Sweet Somas | Somasi

Sweet Somas is a deep fried snack. It can also be prepared with savoury filling.Sweet Somas served as teatime snack,especially for Kids love it. It is easy to make very few ingredients, it can be folded in different shapes, but the folding is a little tricky, if it is not folded properly there are chances for the filling to get spread ed in oil. Folding can be done on three easy ways. The filling are wrapped in a thin sheet of dough. Somas is one of the most popular Indian snack items.
You can store it in a air tight container for a week time. It is a crispy fried snacks.

Finally i would like to add my other snack recipe collection for Diwali celebration with this post of Sweet Somas recipe, Omapodi, Boondhi, Seepu Seedai, Seedai, Thenkuzhal Murukku, Adhirasam, Kai Murukku, Karupatti Paniyaram, Kandharappam, Vellai Paniyaram,Masala Seeyam, Raw rice flour preparation

Sweet Somas | Somasi Recipe Cuisine: North India |  Recipe Category: Starter/Snacks Prep Time:  10 minutes   |  Cook time: 30 minutes    |  Yield: 11 Nos ALL PURPOSE FLOUR | MAIDA – 1 CUP RICE FLOUR | CORNFLOUR – 1 TBLSPN BUTTER - 1 TBLSPN OR 2 CUBES SALT – ONE PINCH SUGAR – 1 TSPN OIL – ¼ LT STUFFING DESIGNATED COCONUT - ½ CUP ROASTED GRAM - ½ CUP SUGAR - ½ CUP ELACHI POWDER - ½ TSPN

METHOD OF PREPARATION:

1. Use designated coconut or grate the coconut and dry roast it till you get the aroma

Add roasted gram and sugar to a mixer jar and grind it as a coarse powder.

2. Take a bowl add maida, rice flour or cornflour, sugar, salt and mix it then add butter and mix it then add water and mix it as a poori dove and grease it with oil and rest it for 5 minutes

Take another bowl add the grounded powder, elachi powder, coconut and mix it.

3. Take a gooseebery size dove and roll it like poori and place 1 tblspn of stuffing powder at one half portion and close it using the other half and press the corners with your fingers.

4. Second way you can use fork and make its impression on the corners

5.Third way use Somasi mould. Take a gooseberry size dove and roll it like poori. Grease the somasi mould with oil.

 

6. Place the poori in the mould and place 1 tblspn of the stuffing powder and close the mould and press it tightly once and then remove the extras 

7. Open it and turn the somasi mould upside down in your hand so that the somasi will come out easily.

Take a pan heat oil, test the temparature of oil by adding a pinch of dove, once the dropped pinch rises from the oil then that is the right temparture. Now carefully take the somasi and drop it into the oil.

8. Once it starts cooking the somasi will rises from the bottom of the oil then turn it to the other side. 

9. Cook both the sides in golden yellow color. It will be crispy out side and stuffing will also be cooked as below

Finally i would like to add my other sweet recipe collection for Diwali celebration along with this recipe, Carrot Halwa, Rasamalai, Mysorepak, Rava Kesari, Gasa gasa Payasam

Note

• Becareful while taking the somasi out from the mould since it is soft be careful there are chance that it can break and stuffing will come out
• Always roll the dove like a poori the size should be bigger than the mould so that the corners will be closed and stuffing will not come out