POORNALU/POORNAM BOORELU

Poornalu / Poornam Boorelu is one of the most traditional sweet from Andhra.

We make this sweet for varalakshmi vratham and ganesh chathurthi (Vinayaka- 

-chavithi). Here is the process of making the traditional Andhra sweet....

Stuffing Ingredients:

1Cup Channa dal
1 Cup Jaggery
1 tbs cardamom powder
1Cup oil

Batter Ingredients:

1Cup rice
1/2 Cup Urad dal

Batter Preparation:

• Soak the rice and urad dal for 6 hours.
• Grind them in a blender. Make it like a smooth and thick batter.
• Add required quantity of salt and mix well and keep aside.

Stuffing balls preparation:

• Clean and wash the dal.
• Pressure cook the dal with double the amount of water for 3 whistles.
• Allow it to cool for sometime and drain the excess amount of water and keepit aside.
• Then take cooked Channa and jaggery put it into blender.
  
• Now heat a pan and add Channa, jaggery paste, add little bit of water mix well.
• Cook on low flame till you can make balls out of them.
• Finally add cardamom powder and stir well.
• Remove from flame and allow it to cool for sometime.
• Now make a small lemon size balls and keep aside.

Frying:

• Heat oil in a pan.
• Dip the stuffing lemon size balls into batter and fry them in oil till they turn into golden brown colour.
• Now poornalu is ready to serve.