Urpel Aritha Pundi - Boiled Rice Pundi - Kuchalakki Kadubu - Boiled Rice Steamed Balls

Ingredients:

1.        Urpel Ari/ Boiled Rice [White or Brown Variety - Picture at bottom of the blog ] - 2 and half cup  

2.      Salt - as per taste

3.      Coconut Gratings - ¼ th cup

4.      Water - required for grinding

 

Procedure - Method:

v    Wash and Soak the Urpel Ari[Brown or White Variety] / Boiled Rice in wateR Overnight

v         Grind the rice along with coconut gratings, salt and water to a paste [Paste should be of consistency between course and fine]

v        Transfer the ground rice paste into a wide mouthed vessel

v  Place the vessel over medium heat and cook the rice paste until it becomes thick using wooden spoon [Since the paste would be become hard once it thickens] with continuous stirring without break so that it paste does not burn

v  Paste should be cooked and thicken until we can form balls out of the paste

v         Remove from heat and form Pundi / Rice Balls with the help of your hand as shown in Pic below with small hole in between so that balls cooks evenly

v        You could apply water over your hands to ease forming of Pundi / Rice Balls and also avoid getting your hands burnt

v          Steam the Pundi / Rice Balls using a steaming vessel for duration of 30 minutes

v  After 30 minutes remove the vessel from heat

Serve the hot Pundi with chutney or any gravy/ghasi/resa or saar of your choice. 2 and half cups of rice makes around 40 Pundi / Rice Ball

Stills from the Kitchen of Thenas Vanas -Preparation of Aritha Pundu / Steamed Rice Dumplings

Pundi / Rice Balls Getting Steamed

Pundi / Rice Balls Getting Steamed

Pundi / Steamed Rice Balls ready to eat

Pundi / Steamed Rice Balls ready to eat

Nesal / Oggarane / Tadka getting ready for Chutney

Nesal / Oggarane / Tadka getting ready for Chutney

Dried Red Chilly Garlic Coconut Chutney for Pundi

Dried Red Chilly Garlic Coconut Chutney for Pundi

White Boiled Rice or Boldhu Kaje/Urpel Ari

White Boiled Rice or Boldhu Kaje/Urpel Ari

Brown Boiled Rice / Kaje-Urpel Ari / Kuchalakki