Jan 17, 2011

Moong Puli


Ingredients:

Moong Daal : 2/3 cup
Rice flour : 3 tblsp.
Baking soda : 1 pinch
Refine oil : for deep frying

For stuffing:
1 cup crashed coconut
100 gms jaggary

For syrup:
Water : 3 cup
Suger : 1 1/2cup
1/2 tsp crashed green cardamom


Method:
 1.Heat the pan and roast the moong daal & boil it with minimum water (for make a dough).
2.Kneed a tight dough with pre-boiled moong daal, rice powder and baking soda & keep aside.
3.Grate the coconut and keep it aside.Place a heavy bottomed wok on gas top.Pour grated coconut in it,add jaggery melts.Keeps stirring the mixture until it feels sticky.
4.Make a medium sized balls from the dough and make it like a bowl.
5.These bowl's stuffed with coconut mixture and close the open portion and give the shape like half of moon.
6.Heat the oil in a pan and deep fry.
7.In the meantime,in a wide pan,prepare sugar syrup,adding sugar in 3 cups waterand let come to boil.Add    crushed green cardamoms and simmer for 8-10 minutes.
8.Remove from oil and directly to the hot sugar syrup.