MANOHARAM -the crispy jaggery balls!
These crispy balls although a bit time consuming are worth trying out because they are sweet ,crispy and worth drooling.This blogpost of mine goes to the ICC.
1 cup Moong dal
2 cups of raw rice
salt to taste
2tbsp ghee
oil for deep frying
1cup jaggery powdered
- Wash and soak rice for 15 minutes.Drain and let the rice dry for 30-40 minutes.Powder the rice finely.
- Slightly heat and powder the moong dal into a fine powder.
- Measure 2 cups of rice flour with 1 cup of moong dal flour and mix in a bowl.Rub in the ghee so that it gets incorporated well.Add water and knead the flours to make a smooth dough.
- Heat oil in a kadai.
- Fill the idiyappam presser or potato ricer to press out the dough into the oil.In the idiyappam presser you can use the disc with 3 holes.
- Fry out the murukku and place them on absorbent tissues to soak out the excess oil.
- When cooled,break the murukkus into tiny bits.
- In a pan pour some water and add the powdered jaggery.Bring it to boil so that the jaggery has been dissolved.Pass the jaggery syrup through a strainer to seperate the scum.
- Bring this syrup again to boil till the syrurp thickens.Drop a few drops of the syrup into a cup of water and if the syrup can be easily rolled in to a ball,the consistency is correct.
- Remove syrup from fire and add the bits of murukku briskly stirring to coat the jaggery evenly on the murukku bits,
- When the heat is manageable grease your palms and roll the mix into small balls.
Manoharam is ready to be served!
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G.Pavani
September 15, 2010 at 8:55 amjaggery balls looks yummy n cute ..
Soumya
September 15, 2010 at 9:39 amWIll try out and let you know the results.. The only I hate to do is to make the balls.. Whenever I do it, I end up in burning myself!!! 🙁
Nithya
September 15, 2010 at 3:09 pmWow they looks so crispy and shiny.. perfect snack 🙂
Satya
September 15, 2010 at 4:11 pmthose jaggery balls looks so delicious ..yummy
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Nitha
September 15, 2010 at 4:27 pmlooks greatt..
veena krishnakumar
September 16, 2010 at 7:08 amlooks yummy
<br><br><br><br><br>Dr.Sameena Prathap
September 18, 2010 at 3:58 amHi Nimi,
My first time here…The manoharam balls look so tempting…
Dr.Sameena@
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Rekha
September 18, 2010 at 1:13 pmhaven't heard of this before, looks perfect for kids
Sharmilee! :)
September 20, 2010 at 1:58 pmI luv manoharam…but havent tried it myself…urs look so perfect