The embellished pot is used to cook a delicious sweet using new rice and lentil with
jaggery which is offered to God.
Not exact matches
The filling is usually made with chana dal or split Bengal gram and grated
jaggery, a kind of unrefined cane sugar
which has a deeper flavor than regular sugar.
I stock up on Pure and Sure organic
jaggery,
which is dark to the point of being almost black in colour.
Here in the States, sometimes I can easily find panela,
which is a Latin American version of the
jaggery.
I also wanted to share with you a traditional Indian recipe
which is very similar to this and uses only
jaggery (very nutritious) and rice puffs (same as rice cereal).
Instead of brown sugar, I used
jaggery, an unrefined sugar commonly used in Indian dishes,
which has a moist texture like brown sugar (I found this during a recent visit to a new Indian grocery store).
Also buffalo curd — a wonderfully thick yogurt,
which you ate with
jaggery, a syrup I'd never heard of before.