Milk kozhukkattai

Ingredients:

1.      Raw rice---1cup,

2.      Milk--- 1 Littre,

3.      Jaggery---300 gms,

4.      Chopped and fried cashewnuts---3teasp,

5.      Powdered cardamom---1/2 teasp,

6.      Coconut scrapings---1 cup.

Procedure:

·         Soak rice for 1 hour.

·         Wash the rice well and grind with coconut to a fine paste

·         Heat a pan ,add 1 teasp of ghee and add the rice paste

·         Stir well to avoid lump formation

·         Remove from stove after 15 minutes.

·         Knead the dough well and make it to pearl sized balls and keep aside.

·         Now boil the milk to rise up

·         Add the rice balls slowly with little gap in between and allow it to cook.

·         Once the balls are cooked they will come up

·         Now slowly add the jaggery to the milk mixture and allow it to simmer for                                     10 minutes.

·         When the jaggery is mixed well with milk remove from the stove.

·         Now add powdered cardamom,cashewnuts and 2 teasp of ghee and                                               servehot.