Faraali Pattice

Faraali Pattice

For the outer crust:

·         4 large potatoes

·         2-3 tbsp  arrowroot flour 

·         1 green chili finely chopped (optional)

·         cooking salt or sendha namak

For the inner filling:

·         1 cup grated fresh coconut

·         2 tbsp roasted peanuts, (crushed in mixer )

·         1 tbsp roasted cashew nuts( crushed little)

·         1 tbsp raisins  (whole)

·         1/2 tsp lime juice 

·         1 /2 spoon coriander,chillies as u  want

·         salt

·         oil for deep frying

How to make Farali Pattice:

Boil the potatoes and then mash them. Take care to see that there are no lumps in the potatoes. Add chopped green chillies to the mashed potatoes.

Put arrowrooot flour to it n knead well. keep aside.

This makes your farali pattice’s outer covering. The mixture should be smooth with no lumps, so that the pattices do not break while frying.

Coarsely grind the peanuts and cashewnuts.

 To the fresh coconut, add chopped raisins, the coarsely ground peanuts and cashewnuts. Add all the other ingredients mentioned for the inner filling. Mix well and keep aside. handful of coriander n 1 chillies chopoed.

Take a handful of the potato mixture. Shape it into a bowl like shape.

Take some 1-2 tsp of the inner stuffing and place it in the center of the bowl like potato mixture.

Seal the inner stuffing by gently bringing together the edges of the potato mixture in the center. 
Apply some oil in your hands while doing this. The filling has to be properly sealed with the
potato mixture, so that while frying the pattice do not break and thus the filling comes out. 
Flatten the pattice slightly.

You could also take two potato mixture, flatten them like small puris with your hand. Place the filling
 in the center of one puri. Cover with the second puri and seal the edges firmly.

Make patties of the entire mixtures and keep aside.

Deep fry them in hot oil on a medium flame till golden brown and crisp from outside.

Serve with sweet curd/plain curd or coriander chutney or mint-coriander chutney.

DRY FRUIT &  COCCONUT CHUTNEY

4 spoon of fresh coconut scraped
4 kaju ,2 soak badam - (remove skin), 2 chillies, salt - sugar  as per taste, and few sticks of coriander

Grind this with coconut water or plain water n serve with above pattice.

few kaju for garnish.