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
Method
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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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
Wowwwwwwwwww.. This is my fav laddu.. looks awesome dear.. thanks for sharing !!
looks lovely and delicious…hope u had a lovely diwali celebration …I loved ur plate which u used and lovely presentation:)
Pori urundai looks yumm..
nice clicks
Loved your containers in the first pic Padhu. We also make this and it is called MOA in bengali. My Grandma who is 87 yrs still makes this for me whenever I visit her. Awesome presentation dear…
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
Padhu, could you parcel some my way, i miss this so much…Looks yummm
perfect recipe for the season. we too make it in the same way. well presented
Pori urundai looks delicious. Amma makes during Karthika.
this is my fav they look wonderful!
This is my favorite too. Just love it so much 🙂 will be trying it out soon too 🙂
nice recipe! is this festival different from diwali?
Delicious and yummy!!
very cute pori urandai. yummy:)
Lovely laddos…I just luv it!!!
pori urundai luks perfect…too gud presentation.
My favourite.yummy urundai dear.
These are my papa's all time fav..you made them so perfectly..will try it!
US Masala
wow yummy pori urundai….. i want to make this for a loooonnnnggggg time…. book marked dear…..
Very good ladoos and fantastic presentation I must say!!
Preeti
omg, this is my favorite.. i can eat like 10 at a time.. looks super delicious.
Aaha Oho
very nice recipe and lovely space…
really wanna try one!
wonderful marmara ladduus,paddu ji,thanx for sharing
really nice urundai yummy
Tried it out today. Turned out nice!!
i tried pori urundai 2day came out well ,
Hey thanks padhu. Ur recipes are simple to understand nd easy to repeat
Tried out today n came up wel:) thank u dear.. happy karthigai deepam:)
Did this today,turned out very well,thank u very much
Cane out very well paddhu ,happy karthigai
Hi i tried making pori urundai today at home. While making balls it became dry and unable to make balls for the rest. I was able to make 5 to 6 balls only. Then i tried adding more jaggery in ball consistency. Pls advise what might have gone wrong.
In that case, you can heat the mixture slightly and then continue to make balls.