DEVAKOTTAI SAMAYAL ARAI

Dear all,  I am happy to share this recipe with you all. It is one of my son's favorite sweet dish. It takes about an hour to prepare this dish. You can make about 20 pieces with the measurements given below. Condensed milk - 1 can (350 ml) Milk powder  - 1.5 cups Powdered Sugar - 1/2 cup Ghee (clarified butter) - 1/2 cup few strands of saffron soaked in a tbsp of warm milk Pistachios - a few slices (to garnish) [Cashew Powder - 1/4 cup + Powdered sugar - 1/4 cup] keep aside First, sift the milk powder, so you don't have any lumps. In a bowl, add the sifted milk powder, condensed milk and sugar and mix well without any lumps. Heat a pan, pour the mixture and keep mixing continuously. The sugar will start to melt. Keep stirring continuosly, otherwise the mixture will stick to the bottom of the pan and burn.  Keep adding the ghee little by little while cooking. After about 40 - 45 minutes, the mixture will start to rotate with the spatula.  Transfer it to a greased container and

Happy Valentines Day 💕 I am going to share a yummy and air fried snack in the shape of a heart as a valentines day special. It is a very simple and easy to make snack and everyone will love it. Quickly grab the ingredients you need  For the filling : Potato - 2 (boiled, peeled and mashed) Frozen or fresh green peas - 1/4 cup (blanched) Salt - to taste Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp Chilli powder - 3/4 tsp (you can add more if you like spicy food) Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp Dry mango powder - 1/4 tsp Garam masala - 1/4 tsp Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp Onion - 1 medium, finely chopped Coriander leaves finely chopped Cooking oil - 1 tbsp For the dough (outer layer) : All purpose flour (maida) - 1 cup Salt - 1/4 tsp Caraway/Carom seeds (Omam) - 1/4 tsp Water - 1 cup Clarified butter / Nei - 2 tsp Make a soft dough with the ingredients and let it rest for about 10 minutes or until you finish preparing the filling.  In a pan, heat 1 tbsp oil, add the chopped onion and saute till they turn pink. Now add

Happy Diwali to all my readers! I am going to share the recipe for a soft and juicy Badhusha. Unlike my other Badhusha recipe, I have used baking soda and baking powder in this one asking with butter and water.  Your will need the following ingredients (Makes about 15 pieces) For the dough: All purpose flour / Maida  1 1/2 cups (sifted) Butter 1/4 cup melted Water 3/4 cup (at room temperature) Baking soda 1/4 tsp Baking powder 1/2 tsp For the sugar syrup: Sugar 1 1/2 cups Water 1 1/2 cups In a bowl, add the sifted flour, baking soda and baking powder and give it a good mix. Make a well in the middle of the flour and pour the butter and 1/2 cup of water. Now gently mix the flour into this and make a soft dough. Remember that we need a soft dough. We don't have to vigorously mix or knead and make a tight or elastic dough. Use the remaining water as needed, to make the dough. I made a couple of batches, so I had to use 2 different packets of the flour. When I made dough with one packe

Rosemary is an aromatic shrub, which can be grown in your garden. Rosemary  leaves and oil have a lot of medicinal values. To learn more about the health benefits of Rosemary, please follow the link .  I have used fresh rosemary from my garden for this recipe. Rosemary chicken curry is definitely an incredibly flavorsome dish. This recipe will serve two people. Let us quickly grab all the ingredients needed to prepare this dish. Rosemary leaves - 1/4 cup washed Chicken (boneless and skinless) - 3/4 lb, washed and cut into medium sized pieces Onion - 2 large chopped into small pieces Ginger - 1 inch piece chopped into small pieces Tomato - 1 medium chopped into small pieces Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp for seasoning Cooking oil - 2 to 3  tbsp Masala powders    Red chilli powder - 1 tsp Coriander powder - 1 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Salt  - 1 tsp Heat a 1 tsp oil in a pan and saute 1/2 of the  chopped onion, chopped ginger and the rosemary leaves. Cool them down. Now add 1/4 cup water to t

I am happy to share yet another recipe with Pearl Millet. I have used whole pearl millet for this recipe. It is high in fibre and amino acids and is naturally gluten free if consumed as a  whole millet instead of flour. Follow the link to learn more about the goodness of pearl millet.  Let's see how to make the batter for making this idli.  You will need Pearl millet - 1 cup Parboiled rice - 1/2 cup Raw rice / Sonamasoori rice - 1/2 cup Black gram / Urad dal - 1/2 cup Fenugreek / Methi seeds - 1/2 tsp Salt - 1 1/4 tsp Ina a bowl take the millet, rice, dal and methi seeds together, wash 2 to 3 times and soak them in enough water overnight. In the morning, make a thick batter (like idli batter) by grinding it in a wet grinder. Add the salt and mix well and let it ferment for 10 to 12 hours.  In the picture below, you can see the tiny bubbles in the batter, which means that the batter has fermented.  Now, heat a pan and pour a laddle of batter and spread it out, like in the picture b

This year's Diwali special sweet is here.. I have used Lotus seeds in this recipe, which is high in protein and fibre. If you want to know more about the health benefits of these lotus seeds, please click on the ncbi link  .  For this recipe, you will need the following ingredients 1/2 cup lotus seeds 4 cups - whole milk/ milk of your choice 1 cup - water 3/4 cup - sugar 5 to 10 - saffron strands cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp ghee - 2 tbsp 2 thsp - freshly ground almond powder (just powder unroasted 7 to 8 almonds with skin) a few almonds, cashew nuts and golden raisins Heat ghee in a deep pan, and fry the nuts and keep them aside. In the same ghee, fry the lotus seeds in low flame, until they turn crunchy. You should be able to crush them between your fingers, then it is done. This may take about 10 minutes.  Now, take a few of the roasted seeds and keep them aside. We will use it later in the recipe. Now, add 1 cup of water and 1 cup of milk and let it cook until the seeds are soft a

  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 stirring, oth

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