my great grand mother's recipe





A scrumptious sweet



My father likes porikadalai oorandais that his grandmother makes (my great grandmother). I too started to enjoy them. One day she came to spend time with us , I asked her to tell me the recipe of the porikadalai oorandai. I took a book, pen and sat down to write it.





This is the recipe.


Porikadalai – 400g

Sugar – 200g

Ghee – 100g

Coconut – 1 small


• Grind the porikadalai. Then sift it and keep it in a bowl.

• Grind the sugar roughly and keep it in a different bowl where you are going to mix all the ingredients.

• Grate the coconut and grind it only once without water and put it along with the sugar.

• Lightly heat the ghee, add it along with the sugar and coconut and mix them well.

• Then add the sifted porikadalai flour as well and mix nicely.

• Then make them into small balls.


I made them for Diwali they were scrumptious!