Ingredients

• 1 cup - Rice flour
• 1 tbsp - Urad dal flour
• 1/2 cup - Jaggery
• 1 tbsp - Butter
• 2 tsp - Sesame seeds
• 1 tbsp - Grated coconut
• 1/4 tsp -Cardamom powder
• Oil for Deep Frying.

How to Make Vella Seedai

• Roast the rice flour in a dry pan on a low flame for 1-2 mins.
• Sieve the flour and roast it again.
• Repeat this process twice.
• Keep it aside.
• Now dry roast 4 tbsp of urad dhal in a pan until golden brown.
• Let it cool and grind it into a fine powder in a mixie.
• Now sieve the flour twice.
• Keep the flour in an airtight container till use.
• Now dry roast the sesame seeds and grated coconut in a pan until golden brown.
• Combine the roasted rice flour and urad dal in a bowl and add the roasted sesame seeds and butter to it.
• Now mix the jaggery and 2 tbsp of water in a pan. Melt the jaggery and filter the impurities.
• Now add a pinch of cardamom powder and boil it.
• Switch off the flame and add this slowly to the flour mixture and mix well.
• Now knead it into a pliable tight dough.
• Roll the dough into small balls. Spread them on a Kitchen towel to drain the excess moisture.
• Let it rest for 10 mins.
• Now heat the oil for deep frying and gently drop the seedai balls in the oil in small batches.
• Do not add too much in oil at a time.
• Fry on a medium flame until brown.
• Drain on a kitchen towel.
• Repeat the same process for the remaining dough.
• Let it cool.
• Store in an airtight container.
• Recipe courtesy: Jeyashri's Kitchen