POONDU MURUKKU I GARLIC SPICY MURUKKU I DIWALI RECIPES

Hi friends, today's post for Vegan Thursday, as you all know that the event initiated by the great blogger aka akka +Priya Suresh... Every 1st and 4th Thursday you can post your vegan recipes with the VT logo. 

INSTANT MALPUAS - USING MILK POWDER I DIWALI RECIPES

Hi friends, yet 2 more days for diwali... I can see everywhere full of diwali sweets and savouries. And in my place fire crackers sounds too started... But nowadays am not interested on fire crackers. In our place, the streets are loaded with crowds, mini platform shops, mobile shops and corner of my street is fully rush because of 3-4 oil shops are there.

ADHIRASAM - TAMILNADU TRADITIONAL SWEET I DIWALI RECIPES I SNC CELEBRATION!!!

Hi friends, here is the other sweet for the diwali... And this is very important and in every home of Tamil Nadu, diwali will not complete without this delicious sweet is none other than “ADHIRASAM”. It’s our Tamil Cuisine.

PAAL KOVA I MILK HALWA I THIRATU PAAL I DIWALI SWEETS

Hi friends, till today am successfully posting the diwali recipes, I want to give fully sweet recipes but I decided to make some savouries also. Will try some recipes and will post soon...

LIST OF DIWALI RECIPES - DELICIOUS COLLECTIONS OF DIWALI RECIPES

Hi friends, still five days more for Diwali/Deepavali/Deepa Ozhi festival... All are very busy in purchasing, making sweets and savouries... Right?? Diwali is always very exciting and interesting festival. All will be start the preparation and purchasing one month before itself. Kids are very interested to get new clothes, fire crackers and give order to their parents to prepare their favourite sweets and savories... mom u do this, mom I love that sweet, Yes!! I we did the same in my childhood...   isn't it!!!!

WHOLE WHEAT HALWA I KOTHUMAI HALWA I TRADITIONAL WHEAT HALWA I DIWALI SWEETS

Hi friends, actually this is my old post which I was posted the recipe in the beginning of my blog... So most of you did not noticed the recipe... and now festival time so am repost the traditional way of making wheat halwa from wheat berries. It’s really useful for your diwali preparations.

 

The wheat halwa is prepared from “Samba Muzhu Kothumai”, (Whole wheat berries). The process of making in traditional way is soaking the wheat berries for overnight and extracts the milk from it and allow for overnight fermentation then they will follow the cooking process, this is the way of getting traditional taste halwa. But the fermentation is optional; we can continue the process without fermentation.

Category	Sweets/Desserts
Regional	South Indian
Preparation Time	2  Hours (Apart from soaking)
Cooking Time	15-20Minutes
Yields	8 -10

INGREDIENTS

Samba whole wheat - 1 cup

Sugar - 2 cups 

Water - 2 cups

Cardamom pods – 6 or powder – 2 Tsp

Ghee - 3 Tbsp 

Orange food color – 1/8 Tsp

Salt – 1/8 Tsp

 

 METHOD

• Wash and soak the samba whole wheat for overnight.

soak in water

extract milk from wheat

                      

• Drain the water and wash again and grind in a mixie by adding 1 cup of water. Strain through a sieve to get thick milk.
• Again grind with 1 cup of water and strain. Now you have only husk, throw it away.

ground wheat with water

                                  

                                                                                     

• The filtered wheat milk is ready. Keep this in refrigerator for 2 hours to settle down thick milk.
• Discard the upper layer of water and keep the thick milk.

wheat milk  

separation of thin and thick milk

• Now prepare the sugar syrup. Take heavy bottom pans add 2 cups of sugar and 1 cup of water and stir in low flame.

                  

• Grease the plate with ghee.

• When it starts bubbling stir continuously and check it for single strand consistency.

• When sugar syrup is ready add wheat milk with pinch of salt and stir continuously.

                                   

• Then add color powder with some water and stir well.

• Add cardamom powder to this and stir well till it forms a mass.

                                            

• Adding ghee and don't leave your stirring otherwise lumps will appear.

                                            

• Should be stir in low flame around 30-40 min, then only we will get good consistency.

• Check this consistency by rolling the mixture in your hand like ball; if it will not sticky it’s ready.

• Pour the whole mixture on to a plate. Let it cool, cut into desired shapes.

• Serve it…

NOTE

• Single thread sugar syrup consistency is very important for good halwa texture. 
• Food color is optional.
• If you wish add ghee roasted cashew nuts to the halwa in last stage and stir it well. 

YUMMY WHOLE WHEAT HALWA IS READY!!!

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PINK CASHEW PEDA I KAJU STRAWBERRY PEDA I DIWALI SWEETS

Hi friends, here is my another sweet treat for you all for the diwali. I wish to make kaju katli, but I made the kaju peda… Actually, I try to grind the cashews in my small mixie jar but unexpectedly, it got repair so grind it with other jar but I get coarse powder only. Like this, I made the yummy cashew peda and it’s so wonderful in taste and nutty flavor  I already made KAJU FLOWER and ROSE FLAVORED KAJU MILK ROLL for last diwali, it will be so colorful and you will love it...

MYSORE PAK - POROUS TEXTURE I OIL-GHEE METHOD MYSORE PAK I DIWALI RECIPES

Hi friends, this is my third post for the diwali. I really spend good happy time with these sweets making. In my home all are appreciated me, that “Neey ya Ivlo Panra”, Yes! Because my mom did not make some types of sweets which I prepare nowadays, so am happy and my dad is proud to see, that her daughter is good cook... What else need for me... That’s great enough J

SWEET DIAMOND BISCUITS I MAIDA BISCUITS I DIWALI RECIPES

Hi friends, as I already said that hereafter you going to enjoy virtual sweets from my place till diwali... So started yesterday with yummy Carrot Halwa... N I can see lots n lots of sweets and savouries in my dashboard... All food bloggers are excited to try out many recipes for diwali... Enjoy dearies, really am very happy to try out these festive recipes in my hands... J

CARROT HALWA I GAJAR KA HALWA I DIWALI SWEETS

Hi friends, here am started to post the diwali recipes, especially sweet items... Yayy!! Am very much excited to post diwali recipes, as this is my second diwali after started the blog, last year too I made many varieties of sweets like Corn flour Halwa in MW oven, Rasgulla, Rasmalai, Gulab Jamun and Kaju Flower,  and all... 

POTATO MASALA - RESTAURANT STYLE

Hi friends, happy Sunday to you all. Hope you all enjoying your Sunday feast. I have prepared the yummy potato masala in restaurant style which was I got it from Supplementary book from Aval Vikatan. Yes! I love Aval Vikatan, my mom used to get Aval vikatan for these supplementary only... But didn’t make any dishes from there:P she just read like story books... But now its useful to me, which is contains varieties of foods to try. The recipe for Cooking from Cookbook Challenge which is initiated by +Srivalli jetti from Cooking 4 all Seasons. 

DARK DATES CHOCO CAKE - EGG FREE BUTTER FREE

Hi dear friends, for past one week I didn't cook anything for my blog, as am posting these recipes from my drafts... I wish to post the dark dates cake for long time but I forgot to share. As many of my friends and regular readers knows that am poor eater as I already said in my posts. So nowadays my mind insisted to have healthy items, and now hearing the voice of my mind and obey its order..;) I tasted the dates once or twice in my lifetime, because I don’t like. Here is I have prepared cake with dates, which is very delicious and no one can say it contains dates in it.  

RAGI (FINGER MILLET) FLOUR UPMA I KEZHVARAGU MAAVU UPMA

Hi dear friends, today very simple yet unique and delicious healthy upma... we all had rava upma, arisi upma, idli upma like that, but did you tried or tasted ragi(fingermillet) flour upma.. Yes! In ragi flour we can made delicious upma and its my favourite upma too. Photos are not satisfaction of the upma, will upload good photos soon... :)

The upma was I learnt from my neighbour and my mom gave a try once, we love the upma and started to add the upma in our frequent menu. Am sure you will love this upma, try once and let me know your feedback. In the same way you can make in wheat flour too to make wheat flour upma...

BCAM - BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH FUND RAISING EVENT

Hello Friends,

We are feeling proud to announce this useful fund raising event to bring awareness among many people and also to help people who are already diagnosed and need help with regards to the cost of the treatment.

Here, we bloggers joined together to spread this awareness lot faster and in a wider range in the network world.

We would like to sincerely thank each of our blogger friends to put this forward and as well as help with regards to the donation as well.

Here is list of all my blogger friends who are contributing their time and space for this event.

NOTE: Anyone who is interested in posting this event on their website/blog, please feel free to contact Anu at anu (dot) healthykitchen (at) gmail (dot) com

Anu Shoj of Anu's Healthy Kitchen

Vardhini of Cooks Joy

Priya Suresh of Priya’s Versatile Recipes

Manjula of Desi Fiesta

Sangee of Spicy Treats

Nalini of Nalini’s Kitchen

Tanusree of Ma Niche

Priya Ranjit of Cook like Priya 

Viji (Me) of Virunthu Unna Vaanga 
Sathya Priya of My Kitchen odessey
Shama of Easy2Cook Recipes and 
Sangeetha Priya of Nitha's Kitchen 

We decided to donate to Susan G. Komen (http://ww5.komen.org/), which was created by Nancy G. Brinker in 1982 who is Susan G. Komen's sister. She is "Fulfilling the Promise" which she gave her sister when she was dying. That promise became Susan G. Komen for the cure and launched the global breast cancer movement. To know more about Susan G. Komen and the organization please visit the above link mentioned at the beginning of this paragraph.

We welcome all my friends to spend few moments here and if you feel its worth donating you can do so.

Here are the details as to how to donate:

• You can either directly go to their website (http://ww5.komen.org/Donate/Donate.html) and donate in any method that which you are comfortable
• Or you can email Anu at anu (dot) healthykitchen (at) gmail (dot) com, and she will reply to your email and take it from there.
• Event Date Oct 1th - Nov 15th
• Please email me / leave a comment here, before/after you do the donation with the following details
• Your Name
• Your Email ID
• Your Blog/Website URL
• Amount You Wish/Did Donate (This is just to calculate how much we have collected at the end of this event, We are not concerned as to how much you would like to donate)

Note: If you have any questions or concerns, please email me at vijidharmaraj@gmail.com or leave a comment here at the end of this post

On the go, Anu at Anu's Healthy Kitchen will keep updating the list of persons who donate and at the end of the event we will also mention the amount we collected in total.

I am happy that I can share the post and be a part of this fund raising event :) Thanks to +Anu Shoj  for this wonderful initiative. This is my first blog post for a social cause feeling very happy to share this with you all.

 

OREGANO PEPPER POTATO FRY

Hi dear friends, hope all are enjoyed your navarathri festival, ayutha pooja and Vijaya Dasami... I could not post any navarathri recipes this time... I thought to post last 3 days of navarathri but its not possible in my situation as again my system got repaired and heavy works for this pooja celebration in between I got sick too...

HOMEMADE DRY CURRY LEAVES & DRY FENUGREEK(METHI) LEAVES

Hi dear friends, last two Saturday’s am posting basic recipes, so I thought that hereafter I will post basic recipe on Saturdays, I don’t know whether its possible on every week, but I will post my level best...

Today’s post is not a recipe, which is very easy to use and healthy supplementary when we don’t have, or not available the fresh one of these ingredients...

We used to keep stock of the dry curry leaves, as its very handy too temper chutneys, making of idli podies and other recipes. Likewise, dry methi leaves is also very handy which is used in dal, sambhar and other gravies too.

You can prepare these leaves in a jiffy and can store it in dry air-tight container for long time as it has long shelf life.

Category	Basics
Regional	Indian
Preparation Time	15 Minutes
Cooking Time	10 Minutes
Yields	1-2 Cup

DRY CURRY LEAVES & METHI LEAVES

INGREDIENTS

Curry leaves – 1 Bunch

Methi leaves – 1 Bunch

METHOD

• Pick the leaves from the stem and keep it in a bowl.
• Wash the leaves with 2-3 times with water in floating water or running tap water.

• Drain it and keep it in microwave plate and spread it as shown in the picture.
• Microwave high (100 P) for 8-10 minutes.

• If you touch the leaves it will be crisp or keep it again for 1-2 minutes, not more than that, else it will burn.
• Cool it and store it in air-tight container. 

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