Peanut Balls

Peanut balls

Peanut Balls

Delicious easy to make peanut balls with jaggery syrup, usually prepared for Karthigai festival or for anytime snacking . Considered healthy compared toother sweets snacking .

Ingredients

1 cup peanuts

3/4 cup powdered jaggery

method

roast peanuts, remove the skins , and use.

melt jaggery , use 1/4 cup water to melt, filter the syrup , use to prepare a thick syrup of a hard ball consistency syrup .

when you roll a drop of the jaggery syrup, it must form a smooth firm ball and will make a thud when flung on a plate , to confirm .

mix the roasted peanuts with required jaggery syrup , and using a ladle , scoop out portions to prepare small balls, you can use rice flour or ghee to handle the sticky warm mixture . Take out required quantity of the peanuts mixture , use rice flour or ghee to handle , roll into small balls.

Prepare in batches as the mixture will begin to harden quickly as it starts cooling .

Karthigai neivediyam