Lohri Recipes

Ingredients:

100 gms. Kurmura (puffed rice)
200 gms. Jaggery
30 gms Vanaspati or Ghee

Method:

• Make syrup of one- string consistency, with jaggery and one cup of water.
• Remove from fire.
• Mix in kurmura and fat.
• Form into lime-sized balls.

Ingredients:

1 cup Groundnuts, skinned, roasted, pounded roughly
3/4 cup Sticky Jaggery
2 tbsp Clarified Butter (ghee)

Method:

• Heat jaggery in 1/2 cup water till the syrup is hard ball consistency.
• Test its consistency by putting a drop in cold water -it should remain firm. Add groundnuts.
• Grease a board and spread the groundnut-jaggery mixture.
• Roll flat to 1 cm thickness.
• Cut into squares when sufficiently cool and hardened.
• Store in a container lined with butter paper.