Kadlai Urundai (sweet Peanut-crunch Balls)

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 250 g peanuts, roasted,shelled
• 300 g jaggery or 300 g unrefined sugar
• 1/4 cup water

Recipe

• 1 place the roasted and shelled peanuts in a large bowl.
• 2 in a frying fan on a high flame, heat the jaggery and water together, stirring continuously.
• 3 once the molten jaggery becomes"stringy" (test this by dropping 1/4 tsp of the mixture into a cup of water; you should be able to make a ball out of it with your fingers), pour it over the peanuts.
• 4 mix well immediately.
• 5 when partially cooled (cool enough to handle!), make walnut sized balls.
• 6 cool completely in a tray and store in an airtight tin.