Pori Urundai
Pori Urundai is a traditional sweet made with pori and jaggery for Karthigai Deepam. PPori Urundai is the traditional neiveidhyam for karthigai deepam festival. Pori Urundai Recipe with step by step pictures and video.
Servings13 balls
Ingredients
- 3 and 1/2 cups pori puffed rice
- 1/2 cup jaggery
- 1/4 cup water
- a pinch cardamom powder
- 1 teaspoon ghee to grease hands
Instructions
- Measure jaggery, add it to a pan, add water and mix it well.
- Heat it up for 2 mins,let jaggery dissolve. Strain to remove impurities.
- Add the strained jaggery syrup to the pan and heat it up another time. Then add elachi powder and keep cooking in low flame.
- Keep a separate plate ready filled with little water.Take a drop of jaggery syrup and put it in water, it should stand firm as shown in pic below. However, it should not dissolve.
- First it will form soft loose ball then forms a firm hard ball as shown below. It should not be loose(soft ball) when you roll it with your fingers. This is the consistency we need. So when this consistency is reached, add the pori.
- After that, grease your palms with ghee or oil, roll them into tight balls taking care not to break the pori. Similarly repeat to finish.
- Grease your palms with ghee or oil and roll them into tight balls taking care not to break the pori.
- If kept outside it will become soggy, therefore store in airtight container and enjoy. Enjoy Pori Urundai!
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Notes
- Be careful in checking the consistency else making them into balls will be tough.
- If the consistency is not correct then you will not be able to shape balls.
- If it hardens in the end for the last few balls then heat up the mixture for a minute to loosen then make balls.
- The color of the pori urundai totally depends on the jaggery variety.
- The method is the same for making aval pori urundai and also kadala urundai.
Nutrition Facts
Pori Urundai
Amount Per Serving (25 g)
Calories 51
Calories from Fat 4
% Daily Value*
Fat 0.4g1%
Saturated Fat 0.2g1%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.01g
Monounsaturated Fat 0.1g
Cholesterol 1mg0%
Sodium 0.4mg0%
Potassium 4mg0%
Carbohydrates 11g4%
Fiber 0.1g0%
Sugar 8g9%
Protein 0.2g0%
Vitamin C 0.003mg0%
Calcium 3mg0%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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