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Sweet Somas recipe – Karanji recipe

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Sweet Somas recipe or Karchikai or Karanji recipe is a traditional Indian sweet made during festive days. It is also one of the neivedyam served on Vinayagar chathurthi and made on diwali.

Find here the Somas recipe with step by step instructions and complete video recipe. Only that it involves certain technique to follow to fill the sweet in dough. otherwise, its simple and easy.

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Sweet Somas recipe:

sweet somas recipe

Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time35 minutes
Servings: 15 Somas

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup peanuts
  • 1/2 cup fried gram
  • 1 pinch cardamom powder
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup coconut
  • 2 cups maida
  • 1 pinch baking soda
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 1/4 cup rava
  • 2 tbsp ghee

Instructions

  • In a mixing bowl, add peanuts, fried gram (pottukadalai) and Sugar. Mix everything and coarsely grind them. A pinch of cardamom powder is added to sweet mixture and keep it aside
  • Heat 1 tbsp ghee in a pan, Roast grated coconut in it until its reddish brown in colour. transfer the fried coconut mixture onto the coarsely ground sweet mixture
  • Now again in a mixing bowl, add maida, Rava/sooji, salt, ghee and baking soda. Add little water and make it a firm dough
  • Cover and rest it for 30 minutes.
  • Now in a small bowl, mix together maida and water to a thick paste. this paste is used to seal the sides of somas.
  • Take a small portion of the dough, make a ball and flatten it to thin layer. Make even circles with a lid. Place the filling onto one side.
  • Seal the edges with maida paste. now, cover the somas from the other end without filling and press the sides gently. press it with fork
  • heat oil and drop the prepared somas in hot oil. turn sides and cook it until crispy and brown

Sweet Somas recipe – Pictorial Description:

  1. In a mixing bowl, add peanuts, fried gram (pottukadalai) and Sugar
  2. Mix everything andsweet somas recipe
  3. coarsely grind themsweet somas recipe
  4. A pinch of cardamom powder is added to sweet mixture and keep it aside
  5. Heat ghee in a pan,sweet somas recipe
  6. Roast grated coconut in it until its reddish brown in colour.sweet somas recipe
  7. transfer the fried coconut mixture onto the coarsely ground sweet mixturesweet somas recipe
  8. Now again in a mixing bowl, add maida, Rava/sooji, salt, ghee and baking soda. Rava is added to get a crispy Somas
  9. Add little water and make it a firm doughsweet somas recipe
  10. Cover and rest it for 30 minutes.
  11. Now in a small bowl, mix together maida and water to a thick paste
  12. this paste is used to seal the sides of somas
  13. Take a small portion of the dough, make a ball and flatten it to thin layersweet somas recipe
  14. Make even circles with a lid
  15. Place the filling onto one sidesweet somas recipe
  16. Seal the edges with maida pastesweet somas recipe
  17. now, cover the somas from the other end without filling and press the sides gentlysweet somas recipe
  18. press it with forksweet somas recipe
  19. heat oil and drop the prepared somas in hot oilsweet somas recipe
  20. turn sides and cook it until crispy and brownsweet somas recipe

 

 

 

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