UNDRALLU / RICE BALLS

The most important and favourite food of Lord Ganesha is supposed to be Undrallu or Rice Balls .


UNDRALLU

Rice - 1kg
Chana dal - 1 cup
Jeera - 2 tbsp
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Salt - 2 tbsp
Water - 11/2 lit

PREPARATION

Grind rice in a mixer into coarse rawa. Heat ghee in a pan and fryjeera till brown and add chana dal and fry till golden ..

Add rawa to that and fry for a while and add salt to it.

Add enough water to it around 11/2 l of water . Add pressure cook it for about 30 minutes.

Once the rawa is cooked , make balls round in shape.They can be served as offering and also can be served with Allam chutney .

PERU GARELU OR DAHI VADA

We had seen how to prepare garelu . We jus need to dip them in curd and allow it to set and absorn curd .

INGREDIENTS

Urad dal - 3 cups

Curd - 6 - 8 cups

Salt - 1 tsp

Mustard - 1 /2 tsp

Jeera - 1/2 tbsp

Urad dal - 1 tbsp

Green chillies - 4 - 5 nos

Oil for deep frying and seasoning

Curry leaves - 4 -5 nos

Red chillies - 3 nos

PREPARATION

Make garelu as told in the earlier post . Now take curd beat it properly into fine liquid with salt added to it. Add water to break the thickness. Season it with mustard , jeera , urad dal and green chillies , red chillies as well as curry leaves.In a vessel of water dip the gare / vada for a second and put it in the curds. After repeating the process leave it to set. It takes an hour to set . The hot gare taken out of oil must be dipped in water to get a soft dahi vada or perugu gare . It should be delicious..

GARELU

GARELU as some one great said vinte bharatam vinali tinte neti garelu tinali . That meant if one has to listen to an epic it should be Mahabharata and if one has to eat garelu made of ghee. Now adays we rarely find people crave for food to that extent but since we have certain traditions which make us cook all the traditional food . We make some varities of food during festivals and garelu is definitely one of them .






INGREDIENTS


Urad dal - 4 cups
Salt - 1 tsp
Oil - frying

PREPARATION

Soak four cups of urad dal in enough quantity of water for about 6 - 7 hours . Prefarably soak it early in the morning so that it can be made in the last after cooking all the items. Drain it .

Grind the urad dal into fine batter adding water little by little in small quantities.

Take small quantity of water in a vessel . Heat oil for frying , once it is hot enough , dip ur hand in water and take a small amount of batter and roll it as a ball spread it on your fingers in the form of a gare and leave it in hot oil . Let it fry till red . Repeat the process till the batter is all done. Can be served with allam chutney .