Nellaikai Legiyam / Amla Jam
Amla Legiyam has so many health benefits and it tastes like Jam. You can spread it over bread or chapathi. Kids enjoy it too.
Ingredients
- 400 gram Nellikai / Amla
- 500 gram Palm sugar (karupatti) or Jaggery
- 1 1/2 tsp Dry ginger / sukku powder
- 1 tsp Licorice / Athimadhuram powder
- 1/4 tsp Cinnamon / Pattai powder
- 1/3 tsp Nutmeg / Jathikai powder
- 50 ml Ghee
- 50 ml Sesame oil
- 50 ml Honey
To grind and make paste
- 5 gram Thippili / Long pepper
- 1 tbsp Dry grapes
- 6 Cloves / Lavangam
- 3 Cardamom / Yelakkai
Instructions
- Wash and boil the amla with 1 cup water. Cook covered in low heat until its fully cooked.
- After amla is completely cooked, it opens up. Once it is cooled, remove the seeds and take amla separately. Grind the amla to fine paste and keep aside.
- First take cardamom, cloves, thippili and grind. Then add dry grapes as well into this mixture and grind to a fine paste. Keep aside.
- Take palm sugar and mash it to powder. Add 1/2 cup water to dissolve the jaggery completely and filter it to remove any impurities.
- Heat kadai, add jaggery water and then amla paste. Mix well. This will take about 20 minutes to get it cooked well in low heat and water to reduce.
- At this stage, add herbs powders: dry ginger, athimadhuram, cinnamon and nutmeg powders. Continue cooking for further 5 minutes in low heat.
- Now add ghee and mix well. Add herbs paste and mix well.
- Add 50ml sesame oil or ghee and mix well. Continue cooking until all the oil is absorbed well in amla.
- Once it comes to jam like consistency, add honey and switch off the flame. Mix well and let it cool. After its cooled down, transfer to a airtight jar.