Karanchi

Ingredients for Karanchi:

1. Maida – 1.5 cups

    Salt – For taste

2. Semolina (Rava) – 1 cup

3. Coconut scrapped – ¾ cup

4. Sugar – ½ cup

5. Cashews and raisins – 1 big spoon each

6. Ghee – 1 big spoon

7. Cardamom powder – 2 pinch

How to prepare Karanchi?

1. Add salt and water to maida and knead the dough.

2. The dough should be a little thinner in consistency comparing with chapati.

3. Heat rava in a pan and roast it.

4. Roast scrapped coconut till its water content is fully absorbed. But colour should not change.

5. In the same pan, add sugar and a big spoon of water and allow it to boil.

6. Add fried coconut to it, and also raisins and cashews.

7. Mix the contents well.

8. Add fried semolina to it along with ghee and fry the contents well.

9. Finally add cardamom powder, mix well and take off from flame.

10. Make small balls from maida dough and spread to round pappad shapes.

11. Place a little coconut filling inside it, fold from one side and make crescent shape, similar to half-moon.

12. Spread them in a paper so that moisture content is fully absorbed.

13. Heat oil and deep fry Karanchi till golden brown.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine May 1-14, 2018

Karanchi – Recipe 2

Ingredients for Karanchi – Recipe 2:

1. Maida – 1 cup

    Semolina – 1 big spoon

    Salt – ¼ small spoon

    Hot oil – 2 big spoons

    Lukewarm water – ¼ cup

2. Jaggery scrapped – ¾ cup

    Coconut scrapped – 1 cup

    Cardamom powder – ¼ small spoon

    Almonds chopped – 2 big spoons

    Pista chopped – 2 big spoons

3. Milk – 2 big spoons

4. Oil – For frying

How to prepare Karanchi – Recipe 2?

1. Mix together ingredients no: 1 to prepare the dough.

2. Make small balls from the dough and spread each to round shapes with 4 inch diameter each.

3. Mix together ingredients no: 2 to prepare the stuffing.

4. Inside each puri made, place a little stuffing and fold it.

5. Stick its edges after dipping your fingers in a little milk.

6. When it’s completely done, cover them using a moist cloth for 5 minutes.

7. Heat oil and fry each Karanchi till it turns golden brown.

8. When it cools you can serve.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine November 1-14, 2018

Read a few more Rava (Semolina) recipes here. Here is the page link. Click on the images in the gallery to read.