It only takes a few bites of one’s childhood treats to cure homesickness, because these treats link beyond taste buds: they stir sentiments. Presenting the evergreen delights we all keep going back to!
Kamarkattu
These are Tamil Nadu’s beloved bite-sized wonders, a chewy and sticky affair that awakens the child in you.
Ingredients
1 cup coconut (grated)
1 cup jaggery
2 tbsp rice flour (for coating)
Method
Dry-roast the coconut.
Heat pan, melt jaggery with 1 table spoon of water.
Stir well continuously till ‘one-string’ consistency is reached.
Then add the roasted coconut and mix well. Stir for 2 minutes.
Turn off heat.
Pour one table spoon of mixture on rice-flour-coated plate and let it cool.
Once it has set hard enough, roll them into small balls.
