Pala Thalikalu

Ingredients:

Milk – 1 litre

Rice flour – 250 gms

Sago – 50 gms

Jaggery – 400- 500 gms (as per taste)

Cardamom powder – ½ tsp

Ghee – 2 tbsp

Cashew nuts – 2 tbsp

Method:

• Boil 250 ml of water, add 1 tsp of jaggery and 1 tsp of ghee, cook till jaggery melts then add slowly rice flour. Switch off the fire and close with the lid for 5 minutes. Then mix well without lumps. Make it as chapathi dough. Keep aside.
• Soak sago for 15 minutes.
• Grate the jaggery  and add little water and cook till it   melts.
• Fry cashew nuts in ghee and keep it aside.
• Heat 900 ml of  milk and 500 ml of water in thick bottom vessel.
• Add sago when milk starts boiling, cook sago till it becomes crystal clear.
• Now take Janthikalu pressing machine,  put some dough inside and press it in the milk. Stir carefully and close the lid for 1 minute. Then again take the dough and press it, again stir carefully and close the lid for 1 minute.  Do the same process till the dough complete.
• Add water to the leftover dough in the machine, pour this to the milk.
• Cook in low flame for 10 minutes by stirring occasionally.
• Now add cardamom powder, jaggery syrup and cook another 2 minutes.
• Lastly add cashew nuts and remaining ghee.
• Serve hot or chilled.