3 cups murmura(puffed rice)or 60 grams murmmura
1/2 cup heaped grated or powdered jaggery or 120 grams jaggery powder
1/4 cup roasted gram(bhuna huva chana)or 25 grams roasted gram
1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder(choti elaichi powder)
4 tablespoons of water
How To Make Pori Urundai Recipe:
1.First grate/powder the jaggery,powder the cardamom and keep them ready.keep your pans ready.this will make the the process super simple.on medium heat dry roast 3 cups(60 grams)of murmura/puffed rice for for 1 to 2 minutess,so that it crisps up.keep this aside or transfer to another bowl.
2.To a separate pot,add 1/2 heaped cup of grated or powdered jaggery(120 grams)and 4 tablespoons of water.
3.Heat this until with constant stirring all the jaggery melts and gets mixed with the water.turn off the heat.
4.Now,pass the melted jaggery through a sieve to remove impurities.collect the clean melted jaggery in another pot.also keep a small bowl of water ready.this is for checking the thickness of the syrup once it comes to a soft ball stage or consistency.
5.Now,pour this clean jaggery mixture into a pan and heat.keep stirring the mixture.
6.The mixture froths up as it heats.
7.As it heats,the mixture will begin to thicken.
8.Add cardamom powder and continue to stir.
9.After a couple of minutes,if you hold up the ladle with drops of the syrup falling back into the pan,the last drop should form a sort of string as it falls.keep checking the thickness as the syrup heats.to ascertain the thickness of the syrup,add a couple of drops into a bowl of water.the droplets should not dissolve into the water.
10.You should be able to pick up the drop which will form a soft to firm ball.this is the right consistency.
Making Pori Urundai:
11.Now,pour this prepared syrup into the murmura/puffed rice.if doing for the first time,i would suggest,pour the puffed rice into the jaggery syrup,mix,then make laddus.
12.Add roasted gram,mix everything very well using a spatula.
13.The ladoo have to be prepared when the mixture is still hot,otherwise the mixture will harden and making ladoos will be difficult.
14.Wet your palms slightly with water,pick up a portion of the prepared mixture and form ladoos by pressing gently between your palms and giving it a spherical shape.
15.Place them on a plate.prepare ladoo with the rest of the mixture in the same manner.
16.If towards the end the mixture becpmes too hard,put the pan back on gentle heat for a few seconds.this will loosen the mixture allowing ladoo.formation .serve the murmura ladoo as offering to the deities or serve as a snack.
