how to make Ari unda/ Rice laddos/ Rice Balls

Ari unda meaning rice balls is a traditional sweet of Kerala with very little ingredients but has a wonderful aroma of roasted rice, coconut and cardamon.

Ingredients
Rice flour- 1 1/2 cups
Jaggery- 1 cup
Coconut- 3/4 cup
Coconut milk- 1/2 cup
Cardamon powder- 1 tsp
Ghee- 1 tsp
Cashews crushed- 3 tsp
Cumin- a pinch

Take rice flour in a bowl and sprinkle coconut milk little by little and mix the flour with your hands. Do not pour in but just sprinkle and incorporate.You need to wet the flour and make sure that there are no lumps.Also add cumin and roast this flour really fine on medium heat till there is a nice aroma and it becomes crispy. Let this cool off a bit.
Boil jaggery along with 1/2 cup of water strain and remove impurities. But it back to heat and allow it to attain a two thread consistency. Add cashew nuts, coconuts and cardamon powder. Adding coconut will make the mixture watery. Once it again attains the two thread consistency incorporate this into the rice flour and also add in ghee. Let it cool off a bit. Make small balls when it is still warm( Make sure you can handle it). You can preserve this in a closed container for more than two weeks.