Shenga Holige (Sweet Flatbread Filled With Jaggery and Peanut)

Shenga Holige is a traditional sweet from North Karnataka. It is often made during festivals. It is a sweet flatbread made with peanut and jaggery filling.This tastes amazingly delicious and much loved by kids, as it can be eaten just like that, no need of milk or  even ghee. It  can be stored for a few days. 

Shenga is a kannada (Karnataka) word used for Groundnut or Peanut and Holige is used for stuffed sweet flat bread. This dish is most popular and most liked sweet dish in North Karnataka (India). This dish is very tasty and crunchy. Peanut (groundnut ) is most commonly grown crop in North Karnataka and we use peanuts maximum in our regular diet. 

Peanuts add a nutty taste and a delicate crunchy taste to the dish. You can feel very well that crunchy peanut taste in every bite of Shenga Holige.  

Peanut Poli or Shenga Holige Simple to make, this sweet dish can be enjoyed very much as desserts or else for evening snacks with a cup of coffee or tea.

If  you are bored of the routine snacks or sweets, just give a try to this fantastic Shenga Holige .. am sure this will definitely become your favourite sweet. 

Let me make it easy for you by  preparing Shenga Holige. Let’s see the preparation of tasty and crunchy Shenga Holige.  

Ingredients:

Peanuts – 1 cup

All purpose flour or wheat four-2 cups 

Samolina - 1/2 cup 

Jaggery – 1 cup

Sesame seeds – 1/4 th cup 

Cardamom – Seeds from 5-6 pods 

Method :

To make the dough :

Take the flour and semolina in a wide bowl. Mix well. Add  hot ghee or oil , mix , add little water and make it into a dough of medium consistency. Apply  oil, cover with a thin muslin cloth and keep aside for fifteen minutes.

To make the filling :

Roast the groundnuts and let cool. Discard the skin by crushing with hand or rolling pin.

Break the jaggery into small bits or  take a jaggery powder.

Grind the groundnut coarsely. Add jaggery and cardamom to it and pound it well. Put it in a bowl and keep aside.

To make the Holige :

Take a small ball of the dough, roll it into a small circle.

Mix the filling. Take a small portion of it, squeeze it between palms and  make it into a small ball.

Put it into the centre and slowly seal the edges together.Dust it with flour and roll it.

Heat a cast iron skillet and put it on the skillet roast it till brown spots appears.

Remove and keep aside.

Repeat for the remaining dough.

Shenga holige/peanut sweet pancakes are ready to savour. Tastes good with ghee.

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