Karthigai Deepam is a festival of lights celebrated in the Tamil month of Karthigai.All the houses will be decked up with rows and rows of lamps and it is a beautiful sight. We make pori urundai on that day. We get arisi/nel pori during this season and pori urundai is usually made of that variety. But I have used the ordinary variety which is easily available. Today we will learn how to make pori urundai (for Karthigai deepam) or puffed rice balls following this easy recipe.
Pori Urundai-Puffed Rice Balls
Prep Time : 10 mins
Cook Time : 20 mins
Serves:14 Balls
Recipe Category: Indian Sweet
Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Serves:14 Balls
Recipe Category: Indian Sweet
Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Ingredients needed
Puffed rice/Pori – 4 1/2 cups heaped
Jaggery/paagu vellam – 1 cup
Water – 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder – a generous pinch (optional)
Ghee – 1 tsp
Heat 1/2 cup of water, add jaggery to it, after it melts, filter it to remove any impurities.
In a heavy bottomed pan, add the filtered jaggery water, cardamom powder, a tsp of ghee and boil the jaggery water, until it reaches a hard ball consistency. (ie)when you pour a tsp of jaggery syrup into a cup of water, it should not dissolve, you must be able to make a hard ball out of it. This is the right consistency. It is called paagu padham in tamil.
At this stage, switch off the flame, add the puffed rice to it and mix well.
Grease your hands with ghee and quickly make balls out of it, when the heat is bearable. Initially you can make roughly shaped balls. Then you can shape it nicely.
Note-
If the jaggery syrup dissolves in water, then you must boil the jaggery syrup for some more time until you get that hard ball consistency.
If the mixture hardens while making balls, then you can warm it slightly and make balls.
Check out my kadalai urundai recipe and ellu urundai also. Have a wonderful Karthigai Deepam.
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View Comments (42)
aah! I love this laddu... we used to make it during the Diwali and Makara Sankranth...
They look really nice. We used to prepare big balls but they did not last long. I and my sister would find the containers filled with sweets that my Mother prepares and would take them unknowingly. In a day or two they will be finished.
remembering old days. :)
I feel nostalgic...
Hey Padhu,
Nice pori urundai dear...Lovely clicks..Iam already following you dear!!:)
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That's a perfect just ahead of kaarthikai!!! Looks lovely
It looks really delicious!! Great presentation!!
looks perfect and yummy
The rice balls look yummy padhu. Nice shots :)
Superb. Advanced Wishes.
Pori urundais looks prefect..beautiful diyas Padhu..
pori urundai looks wow!
looks lovely padma... perfect