This is my 100th post and I wanted to try some special sweet recipe. Today is September 8th and this date always reminds me of paachoru (nercha paachoru) which our neighbour used to bring after finishing her "Ettu Nombu". It is very much similar to "chakkara pongal" which we make during Navarathri.
INGREDIENTS
1. Raw rice ( I used jeerakasala rice) - 1/2 cup
2. Jaggery - 200 gm
3. Ghee - 1 table spoon
4. Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
5. Chukku-jeerakam-elakka podi - 1/2 tea spoon (dry ginger, cumin seeds and cardamom taken in equal amounts and powdered)
6. Chopped coconut - 1 table spoon
7. Kismis - 10-12
8. Cashewnut - 8-10
PREPARATION
1. Heat 6-8 cups of water in a big pan and cook rice well. It should be overcooked.
2. Make jaggery syrup by heating it with 1 cup water and filtering when completely dissolved.
3. Blend the grated coconut well with hand till the milk starts coming.
4. Add jaggery syrup and coconut to the rice and cook again till all the water is gone.
5. Switch off heat, add chukku-jeerakam-elakka powder and mix well.
6. Heat ghee and fry chopped coconut, cashew and kismis. Pour into the paachoru and mix.
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