Undrallu/Rice Rava Steamed Balls

Undrallu is traditional Andhra recipe and prepare mainly on Vinayaka Chaturthi. On this day Lord Vinayaka who is also know as Lord Ganesh, will be worshiped for 10 days. On Vinayaka Chaturthi, everyone will clean their house and decorate the idol of Ganesha and worship him with some herbal leaves and flowers and offer sweets and other food items. In my home, we don't use oil on that day. So we will make undrallu, athisara and pachi pulusu. Some people will prepare undrallu with rice flour.

Yield - 18 

Ingredients:

• Rice rava - 1 cup
• Water - 2 cups
• Pesarapappu / Green gram / Moong dal -3  tsp
• Jeera / Cumin seeds - 1 tsp (optional)
• Salt as per taste

Preparation:

• To make rice rava, Soak rice for 2 hours and dry it over night on a cloth.
• Next day ground it to coarse rava.
• Soak pesarapappu/moong dal for 20 minutes.
• Boil water in a pot along with salt. Now add jeera, pesarapappu/moong dal and rice rava without forming lumps and mix.
• Cook on low heat until rice rava will absorb water and come together. Mix in between and check as it will take less time to cook. Switch off  the stove and let it cool. Keep lid until you want to make balls and steam them so that it will not dry.
• Now make balls out off the dough and apply oil to idli plates or place banana leaves.
• Heat water in a idli vessel and place the dough balls on the idli plates and steam them for 15 minutes.
• Serve with coconut chutney.