Purnalu

Hi Friends

Today is a big festival in Andhra Pradesh - Sankranthi celebrated for the next 3 days. Kids have holidays during this time and they enjoy eating variety of dishes during this festive season. Today I have prepared a traditional sweet - Purnalu. Very easy to prepare. Generally made as offering Gods at the time of festival.

Let us go to prepare PURNALU

Ingredients

• Channa dal                        1 cup
• Jaggery                              1 1/2 cup grated
• Cardamom powder            pinch
• Oil for deep fry

For the outer layer

• Rice                                     2 cups
• Urad dal                              1 cup
• Salt                                      pinch

How I did it

1. Soak rice and urad dal over night.
2. Wash and grind them into smooth paste. The consistency should be like dosa batter.
3. Add salt and mix well.
4. For prepare Purnam
5. Pressure cook channa dal until whistle. Donot over cook it. Cooked dal should be rigidly soft and not broken.
6. Drain it using colander.
7. Take heavy bottom vessel.
8. Transfer cooked channa dal into it mix grated jaggery and cardamom powder.
9. Cook for 5 minutes, continuously stirring. Within this time both dal and jaggery mix nicely comes together.
10. Turn off the stove and let it cool.
11. Use pappu guthi or a wide bottomed ladel and mash it into a paste. Or you can also use blender to mash it. Donot add any water.
12. Check the consistency. You should be able to make small balls of it.
13. Divide the purnam into small balls like bigger then the marble.
14. Now comes the final stage of cooking of purnaalu.
15. Take a deep fry pan, add sufficient oil, let it heat.
16. When the oil is warm enough, dip the purnam balls into prepared urad dal batter and gently drop into oil one by one and fry till golden brown.

     Remove and serve them with little ghee.

My Note

• Instead of channa dal you can use toor dal also.
• Don't waste drained dal water. One can make it sweet charu.
• You can store this purnam in fridge for 2 weeks.