Published: by Absolutely Recipes, in the Indian recipes category.

Appalu Recipe.

Ingredients:

1 Cup semolina / sooji / rava
3/4 cup sugar
3 green cardamoms powdered
4 to 5 tbsps Ghee or oil
1 cup water + 2 tbsps

Recipe Instructions:

Add water to a heavy bottom pot and bring it to a boil, add 1 tsp.
Ghee and stir.
Pour sooji / rava slowly in a stream to the boiling water, while stirring the water with the other hand to avoid lumps.
Switch off the stove.
Barely in few seconds all the water gets absorbed by rava.
Cover the pot for about 5 minutes, to finish cooking the rava thoroughly.
Add sugar and cardamom powder.
Do not cook now
mix well, let the sugar to melt fully.
The mixture looks lumpy.
Break the lumps with a ladle or masher to remove all the lumps.
On the stove on a low flame.
Cover the pot and cook for about 2 minutes.
Mix everything once more and keep the pot covered for at least 5 minutes
cool the mixture completely.
Grease the palms and knead while the mixture is warm.
Roll to 12 equal sized balls, ensure there are no cracks on the balls.
If you desire you can flatten them.
These need to be fried immediately, otherwise they will lose moisture
heat ghee or oil in a pan.
Add appalu and deep fry or shallow fry till golden

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