THEEPI SASTHRALU / SWEET SASTHYALU

INGREDIENTS: 2 Cups of boiled rice (uppudu biyyam), 2 cups of raw rice (pachi biyyam), Salt as required, Pinch of Cooking soda, Sugar, Fresh coconut, Cashews, Gasagasalu (poppy seeds), Plain rice flour (biyyapindi), Milk

PREPARATION:

• Soak boiled rice and raw rice in water for 3 hours
• Grind them into thick batter using little water
• Let this batter ferment (nanabatadam) for 1 night or 7-8 hours
• Take requires amount of batter into bowl, add pinch of salt and cooking soda, mix well
• Keep them in idly stand and steam cook for 12 minutes
• Take out place them in sasthralu machine (available in markets)
• Press them into sasthralu , make such with all the idlies prepared
• In a mixy jar add 4 spoons of sugar, 2 spoons of cashews, fresh coconut, 1 spoon poppy seeds, rice flour
• Make this into fine powder
• Add this powder into milk and boil well
• Sasthralu Kheer is ready to serve now
• Off flame, dish out into bowl
• In a serving cup add, prepared sasthralu and pour the kheer as topping and serve
• Garnish with few dry fruits
• Yummy yummy sweet sasthralu are ready to serve now..