Chalimidi (Andhra Rice Jaggery Sweet)
Chalimidi is a traditional Andhra rice sweet made from soaked, dried and ground raw rice flour bound with jaggery syrup and ghee, studded with roasted cashews, raisins and coconut and scented with cardamom. A soft, fudge-like festive sweet (offered during Sankranti) that firms up as it cools.
Ingredients
- raisins — 1 tbsp (chopped)
- rice — 2 cup (ground)
- Cashew Nuts — 1 tbsp (whole)
- Cardamom Powder — 1 tsp (ground)
- Jaggery — 1 cup (whole)
- Fresh Coconut — 1 tbsp (chopped)
- Ghee — 109 g (whole)
Method
- To begin making the Chalimidi recipe, rinse raw rice and soak in enough water for 5 hours.
- Drain soaked rice in cotton cloth and let it dry for 1 hour.
- Grind rice into fine powder.
- Pass the flour through the sieve, collect fine rice flour.Heat 1 tablespoon ghee in a heavy bottomed pan, roast cashews, raisins and coconut separately until golden brown.
- Remove from flame, keep it aside.Melt powdered jaggery with little water.
- Boil the jaggery syrup until thickens up and when tested by pouring in a small bowl of water it forms a ball.Add all the ghee into the panakam (jaggery syrup) and whisk well.Remove the syrup from heat, add rice flour little at a time and mix vigorously.
- Do not add too much rice flour and make it thick.
- This dish will thicken up as it cools.
- So keep the consistency loose.Add all the roasted cashews, raisins, and coconut into the dish and mix well.
- Transfer into a serving bowl and serve.Serve Chalimidi as a dessert after your South Indian meal of Tomato Onion Sambar, Cabbage Thoran, Jeera Rasam, Potato Roast with Steamed Rice and Elai Vadam.
Common questions
- How many calories in one plate of Chalimidi (Andhra Rice Jaggery Sweet)?
- 269 kcal per plate.
- How much cooking time?
- 65 min — 20 min prep, 45 min cooking.
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