Pori Urundai for Karthigai Deepam

Pori Urundai is a traditional south Indian sweet made with puffed rice/Murmurra and jaggery for Karthigai Deepam. Kids love crunching on them for evening snack. They are very light and crunchy

Ingredients : 

Pori / Murmurra / Puffed rice - 4 cups
Jaggary - 1 cup (3/4 cup works fine as well)
Cardamom Powder - 1/4 teaspoon
Dry ginger powder - 1/4 teaspoon
Lemon juice - 1/2 teaspoon
Ghee - 1 teaspoon

Procedure : 

1. Boil jaggary with 1/2 cup of water until melted

 
2. Once jaggary is melted strain the mixture to a large pan and start boiling

 
3. Jaggary syrup must boil to become hard ball consistency. Check this by dropping some jaggary syrup in cold water and you must be able to form a ball and when the ball is dropped on a stainless steel plate, you should hear a dang sound.

4. Now turn off the stove and add cardamon powder, lemon juice and dry ginger powder and mix well

5. Now add Pori and mix well and make sure all the pori/puffed rice are coated with jaggary syrup

6. Make small laddus out the mixture when its still warm.

Note: use food grade gloves while making laddus easily

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