Opputu which is also known as Poli among many people is like a different kind of stuffed sweet chappathi made of maida /all purpose flour.
Like stuffed chappathi
flatten using hand
Ingredients
1. Channa dal – 200g
2. Jaggery – 1 cup (Powder it and keep)
3. Maida/All purpose flour – 2 cups
4. Oil and Salt as needed
Preparation
1. Pressure cook Dal for 4 to 5 whistels. Dal has to be well cooked.
2. When cooker is cool open and drain the water from dal. Switch on the stove again and add jaggery. Mix and mash well with spoon .
Alternate: If you are not able to mash well grind it and keep but remember that it should not be watery. If it is watery make it thick by heating and stirring in low heat for a little while.
3. Add a pinch of salt to maida and knead it smoothly.
4. Make gooseberry sized balls with dough and roll that into chappathi keep the stuffing inside again fully close it and roll it again into chappthi . To get idea idea see stuffed chappathi
Alternate: Make a chappathi with dough. Keep enough stuffing inside.Close it by pulling the edges together and press it with hand /palm to make it flat.
5. Heat a griddle, put the poli and add ghee or oil and cook both sides.
TIPS
If you feel bored to cook dal or you want poli in a different way, then fry shredded coconut (what you will get in Indian stores) and jaggery together but sprinkling few drops of water and use that as stuffing.
Just to share with you…
This is one of the traditional sweets of Tamil Nadu. Especially in south Indian villages almost every one will know how to make it. Its very simple and easy to make. I heard through my granny that in their days when they visit some body’s place they used to make sweets like rava ladoo,adirasam ,ladoo etc,
Ingredients
1. Rava – 1 cup
2. Powdered Sugar – 1 cup
3. Ghee- 1/4 cup
4. Cashews – less than 1/4 cup
5. Raisins – less than 1/4 cup
6. Cardamom 1-2
7. Milk -50ml
Preparation
1. Dry roast rava for a few minutes till the flavour comes out.
2. Mix this rava with powdered sugar.
3. Fry cashews in ghee and mix it with the above.
4. Peel cardamom skin, and pound it well and add it to the above mixture
5. Sprinkle little milk as needed and make small balls.
Recently I came accross this recipe when I was browsing something.I thought of trying it yesterday. So I made javarusi ladoo /sabodhana ladoo yesterday. My friend along with her hubby who are near by came to my house and I gavethem javarusi ladoo and asked them what it was? They told taste and smell is very good . They were not able to found out what it is. You also try it out and tell me how it is.
SABHUDHANA/SAGO/JAVVARUSI LADOO
Ingredients
1.Sabudhana / Javvarusi / Sago – 1 cup
2.Sugar -1 cup
3.Cashewnuts – 10
4. dry grapes -10
5. Milk – 25 ml
6. Ghee -2 tsps
Preparation
1. Fry/Roast Sago in a dry kadai for 5 to 10 mins in medium flame
2. Grind it into fine powder and sieve it to remove if big particles are there.
3. Roast Cashewnuts and dry grapes in ghee.
4. Add sago powder,sugar,cashewnuts and grapes.Sprinkle hot milkand make ladoo’s.
Tips
Make Fresh Eat fresh.Don’t keep it for days it may harden.
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I am from south India, Tamil Nadu. Itz our tradition to give guests the sweets first when they are coming for the first time.So when I have no sweets at home I used to make Kesari since it is a easy-to-make recipe.Kesari is an easily made, low cost, delicious dessert and made generally in every homes of South India for any small occasion.Make this recipe and treat your guest with mouth watering dessert.During my childhood birthday’s, along with cake my mum used to make Kesari.I used to wear new dress (especially I like pattu/Silk skirts) and carry chocolates,Cakes and kesari to my neighbour’s palces.I used to get pinches and kisses back.
Ingredients:
1. Rava – 1 cup (roasted in a tsp of ghee)
2. Sugar – 3/4 – 1 cup (deponding upon how much sweetness you like)
3. Cashwenuts,Dry grapes – as needed
4. Ghee – as needed
5. Little color powder
6. Water – 3 cups
Preparation:
1. Pour 3 cups of water in thick bottom pan
2. Add a pinch of Kesari color powder
3. When water boils start adding rava by stirring continuously.
4.Once rava gets cooked add sugar.
5. When it is cooked add ghee and stirr continuously in low flame till ghee seperates on top.
6. Roast Cashnewnuts,drygrapes (raisins) in another pan and add to rava mixture.
7. Serve hot
TIPS
If you don’t have Rava try with Vermicelli.Super dooper Semiya/Vermicelli Kesari is ready. You can aslo use Milk instead of water.
Just to share with you…..
This is ladoo is different from the one which I posted before. This is have come across while browsing. Since it seems simple I tried it and it come out good too.So I am sharing this simple recipe with you.
Ingredients
1. Aval – 1cup
2. Sugar -1/4 cup
3. Cardamom -3
4. Cashewnuts- 10 to 15
5. Dry grated coconut – 2 tsp
6. Hot melted ghee – 7 to 8 tsp
Preparation
1. Roast Aval in dry tava.Don’t burn it.
2. Dry grind all the ingredients except ghee along with roasted Rava.(don’t add water )
3. To the dry grinded mixture add hot ghee as necessary and make ladoo’s.
