Made as an offering on “karadaiyam nombu”
Ingredients
Rice flour (made as in step 1) roasted 4 cups
Cowpeas more than ½ cup upto ¾ cup (prefer the red variety)
Coconut 1 half slit to small thin pieces
Jaggery 4 cups
Cardamom powder from say 10-12 pieces
Get Cooking!
1. Soak, wash, drain the rice, and grind to a powder which is not so coarse and not too fine.
2. Slightly roast the cowpeas. Steam and drain the excess water.
3. Take 10 cups of water, add the jaggery and dissolve it. Boil this.
4. When it boils well, add the rice flour little by little while stirring to avoid lumps.
5. When it gets to the point where it is half- cooked and becomes like dough add the cardamom powder, coconut slices, steamed cowpeas. Mix well. Switch the heat off.
6. Make circular patties of the batter which is about ¼ “thick. Make a whole in the middle like that in a donut.
7. Steam these patties. Once cooked, they look glossy.
Tips
Quantity of water to be used is according to the quality of the rice. Depending on that, water should be 2 to 2 ½ the quantity of rice. If you don’t have cowpeas, you could use tuvar dal.You could use the rice flour u get in a grocery store, just roast it well before.
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