Ari unda or rice laddoo. Ari unda / Rice balls /Rice laddu is a traditional snack of Kerala which is easy to prepare, light on the stomach and nutritious as well. It can be prepared in less than one hour time. Wash the rice well and remove stones if any.
Ari Unda / Sweet Rice Coconut Ladoo Leena's Recipe Book.
Today's recipe is a humble sweet/ladoo made with rice.
There is another version of ari unda/ avalose unda that,I posted earlier.
You can cook Ari unda or rice laddoo using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Ari unda or rice laddoo
- Prepare of Matta Rice.
- You need of grated coconut.
- Prepare of Jaggery grated.
- It's of Toasted cashewnuts.
- Prepare of Cardamom powder.
Rice ladoos/ari unda is a traditional sweet of Kerala with very little ingredients, rice, coconut,and jaggery. It has the beautiful aroma of roasted rice, cardamon and cumin. Ari Unda/ Rice Ladoos are one of the traditional sweets of Kerala. It is prepared during festivals and even when there are sudden guests at home.
Ari unda or rice laddoo step by step
- Wash rice and drain it..
- Heat a pan and roast the rice till it changes it's colour uniformly to a darker shade and once it's crisp and shrinks a bit switch off the flame and transfer it into a plate let it cool down..
- In the same toast cashewnuts..
- Take a mixer grinder jar and tip in roasted rice and grind into a fine powder. Once done add rest of the ingredients and grind for 30 secs so that everything mix together..
- Transfer the above mixture onto a plate take a small portion of the mixture in your hand shape them into round ladoos these laddoos tends to harden and that's ok..
In the earlier days it used to be prepared in the 'Ural' the traditional stone mortar. The pounding stick is called as 'Ulakka'. I still remember my mom pounding the rice and jaggery in the stone mortar. Lock down time free time Achan's preparation Items needed: Rice Jaggery Coconut Cardomom powder Fennel Seed Powder. Ari Unda (Rice Laddoo) Kerala's very own sweet.