Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, thaen mittai/ sugar candy. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Thaen Mittai has filled with sugar syrup. Thaen Mittai/Sugar Candy Song: Niya - A Bloom (Vlog No Copyright Music) Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music. This dainty sweet just melts in your mouth.

Thaen Mittai/ Sugar candy is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Thaen Mittai/ Sugar candy is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have thaen mittai/ sugar candy using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Thaen Mittai/ Sugar candy:

1. Make ready 1 cup rice
2. Prepare 1/4 cup whole Urad dal
3. Take 1 tsp food colour Orange red colour
4. Prepare as required Oil
5. Get pinch Baking powder
6. Make ready 1.5 cup sugar

Thaen Mittai or Honey Sugar Candy is a Kerala special dainty sweet which is popular among kids. Available in tea-stalls, these little titbits melts in your mouth. Thaen Mittai is called or roughly translated to Honey Candy. However, there is no honey used in its preparation!

Instructions to make Thaen Mittai/ Sugar candy:

1. Take rice and dal in a bowl and wash it well. Soak them in water for four hours.
2. Drain them and add it to a blender. Add little water at a time and blend them into a smooth paste. Add food colour and baking powder into it and mix it well.
3. Sugar syrup- Take a pan and add 1.5 cup of sugar and 3/4 cup of water. Boil them till they reach one thread consistency. Switch off and keep it aside. Then add few drops of lemon in order to maintain consistency.
4. Heat oil in a pan. Take some dough in your hand and slowly drop the dough in small batches.
5. When it gets fried, remove them and add it to the sugar syrup. Let them soak. The sugar balls will drink up all the syrup.
6. Let it soak for five minutes and drain it. Store them in an air-tight container and enjoy it for a week.
7. Notes: The dough should be thick so add very little water while grinding.

Today am going share the nostalgic Kerala sweet. This sweet is popularly known as thaen mittai or thenaaru or thaen unda or thennilavu etc. 'Thaen' in malayalam means honey. But there is no honey inside this candy. Thaen mittai is a simple sweet/eatable very famous among kids in Tamilnadu. This sweet which makes everyone go drooling once you start eating it.

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