Indianfoodcafe: How to make Athirasam

How to make Athirasam

This is a very tasty sweet made by jaggery and rice flour

Raw Rice 200 gm soaked in water for about 2 hours

Jaggery 150 gm

Water 50ml

Cardamoms 5-6 powdered fine

Dried ginger powder 2 tsp

Oil for frying

Drain the rice and spread out to dry on a cloth. Grind the

slightly damp rice. The rice powder should be quite fine. You can

sieve out the coarser pieces. Add cardamom powder and dried

ginger powder to the rice flour.

Add some water to the jaggery and bring it to a boil. Strain the

mixture to remove impurities. Boil the syrup again till it is thick.

Pour it into the ground rice mix. Fold in the mixture to form

dough. Leave it aside for a couple of hours. Knead the dough

into balls. Grease your hands to aid the shaping. Flatten each

ball. Fry these athirasams in hot oil till they are deep brown.

Press down the ladle on each of them as they are frying.