NEI URUNDAI / GHEE SWEET

                         This is a common sweet in all our families from time immemorial.The sweet is made of moong dhal,sugar and ghee.Yet only Nei ( ghee ) has become the name of the sweet.It is a rich sweet and can be prepared easily.

Nei Urundai

Ingredients :

1. Moong Dhal / Pasi Paruppu   -1 cup
2. Sugar - 1 1/2 cups
3. Ghee  -1/2 cup
4. Cardamom  - 4
5 .Cashew  -10

Method :

1. Roast the moong dhal in a thick bottomed tawa till it becomes a little brown or till it gives an aroma.Be careful to keep on stirring; oterwise it may get burnt.Let it cool.

2. Finely powder the roasted moong dhal, using the big jar of the mixi.It is not neccesary to seive.If seived, the flour becomes fine and the sweet may stick in the pallates while eating.

3. Powder the sugar and the cardamoms and mix with the powdered dhal.

4. Roast the broken piecce of cashew in a little ghee and add with the sugar,dhal mixture.Once again mix well.

5. Heat the ghee and add it to the mixture.Stir well using a spoon as the ghee is hot.Make them into balls, pressing firmly with the fingers to avoig breaking.

Note :

For the above ingredients, 25 sweet balls of 1 inch diameter can be prepared.