SOOJII APPAM

Ingredients:

1 ½ cups of all purpose flour
Little salt
Water as needed

1 cup roasted soojii
1 ¼ cups of sugar
2 tbs of ghee
1 ¾ cups of water
1 tbs chopped cashew nuts roasted
A pinch of cardamom powder
A pinch of salt
Oil for frying

Method:
Mix the flour with the salt, add water little by
little and knead it into a soft dough.
Like what we do for boli.
Keep it covered for ½ an hour.

Add the sugar and water in a wok, cook until the sugar
is dissolved. Add 1 tbs of ghee, and cardamom powder
and allow to boil once.
Slow the flame, add in the roasted sooji, little by little.
Stir well till it is cooked and forms into a ball.
Add in the other tbs of ghee, mix well and remove.
Add in the roasted cashew nuts, mix well and let it cool.

When cool shape the soojii mixture into lime sized balls.
Take a little kneaded all purpose flour mixture.
Cover the soojii ball with the kneaded flour.
Take a plastic paper, apply little oil on it.
Now put the prepared ball and pat it into a round disc.
See that it is not very thick.

Now heat the oil on medium flame.
Fry each appam on both sides till cooked.
Drain them on oil paper.
Serve for tea.

IN The Tray:
the kneaded flour, sooji balls,
and the patted sooji appam