Poornam Boorelu

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup
Urad Dal - 1 cup
Jaggery(grated) - 2 cups
Chanadal - 2 cups
Cashew Nuts - 10
Raisins - 20
Almonds - 10
Coconut powder(optional) - 4 tsp
Cardamom - 5

Procedure:

• Soak rice and urad dal for 6 hours in water.
• Grind them together with little water into a thick batter and set it aside.
• Roast cashew nuts and raisins in 2 tsp of ghee to light golden brown and set them aside.
• Pressure cook chanadal with 5 cups water.
• Add jaggery to this and stir the mixture on medium heat until it forms a thick paste.
• To this add coconut powder,cardamom powder, raisins, cashew nuts and cook for 5 minutes on low heat.
• Once done let the mixture cool down and roll into lemon size balls and set them aside.

• Heat oil in a pan. Dip the balls in batter and deep fry them in oil on medium heat.

• Once they turn golden brown they are ready to be served.