Ranga Aloor Puli Pithe or Sweet Potato Fried Dumplings

Name: Ranga Aloor Puli Pithe or Sweet Potato Fried Dumplings
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 6 Sweet Potatoes boiled, peeled and mashed; 1 cup grated coconut; 1/2 cup date palm jaggery grated; 3 tbsp maida; 1 tbsp rava or sooji soaked; 2 tbsp milk powder; 1 cup sugar; As needed oil for frying

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

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This is a traditional Bengali Sweet Potato dumplings or Ranga Aloor Puli Pithe.This is mainly done during Makar Sankranti, but can be enjoyed anytime during the cold winter season when date palm jaggery is available.

Kumkum Chatterjee @cook_12055532

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Ingredients

30 minutes

4 servings

6Sweet Potatoes boiled, peeled and mashed
1 cupgrated coconut
1/2 cupdate palm jaggery grated
3 tbspmaida
1 tbsprava or sooji soaked
2 tbspmilk powder
1 cupsugar
As neededoil for frying

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Steps

30 minutes

1

Boil sweet potatoes and mash them.Potatoes should not be mushy while boiling.Soak rava with just little water to turn it soft. Add maida and mash into a smooth dough.
2

Grate coconut and mix milk powder.Boil grated jaggery or gur with 1/4 th cup water.When the gur is dissolved and sticky,add the grated coconut mix and toss till dry.
3

Divide the mashed potato into 10 -12 equal balls.Flatten the ball and shape into cups.Add 1 tsp coconut jaggery stuffing in it and seal the edges.Shape into crescent pulis with pointed tips or into round gulab jamuns.Toss in maida and set aside.
4

Heat oil in a pan and fry the dumplings till golden brown.Make a syrup by boiling sugar or date palm jaggery.
5

Immerse the pulis or dumplings in this syrup and give it a standing time till pulis soak the syrup. Serve delicious Shankranti special traditional Bengali Sweet Potato Puli Pithe as a dessert or snack either warm or cold.