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)