This is a traditional Tamil Nadu recipe which is very healthy. It is made with a mixture of rice and variety of legumes along with jaggery and has a long shelf life of a couple of months. The end product is a hard ball and can be eaten after breaking the ball with a rock or if you have strong teeth. The hardness comes from the jaggery and also adds to the long shelf life.
The proportion and the use of ingredients varies from family to family and below is my family's recipe.
This reminds me of my paati who makes this frequently and is always stocked up in the kitchen.
Ingredients Required:
Idly Rice or Idly Rice Rava - 1 cup
Godumai Rava - 1 cup
Moong Dhal - 1 cup
Channa dhal - 1 cup
Peanut - 1/4 cup
Roasted channa dhal - 1/2 cup
Dry coconut flakes - 1/4 cup
Cardamom - 2 tsp
Jaggery - 3/4 times the qty of flour from above
How to make:
In a pan, dry roast each ingredient - rice, godumai Rava, moong Dhal, channa dhal and peanut separately and set aside.
On cooling, grind to a almost fine powder along with roasted channa dhal, coconut flakes and cardamom.
Measure the amount of flour and for each cup, take 3/4 cup powdered jaggery.
In a vessel add 1/2 cup water and the jaggery and allow to dissolve.
Boil till you get hard paagu consistency.
To find the correct consistency, take a small cup of water and drop the jaggery in it with a ladle.
You should be able to roll into a ball. If you are not, then boil for some more time.
Pour this jaggery on the flour and mix well with a spoon.
Start making small balls out of this mixture, roll and gently press and set aside.
Do this quickly else the jaggery will harden.
On cooling the balls would become hard and needs to be broken to be eaten.
Notes:
If you are doing this for the first time, I suggest you do 1 cup of flour at a time with 3/4 cup jaggery. Else the mixture would harden up and you would not be able to make balls.
Shelf life is a couple of months.
Do not use fresh coconut, if you do not have coconut flakes then skip it else will reduce the shelf life.
If you are gluten free, skip the godumai Rava and increase the rice to 2 cups.
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