Ariselu Recipe

Ingredients:
• 1/4 cup Sesame Seeds
• 1 kg Rice
• 3/4 kg Jaggery
• Oil for deep-frying
• 1 cup Water
How to make Ariselu:
• Wash the rice and soak it for about 6 hours.
• Drain the water and keep the rice on a cloth for drying.
• Make fine powder by grinding it in a mixie.
• Shred the jaggery and put it in a pan.
• Add water to the jaggery and dissolve it by boiling.
• Make thick syrup of this mixture on low flame.
• Gradually add ground rice to it and stir constantly. There should not be any lump formation.
• Remove the pan from fire.
• Prepare balls out of this mixture.
• Press the balls on a plastic sheet to shape them in the form of round puris.
• To decorate, roll the puris lightly in the sesame seeds.
• Heat oil in another pan.
• Deep-fry these puris on low flame till dark brown.
• Ariselu is ready.