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Kadalai Urundai / Peanut Jaggery Balls

July 10, 2014 By Priya Shiva 9 Comments

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Kadalai Urundai is a famous delicious snack from South India and made with roasted peanuts and jaggery. This is usually made for karthikai deepam festival but its a very healthy snack which can be enjoyed any day. Peanuts are great source of proteins and contain monounsaturated fats. So, peanuts can easily be included in the heart-healthy diet. Although peanuts are a high calorie food, they aid in your weight loss diet. When you eat peanuts, you are likely to eat fewer calories at other meals since the fiber and proteins in peanuts gives feelings of satiety. Jaggery is a natural sweetener and healthier than crystalline sugar or processed sugar. So, sharing a step-wise healthy, oil-free, butter-free snack recipe and hope you all have a great day.

Ingredients:

Raw Peanuts/ Kadalai –  1 cup
Grated Jaggery – 1/2 cup
Water – 1/4 cup
Cardamom powder – a pinch (optional)
Ghee/Clarified butter to grease your hand

Method:

 

1) Heat a frying pan and roast peanuts on low flame for 4-5 minutes.

2) Transfer the content on a plate and let it cool down completely. Remove the skin of the peanuts and keep it aside.

 

3) Heat the same pan and add water and jaggery and bring it to boil. Once it starts boiling, switch off the gas stove and strain it to remove impurities.

 

4) Wash the pan once and heat it again. Add the jaggery syrup, cardamom powder and boil it again for 2 minutes. Keep a small bowl with little water handy.

 

5) Lower the flame and add few drops of jaggery syrup in the bowl to check consistency. It should not get dissolved in water immediately and you should be able to form a ball with it.
6) If you’ve not reached this consistency, boil it for few more minutes and check again.

 

7) Once you’ve reached that consistency, switch off the gas stove and add the roasted peanuts and gently mix well with jaggery syrup till you don’t find any syrup at the bottom of the vessel. 
8) Grease your hands with some ghee and start making balls. Do not wait for it to cool down completely or it would be difficult to make balls of it.

 

Tips:

Do not worry if the mix cools down completely and you are not able to make balls. Just reheat the pan for 2 minutes and start making balls again 🙂

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Filed Under: Starter and Snacks, Traditional Recipes Tagged With: Kadalai Urundai, karthigai deepam sweets, Recipes using Jaggery, Snacks, South Indian recipe, Traditional sweets

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Comments

  1. nomusam says

    July 10, 2014 at 8:18 am

    Hi Priya. thanks for this recipe. I have always wanted to know how to make this delicious snack. Now i am fully armed.

    Reply
  2. Smitha Kalluraya says

    July 10, 2014 at 8:49 am

    wow lovely click… its one of my fav s

    Reply
  3. imelda guanzon says

    July 10, 2014 at 9:13 am

    Awesome! This is very easy to made and cheaper to create. Thank you for the recipe!

    Reply
  4. Michael says

    July 10, 2014 at 10:09 am

    Imelda,when you make this,can you send me a batch??? It does look good…

    Reply
  5. nandoos Kitchen says

    July 10, 2014 at 10:57 am

    lovely! my fav..

    Reply
  6. lisa leblanc says

    July 10, 2014 at 11:59 am

    Hi, this is an interesting recipie thanks for the great ideal.

    Reply
  7. Eliza Lincy says

    July 10, 2014 at 7:23 pm

    I need nothing more than this. Perfectly made.

    Reply
  8. Ricki M says

    July 11, 2014 at 2:55 pm

    These look great, and I love peanuts, so I will have to make these very very soon…
    Thanks for sharing at The Weekend Social, I'm looking forward to seeing you again next Thursday at 9pm EST at http://www.thequestionablehomesteader.com for another installment of The Weekend Social.

    Reply
  9. Abby Laks says

    July 24, 2014 at 7:42 am

    Peanut jaggery ball is one of my favorite sweet item. Healthy dessert for Ahlan Ramadan.

    Reply

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