Name: Akki Halbai /Rice Pudding recipe by Madhura Pradeep at BetterButter
Prep time: 240 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 300 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: Rice 3 cups; Jaggery 10-12 cubes; Grated Coconut 1 whole; Ghee 2- 3 tbsp; Cardamom powder 1 tsp

ABOUT Akki Halbai /Rice Pudding RECIPE

Halbai is one of the traditional sweets made using rice , coconut, jaggery, little ghee and flavoured with cardamom.

Instructions

Soak rice for about 3 hours.
Grate the coconut and grind together with rice smoothly. Add required amount of water to grind.
The consistency of batter be like neer dose batter. Runny and thin batter.
Take a wide and heavy bottomed wok, melt the jaggery by adding little water and boil once.
Sieve the jaggery syrup to remove impurities.
Mix the batter and jaggery syrup.
Heat 2 tbsp ghee in a same wok.
Pour the batter and mix. Keep stirring.
After 30 minutes, add remaining ghee, cardamom powder and mix well.
Keep in low flame and continue stirring.
When it becomes glossy and shiny its done.
But I normally cook a little more time as we like that way.
When the ghee starts oozing out from bottom of the pan and the mixture becomes like dough can stop srirring.
Transfer the halbai on to the banana leaf.
Spread evenly using banana leaf. Cut when it is slightly warm and eat.
Stays good for a day and for more shelf life better to refrigerate.

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