Pantua (A Bengali dessert)

Name: Pantua (A Bengali dessert)
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup boiled sweet potato; 2 tbsp semolina; 4 tbsp all purpose flour / oats powder; as required Oil for frying; 1 cup jaggery; Pinch salt; 1 1/2 cup water; 1/2 tbsp baking soda; 1/2 tbsp cardamom powder

Sunita Chakrabarty @Sunita_bhukaadd

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Sunita Chakrabarty @Sunita_bhukaadd

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Ingredients

1 cupboiled sweet potato
2 tbspsemolina
4 tbspall purpose flour / oats powder
as requiredOil for frying
1 cupjaggery
Pinchsalt
1 1/2 cupwater
1/2 tbspbaking soda
1/2 tbspcardamom powder

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Steps

1

Take a mixing bowl and add mashed sweet potato, semolina, flour, salt, baking soda and mix it (don't use any water) and prepare a dough. Rest it for 15 mins.
2

Take a saucepan and add jaggery and water, bring it to a boil and add cardamom powder and switch off the stove.
3

Now prepare small balls from the dough and deep fry them in a low to medium flame till they turn brown in colour.
4

Add the fried balls to the jaggery syrup. Rest them for 1hour.
Yummy pantuas are ready.