Manoharam
one of the most utterly delicious sweet and crunchy snack usually prepared for festivals and almost always prepared for any traditional Tam bram functions , weddings as seer bakshanams
Ingredients
1 cup besan flour ( chickpea flour)
1/2 cup rice flour
tiny pinch of salt
1 cup jaggery
2 tsp sugar
2 tbsp hot oil to prepare dough
oil as needed for deep frying
follow the video for method
notes.
optional ingredients . you can add a pinch of ginger powder, some grated coconut bits , pottukdalai , some cashew nuts , cardamom powder , in the preparation of manoharam .
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