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traditional rice pudding recipe

There is another tradition that the East Indians observe on All Souls Day. We make a rice pudding known as Atola with the newly harvested rice and offer it as a tribute to our Ancestors.

Basic Ingredients for traditional rice pudding recipe 

• 1 cup – new harvest rice (washed)
• 1/2 cup – Chowli beans soaked overnight
• 1/2 cup – Jaggery (add as per your taste)
  Milk of half a coconut (separate the thin & thick milk)
• Salt – 1 tsp
• Cardamom powder – 1/2 tsp or 4 to 5 cardamom powdered with a little sugar.
• Water as required.

How to make traditional rice pudding recipe

1.  In a vessel add the rice, chowli beans, salt, and 2 cups of thin coconut milk & 2 cups water.
2. Place this on a medium flame and cook until the chowli beans and rice turn soft.
3. Add in the jaggery (I used organic jaggery powder)
4. Cover and cook till the jaggery melts and then add the cardamom powder.
5.  Add warm water if you want the pudding to be thinner
6. Finally, add one cup of thick coconut milk.
   Simmer for a minute and then switch off the flame

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