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100% Kitchen-Made
Ariselu is a deep-fried Telugu sweet made for Sankranti and Ugadi. Soaked raw rice is ground to a fine dough, kneaded with thick jaggery syrup and cardamom, shaped into rounds, pressed with sesame seeds on both sides, and deep-fried in pure cow’s ghee until dark golden. Dense, chewy at the centre, crispy at the edge.
We mill our own rice flour to ensure it is ultra-fine and free of grit. This freshness preserves the natural sweetness of the rice grain, which is essential for traditional sweets like Ariselu, preventing them from turning hard or brittle.
We use the dark, chemical-free blocks. This jaggery has high molasses content, giving sweets like Ariselu and Bellam Gavvalu a deep brown color and a caramel-like flavor profile that refined sugar cannot match.
We use unpolished black sesame seeds. The husk (skin) contains the maximum flavor and calcium. In Nuvvula Podi, the slight bitterness of the skin balances the sweetness of the jaggery.
