Olya Naralachya Karanjya – A to Z Maharashtrian Sweets
We are on the 15th day of this Mega BM series and today is for O. Until I landed in this recipe, I didn’t get anything else for this alphabet. I searched if there were vegetables or ingredients starting with this alphabet and nothing came up. As Amusrecipes was the first site that prompted me to get ahead with this series, I went back to check if there was anything I missed. And yes it was it and he called it Olya Naralachya Karanjya
He calls his Karanji as Olya naralachya karanjya which means fresh coconut karanji. I double checked with Pradnya on the name and she said Olya is wet, so fresh coconut is called ola naral and when used as adjective it becomes olya and hence I have a dish for my O.
Both fresh and dried coconut can be used in this sweet and working with coconut was good as I love fresh coconut. As I said before I had worked on my dishes and ensured I grouped similar dishes together for ease of cooking. The day I planned for this cooking, I had a huge fresh coconut grated and used it as required for all the dishes.
Yes you guessed it right, even Chauri chi Karanji was made on the same day and same cutting method was used, though the dough ingredients and filling were different. It actually worked out best as you get your dishes done fast! So in this marathon I used lots of jaggery, and coconut, much like my own cuisine I am familar with. The other dishes that were done together were the Halim Ladoo and Ekadahi Farali Bhat. I was actually glad that these two didn’t involve so much deep frying and the back breacking excerise I had with the Karanjis.
Just as the ladoos, end of the frying session, I was confused on which was what. So in that pretext I globbed up couple to know the stuffing. So I will share the secret with you..:)
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| Olya Naralachya Karanjya |
Olya Naralachya Karanjya
Ingredients Needed:
For cover
All purpose flour / Maida – 1 cup
Ghee – 1/4 cup
Milk – 1/4 cup
Water as needed
Oil for deep frying
For Saaran / Stuffing
Fresh Coconut grated – Approx. 1 cup
Sugar 1 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder a pinch
How to make the Karanji
For the Stuffing
Take a non stick pan with the grated coconut and sugar.
Cook it on a low flame till the sugar is melted.
Do not make it too dry. Cook only for 5 minutes.
Keep it aside for cooling. Add cardamom powder at the end. If you cook for too long, the mix will turn out hard.
For the outer Cover
Take the flour in a bowl. Heat 1/4 cup ghee in kadai and pour it over the flour. Add milk and knead the dough
If required, use small quantity of water to knead the dough. The dough should be stiff but well kneaded.
Set it aside for 1/2 an hour
Knead it again to make the dough soft.
How to make the Karanji
Since I used the cookie cutter, I made a huge dish and made mini karanjis in one shot. However you can pinch into small balls and make individual ones as well.
Smear the sides of the discs with little water, placea small amound of the stuffing in the center and cover the stuffing. Seal on the sides, ensure it is properly glued.
Repeat with the rest. As you make the rest, ensure it doesn’t get dried up, so keep it covered.
Heat a kadai with oil and deep fry on medium heat till it turns golden brown.
Drain with a slotted spoon and store in an airtight box.
Notes
Amu says that one can add semolina or khava also in the filling. However, this recipe is the traditional recipe. Also much like our tradtions, they also make fried modal with the same filling along with the karanji
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18 comments
Yummy karanji. I love that coconut filling and these Karanji sound like my kind of dish. ☺
Such a yummy looking karanjis Valli. Love the fresh coconut stuffing in here.
There are so many varieties of fillings used for karanji
Beautiful karanjis and filling being fresh coconut, I can imagine the flavour it gives to the sweet…
This karanjis looks prefect to satisfy my tastebuds, am in love with the coconut filling.
Karanji with fresh coconut filling looks sinful.love to know the variations in filling.
Lol on gobbling those karanjis ! Love the fresh coconut idea , they must have been yum .
Love the fresh coconut filling. Great research 🙂
Love the karanjis with fresh coconut, they look delicious.
I love the stuffing and I would love to invite myself to your place just for these 🙂
We make the stuffing with both fresh and wet coconuts.. its been ages since I made karanji /karjikay (as we call it in kannada)… heavenly ….
Valli, I can almost smell the fresh coconut in those karanjis!! Lovely share 🙂
Love the karachis with the aromatic coconut stuffing! It is so lovely to see the similarities between many of our cuisines.
Karanji with the simple coconut stuffing looks so delicious and easy to make..Cutting the dough with cookie cutter sounds like a nice idea.
love the stuffing -my kind of treat
lovely karanjis and easy to make with this coconut filling
Delicious Recipe!!!!!! For how many days this Karanji are good to eat
These surely stays good for a week. Make sure the coconut is roasted well.