Sukhiyan

 Sukhiyan is a traditional Kerala tea time snack prepared using healthy green grams along with a sweet filling of jaggery and coconut.
Ingredients:

1. Green gram / Cheru payar-1 cup
2. Jaggery grated- 3/4 cup
3. Coconut grated- 3/4 cup
4. Cardamom powder-1 /4 tsp
5. Salt-a pinch
6. Flour / maida- 1 1/2 cup
7. Oil-for deep frying

Preparation:

• Soak green gram in water for 3 hours.
• Pressure cooks it with 2 cups of water and a pinch of salt until done or for 2 whistles (allow to absorb all the water content in it and cooked nicely, but not mashed).
• Heat a pan with grated jaggery and little water (3tbsp), when it melts completely add grated coconut and mix well for a minute.
• Add cooked green grams in to it. (if there any excess water content heat on high flame to dry).
• Add cardamom powder, mix well  and switch off the flame.
• Allow to cools the mixture.
• After that make lemon sized balls out of it.
• In a bowl add  flour and little salt; add little water and make a thick paste out of it.
• Heat a kadai with oil.
• Now dip a green gram balls carefully (without breaking) in flour batter (cover it fully by dripping batter over it with a spoon) and quickly add it in to the hot oil.
• Deep fry it in the hot oil until nicely done.
• Drain in to paper towels and serve hot with  a cup of tea.

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