Pori Urundai | Puffed rice balls | Karthigai Deepam Recipe

Pori Urundai, an easy snack made with puffed rice and jaggery syrup. Usually i dont buy pori here as it's available only in 2 lbs bag and also i'm not big fan of it,so it would be remain untouched for months and end up in trash. 

But a few weeks before, ST said that he's craving for masala pori a lot now a days. That's very rare, normally he wont say anything like that, so last week , i had bought a pack and immediately made the masala pori on weekends and enjoyed it with evening tea.

So coming to today's post,as Karthigai deepam is nearing, many people make pori urundai as prasadam on that day. Though we dont make pori urundai on karthigai deepam, for blog sake i tried it today and here i'm with the post 

Pori Urundai

Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : 10 mins | Makes : 10  
Recipe Category: Snacks | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
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Ingredients
Pori/Puffed rice - 2 cups
Jaggery - 1/2 cup
Dry Ginger powder - 1/4 tsp(Optional)
Water - as needed
Ghee - for greasing hand

Procedure

Heat the pan with jaggery & water (just enough to cover the jaggery) along with dry ginger powder and  bring to boil.

Once the jaggery is all melted, keep the flame in medium and stir regularly, once the syrup reaches soft ball stage(pour a little bit of syrup in the water and it settles at the bottom and you can able to roll into ball,that's the correct stage ), add the pori & switch off the flame and mix well.

Now grease the hand with ghee and take a small portion of pori and roll into balls. Keep it aside,do the same for the remaining and let it cool completely.

Store it in air tight container for future use. Tasty and crispy Pori Urundai is ready.

Notes:

• If your jaggery have impurities, once all the jaggery melts, strain it and use it.
• Adding dry ginger powder gives great flavor to the pori, but it's optional, you can skip it.
• Gently mixi pori with jaggery syrup,otherwise the pori will be broken.