MAVUNDA / RICE LADOO

MAVUNDA / RICE LADOO IS A SNACK POPULAR IN KERALA. IT'S VERY EASY TO PREPARE AND CAN BE STORED FOR SEVERAL DAYS WITHOUT ANY TASTE CHANGE.
By : Deepa Sujesh
INGREDIENTS :-

Raw Rice flour(fine powder)- 2 cups
Jaggery(grated) - 1 cup
Grated Coconut(Finely grated) - 1 cup
Dry Ginger powder / chukku podi - 2 pinch
Cardamon powder / Elakka podi - 2 pinch
Salt water

METHOD :-

Sprinkle little salt water in the rice flour and mix well.
Add grated coconut in to the flour and mix well.
Heat a heavy bottomed pan and roast the rice flour and grated coconut in medium heat till it is crisp and golden colour .
Remove from fire and let it cool.
Add little water in jaggery and let it dissolve.
Bring this syrup to boil in a vessel, stirring constantly till one-thread consistency is reached.
Add cardamom powder, dry ginger powder and the roasted rice powder into it and mix well.
Remove from fire and make small balls out of the mixture.(it will be hard to make balls if the mixture is cold)
Apply little rice powder on your hand so that it doesn't stick.
Sprinkle some rice powder over the ball to prevent it from sticking together.