Spiral Poori Doughnuts Without Holes (Surul Poori or Sweet Poori)

Ingredients:
For dough :
Maida - 1 cup
Ghee - 2 tablespoon ( melted )
Baking soda - 2 pinch
Required water to sprinkle.

For paste:
Rice flour - 1 table spoon
Ghee - 1 1/2 table spoon ( melted)

Sugar syrup:
Sugar - 1 cup
Food colour ( yellow or red) - 1/4 teaspoon
Water

Oil for deep frying
Confectioner's sugar for decorating

Method:
Part-1: Preparing the dough
Sieve the maida and baking soda. Even when the maida is clean do ahead with the sieving.
Add ghee to maida and rub till the mix becomes like bread crumbs.
Sprinkle required water and knead into dough.
Knead for 10 minutes to become soft dough.
Cover and keep aside for 30 minutes.

Part-2: Making the rice paste
Mix rice flour and ghee and make a paste.

Part-3: Preparing the base poori
Again knead.
Take key lime size of dough.
Flatten it like chappathi using roller pin.
Make 5 such chappathis.

Part-4: Shaping the surul poori
Apply the paste on top of a chappathi.
Place the next chappathi on top of the paste applied chappathi.
Similarly apply paste and stack all the five chappathis.
Roll the stacked chappathis firmly like a pipe.
Cut them into 5 equal sizes.
Keep the cut surface facing bottom.
Flatten each piece using roller pin till it reaches about 3/4th size of chappathi.

Part-5: Preparing the sugar syrup
Put 1 cup of sugar in a thick bottom vessel.
Pour water till it completely covers the sugar. Do not exceed or fall short.
Heat in a burner till it becomes 1-string consistency.
Add color.
Remove and keep aside.

Part-6: Frying the poori
Heat oil in pan.
Keep the flame between medium and low.
Deep fry the surul poori.
When color changes to lightest brown remove from flame.

Part-7: Finishing
Dip the fried surul poori while it is warm in the sugar syrup.
Leave it inside the syrup for 1/2 minute.
Remove and sprinkle powder sugar.

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