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Puffed rice balls-Pori urundai-Pori urundai for Karthigai deepam

November 14, 2010 by PadhuSankar 42 Comments

Karthigai Deepam is a festival of lights celebrated in the Tamil month of Karthigai.All the houses will be decked up with rows and rows of lamps and it is a beautiful sight. We make pori urundai on that day. We get arisi/nel pori during this season and pori urundai is usually made of that variety. But I have used the ordinary variety which is easily available. Today we will learn how to make pori urundai (for Karthigai deepam) or puffed rice balls following this easy recipe.

Pori urundai-karthigai deepam

Pori Urundai-Puffed Rice Balls


Pori Urundai

 Prep Time : 10 mins

 Cook Time : 20 mins 
 Serves:14 Balls
 Recipe Category: Indian Sweet
 Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
 Author:Padhu Sankar

   Ingredients needed

   Puffed rice/Pori – 4 1/2 cups heaped
   Jaggery/paagu vellam – 1 cup
   Water – 1/2 cup
   Cardamom powder – a generous pinch (optional)
   Ghee – 1 tsp

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Method

Heat 1/2 cup of water, add jaggery to it, after it melts, filter it to remove any impurities.

In a heavy bottomed pan, add the filtered jaggery water, cardamom powder, a tsp of ghee and boil the jaggery water, until it reaches a hard ball consistency. (ie)when you pour a tsp of jaggery syrup into a cup of water, it should not dissolve, you must be able to make a hard ball out of it. This is the right consistency. It is called paagu padham in tamil.

At this stage, switch off the flame, add the puffed rice to it and mix well.

Grease your hands with ghee and quickly make balls out of it, when the heat is bearable. Initially you can make roughly shaped balls. Then you can shape it nicely.

Note-


If the jaggery syrup dissolves in water, then you must boil the jaggery syrup for some more time until you get that hard ball consistency.

If the mixture hardens while making balls, then you can warm it slightly and make balls.

Check out my kadalai urundai recipe and ellu urundai also. Have a wonderful Karthigai Deepam.

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  1. Abhilash Pillai

    November 15, 2010 at 7:01 am

    aah! I love this laddu… we used to make it during the Diwali and Makara Sankranth…

    They look really nice. We used to prepare big balls but they did not last long. I and my sister would find the containers filled with sweets that my Mother prepares and would take them unknowingly. In a day or two they will be finished.

    remembering old days. 🙂
    I feel nostalgic…

    Reply
  2. Dr.Sameena Prathap

    November 15, 2010 at 7:05 am

    Hey Padhu,

    Nice pori urundai dear…Lovely clicks..Iam already following you dear!!:)

    [email protected]

    http://www.myeasytocookrecipes.blogspot.com

    Reply
  3. veena krishnakumar

    November 15, 2010 at 7:06 am

    That's a perfect just ahead of kaarthikai!!! Looks lovely

    Reply
  4. Yummy Team

    November 15, 2010 at 7:22 am

    It looks really delicious!! Great presentation!!

    Reply
  5. chaitrali pathak

    November 15, 2010 at 7:53 am

    looks perfect and yummy

    Reply
  6. Paaka Shaale

    November 15, 2010 at 7:56 am

    The rice balls look yummy padhu. Nice shots 🙂

    Reply
  7. புவனேஸ்வரி ராமநாதன்

    November 15, 2010 at 8:17 am

    Superb. Advanced Wishes.

    Reply
  8. Priya

    November 15, 2010 at 8:33 am

    Pori urundais looks prefect..beautiful diyas Padhu..

    Reply
  9. Priya Sreeram

    November 15, 2010 at 8:49 am

    pori urundai looks wow!

    Reply
  10. srividhya Ravikumar

    November 15, 2010 at 8:53 am

    looks lovely padma… perfect

    Reply
  11. Hari Chandana

    November 15, 2010 at 10:52 am

    Wowwwwwwwwww.. This is my fav laddu.. looks awesome dear.. thanks for sharing !!

    Reply
  12. Sushma Mallya

    November 15, 2010 at 11:06 am

    looks lovely and delicious…hope u had a lovely diwali celebration …I loved ur plate which u used and lovely presentation:)

    Reply
  13. Gayathri's Cook Spot

    November 15, 2010 at 11:11 am

    Pori urundai looks yumm..

    Reply
  14. சாருஸ்ரீராஜ்

    November 15, 2010 at 11:24 am

    nice clicks

    Reply
  15. Hamaree Rasoi

    November 15, 2010 at 11:34 am

    Loved your containers in the first pic Padhu. We also make this and it is called MOA in bengali. My Grandma who is 87 yrs still makes this for me whenever I visit her. Awesome presentation dear…

    Deepa
    Hamaree Rasoi

    Reply
  16. Kairali sisters

    November 15, 2010 at 2:30 pm

    Padhu, could you parcel some my way, i miss this so much…Looks yummm

    Reply
  17. jeyashrisuresh

    November 15, 2010 at 2:45 pm

    perfect recipe for the season. we too make it in the same way. well presented

    Reply
  18. Swathi

    November 15, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    Pori urundai looks delicious. Amma makes during Karthika.

    Reply
  19. Ananda Rajashekar

    November 15, 2010 at 5:18 pm

    this is my fav they look wonderful!

    Reply
  20. Nithya

    November 15, 2010 at 5:23 pm

    This is my favorite too. Just love it so much 🙂 will be trying it out soon too 🙂

    Reply
  21. R

    November 15, 2010 at 6:39 pm

    nice recipe! is this festival different from diwali?

    Reply
  22. swapna

    November 15, 2010 at 10:08 pm

    Delicious and yummy!!

    Reply
  23. Shalini

    November 15, 2010 at 11:44 pm

    very cute pori urandai. yummy:)

    Reply
  24. Khaugiri

    November 16, 2010 at 2:57 am

    Lovely laddos…I just luv it!!!

    Reply
  25. Premalatha Aravindhan

    November 16, 2010 at 8:15 am

    pori urundai luks perfect…too gud presentation.

    Reply
  26. indianspicemagic

    November 16, 2010 at 11:22 am

    My favourite.yummy urundai dear.

    Reply
  27. aipi

    November 16, 2010 at 3:55 pm

    These are my papa's all time fav..you made them so perfectly..will try it!

    US Masala

    Reply
  28. Akila

    November 16, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    wow yummy pori urundai….. i want to make this for a loooonnnnggggg time…. book marked dear…..

    Reply
  29. Isingcakes

    November 16, 2010 at 6:26 pm

    Very good ladoos and fantastic presentation I must say!!
    Preeti

    Reply
  30. NIDHYA

    November 16, 2010 at 11:17 pm

    omg, this is my favorite.. i can eat like 10 at a time.. looks super delicious.

    Aaha Oho

    Reply
  31. LR

    November 17, 2010 at 1:15 am

    very nice recipe and lovely space…

    Reply
  32. mr. pineapple man

    November 17, 2010 at 4:38 am

    really wanna try one!

    Reply
  33. kanthi

    November 18, 2010 at 6:00 pm

    wonderful marmara ladduus,paddu ji,thanx for sharing

    Reply
  34. Gomathi Iyer

    October 25, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    really nice urundai yummy

    Reply
  35. Neelam

    July 15, 2013 at 1:42 pm

    Tried it out today. Turned out nice!!

    Reply
  36. hema

    October 12, 2013 at 2:10 pm

    i tried pori urundai 2day came out well ,

    Reply
  37. Narmada

    November 16, 2013 at 5:36 am

    Hey thanks padhu. Ur recipes are simple to understand nd easy to repeat

    Reply
  38. Nandhini Pichandi

    November 17, 2013 at 2:17 pm

    Tried out today n came up wel:) thank u dear.. happy karthigai deepam:)

    Reply
  39. Mamatha

    September 17, 2014 at 3:59 pm

    Did this today,turned out very well,thank u very much

    Reply
  40. Sivaranjani N.R

    December 4, 2014 at 8:57 am

    Cane out very well paddhu ,happy karthigai

    Reply
  41. Unknown

    September 24, 2017 at 10:19 am

    Hi i tried making pori urundai today at home. While making balls it became dry and unable to make balls for the rest. I was able to make 5 to 6 balls only. Then i tried adding more jaggery in ball consistency. Pls advise what might have gone wrong.

    Reply
    • Padhu Sankar

      September 26, 2017 at 8:13 am

      In that case, you can heat the mixture slightly and then continue to make balls.

      Reply

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