DEVAKOTTAI SAMAYAL ARAI

On a relaxed Saturday morning, I was thinking about what to make for breakfast. Hmm... why not make Oats Dosai and Tomato Chutney for breakfast. I roasted some old fashioned oats and powdered it. Just then, a spark came to my mind, to do something new with this powder.  AND..... here comes the new healthy recipe...... Oats Maavurundai  You will need :(makes 4 medium sized balls) Dry Roasted and Powdered Oats  - 1/2 cup Light Brown Sugar (naattu sarkarai)- 1/4 cup firmly packed Cardamom Powder - crush the seeds of 2 cardamoms Ghee / clarified butter - 1 tsp   1. In a mixing bowl, add the dry ingredients and mix well.  The brown sugar will not easily        mix  without lumps. So, if you need , you can put all the dry ingredients into the mixie and      run it  for a minute.       2. Now heat the ghee and pour it to the the dry mix.     3. Mix thoroughly...

எல்லோருக்கும் எனது இனிய தீபாவளி நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள் ! This is a very easy to make snack for diwali, nothing to go wrong in it. Just follow the instructions for a crispy melt in the mouth murukkus. I used freshly bought rice flour and urad dal flour from the store.   முறுக்கு செய்முறை : (makes 30 murukkus) Rice Flour - 1 cup Urad Dal Flour - 1/4 cup Butter - 2 tbsp at room temperature Salt- 1/2 tsp or as per your taste Carom Seeds ( also called Ajwain or Omam ) - 1/2 tsp Water - 1 cup In a large bowl, add the rice flour, urad dal flour salt and omam, and mix nicely. Now add the butter and mix well.  Now start adding the water little by little and make a soft dough.  Take a star shape disc in the presser and make murukku shapes on a butter paper or any plastic sheet. Heat oil in a pan and the oil should be medium hot.  Put one by one into the oil and fry till the bubbles go away.  Once they cool down, store i...

Hello viewers, Advance Diwali wishes to all of you ! I thought, why not try this very popular sweet "Badhusha" for this year's Diwali . If you follow the instructions step by step , the badhusha will come out really well. The store bought badhushas are very flaky... soft and sweet. This is because they add baking soda for preparing. But as we all know that baking soda is bad for our health, I did not use it in my recipe. I made bite-size badushas , because, generally sweet lovers tend to eat more , so smaller the better ! You can make 50 bite-size badhushas from the ingredients I have given. Maida ( All Purpose Flour )- 3 cups Butter  - 1/2 cup at room temperature Curd (Yogurt) - 1 1/4 cup for Sugar Syrup Sugar - 2 cups ( this is enough if you are going to soak the badhusha pieces few at a time) Water - until the sugar immerses 1. In a large bowl, put maida and butter and keep mixing well until, the flour is crumbly like sand. 2. Now, add the cur...

Happy Vinayaka Chathurthi to all readers. I am going to give the recipe of Paasiparuppu Poorana Kozhukkattai. Many people make kadalai paruppu poorana kozhukkattai. But, I tried with Pasipparuppu (Yellow Moong Dal). I have also heard that kadalai paruppu gives us gastric troubles. Ingredients needed : For the filling (pooranam) Yellow Moong Dal - 1 cup Jaggery - 1 1/2 cup Cardamom Seeds - take out seeds from 4 elaichis Water  - 1 to 2 tbsp For the Outer Cover : Rice Flour -2 cups Water - 4 cups Method : 1. Dry roast the dal in medium heat until it changes colour . Allow it to cool down . 2.  Once the dal is cool, powder it in the mixie . 3. Add the powdered jaggery  and powdered cardamom seeds to the dal powder and  turn on the mixie again. Everything will become a powder . 4. Now, transfer the mix in to a large bowl and sprinkle 1 tbsp water and start making a dough.     Once the water is added , the jaggery will star...

Everybody loves Kothu Parota and that too if it is Chicken Kothu Parota, then that's it. So, join me friends, in the preparation of Chicken Kothu Parota. You will need : Malabar Parota -4 (homemade or store bought) Chicken - finely chopped 1 cup Eggs - 2  Onion - 2 finely chopped  Tomato - 1 finely chopped Green Chillies - 4 medium Ginger - 2 tsp crushed Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp (you can add more if you wish) Garam Masala Powder - 1/2 tsp Salt - as needed Curry leaves - a few Corinader leaves  - finely chopped  How to prepare : 1. Cut the parotas into 1 inch long pieces and keep aside.  2.  Take the pieces of chicken in a bowl, add salt, turmeric and chilli powder proportionate       to the chicken and mix well. 3. In a thick bottomed pan, heat 2 tbsp oil, and add the chopped onion , crushed ginger,      green chillies and the curry leaves and saute well. 4. Add t...

Happy Krishna Jayanthi to all readers ! I made seedai for Krishna Jayanthi . I used store bought Rice Flour and Urad Flour for this recipe. Rice Flour : You can make the rice flour from the scratch, by soaking the raw rice in water for sometime, then  spread it on a paper tissue or a newspaper until the wetness is gone. Then make a powder of it in a mixie  and then sieve it . Now, dry fry it until it is  hot to touch . Keep it aside.  Urad Flour : Take some 3 tbsp of urad dal, dry fry it and let it cool. Now, powder it in a mixie and sieve it.  To avoid all this work, I used store bought rice flour and urad dal flour.  You will need :( makes around 100 pieces ) Rice Flour : 1 cup Urad Flour : 2 tbsp  Salt : 1 tsp  Asafoetida : 1/2 tsp Unsalted Butter : 2 tbsp (at room temperature) (Alternatively you can use 1 tbsp butter and 1 tbsp hot oil  OR  substitute butter with 2 tbsp of hot oil. ) Water : 1/2 cup...

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   "