Ellu Bella (Sankrati Mix )
Ellu Bella is a traditional Karnataka dish, typically served during the Sankranti festival. It's a sweet and nutty mix of gram dal, sesame seeds, and jaggery, often accompanied by boiled peanuts and dry coconut. The combination of textures and flavors is a delight to the senses.
Ingredients
- Chana Dal — 1 cup (roasted)
- Jaggery — 1 cup (chopped)
- sesame seeds — 0.5 cup (whole)
- Dry Coconut — 1 cup (chopped)
- boiled peanuts — 1 cup (whole)
Method
- We begin making the Karnataka Style Ellu Bella Recipe (Sankranti Mix Recipe) by following the procedure below:Roasting the peanutsHeat a big kadai, when it is hot and before it starts to smoke add in the peanuts with skin and roast them till it become slightly brown.
- This will help in removing the skin from the peanuts.
- Blow away the husk and keep the peanuts aside.For the copraRemove the outer brown layer from the copra, cut them into small pieces and dry roast them on the kadai and keep it aside.For the JaggeryYou can use a knife to cut the jaggery into small pieces and keep it aside.
- It should be of the same size as the copraTo assembleDry roast the sesame seeds also and mix in all the other ingredients together.
Common questions
- What is ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸ್ಟೈಲ್ ಎಳ್ಳು ಬೆಲ್ಲ (ಸಂಕ್ರಾತಿ ಮಿಕ್ಸ್ ) in English?
- ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸ್ಟೈಲ್ ಎಳ್ಳು ಬೆಲ್ಲ (ಸಂಕ್ರಾತಿ ಮಿಕ್ಸ್ ) is written Ellu Bella (Sankrati Mix ) in English.
- How many calories in one plate of Ellu Bella (Sankrati Mix )?
- 223 kcal per plate.
- How much cooking time?
- 75 min — 45 min prep, 30 min cooking.