- Cuisine: Indian
- Course: Snack
- Prep time: 4hrs
- Cook time: 30 mins
- Serves: 25-30 balls
Ingredients:
- Rice- 1 cup
- Urad dhall- 1/4 cup
- Sugar – 1 cup
- Water – 1 cup
- Orange color – a pinch
- Baking soda – 1/4 tsp
- Oil to deep fry
- Soak rice and urad dhall for 4 hrs and grind to smooth batter.
- In a bowl add the batter, baking soda and orange color and mix them well.
- In a heavy bottomed pan melt the sugar in water and bring to 1/2 string consistency.
- Once sugar dissolves turn off and add 1/4 tsp of lemon to it.
- This stops the sugar from crystallization.
- Heat oil in a pan and start dropping small balls from the batter.
- Once the balls come to surface and they are crisp out all side, take them out of oil and transfer immediately to sugar syrup.
- Let them soak in syrup for 10-15mins.
- Enjoi the thaen mittai.
- If you need more sweetness, you can roll each thaen mittai in sugar. This stays good for a week.
