Telangana

Malidalu

Name: Malidalu
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Telangana
Ingredients: 2 cups whole wheat flour (wholemeal atta flour, chapati flour); 2/3 cup water; a pinch salt; 3 tbsp ghee; 3/4 cup grated jaggery; 1/3 cup desiccated coconut (unsweetened shredded coconut); 15 chopped cashews; 1 tbsp raisins; 1/2 tsp cardamom

Fresh rotis crumbled with jaggery, ghee and coconut. Telangana's festival leftover gold.

40 minTime

7 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayThick rotis, Telangana bellam and plenty of ghee.

The original

368kcal

7 gprotein

6 gfibre

40minutes

Malidalu as made for Bathukamma and festivals.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Whole wheat flour (wholemeal atta flour, chapati flour)2 cups

Water⅔ cup

Salta pinch

Ghee3 tbsp

Jaggery¾ cup, grated

Desiccated coconut (unsweetened shredded coconut)⅓ cup

Cashews15, chopped

Raisins1 tbsp

Cardamom½ tsp

Method

5 steps

1Knead atta, salt and water into a soft dough. Roll thick rotis and cook on a tawa until well spotted.
2Tear the hot rotis and pulse in a mixie to coarse crumbs.
3Pulse the jaggery into the crumbs.
4Fry cashews and raisins in ghee, add coconut and cardamom, then mix everything with the crumbs.
5Serve loose or press into balls.

Serve it like this

Serve in a mound with cashews on top or as small balls on a plate.

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