Sweet Aval Puttu

Ingredients: Aval (pounded rice) - 1 cup, jaggery - 1/4 cup, cashewnut, elachchi, as required.

Method: Clean the pounded rice, whip in mixer to smaller pieces. Soak this quantity in 1 cup lukewarm water. It absorbs and swells. Dissolve jaggery in water and filter. Now heat the jaggery water in a vessel for thick consistency. (Test the consistency by pouring a drop of it in water. It has to roll and settle at the bottom). In a kadai, pour the soaked Aval, add jaggery syrup and constantly stir it on fire. To this add ghee roasted cashew, raisin and elachchi.