Ranga Aloor Nikhuti

Here is a very simple recipe with Red Potatoes. This is a sweet called Nikhuti, a typical fried sweet dish that is widely used in West Bengal

Ingredients :

Red Potatoes (medium size)-6
Suji- 2 tsp
Maida- 4 tsp
Rice Flour- 2tsp
Khoya- 4 tbsp [ you can make it by dehydrating 2 cups of milk ]
Baking Powder- 1/2 tsp
Black Cardamom -crushed
Ghee- 2 tsp
Sugar Syrup [made by boiling 1 cup sugar in a cup of water and cooled ]
Refined oil for frying

Procedure :

Boil the red potatoes in a pressure cooker for  2 minutes only. Open the lid of the pressure cooker to avoid melting of the potatoes as they are very soft once boiled.
Peel of the skin of the boiled red potatoes and mash them.
Meanwhile make the thick Sugar Syrup and let it cool.
Take a platter and place all the ingredients except the oil and the sugar syrup along with the bolied red potatoes and mash them together. Make small Nikhuti. Roll theNikhuti on a dash of extra flour and refrigerate for half an hour.
Fry them in hot refiend oil and place into the sugar syrup. You can sprinkle a little more ghee from top and also some Rose Water ( optional)