Parched Rice Grain Balls / Pori Urundai

Parched Rice Grain Balls /  Pori Urundai

 

Aval Pori and Nel Pori are prepared during Karthigai Festival for Neivedhyam along with Payasam, Vadai , Adai , Fruits, Coconut and Betal and Betal nuts.

Pori / Parched Rice grains.

Nel Pori / Parched Rice Corns.

Aval Pori /  Parched Flattened Rice.

 

Aval Pori : 3 Cups

Jaggery powder : 1 cup

Dry ginger powder : ¼ tsp

Coconut pieces : 1 tbsp

Ghee : 1 tsp

Cardamom powder : ¼ tsp

Rice Flour for dusting.

          Clean the Pori and remove husks if any .

Finely chop coconut and remove the brown skin.   Powder the Jaggery .   Paagu Vellam is idle for this Urundai. 




Urundai Vellam  /  Paagu Vellam

Keep all the ingredients ready.

 

In ghee, fry coconut pieces nicely so that the coconut should not have any moisture in it. It will eliminate the coconut oil flavor and at that time switch off the flame. Add Cardamom powder when the ghee is still hot.

In a greased plate or wide vessel, spread the Pori and keep it ready.

 

In a ladle of water heat jaggery and when it is completely dissolved, filter it to remove dust and sand.

 

Again heat the jaggery to get ‘getti paagu’.  i.e. In a small cup of water, add few drops of jaggery and when it comes to form a nice ball and really very firm , when you roll it, then it’s the correct consistency.
 

 

Remove from flame and add dry ginger powder quickly and pour over the Pori and mix nicely using greased ladle or big spoon to get uniform coating.

When you can handle the temperature of pori, start making balls out of Pori mixture.  Grease your hands with ghee.  Take hand full of pori and by pressing with both the hands, you should be able to make a big round balls.   If you find it difficult , dust your hands with rice flour.  Start making balls. It need not be very perfect in shape.  Just finish doing all the mixture into the big round balls like in shape. 

And now take each piece of ball and make them to perfect round balls by gently pressing them from all the sides.   Shaping should be done, when the mixture is still warm.  Don't press too much as it may stick to your hands or it may break .

 

When it gets cool, it will be perfect.

Follow the same method to prepare Nel Pori Urundai.

 

·       Paagu Vellam ( jaggery ) is very much suited for making Urundai.

·       Instead of shaping them into balls, we can also shape them as cone .  In that case, we have to prepare two Cones, as we are doing it on auspicious day.   Don’t prepare single cone.

 

Very healthy and easy to prepare Pori Urundai is ready for Neivedhyam.

We can prepare this sweet on normal days too and enjoy eating healthy snack.