Sweet pongal/Jaggary pongal/Bellam pongali

This a traditional and tastey sweet, which every one would like to prepare at home. And the specialty of this is, it's the most preferd offering to the God.

Ingredients:

Rice - 1cup

moong dal/pesera pappu - 1/2cup

jaggary - 1 cup

milk - 1cup

ghee - 4tbsp

cashew nuts - 10

elachi powder- 1/4 tbsp

water - 5cups

Preparation:

1.Wash rice and moong dal and keep it aside

2.Start boiling 3 cups of water in a cooking vessel.

3.After it boild add teh rice and moog dal to it and let it cook, keep stirng it in the middle.And keep adding some more water , to avoid rice from burning.

4.In a frying pan, fry caswew nuts in ghee and keep it aside

5.add elchi powder to the cooking rice

6.After rice cooked a bit smooth or 3/4 cooked well now add crushed jaggry to it

7.let it cook till teh jagry metls

8.Now add milk to it and let it cook for more 5min

9.Now add the fried cashew nuts & ghee to the cooking rice.If you add more ghee , it will increase the taste.

10.Let it cook till rice become very smooth.

11.After rice become smoth , now remove from the flame.

Your sweet pongal is ready now.

Onion Pakoda/vulli pakoda/gatti pakoda

This is a the famus andhra spl item.We love to eat pakoda in the evening..that in times of rain..this is the one which every one like to have ...if you try this you will never forget the taste of this..






Ingerediants :

• Besan flour/sanaga pindi - 1cup
• rice flour/biyyam pindi - 1/2cup
• onions - 2 or(2cups)
• salt - little bit
• ghee - 2 tbsp
• coriander leaves - some (optional)
• fried ground nuts - 1/4cup (optional)
• oil - to fry
• green chills - 5

Preparation:

1. Cut the onions like slices,cut green chilles and coriander leaves
2. Take the besan flour,rice flour into a bowl and mix well
3. Now add the salt,ghee,onions,green chilles,coriander leaves, ground nuts to the flour and mix well.
4.Sprinkle some water in that , and mix it well.just add 3 or 4 spoons of water.not more than that.(If you mix more water , ur pakoda will not be proper)
5.Now take oil in a pan and heat the oil.
6.once it is hot, keep it in medium flame and take the pakoda batter and drop in the oil ass small small ammount(like ball ).
7.Once the pakoda turns in to brown color remove it from oil and take onto a tissue papare arranged plate. (Tissue paper will absorb extra oil).

Your hot hot pakoda is ready :)

Small tips for better cooking

• If you want to get rid off the tears while cutting onions, keep the onion in refrigerator for 15min.
• If you are using turmeric and onions in cooking, add turmeric after onions fully cooked. Otherwise it is difficult to know whether onions cooked well or not.
  

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Poha mixture/chuduva/atukula mixture

This is a crispy snack item. You can prepare with in 15min.

Ingrediants:
1.Poha/atukulu/akalaki(thick one) - 3 cups
2.Green chilli - 4
3.ground nuts/pallilu - 1/4 cup
4.putnalu/sanagapapu (eatble) - some (optional)
5.curry leaves - 4 or 5 (optional)
6.turmeric - 1tbsp
7.oil - 4tbsp
8.salt - as much as required
9.red chilli powder - 1tbsp (optional)

Preparation :
1.Cut the grenchiils into small pecies.
2.Now take a pan and start heating it
3.put the oil into the pan let it heat for a min
4.now fry the groundnuts in the oil , till they change the color to litle brown(for 2min)
5.now add green chilles,putnalu,turmeric,curry leaves and salt to it
6.after green chilli fried, now decreas the flam to medium, mix the poha into this cooked mixture.
7.keep mixing it till all the poha get the turmeric color.
5.now add the redchilli poweder to it (this is options).switch off the flame
6.taste it and add salt or spicy according to your taste. Now take out from the pan, and store it in a container. Don't close the lid untill it cools down.you can store it for a week.

Our poha mixture ready.

Carrot Halwa

Carrot Halwa



My First post in the blog, i would like to start it with a sweet .. which we all like to taste all times.. That is Carrot halwa..

Ingrediants :

1. carrots - 4

2. sugar - 2 cups

3. Elachi/yalukalu - 2

4. Milk - 1 cup or less (optional)

5. casew nuts/jeedipappu - little

6. Ghee for taste - 4 tbsp

Preparation :

1. Peel the carrots and grate them .

2. Now take a pan , put the ghee and let it get hot

3. Fry the cashew nuts in the ghee , till they get little brown color.

4.Take out the Cashew nuts and keep it aside

5.Now in the same pan or in a different pan, start frying the grated carrot.

6.keep frying untill it looses it's raw smell..u can see the carrot a bit dry.

7.Now add the sugar , ( you can add more if you want ), and keep stirring it
8.Now add milk depending upon the thick ness you want.Let it cook for 5min.Millk is for extra taste

9.Now add the Elachi powder and cashwe nuts , ane let it cook for 5min.
Mouthwatering carrot halwa is ready.

It will be tasty even when it is hot and when it is cool also.You can even eat this with ice cream,gulab jam.