Mishti Alur Puli

To Serve : 4

Ingredients :

• Sweet potato : 500 gms
• Wheat flour : 100 gm 
• Patali gur/jaggery :  250g
• Grated fresh coconut : 1
• Oil to fry
• half tsp of cardamom powder
• Sugar : 2 cup

Method :

1. Boil and peel the sweet potatoes, peel and mash them with the wheat flour.
2. Make a dough out of the mix.
3. Mix the grated coconut with the patali gur or jaggery and cook for around 10 minutes. The mixture should not turn hard.
4. Make a sugar syrup by mixing the sugar with equal amount of water. The syrup should be of one thread consistency.
5. Divide the dough into a number of small balls and roll each one into a small disk.
6. Take each disk and add some filling in between.
7. Close the filling by joining the edges of the disk.
8. Deep fry in oil till the get a golden brown color and and dip them in the sugar syrup and let them soak in it for an hour or two.
9. The puli are ready. 

Note : In place of patali gur or jaggery, you can also prepare the dish by using sugar.