Kinnathappam

Ingredients

Ponni Rice – ½ kg

Thick coconut milk – 1½ cups

Sugar – ½ kg

Salt – A pinch

Ghee – 100 gm

CashewsRaisins(Onakkmunthiri)1/4 cup

Cardamom(Elakka) – 8 – 9 nos(powdered)

yeast 1tsp

Preparation

1)Wash the rice well and soak in water for sometime.

2)Grind it to a fine paste.:- Make sure you don’t have any lumps in it.

3)Add thick coconut milk, sugar, salt, powdered cardamoms and about 4 cups of water. Mix well.

4)In a bowl add yeat , 1spoon of sugar and little warm water.set aside for 10 minutes.

5) Mix the yeast mixture to the batter and ferment for 3 to hours.

5)Add cashews and raisins fried in ghee into the above mixture and mix well again.

6)Pour the above into a greased vessel of about 2 – 3 inch thickness.

7)Steam it till done(about 30 minutes).

8) When it is cooled cut into small pieces.