Saat

Saat is a traditional Mangalore sweet dish prepared for special occasion. This sweet is prepared by making a dough of all-purpose flour, ghee and cardamom seeds. Small balls of these dough are made and deep-fried in ghee or oil and then soaked in thick sugar syrup. This sweet is crisp on the outside and flaky inside.

1. Heat ghee.
2. In a mixing bowl, mix ghee, cardamom seeds and maida.
3. Add little water and prepare the dough like that of poori.
4. Make small pin-pong sized balls and flatten them little bit.
5. Heat oil in a frying pan, and deep fry these balls on low flame until they turn light brown in color.
6. Simultaneously, in a deep bottomed vessel, add sugar and water and boil it thoroughly until it reaches thread consistency.(To check, put a drop of this syrup in water and it should solidify immediately.
7. Remove off heat and keep stirring this frequently to avoid it from solidifying.
8. Add deep fried balls to the syrup and stir well so that the syrup coats the balls evenly.
9. Remove these balls from the syrup and place them on a greased tray and let them cool.
10. Store in air-tight containers.