Type: Chettinadu- Pillayar Nombu Special
Ingredients:
Long Grain Rice | -2cups |
Karuppatti powder | -1 to 1 ¼ cup |
Water | -¼ to ½ cup |
Method:
- Soak the rice for ½ an hour.
- Drain the water and dry it in the paper towel for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Then powder it finely in the mixe .
- Now sieve ¾ of the flour in the sifter.
- Leave ¼ of the flour un-sieved, and mix it with sieved flour and keep it aside.
- Take a vessel add water and powdered karuppatti keep it in the stove.
- Boil it until the syrup bubbles up, but it doesn’t need to have any string consistency.
- Then slowly pour the syrup little by little then mix it into the ground powder until it looks like the chappati dough.
- This is called illai mavu.
- Take small lemon size mavu make like ball and just flatten it like small disc and keep it aside.
- Take a pan heat with oil and fry it on both sides.
- Take out from the oil.
1. This is prepared for festival called pillayar nombu in chettinadu.