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This recipe is made only on Ganesh Chaturthi day as a Naivedya for Lord Ganesha. This is also called Chappe Undalakaalu as this recipe is prepared without adding salt.
Ingredients:
Rice – 1 cup, soaked for 2-3hours
Salt to taste
Coconut – Jaggery mix – 3 cups
Ghee – 1/4 cup
Method:
- Grind rice to a very smooth batter.
- Add enough water to get a consistency slightly more than water consistency.
- Take a heavy bottomed pan and cook this batter stirring continuously till it forms a lump that is not sticky.
- When it cools make small roundels(cherry sized) of this batter.
- Cook them in steam for 30mins.
- In a heavy bottomed vessel, take steam cooked rice roundels, coconut-jaggery mix.
- Keep stirring this mixture on medium flame for 15 mins.
- Add ghee and continue stirring every now and then for on low flame for nearly 30mins.
- Turn off the heat and serve hot.
- Once cooled to room temperature, you store this in an air tight container for 2-3 days or refrigerate to store for more days.