Happy Hiveans!!! Greetings to you friends. Happy to share with you an evening snack, which will be equally enjoyed by the young and old, and most of all, the children community.
Let's start with the recipe
INGREDIENTS REQUIRED:
- Roasted rice (brown or white) as desired - 1 cup
- Grated Coconut - 1 cup
- Jaggery or Palm Sugar - 3/4 cup or as desired as per your taste
- Cardamom - 4 to 5 in number
Note: Make sure to use the same measurement cup to measure all the ingredients.
Less ingredients but more effort required to get the soft snack done.
COOKING INSTRUCTIONS:
STEP - 1
The measurement cup that I used
Kept under the sunlight
Wash the raw rice thoroughly, two to three times. Drain the water by placing it in a strainer, for 10 minutes. Later, you can place it outside, to get direct sun so that it gets dried. If its too hot, one hour is more than enough to get it strained.
STEP - 2
The procedure of frying
Now, take a utensil, where the bottom is thick so that you can roast the drained rice. Just roast it, from high to medium flame and then from medium to low. You can do this accordingly, as and when the colour of the rice changes. Once done let it cool down for 10 minutes.
The aroma just spread around, once done. Finally done.
While frying, especially when its almost ready, you get the aroma of the roasted ingredient.
Depending on the roasting, one can get the soft crunchy rice balls.
STEP - 3
The grounded mixture
Once grounded into fine powder, you can store it in an air tight container. Take my word, it stays for months. So that as and when you need you can take it to make the rice balls.
Now shift the roasted rice into a mixer jar and let it grind, until you get a fine powder. If necessary, you can use a sieve, to sieve the powder once so that, any hard ungrounded particles remain in the sieve.And finally, you get a fine powder.
STEP - 4
For the mixture
Everything transferred to the mixer
The final process
Now, mix well the grounded fine roasted rice powder, Palm sugar and grated Coconut, with your bare hands or with a ladle. Mix them well and now once again transfer it to the mixer jar and let it grind. Once grounded, add some Cardamom powder for flavour
Note: Make sure the mixer jar is dry, with no water particles in it as this can spoil the rice balls.
Last, but not the least, transfer them to a bowl and take the grounded mixture, with your bare hands and make it to round balls, one at time, about the size of a lemon. For the measurement of one cup, I got around 7 balls.
You will enjoy this with tea. So, happy tea time. The photos captured are my own from my Samsung Galaxy A50 mobile. Thanks for your valuable time. *