Karanji (Puris Stuffed With Sweet Coconut And Mawa Filling)

Ingredients	Quantity
For the dough:
Flour	30gms
Rawa	85gms
Ghee	40gms
Salt	1 pinch
Milk and water	as required for mixing dough
Oil	for frying
For the filling:
Mawa	2 tbsp
Grated coconut	55gms
Sugar	1 tbsp
Poppy seeds	1 tsp
Raisins – optional	2 tsp

To prepare the filling:     Pass the mawa through a sieve. Add the grated coconut, powdered sugar, poppy seeds and raisins, if using them. Mix well and keep aside.

To prepare the dough:   Mix flour and rawa. Rub 30 g. ghee into the flour-rawa mixture. Add salt and milk-water mixture to bind to a stiff dough. Cover and set aside for half an hour.

Divide the dough into small portions. Apply a little ghee and knead each dough ball well till smooth. Roll into puris, about eight cm. in diameter. Put a little filling in the center and fold over to form a half circle. Seal the edges with a little water. Flute the edges. Deep fry in hot oil till light brown and crisp. Drain and store in an airtight container.