Bobbattu : South Indian Special Sweet

Name: Bobbattu : South Indian Special Sweet
Total time: 5400 s
Yield: 5 people
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: Chana dal 1 and half cup; 1 cup All-purpose flour; Pinch of salt; Jaggery 1 cup; Ghee; Cardamom powder; Oil 2 tbsp

Swetha @mallika0613

This sweet is usually cooked for ugadi (South Indian new year)

Swetha @mallika0613

This sweet is usually cooked for ugadi (South Indian new year)

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Ingredients

1hr 30mins

5 people

Chana dal 1 and half cup
1 cupAll-purpose flour
Pinch of salt
Jaggery 1 cup
Ghee
Cardamom powder
Oil 2 tbsp

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Steps

1hr 30mins

1

Add chana dal along with 3 cups of water and cook it in a cooker for until 3 wistles.
Make sure that dal is not over cooked
2

Once dal is cooked, add jaggery and mix the dal and jaggery in a mixer
3

Add cardamom powder and ghee to the mixer
4

Make sure that the dal mixer is soft. Should be able to make balls from the mixure
5

Dough prep: In a bowl add all-purpose flour, a pinch of salt and mix with water. Make sure that dough is soft. Once the dough is prepared, add 1 tbsp oil to it and keep it aside for 1hour
6

Take a plastic cover to make the bobbattu ready
7

Take a lemon sized dough and dal mixer
Press the dough flat with hand, place the dal mixer ball into the flat dough cover it on all sides and press gently
8

Place pressed dough on tawa and cook on both sides with ghee on medium flame