Traditional Maharashtrian recipe to make 'Kapanya'

About the Recipe

Kapanya is a traditional Maharashtrian recipe. This is very easy and simple recipe. Kapanya are crispy and fantastic in taste. You can try this recipe at home and let us know your experience.

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Ingredients

Jaggery - 1 cup and Water - 1/2 cup
Wheat flour - 2 cups
Besan - 2 & 1/2 tbsp
Dry ginger powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - As per taste
Smoking hot oil - 1 & 1/2 tbsp
Poppy seeds - As needed
Cooking oil - For frying

Directions

Take a bowl. Mix jaggery and water until jaggery completely dissolves. Strain this jaggery mixture properly and keep aside.
Take a large plate and add wheat flour, besan, dry ginger powder, salt in it. Mix them well, with the help of a spoon. Flour mixture will be ready.
Heat up oil really good and add it into that flour mixture. Mix the oil well with the flour mixture. Add the jaggery mixture gradually in it.
Knead a little thick dough. Don't use all the jaggery mixture. Some of the mixture may remain, depending upon the consistency of dough.
The consistency of dough should be a little thick than the normal puri dough. Transfer the dough into a bowl and rest it for 10-15 minutes.
Take the dough and knead it once again to make it even. Take a ball of dough and roll it into chapati.
Make sure that chapati should be neither too thick nor too thin. Its thickness can be according to your choice.
Spread some poppy seeds evenly over both the sides of chapati, and again smoothly roll it, so that the seeds could stick with chapati properly.
Cut the chapati into diamond shaped 'Kapanya'.
Take a plate and place Oddy Uniwraps Brown food wrapping paper in it. Put all the Kapanya out into this plate.
Heat up some oil at medium heat. Fry the Kapanya at low heat only until becomes golden brown.
Take the fried Kapanya out and transfer them into a dish.
Traditional Maharashtrian 'Kapanya' is ready to serve.

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Traditional Maharashtrian recipe to make ‘Kapanya’