kalakkalsamayal: aval pori

Monday, June 8, 2015

Kara-Aval-Pori

#KaraAvalPori #SpicyPuffedRiceFlakes : Traditionally Puffed rice is made by heating the rice in a sand filled oven. The very high temperature makes the rice to puff up. This puffed rice is called pori in Tamil and muri or mur mura in Hindi.
When the rice flakes [ #Aval ] is puffed up it is called puffed rice flakes.
#PuffedRiceflakes is known as #AvalPori in Tamil. It is called #Chivda in Hindi.
Here let me present a simple recipe to prepare a spicy evening snack using AvalPori.

Ingredients :
4 - 5 cups	Puffed rice [ Pori ]
6 Tsp	Oil
1/2 Tsp	Mustard seeds
1/4 cup	Ground nut [ peanut ]
1/4 cup	Fried gram
4	Red chilly, break into pieces
4	Green chilly
1 Tsp	Cumin seeds
8 cloves	Garlic
15 - 20	Curry leaves
1 Tsp	Salt [ adjust ]
1/4 Tsp	Turmeric powder
1/4 Tsp	Asafoetida
1/2 Tsp	Red chilly powder [ adjust ]

Method :
Smash four cloves of garlic and keep aside.
Grind coarsely 4 cloves of garlic, green chilly, cumin seeds and salt.
Keep aside.
Heat a big kadai with oil on a stove over slow flame.
Add mustard seeds after oil becomes hot and wait till it splutters.
Then add asafoetida powder, broken pieces of red chilly, ground nut and fry until peanut crackles.
Now add fried grams, smashed garlic cloves, curry leaves and coarsely ground paste and fry for a minute or until fried gram becomes golden color.
At this point add curry leaves and swiftly stir for few seconds.
Then add salt, turmeric powder and red chilly powder and turn off the stove.

Now add aval pori and stir well so that the fried ingredients completely mix with the aval pori.
Spicy and crunchy kara aval pori is ready.
Transfer into an airtight container.
It can be stored for a week to 10 days.
It is a very good snack for evening tea or coffee.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Karthigai-Aval-Pori

#KarthigaiAvalPori : Karthigai festival is being celebrated every year on Full moon day in the Tamil month of Karthigai. It is customary to make karthigai pori on this day. It is a sweet prepared from puffed rice flakes [ #avalpori ], roasted coconut, fried gram, peanuts with jaggery.
Let me present the way of preparing karthigai aval pori.

Ingredients :
4 cup	Puffed Rice flakes [ aval pori ]
1	coconut, chop nicely
1/2 cup	Fried gram [ Pottu kadalai ]
1/2 cup	Pea nut
1/4 cup	Till [ sesame ]
4 cup	Jaggery
1/4 Tsp	Cardamom powder

Method :

Measure puffed rice flakes [ aval pori ] and keep aside.

Heat a kadai on a stove over slow flame.

Roast coconut until it turns golden color.

Transfer into a bowl.

In the same kadai roast pea nuts till aroma comes out and able to remove the skin.

Transfer into another bowl.

Remove the skin and break into halves.

Now roast fried gram until it turns slightly golden.

Transfer into a bowl / plate.

Finally roast till [ sesame ] until it crackles.

Then transfer into the bowl containing roasted fried gram.

Heat jaggery powder with 1 cup of water in a vessel.

Dissolve jaggery by stirring with a ladle.

Strain through a filter into a wide and heavy bottomed vessel.

Now keep the vessel containing jaggery mixed water on stove over medium flame.

Allow to boil and stir occasionally.

Keep a small bowl with water near the stove.

After some time pour a few drops of jaggery syrup into the water.

If it disperses then the syrup is not ready.

Heat for some more time.

Pour few drops of boiling jaggery syrup into a bowl containing water.
If it forms a ball inside the water and does not dissipate in water then its the right consistency.

The ball thus formed makes tang sound if it hits at the sides of the bowl.