Name: Bellam Palathalikalu recipe by Aruna Saraschandra at BetterButter
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: Rice flour - 1 glass + 1/4 tsp; Milk - 1 glass + 2 glasses; jaggery - 3/4th glass; Fresh scraped coconut - 1 cup; elachi powder - 1 tsp; Cashew nuts - 5; Raisins - 8; Ghee - 1 tsp

ABOUT Bellam Palathalikalu RECIPE

Bellam Palathalikalu is sweet recipe prepared for vinayaka chavithi as naivedhyam. This is popular naivedyam recipe in Godavari district and in some areas of Andhra. Bellam palathalikalu is nothing but noodles prepared using rice flour, and is cooked in jaggery where rice flour is mixed with milk.

Instructions

Take a pan add milk let it boil.
Add 1 glass rice flour to the milk by mixing with other hand.
Switch off the flame, close the lid and keep it aside for 10 minutes.
Take another pan add jaggery and water, keep it on low flames till the jaggery dissloves. Purify it using stainer and keep it aside.
Take a pan add 1tsp of ghee, add raisins and cashew nuts.
Fry the above till raisins become flufffy and cahew nuts changes color and keep it aside.
Knead the prepared dough well, pinch small amount of dough and make small balls as shown below.
Take one ball, roll it like noodles as shown below. Repeat the process for remaing balls.
Add prepare jaggery syrup in the pan, let it boil for a second.
Add the prepared rice noodles in the jaggery syrup, boil it on the medium flame by closing the lid for 3 minutes.
Remove the lid, mix the above gently. Rice noodles became smooth and fluffy after boiling.
Now add freshly scraped/grated coconut and elachi powder and saute it once.
Add 1/4tsp of rice flour to the above, to get it thickness.
Add fried cashew nuts and raisins, saute everything well gently. Close the lid cook on low flames for 2 minutes. Take the above into bowl, palathalikalu is ready to serve. Add milk before serving. Or you can have it without adding milk.

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