Name: Undrallu recipe by Aruna Saraschandra at BetterButter
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: Rice flour - 1 glass; Water - 2 glasses for rice rava/ 11/2 glass for rice flour; Chana dal - 1/4 glass; Fresh gratted/scraped coconut - 1/2 cup; Cumin seeds - 1 1 tsp; Ghee - 2 tsp

ABOUT Undrallu RECIPE

Undrallu is savory recipe which we offer as naivedyam to Lord Ganesh on Vinayaka Chavithi. And also offered as naivedyam to ganesha on Sankashti chaturthi. This recipe is prepared in Andhra and in other regions of India, and also called with different names.

Instructions

Wash rice in water well. Soak it in water 2 hours.
Drain water and dry it on fresh cotton cloth. You can sun dry or fan dry rice. If you do not have time to soak rice in water, you can dry it directly by washing rice in water many times.
Grind dried rice to slightly coarse texture like rava.
Wash Chana dal in water well and it in water Soak Chana dal for 20- 30 minutes. Add 2 tsp of ghee to a hot kadai/pan.
Add cumin seeds/ jeera, fry it till you nice aroma.
Drain water and add soaked Chana dal saute it well on medium flame for a minute.
Add 2 glasses of water,salt ( as I am using rice rava) to the above.
Let the water to boil till u get bubbles on water as shown below. As Chana dal is soaked well no need to boil long time, just half boil the dal.
Add rice flour little by little on lowflame and stir well with other hand, so that we do not get lumps.
Mix the rava well on low flame and close the lid till therice rava cook well.
Once rava cooked well, switch off the flames and let it cool. Later add fresh scraped/grated coconut to the above mix it well. Knead the dough once.
Add enough water in idli steamer/pressure cooker/ wide bowl and steam it on low flame. Start moulding rice balls by pinching some amount of dough and roll between your palm like ladoo's. Arrange all the rava balls on idli stand, cover the lid and cook it exactly for 8 minutes on high flames.
After 8 minutes take out undrallu let it cool for few minutes and offer to Lord Ganesha.

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