Ariselu- Fried indian bread with rice flour and jaggery!!!

Ariselu- a sweet dish of Andhra pradesh made during festivities.The dough made up of Jaggery(Gur),Rice flour and sesame seeds(Til) is rolled out in to small circles and deep fried.You can replace the jaggery with sugar but using jaggery makes it healthier than sugar.Srivalli  is coming up with nice challenges in her ICC event,this goes to the event.Heres the recipe.

Cooking Time:15mins
Preparation Time:15mins.
Yields: 8

Ingredients:

• Rice Flour - 1 glass (standard measurement)
• Jaggary - 1/2 glass
• Coconut grated - 2 tsp
• Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
• Water - 1/2 glass
• Sesame seeds - 1 tbsp
• Oil for deep frying. 

Method:

• Grate the jaggery and add water just enough to cover them. Cooked on high and remove the scum. Then add the cardamom powder. Once it starts boiling, add the grated coconut. You will see lot of bubbles coming out.
• At this stage, add the Rice flour slowly and stir it together well. You will know when the consistency is correct, so till then you got to keep adding the flour, but it will use up the entire glass of flour. 

Note:The beauty of this dough is, you can store and use whenever you want. If it becomes too hard, just add about 2 tsp of water along with 2 tsp of sugar. Get it to boil, while you keep stirring it. The mix should become soft again. When you handle it, it should come together as a soft dough. Divide it to equal balls.

• Heat a kadai with oil to deep fry these. In a greased plastic sheet, pat them down to equal sized discs. Press down the sesame seeds over the top. Once the oil is hot, gently drop these into them. Fry on both sides. Since the sesame seeds are just pressed over the top, they will get into the oil. If you want to avoid this, try adding to the dough.

• Once they are golden brown, remove and drain them on a kitchen towel.They will be soft when you remove them, will become crunchy once they are cooled.

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