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Prep Time
15 mins
 
Edible Rice flour Lamps for Purattasi Shani Kizhamai The ingredients listed below make for a medium-sized lamp or two small lamps. If you need to increase the quantity, just make sure to add equal proportions of Rice flour, Jaggery and grated coconut.
Servings: 2
Author: Radhika @ justhomemade
Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup Rice flour
  • 1/2 cup Jaggery mashed / grated
  • 1/2 cup grated coconut
  • 4 cardamom powdered
  • a pinch of Saffron
  • 1 tbsp milk for the saffron to leave color
  • 2 - 3 tbsp Ghee
Instructions
  1. Mix together in a bowl, grated coconut, jaggery and powdered cardamom and set aside for 15 mins so the jaggery melts and blends in.
  2. Warm up the milk and soak the saffron for 10-15 mins until it leaves color.
  3. Add in the rice flour, saffron milk and 2 tsp of ghee to the coconut jaggery mixture and mix well. Do not add any more milk or water to this.
  4. Shape it into moulds, make pits for lighting Deepam as explained above in the post.