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This sweet dish is simple and easy to make with ingredients which are all time available. I had very less time early this morning to make some sweet on my wedding anniversary. So, I chose kesari , which took only 10 minutes to prepare. Let's see how to prepare kesari. Ingredients needed : Sooji (Rava)- 1 cup Sugar - 3/4 cup or 1 cup Water - 2 1/2 cups Ghee  - 2 tbsp Cashew nuts and raisins - 2 tbsp Cardamom Powder - 1/2 tsp Yellow food colour - 3 drops (you can also choose orange colour) In a thick bottomed pan , heat 1 tbsp ghee and first roast the nuts and raisins and  keep it separately. Simultaneoulsy ,boil the water in a pan . Now add the rava in the same kadai and keep roasting it in low flame, until you get a good smell . Then pour the boiling water into the roasted rava and keep stirring continuously so that lumps do not form. Once the rava is cooked, and becomes thick, add the sugar and keep stirring. The mixture will become watery again ...

These yummy shortbread cookies are kids favourite. Let us see how to bake them. You will need : Makes approx. 50 1 1/2 inch cookies 2 cups - All Purpose Flour 1 cup -  Sugar 1 cup - Unsalted butter (2 sticks) at room temperature 1 tsp  - Vanilla extract 1 pinch - salt How to bake : (Pre-heat the oven to 295 degrees F) 1. In a large bowl, add butter, sugar and vanilla extract and mix and     cream them well on low speed .     If you are using a laddle or a fork, keep mixing continuously until     the mixture becomes creamy. 2. Now mix in the flour and salt and mix until it gets combined well. 3. Wrap this dough in a plastic wrap  and chill it in the fridge until firm     (approx. 2 hours) 4. On a lightly floured surface roll the dough until it is 1 inch thick . 5. Now use different shapes of cookie cutters and cut out the dough. 6. Transfer the cut dough car...

Rava Panniyaram (Semolina Fritters) This is an authentic dish from Chettinaad Cuisine. It is a sweet dish and can be prepared very easily. Everybody will have Semolina and Sugar at home all the time. So, we need not worry if we have a sudden guest and you want to offer them something sweet. Ingredients needed : Semolina (rava) - 1cup Sugar - 3/4 cup Method of Preparation : 1. Soak the rava in little waterjust enough to wet the rava for 10 minutes. 2. Now transfer this into the blender and add the sugar. 3. Nicely blend it until it forms a batter. It will take just 2 minutes. 4. Do not add water to grind. Since you add sugar, it will blend with the rava     well and form a batter. 5. Now, heat oil in a pan for deep frying. 6. Pour one laddle of batter into the oil and keep splashing oil on it until it     bulges and then turn it over and take it out immediately. *  You can make only one panniyaram at a time . *...

Dear viewers Happy Tamil New Year to all ! Let's welcome the tamil year of JAYA and hope that it will bring joy and happiness to all !  Chithragupta maintains accounts of our good and bad acts. My grandma says, on full moon day of the first tamil month chithirai , if we pray to him, he will write good about us in his account book. For more information on Chithragupta, follow the link "  kanchipuram temple   "

All of us would love to bite something along with tea. How about having some tea rusks ? These tea rusks are just like any biscotti . In whichever  country you are, definitely you will get all kinds of bread varities. But we don't know if we will get tea rusks. In this case, you can easily make crunchy tea rusks at home with store bought bread. This recipe is a healthier version. I have used unsalted butter and very little sugar. You can add more if you would like to. Ingredients you need Multi - Grain Bread slices - 4 Unsalted Butter - 3 tbsp Cardamom Powder - 1to 2 tsp as per your wish (freshly ground preferred) Sugar - 3 tsp 1. First bring the butter to room temperature by keeping it out of the fridge     for some time before preparation. 2. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. 3. Now, that butter will be easily spreadable. To this butter, add the cardamom     powder, and sugar and mix well until all ingredients blend toge...

This Green Dosai is a very easy, handy and yummy dish for breakfast, evening tiffin or dinner. If you do not have dosa batter at home and still want to have dosa , this is the perfect one to be prepared. Ingredients you need : 1/2 cup - Raw Rice 1/2 cup - Toor Dal 1/2 cup - Coriander Leaves (cleaned , washed and chopped) Ginger - 1 inch piece chopped Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp Coconut - 2 tbsp (optional) Green chillies - 2 / 3 as per your taste Salt as per taste Tempering ( Optional) 1 tsp - oil 1/2 - tsp mustard seeds 1/4 tsp - asafoetida few curry leaves Method of Preparation: 1. Soak Raw Rice and Toor Dal together for atleast 2 hours. 2. In a grinder/ mixer, put the soaked rice, dal, and all other ingredients together and grind into a     dosa batter consistency.    The batter will look like this 3. You can temper batter with mustard seeds, asafoetida and curry leaves , if you like. I have not done that      because m...

Sakkarai Pongal (Sweet Rice) I am giving a simple recipe for Sweet Pongal You will need: Raw Rice (Sona Masoori)  - 1 cup Yellow Moong Dal (paasi paruppu) - 1/4 cup Water - 5 cups Cardamom - 4 pods Jaggery ( grated / powdered ) - 2 cups Ghee - 1 tbsp Cashewnuts - few Kishmish (Raisins) - few First wash the rice and dal , add water and pressure cook it for 5 minutes. Now, crush the cardamom seeds into fine powder and keep aside. Once the rice is cooked, first mash it with a rounded laddle . Then add the jaggery and cardamom powder and mix well. In a small kadai, heat the ghee and roast the cashew nuts and kishmish. Add this to the Pongal. Thats it. Sweet Pongal is ready to eat ! It is favourite for kids and elders . Caution !!! It is very SWEET!!!

Hi readers, Happy Pongal to all ! May this Pongal bring overflowing happiness to everybody  in life.

Anjarisi Panniyaram is a Chettinaad Special Snack. The ingredient uses 5 rice varieties  and that is the reason it has this name. You need : Boiled Rice - 1 cup Raw Rice - 1 cup Paasi Paruppu - 1 cup (Yellow Moong Dal) Javvarisi -   1/2 cup (Sabudhana) Rava  -  1 cup Sugar - 1 1/2  cups Jaggery -  2  cups Method of Preparation 1. Wash and soak both rice and paasi paruppu together for 2 hours. 2. Wash and wet the Sabudhana 1 hour later 3. Soak rava with little water 1/2 hour before grinding. 4. Now, after 2 hours, grind all soaked items except rava. 5. After grinding the ingredients well, add rava , jaggery and sugar and grind for a little amount of time. 6. Now, the batter consistency should be thin than dosa batter. Make this batter on the day before you are      going to make the panniyarams and keep in the refridgerator. 7. The next day, take the batter out 1/2 hour before making panniya...

Javvarisi urundai /Sabudhana ladoo is a very healthy and yet another Diwali sweet. You need: Javvarisi/Sabudhana - 1 cup Roasted Gram Dal  - 1/2 cup Jaggery (powdered) - 1 cup Cardamom Powder - 1 tsp Nuts - any variety which you like 1. Heat a pan and dry roast the Javvarisi until they are light brown and crisp 2. Switch off the stove and add the roasted gram dal, the heat in the pan is     enough for it to become crisp. 3. Cool down both dals and powder them separately. 4. In a pan, put the jaggery and add little water, and heat it, just to dissolve it      and strain the dirt. 5. Add cardamom powder in the syrup. 6. In a large bowl add the powder and mix well 7. Add the nuts , and the jaggery syrup and 1 tbsp hot ghee 8. Now, mix well and make balls.  Enjoy the healthy sweet on this ocassion of Diwali ! Happy diwali to all !:)