Description
This dessert is for those who love Oriental sweets. These flavorful, melt in your mouth sweet balls cooked in India on holidays. Sweetness is a hallmark of Bengal. The most popular in all of India Bengali sweets are not only a Desk decoration, but also an important element of traditional family celebrations and religious festivals. In confectionery shops pass which not to look inside almost impossible sell a variety of flavors, colors and shapes small treats soaked in fragrant syrup.
Ingredients
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Cognac
1 Tbsp
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Figs
8 piece
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Honey
1 Tbsp
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Cocoa powder
3 Tbsp
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Cinnamon
1 pack
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Dried apricots
8 piece
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Chickpeas
200 g
Cooking
At night, soak the chickpeas in water. Dried fruit (apricots, figs) soaked in cognac. If they ate the kids, soak in any juice.
In the morning rinse the chickpeas, boil. All the ingredients (chickpeas, figs, apricots) grind in a meat grinder. Of ingredients is obtained approximately equally.
Add to the mixture 1 tablespoon of honey and mix well. It turns out that such a fragrant plastic mass.
From mass to form the balls. Weight is easily molded. The main difficulty is not to eat them immediately. Get 25 balls the size of a walnut. Well, of course, not counting those that my son and I ate when modeling. Very delicious weight happened. So spoon, just, lick.
The resulting balls of powder coat at your request. I had a few options: 1. a mixture of cocoa and cinnamon 2. ground nuts 3. sesame 4. powdered sugar. Choose according to your desire.
It turned out here is "variety." "Candy" consistency similar to cake and potatoes. Only gentle. The taste is more dominated by the figs with a faint aftertaste of cognac.
Just as quickly, just from available food to cook a real Indian treat. To sit with a friend over a Cup of coffee - perfect imagine. And no one would ever think that these delightful sweets are made of simple peas, or chickpeas.
Tasty and healthy.
R. S. Brought to work for the tasting - the part no one guessed - with the exception of cognac. But the opinion was unanimous - DELICIOUS!
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