Mini Kaajaalu

Ingredients :

• All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1cup
• Butter -2tsp
• Salt  a pinch
• Water as required
• Oil or Ghee for deep frying
• Butter mixed with rice flour to grease

Ingredients  For  Sugar Syrup

• Sugar- 1cup
• Water-1/2cup

   Preparation:

• In a bowl, take the flour along with butter, salt and mix well.
• Add water ,knead well.
• Rest the dough for 10 minutes placing it in a ziploc cover.
• Later divide in to two portions of balls.
• Dust well and roll in to a big size circle.
• Apply butter on one end of the top,tightly roll inwards like a tight rope.
• Now cut in to small pieces.
• Press slightly with a rolling pin,to see the layers.
• Heat pan with oil and deep fry in low flame
• Cook the kajaas in all sides..

Sugar Syrup:

• In a nonstick pan, take the sugar along with water. Melt the sugar and make a thin syrup.
• Now drop the kaajaas into this sugar syrup & let it sit for 10 minutes .
• Yummy & Tasty Mini Kaajaalu are ready for your family for the Diwali.

Diwali Wishes

Long live the tradition of Hindu Culture and as the generations have passed by Hindu culture is getting stronger & stronger lets keep it up &celebrate this Diwali  be as bright as ever.

Peanut Balls ~ Groundnut Balls

This is a very popular snack item sold as "Pappundalu" (Telugu) in small shops near by schools and Sweet shops too and everyone can bring back Childhood memories.I enjoyed this when I was studying in school & having this snack item at my break time (Interval) in the school.Even ate a lot during Pregnant time at my Mom's Place.This cost was one rupee In India when I was studying.Kids like this very much and  also easy for Mommies to make this snack for anytime for the kids running around Crazy.So friends ,again to remember and eat this groundnut balls,I tried for my kid for this Diwali.Being Mom,how my Mom made delicious sweets for all the Festivals ,I am following her steps in cooking and feeling happy to make for my kid.Here goes my recipe.

Ingredients:

• Roasted Peanuts-1cup
• Jaggery-1cup
• Elachipowder-a pinch (optional)
• Ghee-3to 4 tbsp
• Water -little if needed

Method:

• Dry roast the peanuts in a pan,till they are wel cooked.You can know they are done when the outer skin starts having black spots.The technique lies in rotating the peanuts well and not allowing them to rest on the hot kadai / pan.This way they get cooked by the heat at the same time not get burnt.
• Cool Peanuts & remove the skin.
• Now take a vessel and heat with ghee,add the grated jaggery and little water and make a syrup.
• Add Elachipowder and roasted nuts .
• Mix them all well .
• Make a small size balls when the mixture is warm.
• Cool it and store in a Air-tightcontainer or in a glass Jar with Lid.

Tip:

• You can follow to cook the same procees with Sugar syrup instead of Jaggery.
• Shift the mixture in the plate rubbing with ghee and can cut in to small pieces also.
• The same balls can be made with senagapappu/Chick peas,Cashewnuts also of ur own choice of Syrup either with sugar or Jaggery.

Rice Murukku ~ Chakli / Wheel Shaped Riceflour Crispies

Murukku is an easy to make snack item & also known as Chakli.This is a South Indian Deepavali / Diwali delicacy.But savoured in all times as a Snack due to its excellent flavour and crispy taste.When any Festivals are coming in India,Women in the Indian households prepare sweet as well as spicy delicacies.Family members & relatives ,friends who arrive for the festival savor on the lip-smacking recipes prepared for the day.The dish is  easily prepared with the Rice rice as the main ingredient.Follow the lines provided to make an easy Rice Murukku and Enjoy the Crispy & Tasty Rice Murukku .Everyone at your home will love it.

Ingredients:

• Rice flour-2cups
• Uraddal-1/2cup
• Butter-5tsp
• Cuminseeds-1tsp
• White Sesame seeds-1tsp
• Asafoetida/Hing-1 pinch
• Water -2cups for mixing
• Oil for deep frying

Apparatus:

• Chakli/Murukku mould-Single star shaped
• Flat plates covered with Saran Wrap or Plastic sheets

Method:

• In a heavy bottomed pan,fry Urad dal till light brown and let it cool.
• Grind it in to a fine powder.
• Now roast riceflour and Urad flour separately without oil for about 10 minutes until warm.Then,let it cool.
• To this flours ,Melt the butter and add it to the dry ingredients and mix well with Sesame & Cumin.
• Boil 2cups of water with Hing & Salt and keep aside.
• Mix water little by little to form a manageable dough without lumps (Consistency of a Chapathi dough)&(Make sure it has the right consistency to pass through the Murukku Pressure)
• In a Frying pan,pour oil and heat it.Test how hot it is by dropping a pinch of dough into it.If it sinks the oil hasn't become hot enough.If the dough springs to the top ,with bubbles all around it ,then the oil is just ready.
• Fill the Murukku mould with the dough and press in to Murukku shape on a flatplate/plastic sheets.
• Slide the Murukkus and deep fry it in  hot oil.
• When the bubbling reduces around the murukkus ,it's an indication that it is well cooked.
• Prepare the rest of the Murukkus with the remained dough.
• Remove,Drain on a paper towel.When cool store in air-tight container & Lasts up to 4weeks.

Tip:

• Let Murukkus to get Cool completely & Store in the Air-Tight Conatiner.

       

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Carrot,Coconut,Sooji Kesari ~ Carrot Coco Candy

Hi Friends,this sweet item is very delicious and the kids can complete as soon as you offer them.Actually we prepare normal Ravva Kesari by adding Sugar,Sooji & Sugar with Some Food color.In this recipe no need of adding food color and can gets easily by the Carrot.My kid completed it very soon.Its preparation takes almost about 15 minutes and simple.Mixing of all the grated ingredients& Sooji; and shifting in to the sugar syrup is the main process.I came to know about this recipe from my "Pinni " (My Mom's Sister ) From Guntur  who stays in India.In my recent talks with her in Phone,she expalined this simple making of Sweet for Diwali Festival & for Kids too.Today I tried and turned very well,made me mouthwatering while stirring the recipe & posting it for all of you for the Up Coming "Diwali "Festival .So,hurry  up friends to your Kitchen room those who like to follow my recipe and taste.

Ingredients:

• Carrot- 1cup grated
• Coconut- 1cup grated (From fresh ground coconut)
• Sooji/Bombay ravva-1 cup
• Ghee-4tbsp
• Almonds-few
• Cashews-few
• Raisins-few
• Elachipowder-1/2tsp
• Sugar-1/2cup or more for sweetness
• Water 1cup

Method:

• Take a pan ,add 1tbsp of Ghee and roast all the nuts & raisins and keep it aside.
• Now in the same pan,keep the gas in low flame,roast the Sooji ,Grated Carrot & Coconut individually one after the other applying 1tbsp of Ghee each time while roasting and keep all this a side.
• Take a Vessel ,add Sugar and water and let it boil ,till it turns like a sugar syrup..Boil it under a lowflame.
• Add Elachi powder and stir it.
• Now add all the roasted ingredients to the boiling sugar syrup and stir well.
• All the ingredients comes closer like Upma or Ravva Kesari.
• During this stage ,you can add little ghee and stir it.
• Add all the nuts.
• Shift them in to a bowl or serving plate and let it cool.
• Once the mixture gets cooled,make a small size balls and stick it to the Icecream sticks and the Carrot Candies are ready for the Kids.
• Simple delicious Carrot Candies & Halwa is ready!!

Tip:

• Once the mixture gets cooled,store it in a refrigerator and can have for a couple of days.
• Enjoy the taste when it is hot & cold.

       If you have liked & tried this Recipe,Let to know others through your valuable Comments.


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