DEVAKOTTAI SAMAYAL ARAI

  Today, I am going to share the recipe for a yummy dessert, which is one of my favorites. It's richness and flavor will want you to have more and more!! The following measurements makes 16 cups of payasam/ pudding Almonds - 20 ; Soak these almonds in water overnight Sona Masoori rice - 1/4 cup; Soak in water overnight Water - 2 cups Milk - 8 cups ( I used whole milk, you can use any milk of your choice) Saffron / Kesar - Soak a few strands in 1 cup of warm milk and keep a few strands aside, to garnish  Sugar - 1 1/2 cups or as per your taste First remove the skin from the almonds and roughly chop into pieces. Then in a blender, add the chopped almonds, soaked rice and the saffron milk and grind to a fine paste. Now in a saucepan, add 2 cups of water and the almond-rice paste and mix well. Then switch on the stove and let it boil for 5 minutes. Keep stirring continuously.  Once the rice and almond paste has cooked, add the 7 cups of milk. Let it boil on low heat, keep sti...

Today, I am here with yet another recipe for healthy finger millet idli . In this recipe, I have substituted Idli rice completely with Brown Rice and Finger Millet Flour / Ragi flour. You won't believe me!! It was delicious. You would have prepared dishes like Ragi Modhe, or popularly know as kalli, and also maybe you have prepared Ragi Roti. But this is a new recipe with a combination of ragi/ finger millet flour and brown rice.  We will need the following ingredients to prepare this healthy idli. Ragi flour - 1 cup Brown rice - 1 cup Urad dal - 1/4 cup Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp Salt - 2 1/4 tsp Rinse the urad dal and add fenugreek seeds and soak in water separately. Then in another bowl, take the rice, rinse and soak separately. You have to soak these for atleast 4 to 6 hours. If you want, you can also soak the fenugreek seeds in a small bowl, in warm water. Then in a wet grinder or a mixer, grind the urad dal separately and take it in a bowl. Then grind the brown rice in the gri...

I am planning to post some breakfast recipes using millets. Today I am going to share the recipe to make Saamai / Little Millet Idli and Dosa. It is always better to substitute a portion of the rice in a recipe with some millet. That is how I have substituted little millet in my ususal idli recipe You will need  Idli rice / Parboiled rice - 1 cup Litlle millet - 1 cup (I have used parboiled little millets, you can use either parboiled or polished millets as per your choice) Urad dal - 1/2 cup Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp Salt - 1 1/4 tsp (the calculation is 1/2 tsp for 1 cup of grain) Water - to soak the ingredients Idli cooker or any stainless steel cups to steam Take a bowl add the idli rice,urad dal and the little millet and rinse 2 to 3 times and add the fenugreek seeds and soak in water. I soaked them and kept it in the refrigerator overnight. In the morning, grind everything together like you would for idli batter. Add salt and mix well before fermenting.  Allow it to ferme...