VENNA VUNDALU - SWEET BUTTER BALL 'S

Venna undalu is one of the special sweet for Krishna janmashtami (Lord Sri Krishna s birthday) and also a traditional sweet from Andhra Pradesh. Venna undalu- butter ball s, small sweet ball s made with butter.
Krishna janmashtami is a festival that we celebrate in India on the eighth day after the full moon day in Sravana month which falls in the month of August. Devotees of Lard Krishna observe fast for the full day till mid night (midnight is the Lord Sri Krishna's birth time till that time).On this special day we prepare some special dishes with butter and also we offer fresh butter to Lord Krishna. This venna undalu is one of the special sweet that we make especially on this auspicious day

Normally I make vennaundalu only with maida (all-purpose flour) but when I saw the recipe in Hari chandana s blog she added 1/4 cup rice flour too and they looks so nice in color and crisp. So I adopted that step from her, Thank you so much Chandana for this nice idea they came out very well and crisp not hard but soft and crisp. Check my version of making venna undalu here is the recipe………
INGREDIENTS:----
Maida (all purpose flour) --- 1 cup
Rice flour --- 1/4 cup
Salt a pinch
Butter --- 2 tab sp
Sugar --- 1 cup
Cardamom powder --- 1 tea sp
Milk – 1/2 cup
Cooking soda --- a pinch
Oil for deep frying

METHOD:---
1. Mix both flours and cooking soda, salt then add butter and mix well and rub between your palms and make like bread crumbs.
2. That should be like in the down pic. If you hold it in your hand that should become like a ball like in the pic.

3. Then add milk and make soft dough and cover with a wet cloth and leave a side for 1 hour.
4. After 1 hour remove the cloth and make small balls out of this dough and leave them in a plate again cover with the cloth and leave a side for some time.
5. Now heat oil in deep frying pan and drop this ball s in to the hot oil and fry in a low flame till nice brown in color.
6. Now in a heavy bottom pan take sugar, water and boil till sugar dissolves in to water .
7. Now remove from the heat and strain this syrup in to another heavy bottom pan (this processes is to remove any dart from the sugar).
8. Now bring back this syrup to the heat and bring to a full boil now you can see lot of bubbling and rising to the surface stir continually and cook till when you drop a bit of this syrup in to cold water it will solidify like a ball.
9. When syrup reaches this stage immediately add the fried butter balls and cardamom powder
10. Mix well to coat the syrup on the balls well and spread them on a plate (otherwise they stick to gather) and let the butter balls cool.
Then offer them to Lord Sri Krishna and then serve.