Rava Ladu (Semolina Ladu)

Sweet 

Rava Ladu.This sweet is very easy to prepare with less ghee.

Rava Ladu

Ingredients

Rava.................... 2 cups
Sugar...................2 cups
Ghee....................1/2 cup
Grated Coconuts.....1/2 cup
Cardamom powder...1 tsp
Cashew nuts............7
 

Method 


Heat a tava with ghee and roast the rava(semolina),till it gives out aroma. 
Add the coconut and roast 10 more minutes. 
Mix sugar and 1 cup water and boil it, till it becomes one string consistency. 
Add the rava, coconut mixture into it and heat for 5 more minutes and turn the heat off. 
Stir it nicely. After 20 to 30 minutes it becomes thick and add cardamom powder and nuts, make the ladus.

Thirattipal (Palkova)

Thiratti pal(Palkova)

Palkova(Thirattipal) 

Ingredients 

Condensed Milk .......... 1 tin
Yogurt............................3tsp
Ghee................................1tsp 

Method 

Mix everything in a microwave bowl.
Keep this in microwave for five minutes.
Take it out, mix and again keep for three more minutes. 
Keep an eye on the mixture.
Remove, add the ghee and stir it. 
Keep three more minutes. When it becomes thick remove it.

Tip

Instead of yogurt use two tsp lemon juice

Measurements for making sweets

Measurements

Halwa.... ........................1cup flour.....3 cups sugar

Mysore Pak................. 1 cup besan..... two and half cups sugar

Burfi................................1 cup coconut.... 1 cup sugar

Maida cake.....................1 cup maida.....2 cups sugar

Laddu..............................1 cup besan....2 cups sugar

Palgova...........................1 litre milk...... 250gms sugar

When you make meduvada mix boiled potato withthe dal dough.Vada will be very crispy

Instant Halwa

Instant Halwa 

Ingredients 

Wheat flour...........1cup 

Sugar......................1 and 3/4 cup 

Badam(Soaked)....20 

Ghee.......................3/4 cup 

Cashew nuts and raisins few 

Method 

Grind the soaked badam with half cup of milk into fine paste.

Heat a pan with ghee,fry the flour till its raw smell goes away.

Heat another pan with little milk and sugar.

Add the badam paste Stir it nicely till it becomes a thick paste (the ghee slowly comes out of it). 

Lastly decorate with the roasted cashews and raisins.

Elai Adai with Chakkavaratti

 Elai Adai  with Chakkavaratti

 

This recipe is from Kerala. Jack fruit season we make the jack fruit jam (chakkavaratti) and keep for months..
When want to make adai, add coconut and make it. Very tasty food.

Ingredients

• Jack Fruit Jam (Chakkavaratti)...1cup
• Rice........................................1cup
• Banana Leaves.........................4 pieces.
• (one 8" by8" for one Adai)
• Grated Coconut.......................half cup
• Oil .........................................2tsp

Method

• Wash the rice and grind it with salt and water into spreading consistency.
• Steam slowly the banana leaves to make it tender to fold the adai.
• Heat a pan with jack fruit jam coconut to make it loose filling.
• This filling can be refrigerated for a month.
• Apply oil on the leaf and spread the rice dough as a thin layer and take 2 tsp of filling
• on the dough only half the portion.
• Then fold it into half, seal the edges and steam them for 20 to 25 minutes.
• Remove from the leaf.
• Enjoy the tasty elai adai.

Puran Poli(Sweet)

Ingredients

• Maida....................2 cups
• Chana Dhal...........1cup
• Sugar.....................1cup  
• Ghee......................2tbsp 
• Kesari Powder...... 1pinch
• Oil..........................half cup 
• Cardamom.............1/2 tsp
• Rice Flour............. 3tbsp

Method  

• Wash the chana dhal and boil it..
• When it is cooked remove the water then add the sugar , cardamom powder and .grind it in to a fine paste. 
• If it is liquid keep in microwave for 3 to 4 minutes and remove.  
• Mix maida, turmeric powder and salt make a smooth dough adding water. 
• Add the oil and keep for 2 hours.
• Divide the sweet dough into small balls to be stuffed into the dough. 
• Make a small chapathi with the dough keep the sweet filling in the center and seal the roll. 
• Make big thin chapathis with the help of rice flour
• Heat a griddle and cook the poli adding little ghee around the poli. 
• Turn the other side ,adding ghee when it is cooked.

Aval Puttu( Sweet Beaten Rice, Poha Puttu)

Aval puttu( very easy to prepare)
Prepare Time.......5min
Cook time.............10min
Serve.....................6

Aval Puttu

Ingredients

• Aval..........................2cups
• Jaggery.....................1cup
• Cardamom powder...1 pinch
• Coconut flakes...........few
• Ghee.........................1tsp

Method

• Fry the aval for 2 minutes and grind it fine. 
• Sprinkle with little warm water and mix it.
• It should be like rava.Cover and keep it for 5 minutes
• Heat a pan with little water add powdered jaggery and make syrup.
• Test it by dropping in water.It should be thick. 
• Put off the flame and add the aval, cardamom powder and mix it well.
• Fry the coconut flakes in ghee and add to the aval.
• Stir until it solidifies. Keep stirring till the water is absorbed.Puttu is well mixed with jaggery syrup and will appear in powder form.Very tasty aval puttu is ready. You can keep this sweet for more than a week.
  
  

Mysore Pak

Mysore Pak

Ingredients

• Sugar..........................2cups'
• Ghee...........................3cups
• Besan.........................1cup
• Cardamom Powder....1/2 tsp

Method

• Add 2 tbsp hot oil in the basan and nicely mix it.Sieve this into a fine powder
• Heat a pan with 1/2 cup water add the sugar.Stir it 
• Keep the hot ghee in one side.
• When the pagu is in one thread consistency.
• Stir it with one hand. and add the besan flour slowly. in between add the hot ghee. 
• Keep in medium flame. Continue this till the mixture leaves the side of the pan.
• Add cardamom powder..
• Pour this mixture into a greased plate.Cut into pieces.

Coconut Burfi

Coconut Burfi

Coconut Burfi

Ingredients

• Grated Coconut.........2cups
• Sugar.........................1cup
• Ghee............................2tsp

Method

• Heat a pan with coconut , sugar and half cup of water.
• Stir it well and add ghee.
• When the mixture leaves the sides of the pan, pour over a greased plate. 
• Cut into pieces when it cools down. 
• It is very easy to prepare

Rava Kesari (Suji Halwa)

Rava Kesari

Very easy to prepare.

Ingredients

• Rava(Suji).................1 cup
• Sugar.........................3cups
• Ghee..........................3tbsp
• Cashew Nuts.............6
• Cardamom Powder....1/2 tsp
• Kesari Powder.......... 1pinch

Method

• Roast the rava with one tsp ghee till it becomes little red.
• Heat a pan with 2 cups of water. 
• When the water boils, add the rava slowly or(pour the hot water on the rava and keep for 3 minutes) when the rava is fully cooked add the sugar, kesari powder ,cardamom powder and ghee
• Decorate with roasted cashew nuts.