Lightly roast green gram, till a nice aroma comes and the colour changes.
Wash rice and dal together.
Heat up a pressure pan.
Add rice and dal along with 2 cups of water.
Close the cooker, keep the weight and cook upto 2 whistles.
Allow it to cool.
Add 1/2 cup of water to jaggery and heat on a low flame, stirring continuously, till the jaggery dissolves completely.
Strain and add to the rice-dal mixture.
Cook, adding ghee little by little.
Add the copra fried in ghee.
When the whole mixture becomes a mass, add cashew and raisins fried in little ghee.
Remove from flame.
Add sugarcandy and freshly grated coconut.
:- It can be made only with rice without adding dal.
:- You can cook the mixture for just one whistle and if thus made, rice will be slightly grainy.
:- You can add 1 cup of ghee and 4 cups of jaggery.
:- You can omit coconut and sugarcandy.