Gudanna - Jaggery Rice Recipe
Navaratri is a festival of Shakti and nine form of Shakti are worshiped during these days. Literally "nava" means nine. Durga pooja and durga namaskara is popular in Udupi region which is a prayer to Goddess Shakti to lift us from the shackles that limit us on our path of progress- spiritual and material. The Goddess is invoked in the lamp and worshiped. Gudanna/jaggery rice is a special naivedyam offered to Goddess. Today let us learn gudanna/jaggery rice recipe.
Gudanna/jaggery rice Ingredients
- Rice- 1 bowl
- Milk- 1 and 1/2 bowl
- Powdered jaggery- 1 bowl
- Ghee- 1/2 bowl
- Cardamom- 3 nos
- Cashew nut - handful
- Raisins- handful
Serves
3 to 4 adults
Preparation
Powder the cardamoms and keep aside.
Method
- Clean and wash rice and pressure cook it adding 1.5 bowl of water and 1.5 bowl of milk. The rice should not be neither mushy nor too separate.
- In a tampering pan add a tea spoon of ghee and fry cashews till they change in color. Fry raisins as well in the same pan till they fluff up. Keep it aside.
- Heat a heavy bottomed vessel/Kadai, add jaggery and little water. When jaggery gets dissolved and plain jaggery syrup is ready, add cooked rice to it.
- Keep on stirring in low flame, so that the rice absorbs the jaggery. While continuing to stir, add ghee in intervals. Each time you can add 4 tea spoon of ghee. This process may take around 10 to 15 minutes.
- When the mixture forms a lump and leaves ghee then it is done. Now add fried cashew nuts, raisins and cardamom powder. Mix it well.
- Now gudanna/jaggery rice is ready to offer to Goddess Durga.
Note:
Be generous in adding ghee to gudanna. It gives nice flavor and taste.If you like this post, kindly consider linking to it or sharing it with others or like us on Facebook.Meet you all with one more interesting Udupi recipe. Till then bye.
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