Wishing everyone a very Happy Gudi Padwa !!
Kandgachi Nevri is a traditional Goan delicacy made from sweet potato.Sweet potato is known as "kandga" in konkani.It is known as "ratale" in marathi.Nevri is a D-shaped similar like gujiya.These are made up of sweet potato as the outer layer with coconut-jaggery stuffing inside.It is one of the unique Goan dishes which you will never find anywhere outside Goa.So please give it a try once and am sure you will love it :)
Ingredients -
sweet potato
wheat flour/atta
freshly grated coconut
jaggery
cardamom powder(elaichi)
salt
ghee
Method -
Wash the sweet potatoes well and boil them till soft with peel.
Cool down and peel off the skin and grate them.
Add a pinch of salt to it.
Add wheat flour approx 2-3 tbspn to the grated sweet potatoes and mix well.
The mixture must be well formed so that you can make small balls out of it.
Heat a non stick pan/kadai.
Add freshly grated coconut to it and add jaggery.
The sweetness is as per your taste.
Sprinkle some cardamom powder and let it cook.
Cook it on low flame for say 7-8min.
This is the stuffing or "chunn" as we call it in konkani.
Spread a plastic sheet on the rolling pin.
Keep 1 ball of the sweet potato dough on it.
Lightly roll it in the shape of a poori.You cant roll it without a plastic sheet as it is sticky.
Add the coconut stuffing in it on one side.
Fold it from the other side to make a D-shape. Similarly as you do for gujiyas.This is called a "nevri" in konkani.
Heat a non-stick tawa.
Add ghee to it. Shallow fry the nevris on both sides till light brown.
Delicious sweet potato nevris/gujiyas are ready to serve :)