Diwali Recipe : Adhirasam

Adhirasam (அதிரசம்)

I tried adhirasam for the first time yesterday and it came out well. I got the recipe from my mother

Ingredients:

Rice flour  (அரிசி மாவு)  : 2 cups
Jaggery   (வெல்லம்)    : 1 1/4 cup
Cardamom powder ( ஏலக்காய் பொடி) : 1/2 tsp
Ghee (நெய்)                    : 3 tsp
Oil (எண்ணெய்)  : for deep frying
Water  (தண்ணீர்)   : as required

Dissolve jaggery in water, heat it slightly and then filter it. Boil the filtered jaggery water well until huge bubbles form on the surface. This is much before any string consistency.

Take the rice flour in a wide bowl and part it circularly in the centre (like a well). Now, add the boiled jaggery to it and stir well with a ladle. Ensure there are no lumps. Let this mixture cool. Add cardamom powder and ghee to the cooled rice mixture and knead it well.

Heat the oil in a saucepan (kadai). In the meanwhile, take a small ball of the mixture the size of a lemon and flatten to the size of a puri on a greased plastic sheet. You can do this with your fingers.

 

Drop the puri into the hot oil and deep fry.

Once it becomes slightly brown, press it well with the help of two spoons to ensure any excess oil is drained and keep it aside to cool. Repeat the same procedure for the balance dough.

Adhirasam is ready to be enjoyed for Diwali!

 NOTE: In case one adhirasam breaks in the oil, then probably the jaggery is more. The taste varies with different qualities of rice/jaggery. Do check and add a few more tsp of flour if required.

Eventful Sunday - Programme in our Colony

Eventful Sunday - Programme in our Colony


This morning was fun and frolic in our colony!

Aaha FM and Cavin Kare conducted a programme called Super Mom. There was a great participation by the kids in the colony as usual and many ladies came forward to participate in the recipe contest.

Lots of games and sports were also conducted for the children and the kids had great fun.

There was a sale of tupperware products and fancy jewellery by a couple of colony ladies.

The highlight of the programme were the recipe contest and the milk sweets made by the chefs who were also the judges for the recipe contest. The chefs had made paal payasam, ada pradhaman and akkara vadisal. They also explained all the three recipes to the interested ladies

The recipe contest was for any milk based recipes. There were 14 contestants with 13 different sweets and one soup using milk and palak. There were many sweets right from paal payasam with carrot halwa, carrot kheer, bread pudding, paasiparuppu sweet, drydates sweet, a sweet made using milk and china grass, fruit salad, cocunut milk sweet, badam kheer etc.

The  first price went to Mrs. Subbulakshmi for paasi paruppu sweet,

second price to Mrs. Shobha for bread pudding

 and third to Mrs. Parvathy for badam kheer.

It was a pleasure to see the array of various sweets vert artistically displayed by the ladies of the colony!

All in all it was a very interesting Sunday morning!