Kaaparisi recipe - 1

Raw Rice 1/4 cup Jaggery 1/4 cup Pottukadalai 1/8 cup Peanuts 1 tblsp (optional) Coconut bits 2 tsp Ghee 1 tsp Cardamom powder A pinch

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Method:

  • Wash and soak the rice for 15 minutes and drain the water.
Rice - 3
  • In a pan dry roast the rice in smaller lots till they become golden brown. (Porichu edukanum)
rice - 4 roasted rice - 5
  • Keep it aside. Roast the coconut bits and keep aside.
  • Melt jaggery and filter the impurities.
  • Add the roasted coconut bits.
coconut - 6 melting jaggery - 7
  • Let the jaggery comes to the consistency which we generally make for pori urundai. Keep water in a cup and add jaggery syrup to this. When you could able to make a hard ball out of this. That is the right consistency.
  • Pulse the roasted rice once . In a wide bowl add the pulsed rice, roasted gram, and cardamom powder. If adding peanuts deskin it , roast and add now.
  • Pour the jaggery syrup over this.
ground rice - 8 adding jaggery - 9
  • Mix well.
kaaparisi - 10
  • Kaaparisi is ready.
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Note:

  1. The ratio of rice , roasted dal : jaggery is 3:1. For 3 portions of the mixture 1 portion of jaggery is enough.