Diwali Okkarai | Ukkarai Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is a traditional sweet made specially on Diwali festival. The main ingredient of this dish is dal and jaggery.
Okkarai recipe
This is one of the traditional recipe which my grandma taught me. I make this recipe often, Amma loves this a lot. She tells me to make this all time when she feels like eating something sweet, which she often does.
This is the instant recipe which can be make in less than 20 mins..A perfect sweet for any parties as well as for any functions. Traditionally they make this sweet for Diwali. This is so quick to make and only calls for minimum ingredients..But the taste and flavour of this is maximum.
Ingredients for Diwali Okkarai | Ukkarai
- Split Yellow Moong Dal / Pasi paruppu – ½ cup
- Fine Rice Flour / Arisi Mavu – 1 cup
- Jaggery / Vellam / Sarkarai – 2 cup
- Ghee – ½ cup
- Water – 4 cup
- Cashews – 3 tbsp (optional)
How to Make Diwali Okkarai | Ukkarai
- Wash Moong Dal and let it dry in a colander.
- Heat 1 tsp of ghee and roast rice flour till it turns into light golden color and you get nice aroma. Remove this to a bowl.
- Heat 1 tsp of ghee and roast moong Dal till it turns into light golden color and you get nice aroma.
- Add 2 cups of water and bring it to a boil. Now simmer this till the dal is cooked.
- Now in a separate sauce pan add 2 cups of water and bring it to a boil.
- Take it off the heat and add jaggery in this water. Mix well so that the jaggery gets dissolved.
- Pour this jaggery water through a sieve over the cooked dal and mix well. Bring this to a boil.
- Slowly add in the roasted rice flour and mix well. Stir everything together until its gets combined well.
- Add in the ghee and mix well..Cook everything for 5 mins mixing continuously. The cooked mixture will leave the sides of the pan.
- Now pour this in a greased pan or tray and smoothen the top.
- Let it rest for 15 mins. Now invert the pan and cut into squares. Garnish with cashews..
- Serve hot.
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Diwali Okkarai | Ukkarai Recipe | Okkarai Sweet Recipe
Instant Okkarai Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is a traditional sweet made specially on Diwali festival. The main ingredient of this dish is dal and jaggery.
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Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 449kcal
Ingredients
- ½ cup Split Yellow Moong Dal
- 1 cup Rice Flour
- 2 cups Jaggery
- ½ cup Ghee
- 4 cups Water
- 3 tbsp Cashews optional
Instructions
- Wash Moong Dal and let it dry in a colander.
- Heat 1 tsp of ghee and roast rice flour till it turns into light golden colour and you get nice aroma. Remove this to a bowl.
- Heat 1 tsp of ghee and roast moong Dal till it turns into light golden colour and you get nice aroma.
- Add 2 cups of water and bring it to a boil. Now simmer this till the dal is cooked.
- Now in a separate sauce pan add 2 cups of water and bring it to a boil.
- Take it off the heat and add jaggery in this water. Mix well so that the jaggery gets dissolved.
- Pour this jaggery water through a sieve over the cooked dal and mix well. Bring this to a boil.
- Slowly add in the roasted rice flour and mix well. Stir everything together untill its gets combined well.
- Add in the ghee and mix well..Cook everything for 5 mins mixing continuously. The cooked mixture will leave the sides of the pan.
- Now pour this in a greased pan or tray and smoothen the top.
- Let it rest for 15 mins. Now invert the pan and cut into squares. Garnish with cashews..
- Serve hot .
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 449kcal | Carbohydrates: 76g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 29mg | Sodium: 10mg | Potassium: 40mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 51g | Vitamin A: 25IU | Vitamin C: 0.02mg | Calcium: 29mg | Iron: 1mg
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Diwali Okkarai Recipe Step by Step
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| First start by Heating water in a saucepan |
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| bring it to boil |
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| add jaggery in this |
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| and mix well |
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| let it sit till ready to use |
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| heat 1 tsp of ghee |
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| add rice flour |
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| and start roasting |
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| roast till light golden |
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| remove to a bowl |
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| heat 1 tsp of ghee |
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| add moong dal |
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| and roast |
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| till light golden |
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| add water |
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| cover and simmer |
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| till the dal is cooked |
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| There should be little water remaining in this |
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| sieve the jaggery water |
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| can you see how much dirt is there in the jaggery.. |
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| mix well |
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| bring it to a boil |
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| add rice flour |
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| and mix well |
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| add ghee |
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| and mix well |
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| grease a pan with ghee |
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| empty the mixture in this and let it set for 15 mins |
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| Invert it to a plate |
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| and cut into pieces |
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| Serve |
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| You can add some cashews too |
Srivalli
Wow that's so lovely!..glad to do this edition with you!
Prabhamani
Really a nice dish!!I didn't know the recipe..thanks for sharing 🙂
Ramya
Totally agree with u.. Indeed that looks yum yum!:-)
Roshni
too good
maha
mouth watering..delicious.........
jeyashrisuresh
adding rice flour sounds interesting . We make it in a different way. nice recipe
faseela
lovely recipe...superb
The Pumpkin Farm
wow, seems like lot of work, you are a good girl 🙂 , making sweets for mom, its always the other way round for me, like your effort
Christy Gerald
Luks Delish.Yummy!
Roshu
Lovely recipe!!!
Priya
Super tempting okkarai,looks absolutely divine and inviting..
Beth
Just like your grandmother, I often feel like something sweet to eat!
Harini
sounds very yummy..never tried this combo.
Hema
Very delicious..
Anu
Nice one arthi. Thanks for ur comments. Following u too....
Lizzy
So beautiful with the cashew garnish! No wonder this is a favorite 🙂
Kitchen Flavours
Love this sweet...looks yummylicious....
khushi
wow...this looks super easy!! delicious dessert
Emanuela - Pane, burro e alici
Ciao! Complimenti per le tue ricette! Baci!
lola
que buena pinta tienen
¡¡besos¡¡
Now Serving
Wow what tireless photography 🙂 Love it!
My MIL makes it every Diwali - not my most fav dish, but I love the way you made them into barfi type bars! Nostalgic post dear!
Ann
You're right that really is maximum flavor! I love that this has moong dal. In the US, we would never consider adding something like this to a sweet treat - it's a great idea! Thanks!
@lekshmi
healthy and delicious sweet........
Cool Lassi(e)
This looks almost halwa-like. I am hearing this for the first time. Your grandma taught you well!
Sobha Shyam
lovely and yummy sweet..
sushma
Yummy sweet
Sharmilee! :)
Wow looks yummy..its my fav too
Kalpana Sareesh
wonderful recipe beautifully made..
foodiliciousnan
the sweet and the decoration both look really nice Aarthi
Ganga Sreekanth
looks delicious !!
Shilpakiran
yunmmy yummy ,,,,thanks for sharing
rekhas kitchen
Wow too good love this traditional sweet..
Kristen
That sounds so interesting. I would really like to try it some day. I love seeing dishes that are completely new to me!
Mélange
New to me Aarthi..looks very inviting.Thanks for sharing.
VineelaSiva
Different recipe never tried and tasted.Makes me tempting.
Cham
I have eaten this ukkarai but never knew it has such a long process, great recipe!
bookcasefoodie
That looks delicious. I love your photos.
Sensible Vegetarian
I totally love this, love your step by step pictures.
Suma Gandlur
Lovely, never tried this before.
Vidhya
Delicious dear.
Anonymous
Hi lovely recipe is there a alternative to the split moong dal as I simply cannot tolerate it. thanks DV
Aarthi
@Anonymoussorry, this recipe has to have moongdal.
Anonymous
Please cn ant one tell me wat is Jaggry ?? I realy wana make yhs sweet .. bt have no idea wat jaggry is
Aarthi
@AnonymousJaggery is called as palm sugar
jayasubha
Can we add wheat flour instead of rice flour ?
Aarthi
@jayasubhano rice flour should be used.
Anonymous
Heyy i have prepared this just right now, its just ready to use... BUT ITS TOOO LATE WALA RECEIPE, ACTUALLY IT TAKES A LOTTT OF TIME IN COOKING THAT MOONG DAAL.. !! AND HERE 4 CUPS WATER WRITTEN IS WRONG, TO COOK THE MOON DAAL OF HALF CUP IT HAVE TAKEN 2 GLASS OF WATER, AS I DONT HAVE THAT SQUARE PAN, SO I USED THALI, WAIT I'M GONNA POST THAT PIC
NICE RECEIPE, BUT NOT YET TASTED BY ANYBODY BUT LOOKS GOOD & TAKES A LOTT OFF TIME.. 2 HOURS I SPENT