Kumayam

Kumayam is a traditional sweet in Chettinadu. Usually this will be the sweet in weddings for the evening tiffin in Ponnai allaicha Palagaram. This sweet is very healthy and good for Uterus similar to Ulandham Kazhi, once girl child attains puberty they will serve this sweet, to reduce waist pain along with Gingelly oil and Egg. I usually prepare this sweet for Neivedhyam on special occassions.

Ingredients:

Flour Preparation:

Whole Urad dhal - 5 cups
Raw rice - 1 cup 

Moong dhal - 1 cup

Rest:

Kumayam Flour - 1/2 cup
Jaggery or Palm Jaggery - 1/2 cup
Ghee - 5 Table spoons
Cardamom Powder - 1 Tea spoon

Method:

Take the ingredients under flour preparation, dry roast it and powder it. Take a 1/2 cup of Kumayam flour, 1/2 cup of Jaggery or Palm Jaggery, make a pagu with Jaggery by adding little water, filter it. Add water to the flour make it kind of dosa batter, add jaggery pagu, cook it till u get better consistency, add Cardamom powder for flavour and add ghee as final touch, remove it from flame, serve it to the dish, hope it helps.

Tips:

Quick sweet if you have flour in stock. I usually store it in freezer as it's mom preparation to save from bugs.

My mom says before making it fry the flour in ghee to get better rich taste.