SUKIYAN

Sukiyan (or sukhiyan or sugiyan) is a fritter food made by pulses with jaggery and maida flour. A popular food item in South Indian cuisines, it is generally eaten as a breakfast or a snack. All these items are formed into a small ball, and deep fried in edible oil. This snack is often found in small tea shops in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Ingredients

Basic ingredients for sukiyan are jaggery, grated coconut, green gram dal, and a flour to dip sukiyan in, to deep fry and an edible vegetable oil.

Preparation

Sukiyan is prepared by cooking green gram in enough water. Water is drained out. Boiled Jaggery is mixed with grated coconut and this green gram. To this mixture cardamom powder, cumin powder and dried ginger powder. Small balls are made out of this mixture and kept aside. This is further covered with a mixture of refined flour, rice flour and a pinch of turmeric. Turmeric gives the yellow hue to this snack. This is then deep fried in a vegetable oil or a nut oil such as
sesame oil.

COCONUT POORNA SUKIYAN

Ingredients:

Grated coconut – 12 palam

Jaggery – 9 palam

Cardamom powder – ¼ palam

Method:

Put grated coconut in a pan and fry well. Powder jaggery and add to the fried coconut. When
this thickens, remove from fire. Add powdered cardamom. Mix this well and mash. Make gooseberry sized balls and set aside.