Suji Appam

Suji Appam

Ingredients:

• Maida - 1 1/4 cup

• Bombay ravai - 1 cup

• Chopped cashew nuts - few

• Water - 2 1/2 cup

• Ghee - 2 tbsp

• Salt - 1 pinch

• Oil - for deep frying

Method:
For making outer dough:

• Make a soft dough by mixing flour,with 1 pinch salt  and needed water. 

• Knead it, add 2 tbsp oil and keep it covered for 3-4 hours. Let it remain soaked in oil.

How to make the Filling:

• In a pan , add ghee and roast the rava until the raw smell goes off and keep aside.

• In another pan add the sugar and water together, in a low flame keep stiring until the sugar gets disolved completely.

• Atlast add the ghee and roasted rava in boiling sugar and mix well.

• Once it reaches to halwa stage and when it leaves the sides of the pan, add the remaining ghee, chopped cashew nuts and switch off the flame.

• Divide the stuffing into gooseberry sized balls. Grease a plantain leaf with oil. Take a small ball of dough and place it on the plantain leaf.

• Grease your fingers with oil and flatten the dough with your fingers to form a small circle.

• Place a small ball of appam stuffing at the center and seal it on all sides forming a small ball.

• Now flatten the ball with the stuffing inside to form a thin small circle.

• Heat oil in a kadai and deep the stuffed appam in a low flame.

• Serve hot or warm crispy suji appam