Oats Rava Idli

Oats Rava 

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Oats Rava Idli is an easy, delicious recipe perfect for a breakfast/ tiffin time.

Ingredients:

Oats - 1 cup

Rava - 1cup

Curd - 1.5 cups

Oil - 1 tsp

Green chilli- 1 finely chopped 

Ginger - 1/2 inch finely chopped 

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Asafoetida- 1/4 tsp

Curry and coriander leaves- finely chopped 

Baking soda- 1 pinch

Salt - as per your taste 

Method:

# Roast Oats for few seconds and pulse in a mixer jar.

# Add oil in a kadai, add mustard let it crackle well add green chilli's, ginger, Corriader and Curry leaves scared well...add rava and roast for few minutes. Let the aroma come out well.

# Whisk curd add coarsely grounded Oats, roated rava with tempering, salt, asafoetida, 1/2 cup water. Mix well. Let it rest for 15-20 minutes.

# Steam the idli pan. Grease the idli plates with oil. 

# Add Baking soda to the batter whisk well.

# Pour the batter in the idli plates and steam for 15-20 minutes.

Once Oats Rava Idli is ready serve with some chutney.

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Kasi Halwa

Kasi Halwa 

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Kasi Halwa / Poosanikai halwa is a traditional sweet prepared for wedding menu in SouthIndia specially in Tamilnadu. 

Kasi Halwa is made with grated white Pumpkin, sugar, ghee.

Ingredients:

White Pumpkin- 1 cup

Sugar - 1/4 cup

Ghee- 3 tablespoons 

Cashew + melon seeds - 1 tablespoon

Cardamom powder- 1/2 tsp

Yellow food colour few drops

Method:

# Heat a pan add 1 tablespoon of ghee, add the grated Pumpkin and saute on medium flame. Make sure the water evaporates and it becomes completely dry. 

# Add sugar, food colour and cook on medium flame....it will become watery. 

Let it become a semi solid consistency...add Cardamom powder mix well and switch off the flame.

# Heat ghee in another pan fry cashews and melon seeds pour to the halwa. 

Make sure you do not over cook after adding sugar...as it may become  hard / crystallized.

Serve hot or cold.

Please do try and provide your comments.

Thank you!