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Thursday, December 17, 2009

SEEYAM

INGREDIENTS:

Scraped coconut - 1 cup
Crushed jaggery - 1/2 cup
Water - 2 tablespoons
Cardamom - 3
Thenkuzhal maavu - 2 tablespoons
Oil - to deep fry

METHOD:

Heat a kadai, add crushed jaggery and water. When the jaggery is dissolved, add the coconut and powdered cardamom. Stir for sometime till it is slightly thick. When
cool, make small balls out of it.


Prepare a thin batter using thenkuzhal maavu and water. Dip the balls in this batter and deep fry in oil till golden brown.

NOTE: Using thenkuzhal maavu gives a fantastic aroma for the sweet snack. If the batter is thick the outer cover will be hard. I prepare a thin batter and the outer cover will also be soft and melt in mouth.

23 comments :

  1. Never made this sweet dish before,sounds good and delicious too

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  2. This is the first time I have come across seeyam virtually. Have a recipe in one cook book, never tried because I did not know how the shape will look.Thank you for sharing.

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  3. One of my favorite snacks! Perfect!

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  4. Oh! seeyam looks very nice, love them

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  5. Seeyam Yumm yumm.. :) Looks fanstastic.. Amma used to make this too :)

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  6. Seeyam looks prefect, just love this..

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  7. Seeyam romba romba nanna iruke. Sappida varalama?

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  8. Its new to meeeee..Looks delicious..

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  9. A real new one to me...looks yummy..

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  10. Love this dish... has come out so perfect and looks yummy.

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  11. Nice idea.....looks great.Can i have one please?

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  12. New sweet recipe to me..sounds great & looks yummy!!

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  13. New to me too. But looks delicious.

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  14. I remember this... my patti used to make this.. yummy

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  15. I love seeyam, reminds me of Diwali now :)

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  16. I see most of the terms and recipe of urs is same as my mom's Nice collection .

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  17. I love this sweet,i can gulp as many as I can :)

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  18. My Mom used to say that it is very difficult to get the consistency for this. I've only had this at temples as prasadhams. Thanks for sharing the recipe!

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  19. Maami - this is one of my favorite traditional iyengar sweets - I always used to call it susindram! Dont know why! Looks so perfect!

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  20. OMG ur seeyam reminds me my mom and granny. Its looks delicious! Great going with your blog :)

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  21. maami, tried this sweet seeyam with the thenkulal maav available at home... tasetd great but most of the inner stuffing seems to flow out when dropped in oil... could you tell me what could be wrong.

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