Pala Talikalu

To all my readers and friends, Wish u a Happy and Blessed Shivaratri!!!!

Pala talikalu, is one of the dishes my mom used to prepare for Vinayaka Chavithi as  naivedyam (prasadam). Today as a shivarathi special I prepared this delicious dish.

Pala talikalu is prepared with rice dough strings ,these  are slowly simmered in milk, coconut, jaggery, flavored with cardamom and garnished with cashews and raisins.

Ingredients:

Milk – 2 cups

Rice Flour – 1 cup

Jaggery – ½ cup

Grated Coconut – 2 tsps

Cardamom powder a pinch

Ghee – 2 tsps

Cashews, Raisins

Water 1 cup

Preparation

• Roast rice flour powder in a vessel for 2-3 mins and keep aside.
• In a bowl take 2-3tsp of  rice flour powder and mix with water like a thick paste and keep aside.
• In another separate bowl mix the rest rice flour with water and make dough(like chapathi)
• Take the dough in janthikalu maker with medium size hole plate and press the flour in a vessel.
• Pressure cook these rice strings without whistle for 10 mins.

• Boil milk in microwave for 2mins.
• Boil ½ cup water, add the above boiled milk, once it comes to full boil add the prepared cooked rice strings  and let it boil for another 10mins.
• In the meantime, take ½ cup of water and mix jaggery and boil till it dissolves in water.
• Add this jaggery water to the boiling milk.
• Add granted coconut and cardamom powder and let it cook for 2 -3 mins
• Fry cashew nuts and raisins in one tsp of ghee and add it palathalikalu.
• Remove from Stove and garnish with nuts.

Sending this to "Lets Celebrate Sweets - Warm Desserts" hosted by Priya originally started by Nivedita