Dates - Coconut Holige

Dates Coconut Holige is a sweet dish and you can have them at any time of the day..

Things Needed..:

Coconut : 2 cups.

Dates: 1 cup..( cut or smashed )

Jaggery : 1 1/2 cups ( grated or powdered)

Cardamom : 1/2 Tea spoon ( powdered )

Thin Rava ( Chiroti Rava ) : 2 cups ( Rava is called as Samolina also )

Oil : 1 cup

Salt : a pinch

water : 1/2 cup

Puppy seeds : 1 Table spoon

Method :

Mix Rava ( Samolina ) salt and two table spoons of oil together nicely. Add required water and prepare dough . ( chapati dough ). Pour 1 more table spoon of oil on the top of the dough and keep it for 2 to 3 hours.

Dry grind coconut and dates together adding cardamom seeds nicely making it to a thick paste. ( do not add water).

Keep a pan on the fire . Add jaggery , ground coconut and dates mixture . Mix thoroughly until it thickens .. Add Puppy seeds and mix well and remove from pan.( Do it on low flame ). Leave it for cooling.

Now take the rava dough and divide in to balls. Spread each ball in the hand and place a spoon full of coconut mixture inside and close it . ( bind like a ball ). Do the rest same way .

Now keep a tava on the fire . Take a stuffed rava ball and roll it in a roller into chapatis. Cook it on low flame on the tava on both sides ..Sprinkle oil if needed . Do the rest same way and cook Holiges .

Serve holige with ghee...

Note : Mixing coconut, dates and jaggery should be done on low flame. Mix it until it is thick enough to make small balls. Add a little bit of poppy seeds on the holige after rolling . It gives a nice taste.

10 to 12 Holiges can be made...