Coconut Payasam

Ingredients:

• Rice - 2 tbsp
• Grated Coconut - 2 tbsp< /p>
• Jaggery - 1/3 cup
• Cardamom - 2 pods

Method:

Soak the rice in hot water for 1/2 hour. To this add the coconut and blend into a coarse paste. Boil 1/2 cup water & when boiling add the paste and stir continuously till the mixture cooks well. Add the grated jaggery to this and simmer. Garnish with the cardamom and some ghee.  

Manoharam

Ingredients:



2 cups rice flour
1/2 cup blackgram dal flour
1 ladle greengram dal flour
Pinch of salt
Oil to fry
1 cup grated jaggery
1/2 tsp cardamom powder




Method:

Make a soft dough of the flours and salt with water. Divide into four pieces and one by one put them in the pressing machine used for making idiappam, but with bigger holes. Press directly on hot oil and cook till the hissing sound stops. Ensure that both sides are cooked. Drain the excess oil on a tissue paper. Repeat for all the rest of the dough. Break them into smaller pieces.

Heat the jaggery with little water. To check the required consistency, drop a bit of jaggery syrup in plain water in a cup and try to form a soft ball of it. If you can do that, the consistency is perfect. Immediately add the cardamom powder and the fried item and mix well.

Grease hands with little ghee and rice flour. Make balls of the mixture while hot.