Sukhiyan Recipe

Sukhiyan is a traditional kerala tea time snack mostly available in small teashops. This snack is very tasty and delicious. The stuffing is made with green gram. This is a highly nutritious food because the green gram is a rich source of low-fat protein and fiber.
Here is the recipe..


Ingredients:

for filling

• 1/2 kg of whole green gram
• 1/4 kg of jaggery
• 2 cups of grated coconut
• 3/4 tea spoon of cardmom powder

for the dough

• 2 cups of all purpose flour
• A pinch of baking powder
• A pinch of salt
• 25 gr  of coconut milk
• As required of water
• Oil for deep frying

Cooking Method

• Soak the green gram overnight.
• Cook the green gram with some water (don't add too much of water,so that it will become mushy).
• In a pan make jaggery cyrup (add 1/4 cup of water).
• When it melts add coconut and cooked green gram.Mix well
• Saute well when it becomes thick and dry.
• In this stage add the cardmom powder to this and mix well.
• Remove from heat and allow it to cool.
• Make small balls from this.
• Mix together all purpose flour, coconut milk, salt and baking powder.
• Add water to this slowly and make it to a thick dough.
• Dip the green gram balls into this and fry it till it become golden brown.