Layered Samosa or Karchikai(sweet)

Karchikai is a traditional Karnataka snack. it looks similar to a Samosa with its insides being filled with dry coconut and jaggery.

Maida-500 grams
Coconut-1/2
Rawa-200 grams
Sugar-1 kilo
Fried gram-1/4 kilo
Jaggery-1/4 kilo
Dry coconut-2 cups
Dalda-for frying
Kesari colour-little

Mix maida with little dalda to make a dough.and keep aside.

For the filling

Scrape the coconut and mix with ½ cup sugar and grind a little not very smoothly and keep aside.fry rawa in little dalda and after it has cooled,mix sugar and grind it and keep aside.now 2 fillings are now ready.Later take the mixed dough,once again mix it properly.make small balls and make it like puris.keep the filling and spread it.again on top of it keep the other made like puri and keep the other filling and spread it.again.

Place one more puri on top of it and keep the rawa and sugar filling on that and spread it.close with the other puri on top of that. Lastly, keep the fried gram and jaggery mixed filling on top of it and spread it.keep the fifth puri and close it.lightly once pat it like chapathi carefully.

Gently cut it into 2 pieces.dip the corner in the milk and take it out. Boil water with sugar in a heavy bottem vessel to get thick syrup.to this syrup add the colour and cardamom powder.heat oil in the pan for fring and fry one by one the prepared layer samosa till light brown. Dip these fried samosas int the prepared syrup.

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