Akki Soolagadu

Its one of the difficult to cook, but tasty traditional recipe of  Karnataka. Our grandpa’s favourite too.

Ingredients:

• Rice 2bowls
• Jaggery 3bowls
• Grated Coconut 1bowl
• Water

 Preparation:

• Soak rice in water for 3 to 4 hours.
• Grind the soaked rice to milk consistency.
• Add 2 bowls of Jaggery to the ground paste
• Boil this syrup till you get thick syrup or Paka (similar to paka for Kajjaya).
• Wait till Paka cools down and becomes just warm so that it does not burn your hand.
• Meanwhile prepare hoorana by adding a bowl of jaggery to a bowl of grated coconut. Mix it well.
• Now, Soak your hands with little water, take warm Paka little by little and  stuff it with hoorana. Give it oval shape.
• Garnish with grated coconut.
• Enjoy soolagadu with ghee or Kaayalu(coconut milk).

Note: Getting proper Paka is the challenging. Unless you are a cookery expert, you may not succeed the first time.