Ukkali / Sweet Broken Rice

This is my 25th post, I feel very happy and delighted that I was able to get 25 different recipes in my kitchen notes and share with everyone. It was a flick of a thought to get this idea of saving my recipes in a blog. It also serves as a quick reference. It gives a commitment towards perfection.

Ukkali is one of the popular sweet prepared in the southern part of India. In our community we prepare it for Karthigai Deepam festival. This festival always reminds my mom making kolams using rice flour and also rice flour dough. This kolam is a quite difficult one to draw, but she draws it with good excellence. We get to light beautiful lamps made of mud in between the kolam. It is kind of a nice experience. 

Ukkali

Preparation time - 1 hour

Serves - 4

Ingredients:

Raw rice - 2 cups 

Moong dal - 1/2 cup

Sugar - 11/2 cup

Salt - 1 tsp

Ghee - 1/2 cup

Water - 1 cup

Cashew - a fistful

Raisins - 1/2 cup

Cardamom powder - 1 tbsp

Method:

Ukkali

Soak raw rice with moong dal for 4 hours. Grind it smoothly with salt. 

Heat a sauce pan and pour the grounded mixture. Keep stirring it will get hard, now pour 1 tbsp of ghee and then stir. It will start to get separate, in a powder consistency. Now add sugar + remaining ghee cardamom powder + cashew and keep stirring. 
It should be looking separate and not stick in the finger almost in the consistency of Upma. 

You can have it plainly or with warm milk. I like to have with milk.

Note: 
You can replace ghee with oil (in that case 1/4 oil + little ghee) - sweets wont look good without ghee
You can replace rice with channa dal or moong dal completely
Instead of sugar, you can use 1 cup of jaggery- it kind of gives different taste 


Thanks for reading 
VP