Jaggery seedai / vella seedai - Festive recipe

Vella seedai in preparing with homemade rice flour with jaggery milk called pagu. This is one of the famous festive recipe in Tamil Nadu. This seedai will prepare for Diwali, Ganesha chathurthy, Gowri pooja, Gokulashtami. For making this, the jaggery milk or pagu consistency is very much important. It should be in string consistency and the batter should not be loose. My mother used to prepare for every Diwali and my aunt also will prepare in every occasion. It is very tasty and simple festive recipe.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	15 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Raw rice	:	1 Bowl
Jaggery	:	1/4 Kg
Cardamon powder	:	1 Tsp
Seasome seeds	:	2 Tsp
Oil	:	For fry

Method :
Soak the raw rice for at-least 30 minutes. After that rinse well and drain the water completely. After drained the water grind it nicely.

 In 1/2 a cup of water, add smashed jaggery and allow it to mix well in water. Drain the water, so that, the dust will removed. Keep the jaggery water in medium flame and allow it to boil well. Boil it till the string consistency comes.

When the pagu came in string consistency, add it in to the rice flour and mix with adding seasome seeds, cardamon powder. The mixing dough should be thick. keep the dough for 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, make small size balls in the dough.

Heat oil in a pan, deep fry the balls till golden brown color comes.

Then transfer to the serving bowl and serve. We can keep it for long time in air tight container.

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