Ingredients vegetarian 4 servings

• 2 cups maida flour
• 1 tbsp rice flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tbsp ghee
• 3/4 cup refined oil for deep-frying

for sweet filling:

• 50 gm split gram dhal-soaked for 30 mins and half-cooked for 5 mins.
• 50 gm crushed Jaggery
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1/2 cup grated coconut-roasted in 2 tsp ghee
• 4 green cardamoms

Directions

1. Grind coarsely the ingredients in the filling using a mixer-grinder to a thick paste.Keep it aside.
2. Mix maida,rice flour,salt,ghee with required water and knead this into a soft dough.
3. Shape them into lemon sized balls and spread them into small puris.
4. Place 2 spoonful sweet filling inside the spread puris and fold it and seal the sides by pressing the edges and it comes to a semi-circular shape.
5. Deep fry this in oil till golden brown on both sides.
6. Serve this Somaasi hot.

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