Tosha (sweet Flour Balls)

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 150 g refined flour or 150 g all-purpose flour
• salt, to taste
• 1/3 teaspoon pink food coloring (optional)
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• water, to knead
• 120 g sugar
• oil, to fry
• 3 tablespoons ghee (clarified butter)
• 1/3 teaspoon vanilla essence

Recipe

• 1 sieve the flour and salt and the baking powder.
• 2 dilute the food color in the milk and add to the flour.
• 3 mix in the ghee, vanilla essence and add water to make it into medium soft dough.
• 4 rub oil on your palms and make medium sized balls of the dough.
• 5 heat oil in a kadhai and deep fry the toshas on low medium so that they get cooked from the inside.
• 6 fry all the toshas, a few at a time, till they are golden in color.
• 7 in another pan melt the sugar with 3 tablespoon water, when the sugar has melted add the toshas while the syrup is hot and stir gently.
• 8 put out the flame so that the sugar coats the toashas.
• 9 allow to cool.
• 10 these can be had over a period of 5 days.