Sweet Potato Dessert Bites

Ingredients

• Sweet potatoes - 2 medium size
• Jaggery - 3/4th cup (alter according to the sweetness of the potatoes or as desired)
• Rice - One and Half cup
• Black gram/Urad dal - 3/4th to 1 cup
• Grated coconut - 2 tbsp (optional)
• Cardomom powder - 1/2 tsp.
• Oil for frying
• Salt to taste

Directions

1. Clean and soak the rice and black gram/urad dal separately for around 5 hours.
2. Boil the sweet potatoes in water. Once done, drop this in colander. Once this becomes cool, peel the skin of it and mash this along with jaggery.
3. Take a pan and add this potato and jaggery mixture and stir it continuously until it blends well and forms a thick paste so that its easy to shape them. Once done allow them to cool. Add cardamom powder and grated coconut to it, mix well and form into lemon size balls and keep aside (If its getting too sticky just grease your hands with little oil/ghee). Here ghee is the clarified butter.
4. After the rice and black gram is soaked well for the said hours, drain the water from both and grind to a fine paste adding very little water. Let the paste be think. Mix both the batter well, add little salt and the batter is ready.
5. Heat up oil in a deep frying pan. Dip each ball in the batter, to get coated well. Drop these sweet potato balls slowly in the oil and fry them. Fry at least 4 to 5 balls at a time depending upon the size of the pan. Let the Boorelu gets cooked until it changes its colour and gets crispy.
6. Once its cooked and changes its colour, drain the excess oil on a tissue paper and serve warm.