Aathrasu is a Jaggery Sweet Dish. Ideally made on festival / occasions and mostly by the Iyengar community. This is also called Kajjaya in Kannada. Tried it for the Dussehra / Navaratri Festival and it came out really delicious.
Prep Time : 20 Mins + 2days
Cooking time : 15 Mins
Ingredients
- Rice / Aarshi / Akki - 1/2 kg
- Jaggery / Vellu / Bella 4 cup
- Finally Chopped Coconut pieces / Thenga churu / Thengina churu - 2 tbsp
- White Sesame seeds / Valle Yell / Beli Yellu - 2 tsp
- Cardamom Powder / Yellarshi pudi / Yellaki pudi - 1/2 tsp
- Soak rice for 2 days in between change water dry it and make powder
- Make a jaggery syrup (like caramel), add rice flour, coconut pieces, cardamom powder and mix well on the low flame and remove from the flame & cool then
- Make a small balls and press it like puri size apply sesame seeds and deep fry it in the oil till golden color
- Serve
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Am drooling over that delicious Aathrasu.
ReplyDeleteslurrrp!! parcel madri, tumba chennagide
ReplyDeleteThanks priya
ReplyDeleteThanks Lakshmi...kanditha parcel madthini:)) Dasara habbada shubhasyagalu
I have never made it before and usually pinch some from my mum. I am a big of this sweet. After seeing your recipe, I am triggered to try my hand over the same.
ReplyDeleteThank u for the recipe... can u pls tell me how many peices will that come upto
ReplyDeleteSwathi , for me around 10 pieces It also depends on the size.
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