Uppittu

Recipe for Uppittu
Traditional sweet recipe posted by Kalyani Jayaraman on 08/01/2015

Ingredients needed
Wheat flour - 2 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Gram dhall - 1/2 cup
Coconut - 1
Jaggery - 1 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Turmeric powder
Elachi to test 
Nallan ennai
Ghee

Method
Mix - wheat flour, 2 spoon sugar, 1/4 spoon turmeric powder, 1/4 salt and milk.  Mix the dough well by adding required water and oil and keep aside for 2 hours.

For pouranam - 
Grind 1/2 coconut and boiled gram dhall.  Filter jaggery and once it starts to boil, add grinded gram paste and little grated coconut and 6 spoons of sugar and mix well, must keep on stirring till pournam is ready, it may take 20 minutes ( if we touch water and take the pournam, it should come like ball if we roll, athuthan padam, should in picture )  Then take a banana leaf and keep the pournam inside and the flour and pat it.  Take the banana leaf and put it in tava and take the leaf carefully and add ghee.  Delicious upittu is ready to eat