How to Make Thaen Mittai Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 cup parboiled rice
• 1/4 cup urad dal
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup of water
• 4 drops lemon juice
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• Food Color Orange
• frying oil

Method

1. 1 cup parboiled rice, 1/4 cup urad dal, washed and soaked for 3 hours in a bowl
2. After soaking, mash them into a smooth paste with a small amount of water.
3. In a mixing bowl, combine the ground batter with the orange food coloring and well mix.
4. Then stir in 1/4 teaspoon baking soda and set aside.
5. To prepare the sugar syrup, combine 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring constantly until the sugar dissolves completely.
6. Now, add 4 drops of lemon juice to it and set aside the sugar syrup.
7. Let’s use the batter to fry the balls.
8. Heat some oil in a pan, then create little balls of batter and put them one at a time into the hot oil. Fry the balls until crispy, then take them from the oil and place them in the sugar syrup.
9. Allow the sugar syrup to soak the balls for 10 minutes.
10. Now, in a blender, turn 1/4 cup of sugar into a fine powder, and roll the soaked sugar candies in the sugar to coat them. This step is optional.
11. Roll the moistened candies in the sugar one at a time.
12. Thaen mittai, or sugar candy, is now ready for consumption.