Goan Nevris / Nevri or Karanji, How To Make Goan Neureos / Neoris

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Goan Neureos / Goan Nevris / Nevri / karanji very famous traditional sweet dish that is prepared for festive occasions like Christmas, Diwali, Ganesh Chaturthi. It is mostly distributed with guests, neighbors such as Kuswar, or goodies. The preparation of these sweets varies a bit from region to region. I prefer using desiccated coconut and dry fruits for this goan style neureos. Check how to make goan nevris / karanji with desiccated coconut at home.

We always make these Goan Neureos / Goan Nevris / Karanji or Nevri together with our family members. And it is a really enjoyable Christmas Sweets Recipe prepared by everyone on festive occasions like Christmas, Diwali, Ganesh Chaturthi, and Holi.

These Goan Nevri / Neureos are also called sweet dumplings. And I always enjoy preparing the Goan Christmas sweets to share with friends and neighbors.

This goan nevri sweet dish can change a bit from different locations, but overall they are made in a similar way. They are also called different names from location to location like Neureos / Neoris / Nevris / Karanji and others names also.

For this festive occasions like Christmas also try these special recipes like goan pork vindaloo, goan pork sorpotel, goan pork roast, goan beef roast, hot goan macroni soup, goan bebinca / bebik recipe and goan crab xacuti masala

How To Store Goan Nevri / Karanji

First after making these nevris goan style let them cool down to room temperature. Goan Neureos / nevri with desiccated coconut can last up to 2 – 3 weeks if stored properly in an airtight container.

Ingredients For Goan Neureos / Neoris

Goan Neureos / nevris / nevri / karanji Ingredients for Dough

• maida refined flour
• salt
• ghee clarified butter
• warm water

Goan Nevris Ingredients for Filling

• ghee clarified butter
• raisins
• cashew nuts broken
• sesame seeds white til
• poppy seeds white khus-khus
• desiccated coconut
• coconut fresh grated
• semolina rava
• cup sugar
• cardamom powdered

How to Make Goan Nevri / karanji At home

Make Goan Neureos / Karanji dough

1. Mix the flour, salt, and warm water and make the dough. While making the dough slowly add ghee to it. The dough should not be hard. Cut the dough into small parts and place a wettish cloth over it and let it rest for 10 -15 minutes.

Prepare the Nevris / karanji filling

1. Heat half of the ghee in a pan and fry the cashew nuts till light brown and keep aside. Then fry raisins in the same ghee till they puff up and become brown and then add it to fried cashew nuts. Now lightly toast the sesame seed, poppy seeds, and desiccated coconut separately till they become slightly brownish individually and start giving a good aroma. Add them to the cashew nuts and raisins and keep this mixture aside.
2. In the remaining ghee add rawa and roast it until it turns pinkish and gives off an aroma. Then add the other ingredients that were roasted. Put all these ingredients into the pan and add sugar to it. Over medium heat, mix everything together until the sugar starts to melt. Take it off the heat and add the grated coconut or coconut desiccated and cardamom powder and stir well. The filling portion is done.

Make the Nevris / Neureos / Karanji

1. Take one of the small portions of the dough that was kept aside and shape them into smooth balls and roll them out into small thin circles The dough needs to be rolled out very thin otherwise your Nevri will become hard and crisp.
2. Place a heaped teaspoon of filling in the center and moisten the edges with water. Fold the circle over the filling into a half-moon shape. Seal the edges well with a pastry cutter and make small folds at the border, it will give a show to the neureos. Keep it aside.
3. Prepare 4 – 6 neureos and keep them aside. After that, heat oil till it gets boiling hot, and slowly pour the neureos one by one inside and cook nicely till golden brown
4. Remove these Christmas Neuros / Neoris / Karanji goan style on paper to absorb oil and let it cool down then store in the container.

They are called by different names at different locations like Neureos / Nevris / Nevri / Neoris / Karanji.  The crescent shape is redolent of an empanada.

How To Serve this Goan Nevris / Karanji

These Goan Neuroes or Karanji goan style are served for evening teas on festive occasions and when guests visit us. In a traditional way, the Christmas Nevris or Neoris are sent to friends, relatives, and neighbors along with other Christmas sweets.

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