UKKARAI

Yesterday ( Friday) morning I prepared this at home especially as neivethiyam for God. I used to create situations to prepare sweets and mostly on Fridays on name of God ended up in preparing sweets as I love sweets most. Using jaggery for sweets is healthy. if doesn't have any side effects like sugar. UKKARAI is a well known Kerala recipe. But ukkarai used to prepare by mother in law is entirely different from Kerala UKKARAI. But I don't know why both recipe get same name. But it is very tasty. Try and give comments.

Ingredients

Rava - 1 cup

Split green gram dhal ( pasi paruppu) - 1/2 cup

Jaggery- 1 1/2 cup ( add according to your taste )

Coconut scrapped - 1 cup

Cardamom powder 1 tsp

Cashew nuts - 5 to 10 pieces

Ghee - 2 tbs 

Preparation

Roast rava and pasi paruppu in ghee separately . Roast cashew nuts in ghee and keep aside. Pressure cook the pasi paruppu and keep aside. Take care that pasi paruppu not over cooked  

Add three cups of water with two tsp of oil and when it begins to boil add rava and sauté it continuously with ladle so that it won't get knots in between. When rava is well cooked, add pressure cooked green gram dhal and mix it with cooked rava well. Then add grated or mashed jaggery. It is better to add jaggery dissolved in boil water and filtered so that dirt will be removed. Mix everything well and allow to cook well and add little little ghee in between. When it begins to give out ghee at the corners, add coconut, cardamom powder. Allow it too cook for two minutes and switch of the flame.

Decorate it with roasted cashew nuts.

Tasty UKKARAI is ready to serve.