Cuisine: Telangana
Category: Dessert
Prep: 5 min
Cook: 15 min
Serves: 10
Difficulty: Easy
🌿 Vegetarian
Dry-roasted semolina bound with sugar, ghee and cardamom into sweet balls — the simplest and most widely made festival sweet of Telangana.
Ingredients
- 2 cups fine semolina (ravva / sooji)
- 3/4 cup sugar — powdered
- 1/2 cup ghee
- 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
- 2 tbsp cashews — fried in 1 tsp ghee
- 2 tbsp raisins
- A pinch of saffron soaked in 1 tbsp warm milk
Method
- Heat a heavy pan. Add fine semolina. Dry-roast on medium-low stirring continuously for 8 to 10 minutes until the semolina is golden and smells nutty.
- Remove from heat. Cool 5 minutes until warm but handleable.
- Add powdered sugar, cardamom powder, saffron milk, fried cashews and raisins. Mix well.
- Add liquid ghee. Mix until the mixture comes together.
- Test: press a small amount between fingers — it should hold shape when pressed.
- If too dry add 1 tbsp more ghee. Shape into small balls while the mixture is still warm — it firms as it cools.
- Press firmly in the palm. Cool completely.
- Store in an airtight container for 2 weeks.