🇮🇳 Indian Vegetarian

Adhirasam

Name: Adhirasam
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 tbsp Ghee; for deep frying Peanut Oil; 2 cups Rice Flour; 1 cup Jaggery; 4, powdered Green Cardamom

🇮🇳 Indian

The hardest-working sweet in Tamil Nadu — just rice flour and jaggery, yet it becomes a glossy, blistered, melt-at-first-bite disc that defines Deepavali mornings. Grandmothers judge each other on this one.

Prep 30 min Cook 20 min Serves 8 Hard

Ingredients

Ghee1 tbsp
Peanut Oilfor deep frying
Rice Flour2 cups
Jaggery1 cup
Green Cardamom4, powdered

Optional extras

Sesame Seeds1 tbsp

Instructions

1
Boil jaggery with water to a soft-ball syrup.
2
Stir rice flour into the hot syrup off the heat; rest overnight covered.
3
Knead in cardamom and sesame until glossy.
4
Flatten into thick discs on banana leaf or parchment.
5
Fry on medium in ghee-oil, pressing gently as it puffs, till deep copper.

Chef's tip

Resting the dough overnight is not tradition for its own sake — it transforms the texture completely.

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