First of all take raw rice in a pan, dry roast in medium heat for 5 minutes.

Fry continuously until rice becomes light brown in color. Do not let it burn.

Remove from the pan and let the rice cool down.

Grind the rice into coarse powder.

In the meantime, dissolve jaggery with half a cup of water in low heat. No need to make a syrup with any particular consistency. Just dissolving is enough.

Also, fry cashews and dry grapes using half of the ghee to golden color and keep aside.

Keep a large pan on the stove, boil 2.5 cups of water(measured in the same cup used for rice).

When water comes to a nice boiling, put a pinch of salt, add the coarsely ground rice rava gradually and stir quickly.

Stir quickly and continuously while adding rice powder to avoid lumps formation. If you are a beginner first mix the rice powder with a cup of water without lumps and add this mix into hot water.

Mix well till the mixture becomes whole mass and reduce the temperature to low heat. Cover with a lid and cook for temperature ten minutes.

Open the lid often and mix with a ladle to avoid the bottom burning.

In a few minutes, the rice rava is cooked well and becomes soft.

Cook rice completely and then add filtered jaggery water.

Now mix again continuously so that the jaggery is well absorbed into the rice.

Add a tablespoon of ghee and mix.

Now add grated coconut, fried cashews and dry grapes.

Finally add some cardamom powder, mix and switch off.

Serve this delicious Thiruvathirai Kali as a prasadam during auspicious occasions. You can also enjoy this sweet as a snack or breakfast.