Ingredients
- Raw rice – 1 cup
- Jaggery – ½ cup
- Cardamom powder – a generous pinch
LAMP
- Kunkumam – as req
- Ghee – 1 tsp
- cotton wick – 2 nos
Procedure
- Soak a cup of raw rice for an hour, drain the water completely and spread the rice over a muslin cloth under room temperature.
- Once the rice about the dry completely, grind it finely using small mixie jar.
- Transfer into a clean bowl add about half a cup of jaggery and a pinch of cardamom powder, rub nicely and form a ball shape. To achieve the lamp shape, press the center of the ball gently using lemon to get a dent.
- Apply KUNKUMAM to the dent corners and pour a spoonful of ghee/ clarified butter and place a cotton wick over the ghee and lit the MAA VILAKKU LAMP.
