Karanji
By: Anita Mokashi
Published: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 11:29pm

Ingredients




For Dough
1 cup All Purpose Flour / Maida
1/4 cup Sooji / Rawa
2 tsp Oil
1/2 cup warm Milk
pinch of Salt
For Filling
1 tsp Poppy Seeds / KhasKhas
1 tsp Sooji / Rawa
1 cup Dry Grated Coconut
1 cup Powdered Sugar
1/4 tsp Cardamom powder
Assorted Nuts
Extra
2 tsp Rice Flour
2 tsp Ghee
Oil for frying
food color

Preparation

1 For Cover / Coating 2 Heat up 2 tsp oil. Mix all purpose flour, sooji, salt in to a bowl and pur hot oil over it. Mix well till the time mixture becomes crumbly. 3 Pour warm milk slowly to make medium consistency dough, not too hard and too soft. 4 Cover and keep the dough for 30 mts. 5 For Filling / Stuffing 6 Dry roast sooji and poppy seeds separately till the time they get light brown color. 7 Add coconut to dry roasted sooji and poppy seeds, add sugar, cardamom powder, dry fruits and mix well. 8 To make Karanji 9 Take the dough and again knead to make it smooth. Divide dough in to 3 equal parts. Add 3 different food color to 3 different parts of dough. Roll them in to three thin roti. 10 Mix rice flour and ghee to make it smooth and creamy. 11 Now take one thin roti, spread rice flour mixture evenly on it, place another roti on the top of it, again spread rice flour mixture. 12 Now place third roti, roll it evenly from all the sides to make it little thin. Again spread some ricr flour mixture. 13 Now start to roll these three rotis together likr Swiss Roll. 14 Stretch it out little bit, now divide it in to equal parts. 15 Take ball and roll like poori, add stuffing, apply milk around its edges and seal the karani well. 16 Use fork and make some design around karanji. 17 Now deep fry till the time it gets nice golden color. 18 Tips: 19 Making of layered Karanji is optional. You can make simple plane karanji using same dough.

About

Karanji as known in Marathi is a popular Diwali snack among Maharashtrians. It is a deep fried sweet snack made from all-purpose flour and is stuffed with coconut, nuts and sugar mixture.