Bolinhas de Cocoa(Goanese Cookies)
Bolinhas de Cocoa(Goanese Cookies)

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, bolinhas de cocoa(goanese cookies). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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Goan Coconut Cookies, or Bolinhas de Coco, are a traditional and signature treat in Goan dessert making. As Goan and Portuguese cultures are strongly tied historically, this dessert shows the great fusion of both cuisines. These are sweet and smoothly tasting cookies with a unique flavor that combines traditional Indian cardamom and coconut.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bolinhas de cocoa(goanese cookies) using 8 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Bolinhas de Cocoa(Goanese Cookies):
  1. Get 2 cup freshly grated Coconut/dessicated Coconut
  2. Make ready 1 &1/2 cup Semolina
  3. Get 1 &1/4th cup granulated Sugar
  4. Get 3/4 th cup Water
  5. Make ready 2 tablespoons Ghee/unsalted Butter
  6. Prepare 2 large Eggs
  7. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon Cardamom powder/1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
  8. Take 1 pinch Salt

When they come out of the oven, they are a little crisp/ crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. Bolinhas are cardamom flavoured coconut and semolina biscuits (In India we call them biscuits and not cookies), and they contain no flour at all. They are a little crisp/ crunchy on the outside and soft and have a melt-in-the-mouth texture on the inside. A traditional Goan cookie influenced by the Portuguese, readily available in various bakeries in Goa throughout the year.

Steps to make Bolinhas de Cocoa(Goanese Cookies):
  1. Take dessicated coconut in a bowl and soak with water.If you are using fresh coconut skip the step.
  2. Heat a pan and add in semolina. Dry roast in medium heat until a roasted flavour emits and semolina becomes free flawing. Note that the colour of semolina shouldn't change.
  3. Transfer to a dish.
  4. In the same pan take water and sugar.
  5. Place it on medium heat and keep stirring until the sugar dissolves completely. Once the sugar has dissolved, keep stirring the solution and let it cook for about 2 minutes. Turn off the heat. Note that the mixture should be light syrup. Add in 1 lunch of salt and cardamom powder to the mixture. As I personally don't like cardamom flavour in cookies, I added 1 teaspoon vanilla essence.
  6. Now add in roasted semolina, soaked coconut and ghee to the sugar mixture. Switch on the flame, stir the mixture well to incorporate everything well.
  7. Continue to stir and cook for 2-3 minutes ot until the mixture forms a thick lump.
  8. Let the mixture cool completely and then transfer to a container. Cover and keep in the refrigerator for about 8 hours or overnight.
  9. Next day or after 8 hour take out the mixture from the refrigerator and let it come to room temperature.
  10. Break eggs in a bowl and whisk them until really fluffy.
  11. Pour this whisked egg to the coconut semolina mixture.
  12. With your hand mix well to incorporate the egg to the mixture. Now the cookie mixture will be little sticky and moist.
  13. Keep the mixture again in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes to become little hard to handle.
  14. After 20 minutes take out the dough from the refrigerator.
  15. Preheat oven at 180 degree C for 10 minutes.
  16. Take lime size portion of the dough, roll with your palm and slightly press to give a cookie shape.
  17. Place it on a lined baking tray. Similarly shape all the cookies and place them in the baking tray. Keep some gap between the cookies.
  18. Decorate the top by marking criss-crosses with a table knife.
  19. Bake the cookies for about 25 minutes in the middle rack of the oven. The cookies should be golden brown in colour and little crisp from outside.
  20. Take out the tray from the oven, keep aside for 5 minutes to cool and then transfer to a dish. I baked 2 batches of these delicious Goanese Cookies.
  21. When they cool down completely keep them in airtight container. They are perfect snack with a cup of tea or coffee.

It is commonly prepared in every household during Christmas time. Whether you call it bolinhos (cookies) or bolinhas (balls), these are perfect for tea time, a heavenly delight, addictive and a family favourite. The Christmas platter is incomplete without the very special Goan Bolinhas pronounced Bolinyas. These delicious coconut cookies or biscuits are lightly crisp on the outside & soft inside. They are a heavenly tea time treat which can be enjoyed throughout the year but have a place of pride on the Christmas platter.

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