Diwali Legiyam Recipe | Diwali Marunthu Recipe
Diwali Legiyam is a medicinal food which aids in digestion after consuming varieties of food during Diwali. Diwali Legiyam is made by grinding spices, blending it with jaggery syrup and cooking until thick. Learn to make Diwali Legiyam with step by step pictures.
Servings1 cup
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup jaggery
- 2 tablespoon pepper corns
- 2 tablespoon coriander seeds
- 1 teaspoon ajwain
- 1 tablespoon cumin seeds
- 1/4 inch sitharathai pieve
- 1/4 teaspoon dry ginger powder
- 1 whole cardamom
- 2 tablespoon gingelly oil
- 1 teaspoon ghee
Instructions
- First we can prepare the jaggery syrup. Add jaggery and water till immersing level. Heat it up until it nicely bubbles and is thick like honey in consistency. Strain to remove impurities.
- First get all your ingredients ready. Take all the ingredients except dry ginger powder and soak it in water till immersing level for 2 hours. I used dry ginger powder so skipped that alone. If you are using dry ginger piece then soak it along with all other ingredients. Transfer all the ingredients to a mixer.
- Grind it to a semi fine paste. Add dry ginger powder and mix well. Now add jaggery syrup and heat for 2 minutes until its frothy then add the paste and mix well.
- Simmer and keep mixing, at one stage it will start becoming thick more like halwa in consistency. This will take around 15 minutes. At this stage add oil and keep stirring for 3 minutes finally add ghee and then switch off.
- Cool down and store in an airtight container.
Notes
- Instead of grinding to a paste, you can even dry roast all the ingredients and grind it to a fine powder.
- The texture is totally our choice, if you want it even more as a fine paste then grind it smooth.
- You can make it fully in ghee too, but I wanted to add gingelly oil so used that.
- I used paagu vellam so hence the reddish brown color. You can use normal yellow jaggery / palm jaggery too.
Nutrition Facts
Diwali Legiyam Recipe | Diwali Marunthu Recipe
Amount Per Serving (25 g)
Calories 141
Calories from Fat 54
% Daily Value*
Fat 6g9%
Saturated Fat 1g6%
Trans Fat 0.02g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 4g
Cholesterol 2mg1%
Sodium 3mg0%
Potassium 86mg2%
Carbohydrates 21g7%
Fiber 2g8%
Sugar 17g19%
Protein 1g2%
Vitamin A 31IU1%
Vitamin C 0.5mg1%
Calcium 42mg4%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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