Sukhiyan or Modakam

Ingredients:-

Filling-

Green Gram or Cherupayar                 - 2 cups

Jaggery/brown sugar grated               -1 cup

Coconut (grated)                                    - 1 cup

Ghee                                                          - 1 tea spoon

Cardamom powder                                - 1 tea spoon

Water                                                        - 1 table spoon

Batter-

 Maid/ All purpose flour                       - 1 ½ cup

Salt                                                            - ½ pinch

Water

Oil  to fry

Method:- 

Wash and pressure cook green gram with just sufficient water. When the cooker releases pressure, drain extra water if any in the gram and mash coarsely the cooked gram.  In a pan add 1 table spoon of water and the Jaggery and boil it till it becomes thick add coconut and stir well. Add cooked gram and cardamom powder and stir well. Now it will be very thick and switch off the stove.

When cooled make lemon size balls and keep it aside.

Add salt to Maida and prepare a batter adding sufficient water. The batter should be a little bit thicker than the pan cake batter.  

Heat oil in a pan. Dip each ball in the batter and deep fry them. It is good hot or cold.