Sugar Palm Vada – An Odia Sweet Dish Made From Sugar Palm Fruit

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 Sugar Palm Fruit

 

Sugar Palm Fruit

• 350gm Jaggery
• 200gm Rice Flour
• 200gm  Puffed Paddy

 

Puffed Paddy

• Oil to Fry

PROCEDURE:

• Take two different containers. Among them soak Rice in one container and Puffed Paddy in another for 15mins and 5mins respectively.
• Now take out the pulp/juice of Sugar Palm fruits. Then heat a pan in medium flame, add the Palm juice and Jaggery to it. Stir the mix continuously in the middle and cook it for about an hour with low flame so that there should be no lumps and it should not stick to the pan.
• Once the mixture (sugar palm fruit juice and jaggery) becomes thick, switch off the flame.

 

Sugar Palm Fruit Paste

• Now grind the Soaked rice and puffed paddy in a Mixer Grinder. Make sure that the mixture (Rice and Puffed Paddy) should be thick, it means water content should be less.
• Now put the both mixture in a container and stir it well.
• Make small balls or laddoos out of the final mix.
• Heat a pan in low flame.Fry all the balls till they becomes brown and crispy.
• Now your Sweet Dish from Sugar palm fruit is ready. You can serve it hot or after cooling. It can be stored for 4-5 days(not more than that).

                                                                               Sugar Palm Fruit Vada