Healthy Sojji Appam

 Ingredients :

Stuffing:

Rava - 1 cup (dry roasted)

Jaggery - 1/2 - 2 cups

cardamon powder - 1/2 tsp

Ghee - 3-4 tbspoon

Nutmeg powder - 1 pinch

Outer Cover:

Wheat flour (Atta) - 1 1/2 cup (or 3/4 cup wheat flour + 3/4 all purpose flour)

Salt - pinch

Oil - 2 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/8 tsp

Knead the ingredients given under outer cover and keep it aside for 1/2 hour

Make syrup of jaggery with 1/4 cup of water and filter it if required.

In a kadai add 1 1/2 cups of water and switch on the stove.  When the water boils keep the stove in sim and add Rava slowly and keep mixing it also add 2 tbspoon of ghee.   When the rava is cooked add the jaggery water, 1 tbspoon of ghee and mix it till it forms a loose chapathi dough consistency.  Switch of the stove and allow it to cool completely.  Make small balls out of it and keep it aside.

Make balls out of the wheat flour dough prepared equal to the rava roll.   Roll the wheat flour dough into small round and keep the rava stuffind inside it and close it.  Now roll it like a paratha.  In a heated tawa transfer the rolled one and cook both the sides adding ghee/oil to it.   Original version is to fry it in oil.