Sweet Somas recipe or Karchikai or Karanji recipe is a traditional Indian sweet made during festive days. It is also one of the neivedyam served on Vinayagar chathurthi and made on diwali.

Find here the Somas recipe with step by step instructions and complete video recipe. Only that it involves certain technique to follow to fill the sweet in dough. otherwise, its simple and easy.

Sweet Somas recipe – Video recipe:

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Sweet Somas recipe:

Sweet Somas recipe – Pictorial Description:

1. In a mixing bowl, add peanuts, fried gram (pottukadalai) and Sugar

   

   

   

2. Mix everything and
3. coarsely grind them
4. A pinch of cardamom powder is added to sweet mixture and keep it aside
5. Heat ghee in a pan,
6. Roast grated coconut in it until its reddish brown in colour.
7. transfer the fried coconut mixture onto the coarsely ground sweet mixture
8. Now again in a mixing bowl, add maida, Rava/sooji, salt, ghee and baking soda. Rava is added to get a crispy Somas
   

   

   

   

   

   

9. Add little water and make it a firm dough
10. Cover and rest it for 30 minutes.

    

    

11. Now in a small bowl, mix together maida and water to a thick paste
12. this paste is used to seal the sides of somas
13. Take a small portion of the dough, make a ball and flatten it to thin layer
14. Make even circles with a lid
15. Place the filling onto one side
16. Seal the edges with maida paste
17. now, cover the somas from the other end without filling and press the sides gently
18. press it with fork
19. heat oil and drop the prepared somas in hot oil
20. turn sides and cook it until crispy and brown