Thaen Mittai / Sugar Candy
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 20
 
Ingredients
  • Rice – ½ cup ( I used idli rice)
  • Whole Urad dal – 2 tbsp
  • Food Colour – 1 tsp, Orange red colour
  • Oil – for Deep frying
  • Sugar Syrup:
  • Sugar – ½ cup
  • Water – 2 tbsp
  • Cardamom powder – 1tsp
  • baking powder - a pinch
  • Sugar – 2tsp (to coat)
Instructions
  1. Soak rice and whole urad dal in water for three hours.
  2. Blend them into a smooth paste. Add food color, baking powder to the batter. Mix well and set aside.
  3. Boil the water in a large bottom pot and add the sugar and cardamom powder to it. Boil them till they reach one thread consistency or thicker consistency. Switch off and set aside.
  4. Heat oil in a pan. Take some dough in your hands and slowly drop the dough in small batches.
  5. When it gets fried, remove them and drain them in a kitchen towel. And after a minute add it to the sugar syrup and let them soak. The sugar balls will drink up all the syrup .
  6. Coat them in sugar crystals
  7. Store them in an airtight container and enjoy it for a week.
Recipe by Relish The Bite at https://www.relishthebite.com/thaen-mittai-sugar-candy/