PORI URUNDAI / PUFFED RICE BALLS

INGREDIENTS:

1.  Puffed rice/Pori - 4 1/4 cup makes 6 to 7 rice balls

2.  Jaggery/paagu vellam - 1 cup

3.  Water - 1/2 cup

4.  Cardamom powder - 1/2 teaspoon

5.  Ghee - 1 teaspoon

METHOD:

1.  Boil the jaggery in water and drain the impurities

2.  Now add a pinch of cardamom powder, a tsp of ghee to the jaggery and pour it into another pan. Boil the jaggery water,till it reaches a hard ball consistency.Keep stirring it.

3.  When you pour a tsp of jaggery syrup to a cup of water, it should not dissolve, you must be able to make a hard ball out of it.  This is called hard ball consistency.

4.  Add the puffed rice to the jaggery and mix well.

5. Grease your hands with ghee and make shapes out of it.  Wait till it cools down and serve them 

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