Fried Semolina balls

An easy and perfect tea time snack; learnt from my mother-in law. It requires very few ingredients and just deep fry the batter.

Recipe Source: MIL

Ingredients:

Coarse semolina - 1 cup approx

Egg - 1

Sugar - 4 tbsp, as per taste

Baking powder - a pinch

Cardamom powder - ½ tsp

Oil - to deep fry

Instructions:

• Pour oil to a saucepan and keep it on medium flame.
• Beat the egg with a fork. Add sugar according to your taste and beat until dissolved.
• Add cardamom powder, baking powder and mix well.
• Now add coarse semolina until the mixture turns really thick (thicker than the idli consistency).
• Allow the batter to rest for few minutes. 
• When oil is medium-hot, dip in a spoonful of batter to the hot oil.
• Once it turns golden brown colour on one side, just turnover.
• Take out the fried semolina balls from out of the hot oil when the fried balls have turned to a nice brown colour.

Notes:

• I'm unable to provide the accurate measurement of the semolina used as it depends on the size of the egg used & the coarse semolina variety.
• When you dip the spoonful of batter and if the spreads without holding the shape, then you need to add more semolina to the batter to make it thick consistency.
• When consistency is really thick, the batter will hold it's shape when dropped in hot oil.