Friday, November 1, 2013

South Indian Mixture

Prepare Time           10 min
cook Time               20 min

Ingredients

South Indian Mixture

Gram flour(Besan)                 4 cups
Rice Flour                             1 cup
Chili Powder                           3 tsp.
Asafetida (Hing)                    1tsp 
Aval (Puffed Rice)                 2 cups 
Pori Kadalai(Chutney Gram)  one and half cups
Curry Leaves                              few
Butter                                     half stick
Groundnut                              half kg
Cashew Nuts                        quarter cup
Salt to Taste
Oil to fry

Method

Mix besan, salt, chili powder, Hing and melted butter. 
Make a thick smooth dough by adding water as necessary . 
Heat a pan with oil. Take a handful dough place in a sev mold and press carefully over the hot oil . 
Turn and fry the sev until golden and crisp. 
Drain on paper towel. 
Do this till the dough finishes.
Fry the puffed rice(take it out immediately when it becomes fried) porikadalai, groundnuts , cashew nuts and curry leaves in the oil and add to the sev. 
Mix well by adding 1 more spoon chili powder, little salt and Hing.

Diwali Recipes

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Halwa

Ingredients 

All purpose flour (Maida)                 1cup
Sugar                                              11/2 cup
Ghee                                              1/2 cup
Kesari Powder                                1 pinch       
Cashew nuts                                   6
Cardamom Powder                        1/2 tsp           
Method

Add 1cup water with the maida, kesari powder to make a thin batter.
There should be no lumps.
Boil in a low flame till it becomes thick.
Add ghee slowly till it leaves from all the sides.
Add roasted cashew nuts and cardamom powder.
Mix it well and put it in the greased plate.
When it cools cut into squares.