Vella Sadam Recipe | Jaggery Rice Recipe
Vella Sadam is a delicious sweet made with rice, jaggery along with flavor of ghee, cashews and coconut. This is different from Sakkara Pongal. Learn here how to make this Vella Sadam with step by step pictures and instructions.
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 164kcal
Equipment
- Heavy Bottomed Pan
- Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- ½ up Raw Rice 1 Cup - 250ml
- 1¼ Cups Water
- 1 Cups Grated Jaggery
- ¼ teaspoon Cardamom Powder
- 2 tablespoon Cashews
- 2 tablespoon Grated Coconut
- 4 tablespoon Ghee
Instructions
- Take ½ cup of raw rice in a vessel. Add water and wash the rice thoroughly atleast twice. Add 1¼ cup of water to the washed rice. Pressure cook for 3 whistles.
- After the pressure is fully released, take out the rice and set aside.
- Take jaggery in a vessel. Add ¼ cup of water and allow the jaggery to boil and melt completely.
- Heat a teaspoon of ghee in a pan. Add cashews and fry the cashews till cashews turn light brown. Take these cashews aside.
- In the same pan, add the grated coconut and fry till the coconut turns light brown. Set this aside.
- Heat 2 tablespoon of ghee in a pan.
- Strain the jaggery juice and add it to the pan.
- Allow the jaggery to come to rolling boil.
- Now, add the cooked rice to the jaggery juice. Mix well with jaggery juice.
- Add cardamom powder and give a mix.
- Next, add rest of the ghee to the pan. Mix well to incorporate ghee with the jaggery rice.
- Finally add the roasted cashews and coconut and give a good mix.
- Serve the delicious Vella Sadam as a prasad or as a dessert!
Nutrition
Serving: 40g | Calories: 164kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 3g