Sunnundalu

Today I am blogging delicious sweet ie Sunnundalu made with blackgram  also called as minapasunni. The preperation of this Traditional Andhra Sweet is very easy and simple. My daughter in law very often prepares this sunnundalu  with unique taste. My grand son who is 4 years likes these. She  makes few very small bite sized ones especially for him as he likes small laddus.

Ingredients

• Whole black gram dal                            2 cups
• Sugar                                                      1cup
• Ghee                                                       3/4 cup

How to prepare

1. Dry roast the whole black gram on medium flame till you get aroma of black gram dal. Keep stirring as they fry. Otherwise it will burn.
2. Grind the black gram dal into fine powder. It is best to grind with old stone grinder (called tiragali in telugu). My grand mother used to grind black gram dal with this old stone grinder only. When we are small we used to sit around this stone grinder and put  handful of dal  in the grinder. You can grind it in the mixey. After grinding you have to sieve. The final powder should be fine.
3. Grind the sugar in the mixey.
4. Then mix this black gram powder and powdered sugar in a wide basin. 
5. Meanwhile melt the ghee. 
6. Add melted ghee and mix with hand till the mix hold together. Make this mix into round balls and the sunnandalu are ready.

  Store it air tight tin. You can store for 15 days.

My tips:

You can add half jaggery and half sugar or complete jaggery.
In my mother in laws house they prepare with pottu minapappu.