CELEBRATION CONTINUES..POORNAM BOORELU

Here comes Andhra's most loved traditional Festive sweet. Just for you in mom's way!!
POORNAM BOORELU

INGREDIENTS-
Rice - 1 cup
Urad dal- 1/2 cup
Bengal gram- 1 cup
Jaggery -1 and 1/2 cup
Grated coconut- 1/4 th cup (optional)
Cardamom - 2-3 pods
Ghee-as required
salt- to taste
Oil- for frying
PROCEDURE-

Wash urad dal and rice. Soak them together for 5 hours. Drain water and grind urad dal and rice into fine paste by adding very little water. The batter should be like Dosa batter (thick). Soak Bengal gram for 3 hours, drain water and grind it coarsely. Adjust salt as per taste. Now pressure cook this coarse mixture until 3 whistles. Cool it now. Take a heavy bottomed vessel and add grated jaggery and little water to make jaggery syrup. Fry grated coconut in ghee until golden. Now add this fried coco mix and cardamom to jaggery mixture. Cook for few mins. Now add above prepared bengal gram mixture to it. Mix all the ingredients well and when this mixture condense Off the flame and allow it to cool. Now shape this mixture into small balls. Heat oil in a heavy bottomed vessel. Dip each ball into urad dal batter and let it coat evenly and deep fry until golden brown and crispy.
Serve hot with a dollop of ghee
Store in air tight container