Name: SUNNUNDALU recipe by Sujatha Ratnala at BetterButter
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: Udat Dal- 1 glass; Sugar - 1 glass; Ghee - 1/2 glass; Elachi powder - optional

ABOUT SUNNUNDALU RECIPE

A tour into some of the dry sweets from our side- Sunnundalu, Chimili, Chalimidi and Pumpkin cake. Sunnunda literally means “laddoos made of sunni pindi or udat dal”. A classic and simple sweet made out of only 3 ingredients and free from deep frying.. A calcium rich winter snack for kids and women. During my vacation in our native village, my grandmom used to give me a small glass of udat dal and ask me to grind it in chakki or rubbarai for passing the time and making this wonderful dish. After my marriage, my MIL’s sister used to prepare and send across this sweet on different occasions and from last few years, it has become a regular in our kitchen and my kids absolutely love it.

Instructions

In a kadai, roast the udat dal. It will emanate a nice flavor. Keep stirring and roasting till it turns uniformly brownish. It should not turn dark. Allow it to cool.
Grind the sugar.
In a wide mouth mixer, make a fine powder of udat dal. Sieve it (jallinchadam) with a thin filter and regrind the unsieved portion till it gets down the sieve.
Heat the ghee in a small vessel.
In the same kadai or mixing bowl, mix the sugar and ground udat dal flour. Add 1/4 glass warm ghee. Start rolling the mixture into laddoos. Add additional ghee as required to roll firm laddoos.
Serve it warm to enjoy!

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