Avalose podi / A Traditional Fried Rice Powder of Kerala Recipe
Avalose podi, a traditional Kerala snack which can be eaten either by mixing little sugar and banana, or can be transformed into Avalose unda another famous snack of Kerala or Churuttu a famous delicacy of my home town!!! Avalose podi, an evening snack (nalumani palaharam) back home is very filling…and those days I preferred Meat puffs, Ethakka Vazhattiyathu, Ethakka Appam etc….But now after spending years away from home I do like to have this more often:) …So now when ever I go home my mom's sister makes this for me so that I can either eat it in a podi form or I can easily make Avalose Unda, one of my favorite snacks, without much hassles ;)… So the Avalose podi recipe here is from my Mom's sister…
Ingredients:
- Raw Rice- 500gm
- Grated Coconut- 3 cups
- Cumin seeds/Jeerakom-2tsp
- Salt- to taste
Method:
Soak the rice and powder coarsely.
Rub the coconut and the rice powder together and keep it for about one hour.
Place a big flat bottomed pan (uruly) on fire, put the cumin seeds, stir till they are fried and add the rice powder mixed with coconut.
Stir well all the time and when it starts turning the colour, lower the heat.
Remove when it is fried well (light brown colour).
Sift the powder through a coarse sieve and pound well the bigger pieces that are left.
Fry that again and mix with the fried avalose.
When cool, keep it in a tin tightly closed.
Avalose podi can be stored for almost a year if it is fried & stored well.