About The Recipe:

2017 Deepavali Special Recipe - Thinai Arisi Athirasam | Foxtail Millet Athirasam | Siru Thaniyam Athirasam - Traditional athirasam with the twist of thinai arisi without jaggery syrup consistency. Already I had posted pachai arisi athirasam recipe with jaggery syrup consistency. In this thinai arisi athirasam, there is no jaggery syrup consistency. So it can be easily make by every one. Also use paagu vellam and don't use ordinary vellam. Oil is also not absorbed. Now lets see how to make this healthy and easy athirasam with step by step instructions, images and video.

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Recipe : Thinai Arisi Athirasam | Foxtail Millet Athirasam | Siru Thaniyam Athirasam Prep Time: 1hr and 30 minutes + overnight extra Cook time: 30 minutes Recipe Cuisine: Indian Recipe Category: Sweet Yield: 15 nos

Ingredients :

Thinai Arisi - 1 cup or 200gm

Paagu Vellam - 3\4 cup or 160 gm

Crushed Cardamom Seeds - 3 nos

Ghee - required

Oil - deep fry

Method :

To make the thinai arisi maavu | foxtail millet flour, wash and soak the thinai arisi for about one hour. Drain the water completely. Spread them over a cotton cloth to absorb its excess water for approximately thirty minutes. Grind the thinai into little coarsely and not fine powder. Then sieve the flour and keep aside.

Heat the jaggery and 1 and 1\2 cup of water in a pan, mix and cook until the jaggery dissolves completely.

To make the thinai athirasam dough, In a heavy bottom kadhai, filter the jaggery syrup. Heat the syrup for about four to five minutes over medium flame, to thicken it little (syrup consistency is not required). Add the cardamom powder and mix well. Turn the flame into lower, add the prepared thinai flour little by little, mix well continuously without lumps. Cook till soft dough consistency. Transfer the dough into a bowl immediately and leave overnight.

Heat enough oil to deep fry the athirasam's, grease a piece of banana leaf or plastic sheet with ghee or oil, take some dough, roll into ball shape and flat into circle on greased sheet for about 1\2cm thickness, deep fry in the oil (small batch) over medium flame until golden brown or light maroon colour.

Notes: Jaggery syrup consistency is not required. Don't deep fry the athirasam over lower flame, it will turns hard and difficult to eat. So deep fry the athirasam over medium flame only.

Step By Step Images:

To make the thinai arisi maavu | foxtail millet flour, wash and soak the thinai arisi for about one hour. Drain the water completely.

Spread the soaked thinai arisi over a cotton cloth to absorb its excess water for approximately 30 minutes. Then grind the thinai into little coarsely and not fine powder.

Then sieve the flour to remove the lumps and keep aside. To make the jaggery syrup, heat the jaggery and 1 and 1\2 cup of water in a pan.

mix and cook until the jaggery dissolves completely. To make the thinai athirasam dough, In a heavy bottom kadhai, filter the jaggery syrup into it.

Heat the jaggery syrup for about four to five minutes over medium flame, just to thicken it little and syrup consistency is not required. Then add the cardamom powder and mix well.

Then turn the flame into lower, add the prepared thinai flour little by little and mix well continuously without lumps. Cook until the flour mixture turns soft dough consistency.

Turn off the flame and immediately transfer the dough into a bowl and leave it overnight. Now the athirasam dough is ready. To make the thinai athirasam, grease a piece of banana leaf or plastic sheet with some ghee or oil, take some dough, roll into ball shape and flat into circle on greased sheet for about 1\2cm thickness.

Deep fry the athirasam in the oil (small batch) over medium flame until golden brown or maroon colour and the athirasam's are ready.

Serving Suggestion: Serve the thinai athirasam with the crispy butter murukku Page: Collection Of Sweet Recipes Variation: Similarly you can also try with pachai arisi (soak 2 hrs). If you like this recipe: You will like this cashew ladoo's recipe also. Did you make this recipe? Please let me know how it turned out for you! Leave a comment below and share on Facebook

By Kalais