Monday, 28 September 2015

Kakara Pitha or Coconut stuff sweet semolina cake

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Ingredients:

  • 1 cup Semolina
  • 2 cups water
  • 1/2 cup  and 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup shredded coconut
  • 1/4 cup cashew nuts and golden raisins
  • Vegetable oil for deep fry.

Preparation
For Stuffing
In a sauce pan, mix properly the shredded coconut, 1/4 cup sugar, 
cashew nuts and raisins  and  roast it in medium flame for 10-15 minutes and keep aside.

For Dough

  • In a sauce pan boil water add salt and sugar to it.
  • When the water comes to boil,add semolina  slowly and stir it properly to avoid forming lumps.
  • Keep it on the flame for 2 min. 
  • Remove from flame and keep aside.
  • Wait till the dough cools down to room temperature, knead the dough with oil to make it softer. 
  • Make small balls from the above dough, roll out each ball into small round shape and put coconut stuff to it, and make as the shape showed in above pic by pressing in between your palms.
  • Heat oil in a frying pan and deep fry  in a medium high flame till it turns golden brown from each side.

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