Upala: Red Aval Puttu/Red Poha Jaggery sweet/Avalakki Sweet

Red Aval Puttu/Red Poha Jaggery sweet/Avalakki Sweet

Aval Puttu is a delicacy that is made with flattened rice, jaggery, and coconut. It is one of the easy to make recipes demanding very less ingredients. So...are you ready to cook Aval Puttu in your kitchen??

Red Poha/Sivappu Aval is the healthiest ingredient that often gets the first place in the list of allowed food to consume for weight watchers💪. Generally, if you think of any healthy breakfast to kick start your day, the obvious answer is "poha/Aval upma". It is, of course, a wholesome dish that is light to your stomach without creating the heaviness like other oil-rich breakfast items.

Same as rice varieties, in poha also we have white poha and Red poha. White poha is made by par-boiling the white rice, and then removing the outer husk to flatten it. In Red poha, the same method is followed however instead of white rice.... "red rice" is used.....and that is why you get that red color.

Similar to white rice, white poha has been a favorite for many. However, in recent times, red poha started dominating. Because we started understanding that the red rice used for making red poha doesn't undergo lots of processing like the white one and is enriched with fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.

Coming to our recipe for the day "Red Aval Puttu/Red Poha Jaggery sweet/Avalakki Sweet"

When I went to meet my friend Shobha, she served me this delicious sweet. I was so much impressed with the taste and as a food blogger, I obviously asked for the recipe immediately😉. When she told me the recipe, I was amazed 😮 as it was so easy to prepare.

For the sweet tooths, who are trying to control their sugar cravings....this Red Aval Puttu/Red Poha Jaggery sweet/Avalakki Sweet is the best choice. Even a Diabetes person, can relish this but remember to keep "portion control" in mind 😊.

I have already posted many Aval/Poha recipes and if you wanna have a peek, here they are...... Vegetable Poha, Raw Mango Poha, Poha Kheer, Karnataka Style Avalakki uppittu, Dahi Poha and Easy Poha sweet

Now its time to start with the ingredients and procedure on how to make this yummy Red Aval Puttu/Red Poha Jaggery sweet/Avalakki Sweet.

Ingredients:

1 Cup Aval/Flattened rice/Poha (I have used healthy red variety aval)
1 cup Jaggery
4 Cardamoms
1 cup Desiccated Coconut
2 Tablespoons Ghee
8-10 Cashews

Method:

1) Take a kadai/wok, dry roast the poha/aval for few seconds. When you smell a nice aroma, switch off the flame and transfer the aval to a bowl to cool down.

2) In the meantime, take jaggery in a kadai and add 1/2 cup of water to it. Leave it to boil till the jaggery completely dissolves in it. No need to make syrup at this stage, just dissolving of jaggery is enough.

3) Once the aval gets cool down, transfer it to the mixer and grind it to a rava. Be careful to not grind to a nice powder, just two or three quick pulses is all you need.

4) Transfer the ground aval to a bowl. Boil water and add little by little to the aval and start mixing it. For 1 cup of aval, it took around 1/2 cup of water.

5) Take the cardamom in a Mortar and Pestle and grind it to make a coarse powder. Discard the outer skin part and use only the ground inner seed part. You can store the skin part in a container and add it to green tea or normal drinking water.

6) Now, strain the jaggery water to remove the impurities and start boiling it. In the meantime, crumble the aval and keep it ready.

7) Leave it to boil till it gets the syrup consistency. When you pour a little syrup in a bowl full of water, the syrup should not dissolve and need to settle down as shown in the pic. When you try to gather the syrup, it should gather up and you will be able to make a nice ball.

8) At this stage, switch off the flame and add the crumbled aval and start mixing it.

9) Now, add the cardamom powder to the aval and mix it,

10) Heat ghee in a pan and drop the cashews to fry till light brown. Use a spoon to carefully remove only the cashews and add it to the aval.

11) In the remaining ghee, add coconut and give a nice stir.

12) Make it quick as coconut might turn super brown pretty soon. Immediately, switch off the flame and transfer the fried coconut to the aval.

13) Mix all the ingredients nicely and serve Red Aval Puttu/Red Poha Jaggery sweet/Avalakki Sweet immediately.