Ingredients:

• Maida or American flour – 3 cups
• Salt – to taste
• Water – 3 cups
• 1 – coconut, scraped
• Sugar – 2 tbsp

Method:

1. Mix flour with a little salted water, should be like chapatti dough.
2. Roll out using flour on a board like you would to make a chapatti.
3. Then using a small saucer or tiffin cover, just cut out the rounds, keep on a tray.
4. Now in a broad mouth vessel filled with a little more than 1/2 with water, allow to boil.
5. Once it starts to boil, drop 4 or 5 mallithas into the bubbling water.
6. When cooked, the mallithas will come to the top.
7. Remove with a flat spoon, drain well, place on a greased plate.
8. Use scraped coconut & sugar to eat.

Recipe courtesy of Pearl Subramanian