For the outer cover : All purpose flour | Maida 1 cup Sooji | rava 1 tblsp Hot Ghee 2 tblsp Salt a pinch For the filling Badam | almonds 8 Pistachios 20 Cashew nuts 10 Dates 6 Fennel seeds 1/2 tsp (optional) Cardamom 2 Sugar 2 tblsp Desiccated coconut or 2 tblsp
In a wide bowl add the flour, sooji and hot ghee. Mix this well. The flour should be like a bread crumbs. When you hold the flour with your hands it should hold and when you leave it, it should break. Just keep it aside for 5 minutes.
Add water to this little by little and make it into a pliable dough. Cover this and keep this aside for 15 minutes. Make small lemon sized dough out of the dough. Cover it and keep.
Put the badam,cashews, pistachios, cardamon and fennel seeds into a mixie and pulse it once. Add the chopped dates, desiccated coconut and sugar. Pulse twice and the filling is ready now.
It yields approximately 1/2 cup of filling. Take a small lemon sized ball of the dough and roll it into a small circle.
Keep 1 tblsp of the filling in the center. Grease the edges with water and bring all the sides to the center and carefully close it.
Pinch out the extra dough on the top . Make it a perfect round.
Repeat this for the rest of the dough and filling. The filling was little extra left out for this measurement of flour. Till you make the rest , keep it covered with a damp cloth. Heat oil for deep frying. Fry them in batches in a medium low flame .
Once they turn golden brown take it out from the oil and drain it in a kitchen towel. Once it is cool, store them in air tight containers.
This can be stored for 3-4 days.
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