Name: Suji Kakara recipe by Sushruta Kathuria at BetterButter
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: Suji -- 2 cups; Water -- 3 + ½ cups; Sugar -- 1 cup; Salt -- A pinch to taste; Bay Leaves -- 3 pcs; Atta (Wheat Flour) -- 1 tbsp; Green Cardamom -- ¼ tsp powder; Ingredients :- for Stuffing 1. Coconut Grated -- 3 cups; Sugar -- ½ cup; Green Cardamom -- ½ tsp powdered; Khoya -- 100 gms grated; Raisins (Kaju/Kishmis) -- As per taste; Ghee -- ¼ tsp

ABOUT Suji Kakara RECIPE

It is a traditional Odia dish, commonly made on festivals and auspicious occasions. This dessert item or snack item has an outer suji covering with delicious stuffing inside

Ingredients Serving: 10

Suji -- 2 cups
Water -- 3 + ½ cups
Sugar -- 1 cup
Salt -- A pinch to taste
Bay Leaves -- 3 pcs
Atta (Wheat Flour) -- 1 tbsp
Green Cardamom -- ¼ tsp powder
Ingredients :- for Stuffing 1. Coconut Grated -- 3 cups
Sugar -- ½ cup
Green Cardamom -- ½ tsp powdered
Khoya -- 100 gms grated
Raisins (Kaju/Kishmis) -- As per taste
Ghee -- ¼ tsp

Instructions

Preparation of the stuffing - Pour ghee in a pan. Fry the Raisins (Kaju/Kishmis) for one minute and take it out.
Then fry the grated coconut in the same pan. Add Sugar, green cardamom powder to the pan. When it turns brownish in colour, mix the Khoya and the fried Raisins. Now let the mixture cool.
For the Kakara- Boil 3 cups water. Mix the Atta (wheat flour) with ½ cup normal temperature water and pour it into the boiling water and stir it well.
Add sugar, bay leaves and salt to water.
Slowly pour the Suji, stirring continuously, so that lumps are not formed. Stir till the water dries up and let it cool.
With wet hands, make small balls of the suji mixture and fill it with stuffing. Press carefully to flatten it, so that the sides does not open or cracked.
Deep fry the flattened balls in refined oil. Serve hot.

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