Sweet Pori / Karthigai Deepam Pori

Karthigai deepam is a festival of lights celebrate in the month of karthigai.... All the houses will de decked up with rows and rows of light and it is beautiful sight...Usually we get rice pori in this season..  Pori is puffed rice which is made in different verity... Pori urundai or sweet pori but i choose sweet preparation which is prepared using puffed rice and jaggery syrup... 

Soon i will post that pori urundai recipe... Here, Sweet Pori / Karthigai Pori is a simple, tasty and traditional dish that we specially prepared on the day of Karthigai Deepam festival...  This sweets remains me and take me to my childhood days...

So I hope that you must try this recipe and let me know how it's turns out from you....

Preparation time : 10 mins

Cooking time : 15 mins

Serve - 3

Recipe Category : Sweet

Recipe Cuisine : South Indian

INGREDIENTS :

Puffed rice pori - 3 cups (heaped)

Jaggery - 1 cup

Water - 1/2 cup

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tspn (optional)

METHOD :

• Heat water in a pan and add in jaggery and allow to melts and filter to remove all impurities..
• In a heavy bottom pan add filter jaggery water and add in cardamom powder.
• Allow to boil or untill it reaches the hard ball consistency..
• (When you pour a tsp of jaggery syrup into a cup of water, it should not dissolves, you must be able to make a hard ball out of it..)
• This is a correct consistency, swich off the flame..
• Add in puffed rice to it, and mix well.
• Now transfer it into a plate and rub it with your hands..
• Sure it should be seperate... 
• Now serve and enjoy..

PICTORIAL :

Take your ingredients

Add jaggery in a pan

Add some water

Heat it in low flame

Allow to melts

When it completely dissolved

Strain it, to remove all impurities

Again pour it into the pan

Add some cardamom powder

When you pour a tsp of jaggery syrup into a cup of water,

 it should not dissolves

You must be able to make a hard ball out of it

This is a correct consistency

Add in puffed pori

Swich off the flame

Transfer it into a plate

Rub it your hands

It should be seperate

Now it's done and store it in air tight container

Serve

Enjoy..