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Ingredients

Quantity
Rice flour
400gms
Salt
½ tsp
Water
600ml
Oil
10ml
Sugar
a pinch

Filling:


Coconuts
2
Sugar
200gms
Cardamoms
10gms
Mawa
100gms
Poppy seeds
10gms
Jaggery
200gms


To make rice flour, wash and soak rice. Drain and keep it for drying. When it is dry, grind to a smooth consistency. Sieve the flour with a fine mesh sieve. Boil the water. Add salt, sugar and oil. Add rice flour little by little without making any lumps. Cook for 5 minutes. Remove from fire, knead the mixture when it is slightly hot, with an oily hand. Divide it into 21 lime-sized portions. Take one portion in the centre of the left palm and press with the right thumb at the centre, and sides with the fingers. When it becomes like a katori  or small bowl, put in some of the prepared filling. With a wet hand, make about 7-8 pleats in the sides of the rice-flour ‘bowl’. Now slowly try to close the left palm, and the pleats will come together. Press the plate together with the right hand and shape the centre to a point. Steam in a boiler for about 5-7 minutes. Serve hot.

Filling:

Grate coconut. Roast poppy seeds and powder the cardamoms. Mix together coconut, sugar and jaggery. Cook on a slow fire for about 10 minutes. Add mawa and cardamom powder and poppy seeds; cook till mixture is slightly dry.