Recipe: Delicious Dhanu Muan

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Recipe: Delicious Dhanu Muan Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Dhanu Muan. Dhanu Muan is a crisp ball made of puffed rice and jaggery has a special significance for the Dhanu Sankranti. Dhanu Muan, is a dry delicious sweet made out of puffed rice (called khai/ lia in Odia), ghee, cashew nuts, coconut slices, cardamom (elichi), cinnamon (dalchini) & sugar. It resembles nutri-grain bars in its texture.

Dhanu Muan, is a dry delicious sweet made out of puffed rice, ghee, cashew nuts, coconut slices, cardamom (Elichi), cinnamon (Dalchini) & sugar.

It resembles Nutri-grain bars in its texture.

PS: Dhanu Muan is not listed under banned products listed by Govt. of India.

You can have Dhanu Muan using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Dhanu Muan

  1. Prepare 250 gm of Fried paddy (khai / lia).

  2. It’s 400 gm of jaggery (gud).

  3. Prepare 1 tsp of carom seeds.

  4. You need 1/2 cup of dry coconut chopped.

  5. Prepare 2 tsp of ghee.

  6. It’s 1 of tray or a cake baking tin.

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Devotees take a sacred bath in the rivers such as Ganga, Yamuna, and the Godavari.

In Odisha, the month of Pausha is considered the month of plenty.

After the harvesting season, a grand celebration is organized.

Dhanu Muan step by step

  1. Heat a heavy base bottom pan and add jaggery.

  2. When jaggery melt then add coconut, carom seeds and peanuts.

  3. Stir continuously on medium flame till consistent caramelized syrup is formed.

  4. Add fried paddy and ghee mix thoroughly, switch off burner,.

  5. Now transfer the items to a greased cake baking tin, lets cool down and demold from the tin and enjoy,.

  6. It tastes great when it is in room temperature, it can be also stored in a container in room temperature for 10 to 15 days.

This item is made from the grains of the most recent. "Dhanu Muan." Crisp triangular sweet made of puffed rice and jaggery, popularly known as 'muan'.

It's auspicious to prepare 'muan' between 'Dhanu Sankranti' and 'Makar Sankranti'.

Dhanu Sankranti is celebrated in the lunar month of Pousha.

The month of Pousha is considered the month of plenty.

Dhanu Sankranti is celebrated with utmost fervor in Odisha.