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Maa Vilakku (Rice Flour Lamp)
Maa Vilakku (Rice Flour Lamp) is made during special occasions such as aadi velli,purattasi sani, thai month, karthigai deepam etc.
Maa Vilakku is a special lamp made with freshly ground rice flour and jaggery kneaded together as a dough placed on a banana leaf with a dent in the middle where we pour ghee,place the wick(thiri) and lit the lamp...we also apply kumkum on all 4 sides of maavilakku and place flowers on/near when we offer to god as shown in the pics.
Ingredients
Raw Rice(Pacharisi) - 1 cup
Jaggery - 3/4 cup
Cardamom - 2
Ghee - 2 tsp
Gingelly Oil - 2 tsp
Method:
My Notes:
Maa Vilakku Recipe - Maavilakku Maavu Recipe | Karthigai Deepam Recipes | Sharmis Passions
Maa Vilakku (Rice Flour Lamp) is made during special occasions such as aadi velli,purattasi sani, thai month, karthigai deepam etc.
Maa Vilakku is a special lamp made with freshly ground rice flour and jaggery kneaded together as a dough placed on a banana leaf with a dent in the middle where we pour ghee,place the wick(thiri) and lit the lamp...we also apply kumkum on all 4 sides of maavilakku and place flowers on/near when we offer to god as shown in the pics.
Ingredients
Raw Rice(Pacharisi) - 1 cup
Jaggery - 3/4 cup
Cardamom - 2
Ghee - 2 tsp
Gingelly Oil - 2 tsp
Method:
- First rinse the raw rice twice, and soak it in water for 1 hour. Drain water completely and then spread the raw rice in a soft towel and allow it to dry say for 30-45mins.It will be slightly moist only.Then transfer this to a mixer.
- Grind it to a fine powder in a mixie in batches.Then sieve it. If you find small balls break and sieve it.
- Sieve until you get rava like mixture.Add it to the next flour batch and grind it again. Now take sieved rice flour,jaggery and cardamom in a mixer and pulse it once or twice not more than that....this is to ensure even mixing.Transfer to mixng bowl and leave it aside for 10mins for the jaggery to slightly leave water.
- When you press with your hands it will hold its shape....Start kneading...the moisture in your hands and the melted jaggery will give a soft smooth dough. Add gingelly oil at this stage and mix well. Roll it like a ball and transfer it to banana leaf.Using a tumbler slightly press to get a dent in the middle.Add ghee in the dent and lit the lamp as shown and offer to god as neiveidhyam.
My Notes:
- Though the traditional way of making maavilakku is using freshly pound rice flour...you can use readymade riceflour too but sure will have compromise in taste.If you are using readymade rice flour then for 1 cup of rice flour use 1/2 cup powdered jaggery.
- Just pulse it once or twice not more than that else jaggery will let out water making the dough sticky and watery too.
- I didnt add water at all, but if you feel its too dry then drizzle few drops while kneading.
- Keep on kneading till it comes together and forms a smooth dough.
- The amount of jaggery depends on the jaggery variety too.I used urundai vellam, it may differ slightly if you use achu vellam / paagu vellam.
- You can even replace gingelly oil with ghee itself.
- This keeps well in for 3-4 days in room temperature itself. You can even keep it refrigerated but it becomes slightly hard, so bring it to room temperature and then serve it.
- As its just raw rice flour......consuming more of it the same day will cause stomach ache.
Maa Vilakku Recipe - Maavilakku Maavu Recipe | Karthigai Deepam Recipes | Sharmis Passions
