PALATHALIKALU...

andhra special sweet dish palathalikalu... my mom's favorite sweet... palathalikalu is a kind of payasam made using rice flour that is prepared in most of the houses across andhra pradesh during important festivals... my mom insisted me to share this recipe in my blog since she loves this dish.. i am sure even you will love it... 

TIME TAKEN: 30 – 45 MINS, SERVES: 4

INGREDIENTS:

RICE FLOUR	3 CUP
SAGU (SAGGU BIYYAM)	1 CUP
JAGGERY	2 CUP
MILK	500 ML
SUGAR	CUP
WATER	500 ML
YELACHI POWDER	½ TSP

METHOD:

 Ø  Take sugar, jaggery, and ½ cup water in a bowl and dissolve it on a low flame, now add yelachi powder and cook till you get a string pakkam. (stir it periodically).

 Ø  Wash and soak sagu for half an hour. Drain the water from sagu, add water, 250 ml milk and allow it to cook till sagu is soft and cooked. Boil the remaining milk separately and keep aside.

 Ø  In a bowl, take rice flour, add 1 tbsp sugar, hot milk and make it into soft dough. Take a small portion of dough place it in muruku press (sev press) with  big hole, and press the dough into the cooked sagu stir it after a minute and cook it. (keep a small portion (lemon size) dough aside.

 Ø  Dissolve the small portion of dough with 1 cup water and add this mixture to the already cooked sagu and cook till it gets thicker. Now add boiled milk, stir it, off the gas and keep it aside. Allow it cool. (if you feel the payasam is too thick add hot water according to get the correct consistency).

 Ø  When it is warm add the jaggery pakkam to the sagu mix and stir it.

Serve it cool.

SUGGESTIONS:

 ü  Make sure that you don’t press all the rice flour in the same place as it will form in to a lump. Press the rice flour in different place so that they don’t stick to each other.

 ü  You can prepare this with only sugar or only jaggery. I have used both.