Ingredients

• 1 cup - raw rice (soorai orovu / pachari)
• 1 cup / 200 ml - medium thick coconut milk (or dilute 25 g Maggi instant coconut milk powder with 1 cup / 200 ml water)
• 5 - 6 tbsp - melted and sieved jaggery (or to taste)
• 1 tbsp - chopped cashew nuts (optional)
• 1 - steel thali of 7 inches in diameter
• 1 tsp - ghee / oil

How to Make Dodol - A delicious Goan sweet

• Wash and soak raw rice in 2 cups of water for 6 hours or overnight.
• Drain out water and make a thick paste in a mixer.
• Sprinkle very little water (2 - 3 tbsp water) when making the paste.
• Transfer rice paste in another container.
• Heat a wide kadai or pan on medium heat.
• Gently pour coconut milk.
• Add rice paste slowly and gently mix with coconut milk.
• Add 2 - 3 tbsp rice paste at a time. Then it won't form lumps.
• Stir well continuously for 12 - 15 minutes until rice paste well combined with coconut milk / like a soft porridge.
• At this stage, add 5 - 6 tbsp jaggery and chopped cashew nuts. Stir well on a low heat for another 10 minutes until it leaves from the sides of the pan and slightly thickens/jaggery is well combined with other ingredients/fragrant.
• Switch off the heat.
• Grease a steel thali with 1/2 tsp oil or ghee.
• Pour the mixture on a greased thali and sprinkle remaining 1/2 tsp ghee over it and spread it evenly with a flat spatula.
• Keep aside to cool for half an hour and later cut it into desired shape and size.
• Recipe Courtesy: Niya's World