Ingredients

• 500 gm Raw Red Rice
• 1 Grated Coconut
• 200 gm Grated Jaggery
• Salt to taste
• A little yeast or toddy
• Cashewnuts and plums as required
• A pinch of Baking Soda

How to Make Vivikkam

• Soak the red raw rice for 6 hours. Drain the water and grind along with the grated coconut to make it into a paste.
• Add salt to taste and yeast or toddy to ferment it. Keep aside for 6 to 8 hours.
• Add grated jaggery, dices of plums, broken sauted cashewnuts and a pinch of baking soda.
• Steam it in moulds of medium size, as for idlis.
• Serve hot.