Rice flour & Moong Dal Sweet

Rice Flour & Moong Dal Sweet - Sobha P Shenoi

Recipe:

Split Yellow Moong Dal / Pasi paruppu – ½ cup
Fine Rice Flour / Arisi Mavu – 1 cup
Jaggery / Vellam / Sarkarai – 2 cup
Ghee – ½ cup
Water – 4 cup
Cashews – 3 tblspn (optional
Wash Moong Dal and let it dry in a colander.
Heat 1 tsp of ghee and roast rice flour till it turns into light golden colour and you get nice aroma. Remove this to a bowl.
Heat 1 tsp of ghee and roast moong Dal till it turns into light golden colour and you get nice aroma. Add 2 cups of water and bring it to a boil. Now simmer this till the dal is cooked.
Now in a separate sauce pan add 2 cups of water and bring it to a boil. Take it off the heat and add jaggery in this water. Mix well so that the jaggery gets dissolved.
Pour this jaggery water through a sieve over the cooked dal and mix well. Bring this to a boil.
Slowly add in the roasted rice flour and mix well. Stir everything together untill its gets combined well
Add in the ghee and mix well..Cook everything for 5 mins mixing continuously. The cooked mixture will leave the sides of the pan.
Now pour this in a greased pan or tray and smoothen the top.
Let it rest for 15 mins. Now invert the pan and cut into squares. Garnish with cashews.