Sugar Adhirasam

Cuisine Style: South India | Cooking Time: 30 minutes | To Serve: 20 | Type: Pongal special sweet

Ingredients

• Rice - 1 kg
• White sugar - 3/4 kg
• Green cardamom powder - 1 tsp
• Oil - ½ ltr [For deep frying]

Preparation

• Soak rice for 3 hours.
• Drain the water and spread over the cotton cloth to absorb extra moisture on the rice.
• Now it is ready to grind. Put into mixer grinder and grind to fine powder (you can use traditional method to beat the rice using Ural & Ulakkai) and keep it aside.
• Heat pan with little water and put sugar & mix well till completely melted.
• Now pour melted sugar slowly & gently onto the rice flour. Make sure that you are doing the process of pouring & mixing simultaneously. The dough mixture should not be sticky and not too hard.
• Make lemon size ball out of the dough.
• Grease plantain leaf / polythene paper with oil. Take the ball on the leaf and flatten gently and row it on the cotton cloth then deep fry till golden brown.
• Then squeeze the oil (if you don’t squeeze the Adhirasam soft always) then put the fried Adhirasam over the wide pan and sprinkle green cardamom powder.
• Preserve this in an air tight container.

How to make sugar adhirasam with step by step procedure

Soaked Rice (Fig 1)

After Grinding(sieving) (2)

Rice Flour(3)

sugar syrup melting (4)

Dough for Sugar Adhirasam(5)

Making balls(6)

Note

• Take little bit of sugar and put into water, if it is not broken it is right time to add the rice flour
  

Tip

• If the mixture is too sticky roll it over on the rice flour and if the mixture is too hard then mix hot milk with the mixture