vella aval recipe /sweet aval/poha puttu
Ingredients
- Getti aval /poha - 1 cup
- Jaggery - 3/4 cup
- Cardamom powder - 2 tsp
- Grated coconut - 3/4 cup
- Salt a pinch
- Water -1 cup
- Some chopped cashews
- Ghee - 2 tbsp
Instructions
- First give a quick wash to aval drain immediately Keep a kadai add this aval within tsp of ghee dry roast for few seconds with a pinch f salt and take out in a bowl.2.Now in the same kadai add ghee with some broken cahewnuts roast them till brown.3.When cashews are brown add coconut and stir in till nice aroma is released.4.Take this in another bowl and keep ready.5.Keep a kadai with powdered jaggery add water and bring it to boil when its dissolved strain for dust .6.Now add the roasted aval to this hot jaggery syrup and close with a lid.7.Poha will absorb the jaggery syrup and bloom now add the roasted cashews and coconut stir in well with cardamom powder.8.Now again close with a lid.9.When you serve after sometime it will become like puttu texture.
Notes
- You can first wash and soak the aval till it blooms then you can add thick jaggery syrup instead.
- I have used thick aval variety.
- You can use the thinner flat aval.
- Even a pinch of nutmeg powder can be added if you like the flavour.