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how to prepare maavilakku /maavilakku maavu recipe

Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • Pacharisi /raw rice - 1/2 cup
  • Jaggery powdered - 1/2 cup
  • Cardamom - 2-3
  • Ghee - 2 tbsp for making dough and some for lamp

Instructions
 

  • Soak rice for at least for 45 minutes.
  • Drain and spread it in a cotton cloth under the fan.
  • Test by pressing with the hand and if some rice sticks to hand thats the correct time to make it to a powder.
  • Grind each batch sieve it and add the remains again to the blender and repeat the same till end.
  • Now take the powdered jaggery in a mixie add cardamom grind to make it fine.
  • Add the ground rice flour to the jaggery mix and grind it again to make it blended well.
  • Transfer these contents to a bowl add ghee make a dough.
  • Make shapes like lamp with hands by making a dent at the center.
  • Make decorations with manjal(turmericpowder) and kum kum powder.
  • Put ghee into it with rolled cotton wick and lit the lamp.

Notes

After drying the rice it should have the dampness before you grind.
Adding ghee while kneading is to get a nice flexible pliable dough.
You can make it using store-bought rice flour also.
If you feel that the dough is too dry add little water to make a dough.