Prepare Okkarai, Tamil Nadu’s Signature Diwali Sweet
Okkarai is a traditional Diwali sweet made across households in Tamil Nadu after the early morning oil bath during Diwali. It features a mixture of roasted moong and chana dal, broken into small crumbs and cooked with jaggery syrup, coconut, ghee, and cardamom.
- Time: 30 min
Source: Outlook Traveller Eats
Ingredients
- Split Yellow Moong Dal / Pasi paruppu
- Fine Rice Flour / Arisi Mavu
- Jaggery / Vellam / Sarkarai
- Ghee
- Water
- Cashews