Aunty's Athirasam/Kajjaya

Ingredients:

4 cuprs - Rice (sona masoori, raw rice...)
3 cups - Jaggery
1 tsp -  Saunf
1" piece - Chuuku / dry ginger
4 - Cardamoms
1 pinch - salt


Method:

Grind Saunf, Chukku and Cardamom to a dry powder.

Soak rice in water for 3-4 hours.

Dry the rice in shade by spreading it on a cloth.

Rice should be dried till its alomost completely dry. If you hold a morsel of rice and pour it down, there should be some rice stuck to your hand. That's the required consistency.

Grind the rice to coarse / almost smooth powder.

Pour water over jaggery just to cover it and try to melt it.

Take the jaggery water and bring to boil to a consistency where it froths up and when you feel it between your thumb and index finger, it should feel sticky.

At this point, add rice flour little by little and keep stirring/mixing it.

Add the above ground powder and stir and turn the stove off.

Cool the above mixture to luke warm or room temperature.

Make small patties on a wax paper/ziploc and deep fry in oil. Press any excess oil and enjoy!!!