Puffed rice balls/maramarala sweet balls

Ingredients:

 

• 3 cups puffed rice/maramaralu
• 1/4 cup roasted daal
• 1 cup powdered jaggery
• 1/2 of a coconut cut in thin pieces
• 2 teaspoons dry ginger powder
• Ghee/coconut oil to grease your palms.

 

 

 

Method :

 

Clean the puffed rice by tossing around in a plate. Add the roasted dhal and coconut pieces to it.

 

Dissolve jaggery in some water, strain and remove the impurities. Add the dry ginger powder to it.

 

Boil the jaggery in a pan until the syrup is of a hard ball texture. (Place some of the boiling jaggery in a bowl of small amout of water, try to gather that in a ball.

You will be able to form a ball with the boiled syrup.) This texture works well for any unda made using jaggery syrup like the kadalai urundai, pottukadalai urundai, manoharam etc.

 

Mix well with the puffed rice, roasted gram and coconut pieces.

 

Allow to cool a bit and greasing your palms, gather the mix in balls of desired size.

Puffes balls/maramarala undalu are ready.