Sweet Somas

Somas is a traditional sweet recipe of Tamilnadu, which was often made during festivals in olden days, when the modern sweets were not known and well popular. In olden days mysore pak, somas, paniyaram, achu murukku etc were the sweets made during deepavali.

Here again the pooranam can be made with lot of variations like change in ingredients from fried gram to rava. Professional makers will get it right and the outer layer cover will be crispy, then only it will taste good. The new trials may give it a chewy taste.

This time my friend wanted to make it so we both decided to do and we got it very well. We have used coconut and fried gram only, you can use rava also instead of fried gram. Try it and you will like this traditional sweet recipe.

Let us see how to make sweet somas

Preparation time – 30 minutes

Cooking time – 30 minutes

Yield – 20 somas

Ingredients:

For dough

Maida – 1 cup

Rava – ¼ cup

Salt – pinch

For Filling

Coconut – ½ cup

Fried gram(pottu kadalai – ½ cup

Khus khus – 1 tablsp

Sugar – ¾ cup

Cardamom powder – ¼ tsp

Ghee – 3 tsp

Oil – for frying

Method:

Add maida, rava and salt in a bowl and mix well. Add water little by little and make a smooth dough. Cover the dough with wet cloth and set aside for 30 minutes.

Grind pottukadalai coarsely in the mixer.

Heat ghee in a pan and add grated coconut and sauté for about few minutes. Add sugar, ground pottukadalai, Khus khus and cardamom powder. Mix well and switch off the stove.

Take lemon size ball in the dough and make big chapatti. Cut small round pori with a help of small bowl or lid. Place one teaspoon filling over the pori and fold the pori.