SWEET PURANAM / FILLING

Normally, we make puranam with coconut and jaggery, roughly for 1 big coconut grated, about 1 big orange size jaggery will be needed, melt jaggery with little water, strain if it has sediments, then add to the strained jaggery, coconut and keep stirring continuously till thick, the thicker you do, the puranam will last long, especially of you're making fried modakam or kolakattai.

Now, a slightly different way of making sweet puranam

INGREDIENTS
sugar 1/2 cup
coconut grated 1/2 cup
rava / suji / semolina  1/4 cup
white til / sesame seeds  2-3 tbsp
nuts chopped fine 1-2 tbsp
water little
ghee little

METHOD
roast til lightly and keep aside
in 1 tsp ghee, lightly roast rava till light brown and keep aside
in the same pan, add coconut and 1 tsp ghee, roast lightly
In a pan, add sugar and enough water to cover it, keep stirring to melt sugar, make one string syrup
then add the roasted items one by one, stirring continuously, mix well, last add nuts, remove, cool, you'll find that all the syrup is absorbed and the filling is thick, as they're all roasted.

This filling can be used to make both steamed and fried modak, if making fried modak, it will last for more than 2 weeks ( if people don't gobble it up ) !

Next flavoured amni kolakattai !

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