PALM JAGGERY THENKULAL

This sweet is our traditional sweet made out of palm jaggery, rice and urad dhal batter, it looks crispy fried murukku and dipped in palm jaggery sauce. It is very healthy sweet and tasty.


INGREDIENTS:-

1. Idly rice             1 cup
2. Urad dhal           1/4 cup
3. Salt                     1/2 tsp
4. Palm jaggery      1/2 kg
5. Water                  1/2 cup
6. Oil                      for frying

METHOD:-

• Wash rice and urad dhal, soak together for 3 hours.
• Grind to a smooth paste, adding less water.
• The batter should be thick that we can make a ball out of it.
• And should be easy to squeeze by murukku press, or punch a hole in the middle of a cloth, or by a cream bag.
• Powder the jaggery add 1/2 cup of water and bring to a boil.
• Strain the syrup into another container and again boil to 1 string.
• Heat oil to a piping hot, reduce the flame, squeeze the batter like murukku directly to oil.
• Fry till crisp on both sides, the oil gets calm when they are fried.
• Dip the fried thenkulal in jaggery syrup for 1 minute and transfer to another plate.
• Fry the remaining dough, as the same process, to be done.
• Serve hot or cold, can be kept for 15 days or more when kept in the refrigerator.