Vella Cheedai ( Sweet Cheedai)

Vella Cheedai (Sweet Cheedai)

Vella Cheedai is deep fried, crispy, sweet prepared for Krishna Janmashtami. I'm sharing my mother-in-laws version.

Before you measure your ingredients need to follow these steps:

* Dry roast the rice flour on medium flame.(colour should not change but you should be able to drawn a line with roasted flour)

* Sieve the roasted rice flour.
* Dry roast urud dal and powder it. (sieve urud dal powder)

Ingredients:
Rice flour - 1 cup
Jaggery - 1/2 cup
Urud dal powder - 1.5 tsp
Grated coconut - 1 tablespoon
Unsalted butter - 1 tablespoon
Sesame seeds/ til - 1 tsp
Cardamom - 1/2 tsp
Oil for frying

Method:
# Mix all dry ingredients together with butter.

# Add little water in jaggery and boil well.

# Strain the jaggery syrup in mixture and mix well.
# Sprinkle water and knead a dough.

# Prepared small marble size balls.
# Heat oil on medium low flame. 

# Fry vella Cheedai in batches.
Initially it will be soft but once it cools it becomes crispy.
Do try and provide your comments.
Thank you!