Mishti aloor puli/Sweet Potato Gulabjamun
1 kg shakarkand/sweet potato
½ cup flour
For the filling
1 coconut, grated
200 gm khoya/mava
1 cup sugar
For the sugar syrup
1 liter water
3 cups sugar
First make the sugar syrup. Boil the sugar and water
together to get syrup like consistency. It is totally up to you whether you
want the sugar to be too sweet or mildly so.
Grate the coconut. Heat a pan, add the coconut, khoya and
sugar and cook till the whole thing comes together. Remember the filling must
be quite dry or the puli will split open.
Boil the sweet potato. I usually take the pressure cooker
off the stove just seconds before it is about to whistle. The important thing
here is not to overcook the potatoes or your pulis will not take shape. Once
cool, mash the potatoes.
Slowly add the flour 1 tbsp at a time and knead. The
amount of flour will vary depending on how much the potatoes have been boiled.
The lesser the flour, the better the taste.
Heat oil for deep frying. Always do
a test run brfore you shape all the pulis. Take a small bit of the potato
dough, make a center and put some filling in it. Now carefully close the centre
and make a smooth ball or oval shape. There must be no cracks. Deep fry one
puli first to test whether it is going to spilt open or not.
Deep fry the pulis and put them in the cooled sugar syrup.
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