Gavvalu- Sweet fried flour nuggets

Ingredients:

Maida Flour: 1cup

Sugar: 1 tsp

Jaggery: 1/2 cup

Semolina: 1tbl sp

Oil: Deep frying

METHOD:

1. Take Maida (plain flour).  Add 1 tsp of sugar, and semolina. Mix well with hand and use sufficient water to make a fine dough. The dough should not be very tight neither too soft. Keep the dough aside.

2. Take a fork (or) if available use the small board which is meant for the purpose of making gavvalu. Take a marble size dough press it with your three fingers and a thumb finger.

Take the fork in your left hand, on its back side press the dough and role it. It takes the shape of a shell, with few groves on its back side and a hole sort of a thing in the front. Prepare all in the same way. Keep them on a dry cloth.

3. Take  jaggery in a pan add little water and keep it on stove. Once the jaggery melts, slowly stir the solution  when it comes to boil, keep checking it. The syrup must not be over cooked. To get a correct consistency follow the test.

The syrup testing is, take a little in the ladle, drop into a bowl of some water. If the syrup is not spreading in the water, and you can take with fingers try to make a ball, it should be firm. It is called (ball consistency). Keep the flame on low. Maintain the syrup consistency.

4. Take oil in a pan , heat it. When it is medium hot, slowly drop these prepared (shells) gavvalu few at a time in to the oil. Remove them before they become dark in colour. Drop them in to the syrup. Stir it nicely, so that the syrup will go into the groves too. And take from the syrup, spread them in a plate to dry.

5. As and when you are frying, put them in the syrup, and take out, if the syrup start getting thicker, add little water and warm again to keep the consistency in same way.

6. These snacks are not harmful like Candys and can be consumed in bulk.