut powder - 100 gm
Ghee - 1 tsp
Oil for frying

Preparation Method
1)Sieve maida.

2)Melt ghee and pour it into the maida and knead it to make a soft dough, by using little water.

3)For the filling, grind the dry coconut to coarse powder.

4)Grind cashewnuts, ground nuts, khus-khus to a coarse powder.

5)Mix sugar with the above powder along with cardamom powder, coconut powder and raisins.
Keep it aside.

6)Make small lemon size balls of the dough and roll it like chapathis and cut into semi circles.

7)Take one part of the chapathi, shape it into a cone and fill it with the mixture. Close the top by wetting your fingers.

8)Fry it in hot oil till golden brown.


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