Sanjeera is a konkani sweet dish mostly prepared as prasadam during shravan masa chudi pooja. It is basically a stuffed puri with sheera as stuffing .

Ingredients for filling :

• Fine Rawa – 1 cup.
• Sugar – 1 1/2 cup.
• Water – 2 cup.
• Ghee – 1 tbsp.
• Kesar yellow colour – a little.

Ingredients for the dough :

• Maida – 1 cup.
• Wheat flour – 1/4 cup.
• Kesar colour – a little.
• Ghee – 2 tsp.
• Salt a pinch.
• Water – enough to mix the dough.
• Ghee or oil for deep frying.
• little flour for dusting.

Method for Filling :

• Heat ghee in a pan, fry rawa for one to two minutes.
• Remove from the pan and keep separately.
• Heat water in the same pan, when it start to boil add fried rawa. Keep stirring constantly till it forms a thick mass.
• Now add sugar and stir constantly till again it becomes a thick mass.
• When it doesn’t stick on to wet hands and gets a shine, remove from the fire, keep it aside.

Method :

• Mix salt, colour and ghee to the flour till it blends well.
• Add water gradually and knead to a soft pliable dough.
• Keep under wet cloth.
• Make even sized balls out of the inner filling.
• Divide outer dough into equal number balls.

• Roll the maida dough into small pooris.
• Place the stuffing in the pooris and join the edges.
• Use all stuffing and dough this way.

• Roll the stuffed dough balls to thick pooris.

• Heat ghee or oil and deep fry the pooris on a slow flame .
• Fry till crisp.