Preparation time: 2 hours
Cooking time: 15 min
Serves: 4

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1 cup rice or rice flour
2. 2 cup chopped jackfruit
3. 1/2 cup jaggery (adjust as per your taste)
4. 1/2 cup grated coconut
5. Oil for deep frying
6. A big pinch of salt (or as per your taste)

Instructions for making halasina hannu mulka or jackfruit fritters:

1. Rinse and soak the rice for 2 hours. You can use rice flour instead of rice and add it directly. But I prefer soaked rice as it gives good texture and taste.
2. Cut the jackfruit, deseed and discard the unwanted portions. You can chop jackfruit for easy grinding.
3. After soaking the rice drain the water completely. Then take soaked rice, jackfruit, grated coconut and jaggery as per measurement.
4. Chop the jackfruit into pieces. Please note this step is optional but chopping jackfruit helps in grinding process.
5. Now grind everything together until smooth. Use grinding stone or mixer grinder and grind without adding any water. If you find it very hard to grind, then add 1 or 2 table spoons of water. Make sure that the batter is having thick dropping consisteny to avoid sucking more oil while deep frying. If you feel the batter is very thin, then add in few table spoons of rava or rice flour to adjust the consistency.
6. Or if you want to use rice flour instead of soaked rice, then grind jackfruit, grated coconut and jaggery until smooth. After grinding add in required rice flour and mix well such that there are no lumps. If any lumps left out mulka or appa might burst in the hot oil.
7. Next heat oil in a deep frying pan. When the oil is hot scoop out the batter and drop in the hot oil.
8. Flip and fry them under medium flame.
9. Fry until golden brown or until the bubbles are stopped. Take them out. Enjoy either hot or cold. Tastes too good.

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