Charmuri Undo/ Churmuriladdoos ( Puffed Rice/Rice Crispie Sugariness Balls)

Charmuri laddoos are a real pop snack dorsum home. I used to dearest it every bit a child. Now I definitely arrive atleast in ane trial a year, specially during festival season. It's uncomplicated together with slowly to make, healthy, a cracking root of quick break energy together with the kids dearest it! Charmuri is nix precisely puffed rice likewise known every bit rice crispies hither inwards the US.

Servings: makes around 16-20 large laddoos

Ingredients:

Jaggery: 1 cup
Puffed Rice : 4 cups
Cardamom powder: 1/4tsp
Water: 1/4 cup

Method:

Dry roast the puffed rice until crispy, closed to 5-10 mins together with proceed aside inwards an airtight container.

Heat jaggery together with H2O inwards a pot until the jaggery is completely melted together with liquid. Now plow off the heat, allow it settle for five mins. Gently pour the molten jaggery into a thick-bottomed pot, leaving behind whatever sandy residue.

Heat the molten jaggery on medium flaming until it thickens together with is gummy when attempting to alternative to pour from a spoon.

Add the cardamom powder. Now mix inwards the toasted puffed rice piddling at a time, mixing it good each fourth dimension you lot add together inwards ensuring that all the puffed rice is evenly coated alongside jaggery syrup.

Grease your palms alongside butter/ghee. Take tablespoonful of the hot puffed-rice- jaggery mixture together with cast it into balls of desired size. If the mixture cools down, you lot volition non hold out able to cast it into balls.

Store inwards an air-tight container.
Stays fresh at room-temperature for upto a month.

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

While making laddoos, if you lot detect that you lot are non able to cast it into a ball inspite of the skillful stringiness together with stickiness of the jaggery, together with thence warm the dish a little, the jaggery volition melt together with hold out gummy in ane trial more!

It is much easier to brand large laddoos than modest ones every bit these laddoos are real light.

Tip for salubrious living:

Puffed rice makes for a cracking snack every bit it is light, depression inwards calories , nut-free and gluten-free.

Snacking is a cracking habit every bit long every bit the snacks are healthy. One should swallow several modest meals a twenty-four hr menstruum rather than 2-3 large heavy meals. Eating modest portions oft keeps the metabolism going together with likewise keeps us from binging!

References:
http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/benefits-snacking-2874.html
http://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/meal-planning/healthy-snacking-benefits.aspx
http://www.livestrong.com/article/392588-why-are-healthy-snacks-important/

Food for thought:

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