Coconut Balls in Milk syrup

Step 1

. Make a dough of rice flour using hot ( as hot as you can tolerate) water. In a karaahi, heat ghee and put the coconut to it. Sauté for 2 minutes, and then add 2 tbsp of sugar. Keep stirring till the coconut gets covered with sugar and starts to turn golden. Put off the flame. Cool the coconut.
2. Make small lumps of rice dough of 2 cm. diameter, and make a bowl of it using your hand, fill 1 little coconut and close the bowl from all sides. Then roll the pittha into a long, cylindrical shape. Repeat the procedure for all the pittha with rest of dough.
3. Boil half liter of water. To the boiling water on high flame, add the above made pittha. Cook for 7 minutes on medium flame. Strain water and keep the pittha aside.
4. Boil milk in a thick pan with rest of sugar till milk becomes half its original quantity on medium flame. Add the boiled pittha to it. Cook on medium flame for 5 minutes. Put off the flame. Refrigerate and serve chilled.