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Hope you all have enjoyed Pongal (The Harvest Festival). This year we celebrated our Pongal with our friends. I am very happy to celebrate this month with sugarcane which i got in Grandmart. Here is how I will make Sweet / Sarkarai Pongal. I did celebrate Harvest festival of America (Thanks giving too) this year. That day we had Turkey feast.
Sweet/Sarkarai pongal is in bowl
Ingredients
1. Raw rice – 1cup
2. Moong dhal - 1/2 cup
3. Vellam /jaggery (powder it) – 1 cup
4. Cashewnuts as needed (atleast 2 tsp)
5. Ghee/oil – 5 tsp
6. Dry grapes/Raisins – 10
Preparation
1. Cook rice and dhal together in pressure cooker with 4 cups of water atleast for 5 whistles.
2. When it is done leave for 5 mins till steam goes away. In the mean time break the japery in to fine pieces and then make it as fine powder
3. Open the Pressure cooker when it cooled completely.Add the powdered jaggery into it. Switch on the gas stove keep in low flame for 5 mins . Stir well so that jagerry gets mixed well.
4. Heat ghee in kadai and fry cashewnuts and dry grapes/Raisins and add to Pongal.
5. Now your Pongal is ready for serving.
TIPS
If you don’t have jaggery then try this with Brown sugar. In that case no need to melt sugar directly you can add the powder into the cooked rice.
If it is hard to break jaggery then just in a bowl keep that in microwave. It will get melted.
If you don’t have microwave then heat 1/4 cup of water and put jaggery and melt it. If you are adding melted jaggery make sure the cooked rice and dhal should be hard otherwise pongal will be in little bit watery consistency.
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I have read carrot halwa recipe in so many places and tried out all. Among all this recipe is my favourite and is really good. Now I am following only this way to make carrot halwa.
Ingredients
1. Carrots – 1 lb
2. Milk – 1 cup
3. Sugar – 1 cup
4. Ghee – 3 tsp
5. Cashew nuts for garnishing
6. Raisins(Dry grapes/ munthiri) for garnishing
Preparation
1. Peel the carrots and grate them.
2. Soak the grated carrots in the milk and pressure cook.
3. Heat sugar and ghee in a non stick pan.
4. Add the pressure cooked carrots and milk. Stir well.
5. Keep the lid closed in between stirrings, as there maybe some splashes, when the milk and ghee boil together.
6. When the milk condenses and the halwa begins to thicken, remove from flame.
7. Garnish with cashews and raisins roasted in ghee.
Alternate method
1. Chop carrots into small cubes and pressure cook in milk.
2. Grind this pressure cooked carrots(with milk) into a smooth paste.
3. Proceed like the first method from step 3 onwards.
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This is second christmas for us in US. I thought of celebrating it with my Friend Virusali’s family. We both planned to bake cake for christmas and cutting it. Since because our kids are not well we couldn’t make it. In the afternoon It was raining and boring. We were not able to go out also. So, I thought of making/baking cake. Long back I saw this recipe in Sudha’s blog she used electric mixers,proper baking pans etc. I took only the ingredients from her and made in my own style. We cutted the cake and celebrated the christmas. My Kid was the first to taste my first cake and she liked a lot.
Ingredients
1. All purpose flour – 2 cups
2. Baking powder – 2tsp
3. Salt – 1/2 tsp
4. Unsalted Butter,Softened – 1 stick(1/2 cup) (or buttery taste)
5. Sugar – 1 cup
6. Large Eggs – 3 large
7. Whole Milk – 3/4 cup
Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. In a big bowl mix flour, baking powder, and salt.
3. Beat butter , sugar ,eggs and milk in Mixi until all gets mixed well.
4. Pour this into Bowl in which you have mixed flour.
5. Mix the batter well by stirring atleast for 5 mins until it becomes soft with out any unmixed flour bubbles.
6. Coat aluminium foil trays (or baking pans) with butter and put two spoons of flour and make thin coating above butter coating
7. Then spread the batter evenly in pan and bake the cake in middle of oven for about 20 to 25 minutes.
8. Cool for 5mins and then take the cake out.
TIPS
Chocolate cake
If you like chocolate cake then melt some chocolates which is your favourite and add to to above cake batter and mix throughly and then bake as told.
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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 live close by came to my house and I gave them 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. 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 dry grapes. Sprinkle hot milkand make ladoo’s.
Tips
Make Fresh Eat fresh. Don’t keep it for days it may harden.