KAJJI KAYALU


Ingredients: - Maida (Allpurpose flour) - 150gms, Jaggery (Sharkara) or sugar - 75 gms, cardamom (Elakka) powder - 1 spoon, cashewnuts - 25gms, raisins (Onakka munthiri) – 15gms, poppy seeds (Khashakhasha) - 1 spoon, roasted ground nuts (Kappalandi) - 25gms, dry coconut powder - 100gms, ghee - 1 spoon, oil - for frying.

Method: - Sieve maida. Melt ghee and pour it into the maida and knead it to make soft dough, by using little water. For the filling, grind the dry coconut to coarse powder. Grind cashew nuts, ground nuts, khus-khus to a coarse powder. Mix sugar with the above powder along with cardamom powder, coconut powder and raisins. Keep it aside. Make small lemon size balls of the dough and roll it like chapattis and cut into semi circles. Take one part of the chapatti, shape it into a cone and fill it with the mixture. Close the top by wetting your fingers. Fry it in hot oil till golden brown.