PORI URUNDAI/PUFFED RICE BALLS RECIPE-WITH VIDEO - KARTHIGAI DEEPAM RECIPE1

PORI URUNDAI/PUFFED RICE BALLS - KARTHIGAI DEEPAM RECIPE

PORI URUNDAI/PUFFED RICE BALL is one of the healthy tasty traditional sweet. Actually there are variety of pori like aval pori, nel pori., During the thiru karthigai festival simple sweetened pori (without making balls) or pori urundai will be offered to god. 

It is nothing but the sweetened puffed rice shaped into balls. Actually to get the crunchy balls is in the making of jaggery syrup.

In our house this puffed rice (Pori) is very common snack and we will always having this in hand. Everyone in our family likes even the simple raw puffed rice very much. So no need to say how much this pori urundai is favourite to usJ.

Actually I am having a sweet child hood memory about pori. My native is a village, there one person usually comes weekly twice or thrice to sell the pori.

He will sing some rhyming lines to attract the kids even eldersJ, like

“Pori pori soodaana pori pillaigal sari endru sappidum pori pori “ J.

Whenever I think about or eats pori this lines will comes to my mind instantly J

Ok now coming to the recipe.
VIDEO RECIPE:

PORI URUNDAI(PUFFED RICE BALLS)

RECIPE TYPE: SWEET | CUISINE: SOUTH INDIAN |

YIELDS: 20 TO 22 MEDIUM SIZED BALLS|PREPARATION TIME: 5 MIN |

COOKING TIME: 15 MIN

                                                   

METHOD:

Firstly dry roast the sesame seeds for few minutes till it splutter and set aside.

In a heavy bottomed pan add jaggery and water and allow it to boil.

Once the jaggery got dissolved add the cardamom powder and mix.

Once the jaggery syrup gets thicken, check for the right stage. Ie., if you pour one or two drop of syrup in water you can able to make a nice ball with it. That is the perfect stage.

For me after 10 minute (approx.) got the right stage.

Once attained the right stage switch off the heat and then add the roasted gram, sesame seeds, and puffed rice and mix well.

In the mean time it gets cooled little bit. Grease your hands with ghee to avoid sticking and make small or medium sized balls as per your wish.

To make the balls in easy way, just take a portion of prepared puffed rice in a small tiffin plate and rotate the plate in circular motion, it will make the pori to stick together and becomes a whole mass. Then make it into perfect round balls by pressing with the hand.(Refer Video)

Store in a airtight box to retain its crispiness.

NOTES:

Actually the retension of crispiness is in the making of jaggery syrup. You should be able to make nice ball out of the jaggery syrup.

If  you add the puffed rice before reaching the right consistency, the balls becomes soggy.

Or if you missed the right stage and over boiled the syrup, you cannot make balls out of that and can eat as it is.

Use good quality jaggery better to use paagu vellam/urundai vellam to get nice colour and to make balls.

 You can add little dry ginger powder also in the jaggery syrup.

In the end if puffed rice becomes dry reheat it for few seconds and make the balls.

Do try this recipe and please don’t forget to give your feedback in comments.

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