Monday, July 1, 2013

Verusenagapappu Undalu (Peanut Laddu)

Ingredients:
Peanuts - 1 cup
Jaggery - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Ghee - 1 tbsp
Water - 30 ml

Procedure:
  1. Dry roast the peanuts until they slightly alter their color. Cool them, peel of the skin by rubbing between palms.
  2. Take a kadai, add jaggery, water (15 ml) and heat them until a thick syrup is formed. The syrup should be in a consistency such that when a drop of it is placed in a bowl of water, it should retain its shape without spreading in water.
  3. Continue the same process to prepare sugar syrup in a separate kadai.
  4. Now add sugar syrup in to jaggery syrup and stir well.
  5. Finally add roasted peanuts in to the syrup and mix well. Transfer the contents immediately in to a greased plate and level it with a spatula if you want to cut it in to pieces or you can wait for few minutes until it is warm and make as laddu of desired size. 
TIP: Jaggery alone can be used to prepare the syrup, but the laddu turns hard. The combination of sugar and jaggery gives brittleness and adds taste to the laddu.

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