Sweet somas recipe with step by step pictures
Sweet somas is a traditional south-indian sweet. It is most commonly made for diwali festival. My mother-in-law make it for diwali and give it to all our relatives. She makes it very tasty and I liked it very much. Today I have made it with full of joy because I missed this sweet for the past two diwalis.
This sweet somas looks like fried momos with sweet stuffing inside. I usually make the stuffings more quantity and store it in air-tight container and keep it in refrigerator for further use. Today I have made dough using half of the quantity that is mentioned below and store the remaining stuffing to make somas after few days. Try this recipe at your home. Hope you like it
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Enjoy the food !
Ingredients :
For the dough :
. Maida / all purpose flour - 2 cup
. Rava / semolina - 4 tblsp
. Oil - 2 tblsp
. Salt to taste
. Water as needed
For the stuffing :
. Grated coconut - 1 cup
. Sugar - 3/4 cup
. Cashew nuts - 6
. Almonds - 6
. White sesame seeds - 1 tsp
. Fried gram / pottukadalai - 1 tblsp
. Cardomom - 2
Method :
1. Take maida. Add rava, oil, salt to it. Mix well until oil combines with flour. Add water little by little and knead it to make a stiff dough as like for poori. Cover with lid and rest it for about 2 hours.
2. Roast the grated coconut with a tsp of oil. Remove to plate. Roast cashews, almonds, sesame seeds and fried gram with a tsp of oil.
3. Ground sugar along with cardomom. Remove to plate. Ground the roasted nuts.
4. Mix roasted coconut, powdered sugar and nuts powder well. The stuffing is ready.
5. Take the dough and make into small dough balls.
6. Flatten the dough ball with rolling pin . Place a tsp of stuffing at center. Cover it. Seal the edges. Use a fork to seal it.
7. Similarly make all of it. Keep it aside.
8. Heat oil for frying. Keep the flame to low -medium . Drop the prepared somas. Fry both the sides until golden brown. Strain it and remove to plate. Serve.
Pictorial :
Take maida in a mixing bowl
Add rava, oil and salt
Mix well until oil combines with the flour
Add water little by little and knead it to make a stiff dough just like as we make it for poori. Cover with lid and rest it for about 1 - 2 hours
Take grated coconut in a kadai along with a tsp of oil ( you can use ghee instead of oil)
Roast it in low flame until the moisture goes out and you get the aroma. Remove to bowl
Take fried gram, cashew nuts, almonds and sesame seeds
Add in kadai along with a tsp of oil
Roast in low flame until you get the aroma and the nuts turns slightly brown
Let it cool and transfer to mixer jar
Ground it to coarse powder. Remove to bowl
Take sugar and cardomom in a mixer jar
Ground it to fine powder. Remove to bowl
Take powdered sugar, ground nuts and roasted coconut
Mix everything well
Take the dough and make it into small dough balls
Flatten the dough using rolling pin
Use a container lid to cut into round shape
Remove the extra dough
Place a tsp of stuffing at center
Cover the stuffing with dough
Use a fork to seal the somas
Similarly make all the somas
Heat oil for frying. Keep the flame to low-medium
Drop the somas into oil
Fry both the sides until golden brown
Strain the somas
Remove to plate. Similarly fry all the somas
Tasty 😋 sweet somas is ready. Serve and spread the happiness 🙂
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