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Recipe
ADHIRASAM
Method
Ingredients
• Raw Rice - 1 Kg
• Jaggery - ¾ Kg
• Cardamom Powder - 1 tsp
• Khus Khus - 2 tsp
• Dry Ginger Powder - ½ tsp
• Oil to fry
• Soak the rice in water for 2 hours. Drain the rice and spread it out on a clean cloth till it is almost
dry.
• Powder it in a blender and sieve through a medium mesh strainer and set aside.
• In a pan, dissolve the jaggery with 1 cup water. Heat the mixture, without boiling, till the jaggery
melts. Strain through a fine sieve. Pour the syrup in to a clean saucepan and bring to boil. Simmer
till the mixture reaches the soft-ball stage. (To check, drop a teaspoon of the mixture in to a cup of
ice cold water. If you can shape it in to a soft ball, that loses its shape very quickly, then it is done.)
• Stir in the cardamom, khus-khus and powdered ginger. Take it off the heat, and stir in the rice
flour. Stir well to make soft dough. Cover and let it rest for at least 3 hours or preferably, overnight.
• Heat the oil for deep-frying over a medium flame.
• Using a greased banana leaf or a plastic sheet, flatten small amounts of the dough to form palm
sized, about 1 cm in thickness cakes.
• Fry the cakes in hot oil till it turns dark brown color.
• Drain, press out the excess oil and serve it hot.
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