Munthiri Koothu Recipe / Mundhiri Kothu / Traditional Diwali Sweet
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Recipe type: sweets
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 9
 
Easy Munthiri Koothu Recipe / Mundhirikothu / Green gram jaggery balls is a healthy, traditional south Indian Diwali sweet .
Ingredients
  • Inner Filling
  • ¼ Cup of Green Moong Dal
  • ¼ Cup + 1 Tbsp of Jaggery
  • ¼ Cup of Coconut
  • 1 Tbsp of Sesame Seeds
  • Pinch of Salt
  • Pinch of Dry Ginger Powder (optional)
  • 2 Cardamom
  • Outer Cover
  • ⅓ Cup of Rice Flour (store-bought)
  • Water as required
  • Pinch of Turmeric Powder
  • Salt as needed
Instructions
  1. Heat a pan, dry roast the green moong dal for 8 -10 mins in a medium flame, stir continously until they turn golden brown colour. Transfer this to a plate and allow it to cool.
  2. In the same pan, add sesame seeds, roast it till you hear crackle sound and changed to golden brown colour. Transfer it to another plate.
  3. Heat the same pan, add jaggery and water, allow it boil until it completely dissolves. Strain it to remove impurities and transfer it to the same pan, let it boil for 6 mins in a medium heat, finally add coconut, dry ginger powder and cardamom, stir everything well. Transfer it to a bowl.
  4. Now take a blender and add roasted green gram dal, grind it little coarssely, it should look like semolina.
  5. Transfer this to a coconut-jaggery bowl, add raosted sesame seeds and salt, mix everything together.
  6. Make equally sized balls out of the mixture and leave it aside for 30 mins. You can also keep it for 1-3 hours for setting. Now the balls are little hard, don't worry they are supposed to be.
  7. For outer cover, add rice flour, turmeric powder, salt and water, mix everything well. The batter should be in dosa batter consistency.
  8. Meanwhile heat a pan with oil to deep fry, dip the moong balls in this rice batter, make sure the balls covers well with batter and gently put this oil, deep fry cook both sides until it turns golden colour. Repeat the same process for the rest of the balls.
  9. Hot, delicious mundhirikothu is ready for diwali.
Notes
I didn't wash the dal, if you want, you can wash it, dry it and then roast it.
Always fry it in a medium flame.
Adjust the amount of jaggery according to your taste.
store it in an airtight container and keep it for a weeks.
For outer covering, you can use homemade rice flour or store bought rice flour or maida.
Adding dry ginger powder for easy digestion. if dont want, avoid it.
Recipe by FoodyBuddy at http://foodybuddy.net/2015/10/29/easy-munthiri-koothu-recipe-mundhiri-kothu.html