Aravanai

Lightly roast green gram, till a nice aroma comes and the colour changes.

Wash rice and dal together.

Heat up a pressure pan.

Add rice and dal along with 2 cups of water.

Close the cooker, keep the weight and cook upto 2 whistles.

Allow it to cool.

Add 1/2 cup of water to jaggery and heat on a low flame, stirring continuously, till the jaggery dissolves completely.

Strain and add to the rice-dal mixture.

Cook, adding ghee little by little.

Add the copra fried in ghee.

When the whole mixture becomes a mass, add cashew and raisins fried in little ghee.

Remove from flame.

Add sugarcandy and freshly grated coconut.

:- It can be made only with rice without adding dal. :- You can cook the mixture for just one whistle and if thus made, rice will be slightly grainy. :- You can add 1 cup of ghee and 4 cups of jaggery. :- You can omit coconut and sugarcandy.