Athirasam (Sweet Athirasam)

Athirasam

 
Ingredients

• Raw rice………………….2 cups
• Jaggery...............................2 cup
• Cardamom Powder………1/2 tsp
• Dry Ginger Powder……….1 pinch

Method

• Soak the rice for two hours. Remove the water and spread in a towel.
• When it dries grind in a blender
• Sieve it to get fine powder. 
• The powder should be slightly wet.
• Heat a pan with little water add the jaggery and make a syrup.
• Filter this syrup to remove the stone.
• Boil again till it forms one thread consistency Kambi padam(Put a drop jaggery in cold water then it should be like soft gel). 
• Add this syrup, cardamom powder to the rice flour to a soft dough.
• Heat a pan with oil to fry. 
• Apply oil in plantain leaf of plastic, take small amount dough and spread like small discs. 
• Deep fry them and keep them in paper towel.