Thursday, June 25, 2009

Peneelu (Sweet Layered Puris)

Ingredients: All purpose flour (Maida) -1cup Warm water-3/4 cup or enough to make like puri dough Ghee (Clarified butter)-1Tbsp Cardamom powder- 1tsp Flattened Rice (Poha)-3/4cup Powdered sugar-1cup Sesame seeds-handful Cashews-1/4 cup Salt-pinch Method: Take all purpose flour and salt into a bowl and add warm water, mix and make it to a ball and set aside for 15-20 minutes. In 1Tbsp of ghee fry poha, until they become crisp on medium heat, while sauteing, and let it cool and grind into a powder. Toast sesame seeds until nice aroma comes. Add powdered sugar and cardamom powder to sesame seeds, and poha powder and mix everything together and set aside. Make small balls of all purpose flour dough, press like puris and deep fry them. Avoid making them too crispy. When they are hot itself sprinkle the poha and sugar mixture on each puri, fold each one into half so they look like a half moonshape. Layer the half moon shaped puris 4-6 of them as one batch. Serve them as a dessert, when they are hot or at the room temparature.

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