Vennai puttu

I prepared this vennai puttu for marriage day of my parent...my dad's most favouirte sweet... My grandma used to prepare this in villlage... It is a famous dish in the village side of thanjavur district of tamil nadu...but I dont know why this name came to this dish, if anyone knows it please inform.... Ok let us go to the recipe...

Ingredients

Raw Rice - 1 cup

Channa dhal - 1/2 cup

Jaggery - 1 cup

Cashewnut - 5 to 10

Cardamon - 1

Ghee - 3 tsp

Water - as needed

Salt - one very small pinch

Coconut ( grated) - 1/4 cup ( optional)

Method

1. Soak raw rice for three hours ( even can soak for over night).

2. Grind it to fine paste.

3. Soak channa dhal for one hour.

4.  Pressure cook channa dhal adding enough water.

5. Add  water to smashed jaggery, boil, when jaggery completely dissolved in water, filter it and keep aside.

6. Boil 2 cups of water.

7. Add rice batter and mix it well without forming lumps, better keep flame in sim and do this step. 8. 8. When rice flour is cooked, add the jaggery syrup and cardamon powder. Mix well and allow to cook till it begin to leave sides of pan,

9. Add channa dhal , coconut and mix well. Add two tsp of ghee. Mix well. Keep sittirng.

10. Cook for more time if you want to cut it in to pieces,.

11. Grease a plate with ghee, pour the cooked mix over it and spread well. Allow to cool. Cut it into pieces.

12. Decorate it with ghee roasted cashewnuts. ( didnt add today in my recipe)