Sweet Potato Fried Dumplings

Name: Sweet Potato Fried Dumplings
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 7-8 sweet potatoes/ranga aloo; 1/4 th cup all purpose flour; 1 cup sugar; 1.5 cups water; 1 cup oil for frying; For stuffing:; 1 cup scraped coconut; 2 tbsp khowa/khoya; 2 tbsp date palm jaggery crushed

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

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This is a traditional Bengali sweet called 'Ranga Aloor Rosher Pantua' and mainly done during Sankranti.Date Palm Jaggery,the new harvest to mark the celebration of Poush Sankranti is used with coconut.While the outer crust is mainly done by boiling sweet potatoes and later made into fried dumplings,the inner filling varies from coconut to khowa and sometimes both are mixed and stuffed in the dumplings.

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

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Ingredients

4 servings

7-8sweet potatoes/ranga aloo
1/4 th cup all purpose flour
1 cupsugar
1.5 cupswater
1 cupoil for frying
Forstuffing:
1 cupscraped coconut
2 tbspkhowa/khoya
2 tbspdate palm jaggery crushed

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Steps

1

Cut and boil sweet potatoes. They should be just tender so that they can be mashed well and not become mushy. Peel and mash them. Add all-purpose flour and knead so that no lumps are there.
2

Scrape coconut. Melt jaggery in a pan with 1/4th cup water. When the syrup is reduced to a sticky consistency, add the coconut and toss. Mix khowa and stir continuously till a lump is formed. Set aside the filling to cool. Pinch lemon sized balls from the potato. Shape it into a cup and add 1 tsp coconut filling in it. Press evenly and shape into round balls.Toss the balls in dry flour.
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Make a syrup by boiling water and sugar and boil till one string consistency. Heat refined oil in a wok and fry the dumplings till golden brown. Dip the dumplings in hot sugar syrup and set in a wide bowl as these will absorb sugar syrup and become fluffy. Give a standing time so that the fried dumplings are well coated in syrup. Serve hot or cold.