Wednesday 18 April 2012

Sweet puffed rice balls ~ Pori urundai



Pori urundai

Been a long time since i posted! was raining today and wanted to try a sweet snack to munch! Posting my fav snack pori urundai ~ rice puffed balls. A simple yet a very sweet snack!
All you need is:

1. Jaggery (vellam) - 1 cup
2. Puffed rice - 4 cups
3. Cardamom powder - a pinch 
4.Ghee - 2tsp

Do it this way:
  • Melt jaggery by adding half cup of water, filter it to remove if there are any impurities.
  • Add cardamom powder and 1tsp ghee to the filtered jaggery and keep stirring it in a medium flame.
  •  Mean while dry roast the puffed rice in other pan after adding a tsp of ghee.
  • When you place a tsp of jaggery syrup to water in a plate,it should not dissolve,but you must be able to make a hard ball out of it or you should get a sting consistency.It is called paagu padham in tamil.
  • At this stage add the puffed rice to the syrup and mix well
  • Remove from heat and let it cool.
  • Grease your palm with ghee and  quickly make balls out of the mixture, when the heat is bearable.Initially you can make rough balls and then you can shape it nicely.
  • If you are not able to hold as balls grease your palm with rice flour and then try to shape it.
  • Not getting a shape at all, no worries. Eat as such and enjoy it.


 


String consistency of jaggery (brown spot in water)














4 comments:

  1. Nice pictures and love the depth of field in the pictures.

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  2. One of my favorite snacks too!

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  3. Thank you! btw, i found nice reviews on restaurants in your blog!
    Have not been there, but its nice to read such reviews!

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