Okkarai /Ukkarai (Diwali Sweet Recipe)
This special sweet is very popular traditional south indian (Tirunelveli side) recipe.This okkarai diwali recipe will be avvailable in every brahmin homes.This recipe with the combination of channa dal and jaggery with awesome taste more than kesari. Try this sweet and celebrate the lightness of diwali with safe crakers.
Ingredients:
- Bengal gram - 1/2 cup
- Jaggery - 3/4 cup (grated)
- Cocunut - 2 - 3 tbsp (grated)
- Cadamom - 1/4 tsp
- Cashew nuts - few
- Ghee - 2 tbsp
Method:
- Heat a pan, dry roast the bengal gram in low flame for 4-5mins until it chenges in color slightly and gives good aroma(dal raw smell should goes off).
- Soak in water for 1-2 hours.drain the water and transfer it into an mixer.Grind it into an coarse paste if needed add 2 tbsp of water (It should not be grinded into paste).
- Take an idly mould , fill the cups with coarse paste evenly like idly.
- Steam for 15mins in a medium flame.After that remove the mould out. Break the steamed cakes evenly with your hand like bread crumbs.
- Heat a pan, add the grated jaggery with immersed water on it and mix well. Until the jaggery dissolves completely. Filter the impurities from jaggery syrup.
- Transfer the filtered syrup into the other pan, allow it to boil until it gets one string consistency.
- Now add the crushed dal powder , grated cocunut , cashew nuts and mix well in a low flame.
- Avoid sticking from pan , jaggery should be coated well with dal powder. The mixture will be moist and lumpy.
- Atlast add the rest of ghee on to it and mix well in low flame for another 2 mins.
- Switch off the flame and serve hot or cold. Okkarari diwali sweet is ready for the celebration. Enjoy the occasion with full of happiness.
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