Paal Paniyaram (Sweet Rice-Urad Dal Balls Soaked in Milk)

Paal Paniyaram is a simple sweet and can be prepared easily. Deep fried rice-urad dal balls are soaked in sweet milk. It can be ordinary milk or coconut milk or mixture of both. Here I have prepared it with ordinary milk. I boiled the milk to make it thick to get nice taste of the dish.

Milk is known as Paal in Tamil.

Ingredients

• Raw rice – 1 cup
• Urad dal – 1 cup
• Milk – 1 litre
• Sugar – ½ cup
• Cardamom powder – pinch
• Salt – pinch
• Oil – for frying

Method

• Soak rice and urad dal for 2 to 3 hours; grind it with salt to a smooth paste, so that it can absorb milk when soaked in milk after deep frying (this should not be too thick or too thin).

• Boil milk in a wide pan; let it reduce in volume to half approximately; then add sugar, cardamom powder and mix well.

• Heat oil in a pan; shape rice-dal paste into small balls with wet hands and deep fry them.

• Add this in warm milk.
• Soak it for 15 minutes and then serve.

Tips

• Deep fried rice-urad dal balls can also be soaked in coconut milk.