Pachor is rice cooked in jaggery syrup with coconut. Pachor will be served in churches in central travancore (especially in Kottayam) during feast.
Ingredients- Cooked Rice - 2 cups
- Jaggery (grated) - 3/4 cup
- Coconut (grated) - 3/4 cup
- Salt - a pinch
- Nutmeg + Cardamom + Dry Ginger + Cumin - 1 tsp (powdered)
- Ghee - 2 tbsp
- Sliced Coconut - 1/2 cup
- Fry sliced coconut in ghee and keep aside.
- Melt jaggery in one cup of water, strain and keep aside.
- To a pan add cooked rice, melted jaggery, coconut and salt; mix well and cook till the coconut and rice absorbs the jaggery syrup and become thick.
- Add the spice powder and fried coconut along with ghee; mix well and remove from flame and allow to cool.
- Enjoy the sweet and warm Pachor.
Note:
- You can use any rice, I used the matta (brown) rice.
What rice to use? Raw Rice or Parboiled rice? ( Puzhungalari or Pachari)
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ReplyDeleteKuthari is ok?
ReplyDeleteYou can use.. but takes more time to get cooked
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