Yellow raisins

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Yellow raisins (மஞ்சள் உலர் திராட்சை) – plump, golden and mildly sweet, the lighter, more delicate cousin of black raisins. These are dried from green grapes and keep a pale golden colour and a soft, juicy texture. The flavour is gentler and cleaner than black raisins, with none of their tannic depth, which is exactly why they are preferred where the raisin should not overpower anything around it. This is the raisin for sweets and baking. Fried in ghee, they are the classic garnish for payasam, kesari, sakkarai pongal and semiya. They stud biryani and ghee rice. In baking they go into cakes, cookies, breads and granola, and they are the standard raisin in a child's lunchbox or a bowl of curd rice. Yellow raisins provide natural sugars, dietary fibre, potassium and antioxidants, and make a practical quick-energy snack. Keep them airtight and out of direct heat. Chennai's humidity tends to make raisins clump; separating them by hand and storing with the container properly sealed is usually all that is needed, and a short warm-water soak revives any that have dried. Order online or over WhatsApp, with cash on delivery available.