ASITTU MUDDE

INGREDIENTS:-

1. Rice                2 cups
2. Sugar              2 cups
3. Cardamom     6
4. Dry ginger      3"
5. Water              1/4 cup
6. Black sesame  1 tbsp
7. Coconut          1/2 cup
8. Roasted gram  1 tbsp

METHOD:-

• Wash and soak rice for 3 hours, drain the water completely on a colander for 1/2 an hour.
• Spread rice on a towel for 1 hour.
• Powder dry ginger, cardamom with 1 tbsp sugar and sieve.
• Powder coarsely and sieve it and spread on a plate and keep it aside.
• Fry sesame until it splutters and looks fluffy. Cut coconut to a small pieces.
• Mix sesame seeds, cut coconut, roasted gram, dry ginger powder to rice flour.
• In a thick pan add sugar and water and boil for one string.
• Pour the syrup to the rice flour and mix it with a wooden ladle.
• Let it cool for a minute, then mix by hand and make balls out of it.
• This sweet is prepared on Mariamma Festival in Salem.
• It is distributed to guests, relatives and neighbors.