Anarsa

Anarsa is the Indian sweet made with rice and sugar and fried in ghee or oil. It is a seasonal dish, specially made during the winter season. Sweets made with ghee, tastes better. Ghee contains mainly short- and medium-chain fatty acids, which are the good fats that our brains and cells need for nourishment. Along with active lifestyle, eating ghee in moderation is good, so we can enjoy the benefits of ghee.

Anarsa

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seasonal dish, specially made during the winter season.

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Prep Time 5 days d

Cook Time 5 minutes mins

Total Time 5 days d 5 minutes mins

Course Dessert, Side Dish, Snack

Cuisine Indian

Servings 4 people

Calories 200 kcal

Ingredients

  

• 1 cup Basmati Rice
• 1 cup Brown sugar
• 2 lit water(change water everyday for 3 days)
• 1/2 cup Ghee
• 3 tbsp Poppy seeds
• 3 tsp water for making anarsa dough
• 1:1 cup Powdered rice and sugar, make dough balls without adding water.

Instructions

 

• Take a pot, add one cup rice, wash with water and soak in water.
  
• Every day change water and again fill pot with water and keep rice in water for 3 consecutive days.
  
• After 3rd day, strain the water from rice. Keep rice in strainer and fan dry the rice until it is bone dry.
  
• Grind the dried rice in grinder until it is fine powder.
  
• Powdered rice.
  
• Take one cup sugar, grind it in grinder.
  
• Powdered sugar.
  
• Take powdered rice, powdered sugar and mix all together.
  
• Mix powdered rice and sugar until it binds together. Make rice sugar dough ball.
  
• Keep rice sugar dough ball in airtight container for 2 days in dry, dark and cooler corner of the house kitchen.
  
• Take one cup of rice sugar dough balls and crumble the dough. Add water as needed and knead the dough.
  
• Pound the anarsa dough about 25 minutes, until it is smooth. Cover and rest the pounded anarsa dough.
  
• Take one pan, put it on low heat, add ghee.
  
• Take one teaspoon size anarsa dough and make a smooth circle ball
  
• Take one plastic ziplock bag, cut the sides of it. Place the anarsa circle in between the bag.
  
• Press the anarsa and make a small disk.
  
• Take the anarsa off of the bag.
  
• Take one plate, add poppy seeds to it. Roll anarsa in the poppy seeds.
  
• Once the ghee is heated enough, put anarsa in ghee.
  
• Baste the ghee on the anarsa.
  
• When you see bubbles on anarsa that means anarsa is properly done.
  
• Take on wire rack, put the rack on foiled tray, take out the fried anarsa and put it on the wire rack.
  
• Anarsa ready to enjoy.
  

Keyword Anarsa, Indian Fried Rice Cookie