Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : 15 Mins | Yields: 14

    Pottukadalai|Roasted Gram    1 and 1/2 cup     Jaggery      1/2 cup     Coconut bits  2 tblsp (optional)     Cardamom powder    a pinch     Ghee  1/2 tsp

Pottu kadalai-urundai - 1

Method:

  • In a pan roast the coconut bits by adding little ghee. Add jaggery to this and add little water and allow this to boil.
  • Check the consistency of vellam by dissolving few drops of vellam in water. When you could able to make a hard ball with that switch off the flame. The hard ball is when the gathered mass if you put on a plate it should give a sound. Add cardamom powder to the jaggery .
  • Keep the pottukadalai in a wide bowl and add this jaggery syrup to the pottukadalai.
  • Mix this quickly and evenly and when it is warm, grease your hands with ghee and make balls of your desired size.
  • Pottukadalai urundai is ready.
Pottukadalai-urundai - 2

Notes:

  1. Adding coconut is optional. But it will be nice if you add it.
  2. Always ensure that the hard ball consistency is formed, else you should not able to form a ball.
  3. You can add roasted peanuts.