Halwai February 10, 2025

Ingredients:

• 500 gms – Maida
• 10 gms – salt
• 100 gms – Sugar
• 200 gms – Jaggery
• 1/2 Coconut
• 5 gms – cardamoms, crushed
• oil for frying
• water for the dough

Method:

  1. Mix salt and maida together and rub it in a little ghee.
  2. Add a little water and make a tight dough.
  3. Set it aside.
  4. Grate the jaggery and coconut.
  5. Melt ghee in a pan, add the grated jaggery, coconut, sugar and crushed cardamom and stir over low heat to make a fine mixture.
  6. Remove it and let it cool.
  7. Make equal number of medium-sized balls out of the dough and the jaggery-coconut mixture.
  8. Roll out the dough into puris.
  9. Place one ball of the sweet mixture on one half of each puri.
  10. Fold each puri into a crescent shape and seal the edges with small twists.
  11. Heat oil in a kadai and deep fry the puris till they become golden brown.
  12. Serve hot.