DEVAKOTTAI SAMAYAL ARAI

This is yet another healthy dish. Everybody likes pongal. But, instead of rice and making pongal, I am going to now tell you how to prepare pongal with wheat rava. You will need : Wheat Rava - 1 1/4 cup Yellow Moong Dal (paasi paruppu) - 1/2 cup Ghee - 1 tbsp (optional) Oil - 2 tbsp Pepper corns - 8 - 10 (crushed) Ginger grated / crushed - 1 tbsp Cumin seeds ( jeera) - 1 tbsp Curry Leaves - few Green chillies - 2 small (chopped) Onion finely chopped (optional) Water - 3 cups Salt - as per taste 1. First wash the moong dal and add 1 cup of water and pressure cook. Keep aside. 2. Then in a pan, heat the oil and put the cumin seeds, curry leaves and crushed pepper. 3. Add the grated ginger and chopped onion(if you are using chopped onion) and saute it. 4. Now add salt, the cooked dal and the 3 cups of water and let it come to a boil. 5. Now add the wheat rava and keep stirring to avoid any lumps. First, it will be watery then it will     start thickening.

Happy Diwali to all of my viewers!!! Ungal anaivarukkum enadhu deepavali kann virundhu

Kambu Maavurundai / Bajra Flour Laddoo / Pearl Millet Flour candy balls Here is another recipe for this festive season... Ingredients required: Kambu Maavu - 1/2 cup Naattu sarkarai {Light Brown Sugar} - 1/2 cup Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp Warm Ghee - 3 tbsp Cashew nuts - 3 or 4 broken into pieces and fried in ghee Heat 1/4 tsp ghee in a pan and roast the pearl millet flour for 2 minutes. Keep the flame in sim and add the brown sugar and cardamom powder and mix well. Now add the ghee and nuts and mix well. Switch off the stove. Transfer the contents to a bowl and leave for 2 minutes. When the mixture has cooled down a little bit, take little mixture in your hands and make balls. Healthy snack for everyone is ready ....

Hi viewers I am very happy to post this blog after a very long time. I have chose my "ingredient" for this year's Diwali , to make sweet and snack. I am going to post atleast 2 sweet recipes made with Kambu Maavu / Pearl Millet Flour / Bajra Aatta. There are different types of millet such as Pearl Millet, Foxtail Millet, Finger Millet, Kodo Millet , Barnyard Millet and a few more... Pearl Millet is good source of fiber, calcium and protein. Let us see what ingredients we need to make kambu alwa Kambu maavu - 1/2 cup Sugar - 3/4 cup Water - 2 tbsp Cardamom Powder - 1/2 tsp Yellow food colour - 2 drops Ghee {clarified butter}- 2 tbsp Heat 1/4 tsp ghee in a pan and fry the millet flour for 2 minutes. Then transfer it to a bowl and keep aside. Now in the same pan, put the sugar and add 2 tbsp of water and stir well and make a sugar syrup with 1 string consistency. Now, add the cardamom powder, food color and mix well. Now mix the flour little by