Somasu

Somas

It is a type of Indian Sweet. Made for functions like Diwali, karthigai.

Cuisine : Indian

Preparation time : 30 mins

Cooking time : 10 mins

Course : Sweet

Main Ingredients : Maida, coconut and porikadalai/Pottukadalai

Ingredients :

Maida – 3 cups

Water to knead the dough – 1/2 cup

Oil for frying

Porikadalai – 1 cup

Coconut grated – 1/2 cup

Sugar – 1 cup

Cardamom crushed – 1 tsp

Cashew nut ground – 2 tbsp

Preparation :

Make a dough using maida and ghee with little water. Not too soft or too hard, you can add little salt(optional)

For filling, heat a pan, add ghee. roast grated coconut for a while. Then powder porikadalai and sugar. Mix everthing – Porikadalai powder, sugar, cardamom, cashews. Filling ready.

With dough, you can divide into small ball. Using rolling pin, make a round chapathi, keep the filling in center and close it.

Wet the edges with water and just press with a fork. So that the filling will stay inside.
In another pan, heat the oil and fry those somas.

Serve it hot or little later.

Serving per recipe : 10

Calories per recipe : 300