This makes for a tasty evening snack. Delicious and healthy you can induce children to eat them by making different shapes.
What you need
For rice balls
Raw rice - 1 cup
Coconut, grated - 2 tbsp
Salt - to taste
Red chillies - 3-4
Bengal gram - 1 tsp
Broken black gram - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds - a pinch
Oil - 2 tsp
Water - 3 cups
For dal chutney
Bengal gram - 1 1/2 tsp
Red chilli - 1
Salt - to taste
Coconut - 1 1/2 tbsp
Tamarind/tamarind water - 1/2" piece / 1 tsp
Jaggery, optional - a pinch
Oil - 1 tsp
Cooking instructions
Take rice in a mixer and grind it to a course powder (rawa like consistency.)
Take a pan, heat oil, add mustard seeds, Bengal gram, black gram and red chillies. Fry till it turns golden brown. Now, add water and salt. Increase the flame, and let the water boil. When the water boils, lower the flame and add the rice powder. Stir occasionally. Cook till the water is fully absorbed (the paste should be like chapatti dough). Switch off the flame and cool for a few minutes. Make small balls of the cooked dough using a scoop or by hand.
Steam the balls for 20-25 minutes and serve hot with any chutney, preferably dal chutney.
In a small pan, heat oil, add Bengal gram and red chilli. Fry till it turns golden brown. Cool. Grind the fried gram with all other ingredients to a smooth paste and serve.
Bala Saranya R. is a homemaker who loves trying out different dishes. She is working on her first book on healthy food recipes drawn from her own cooking experiences.
