Mande – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take maida into a dish.
• Add salt, oil and mix everything well together.
• Add a little water at a time and knead a little thick dough like chapatti dough.
• Transfer the dough into a bowl, cover and rest it for about 30 minutes.
• Take sesame seeds into a pan and roast them on low heat until these change the color.
• Take powdered sugar into a bowl. Add dry coconut, roasted sesame seeds, cardamom powder and mix well.
• Stuffing is all ready.
• Take the dough and knead it once more to make nice and even.
• Make small balls from it and make them smooth and even.
• Take a ball and roll it into a small and as thin as possible disc.
• Prick it a little with a fork.
• Heat up oil in a pan.
• Drop the rolled puri into hot oil and fry well from both sides.
• It should not change the color.
• Take the puri out when soft, spread the stuffing on it and fold it into half.
• Again spread the stuffing and fold it into quarter.
• Though it is soft now, it will become nice and crispy on cooling.
• Mande are all ready.