Payatham Urundai/ Moong dal ladoo

Payatham Urundai/ Moong dal ladoo

As Festivals are around the corner...so I'm sharing a traditional South Indian special ladoo (payatham urundai / moong dal ladoo). 

A delicious festival special ladoo.

Ingredients:

Yellow moong dal- 1 cup

Sugar - 3/4th cup

Cardamom powder- 1.5 tsp

Ghee - 1/2 cup

Chopped cashews- few

Method:

# Dry roast moongdal until you get a nice aroma. Allow it to cool down completely.

# Make a fine powder in mixie. If you want a fine texture you can sieve the flour.

# Make a fine powder of sugar as well.

# Mix moongdal powder, powdered sugar, Cardamom powder together.

# Divide the mixed flour in two portions.

# Fry cashews in ghee.

# Mix the fried cashews with the moong dal and powdered sugar.

# Heat ghee well...slightly smoke should come...Mix wilh moong dal and powdered sugar.

# Start making ladoos.

#Once it comes to room temperature store it in airtight container.

Pl. do try and provide your comments.

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Badusha/ Balushahi

Badusha / Balushahi ( Airfried Version)

Badusha / Balushahi are crispy, flaky from outside and soft, juicy from inside. This is a very popular sweet recipe which is made in India for festivals like Diwali, Dusshera, Holi etc. 

I'm sure we all try to make healthy, simple, easy recipes for festivals...this is made with whole wheat flour and jaggery syrup which is Airfried. The same recipe can also be deep fried / baked.

With this measurement you will get 15-17 badusha's.

Notes:

* You can bake these badusha's @ same temperature as mentioned below.

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat flour - 1 cup / 130 gms

Ghee / melted butter - 1/2 cup

Curd - 2 tablespoons

Baking soda - 1/4 tsp

Jaggery - 3/4 - 1 cup

Chilled Water - 1/2- 3/4 cup (125 ml)

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Method:

# Cream ghee, curd and baking soda.

# Add whole wheat flour mix well. Sprinkle chilled water make a dough. Donot knead just bring together.

# Cover the dough, let it rest for 10-15 minutes.

# Boil jaggery and water. Filter it to remove impurities. 

# Boil for 5-7 minutes, add cardamom. You need 1 string consistency. Switch off.

# Preheat Airfrier@140'c for 5-7 minutes.

# Make lemon size balls and press gently in the centre.

# Arrange them in Airfrier and fry @ 140'c for 20 minutes.

# Once badusha's are fried soak them in warm jaggery syrup for just 10 minutes.

# After 10 minutes arrange them in a plate and allow it to rest for 1-2 hrs.

Serve Badusha's and provide your comments.

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Ribbon Pakoda

Ribbon Pakoda

Ribbon Pakoda is a crispy savoury item prepared for tea-time / festival's like Deepawali. 

Ingredients:

Besan / gram flour - 3 cups

Rice flour - 1 cup

Red chilli powder - 1.5 tsp

Asafatidia / hing - 1 tsp

Salt - to taste

Oil - for frying

Method:

# Mix gram flour, rice flour, salt, asafatidia in a bowl.

# Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a pan. Pour the hot oil in the dry mixture. When you pour the oil sizzling sound should come.

# Give a resting time for 5 minutes. Mix well, you should get bread crumbs consistency. 

# Sprinkle water about 1/2 cup or as you required to knead a soft dough.

# Heat oil on medium flame.

# Use ribbon dics to prepare Pakoda.

# Roll the dough and put it in the machine and start making Pakoda.

# Turn the Pakoda in every 30 sec. Once the bubbles settels down remove from oil.

# Once it becomes slightly cool store in an airtight container.

Please do try and provide your comments.

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Mixture - Diwali Special

Mixture is an easy Snack, just need to mix all ingredients. But most of us think we need to prepare lot of ingredients for that!
Which is true. But if you prepare the ingredients (a day before or when you have time), it becomes easy to prepare mixture.
   For me Diwali is incomplete without Special Mixture. I always prefer to include the Snacks which I like the most or the ingredients which is available in my kitchen.

Ingredients:

Maida Chips - 1 cup
Thenzgual - 1 cup
Sev/Ompoodi - 2 cups
Kara Boondi - 1 cup
Fried Cornflake - 1 cup
Fried Beaten Rice Flakes - 1 cup
Fried or Roasted Peanuts - 1/2 cup
Fried Curry leaves - 1/2 cup

Other ingredients like Ribbon pakodas, Potato Chips can be included according to your wish.

Method :

I am sharing my recipe links for the thenzgual, omapodi, Maida chips....

Thenzgual:

I tried this tea time snack recipe Thengozal in Airfryer, which came out well.The taste is as good as deep fried.

Pl. see my video and provide comments.

https://youtu.be/Fo-VsceEDoc

The ingredients and method of preparation are available in

http://swadishtkitchen.blogspot.com/2016/09/thenkuzhal-airfryer-recipe.html

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Omapodi:

Diwali Snack Recipe - Sev / Omapodi

Omapodi is a wonderful Snack Recipe for Diwali, which every one would love.

Ingredients and steps are available:

Sev / Omapodi - Diwali Snack Recipe http://swadishtkitchen.blogspot.com/2016/10/sev-omapodi-diwali-snack-recipe.html

Preparation Vedio in YouTube:

https://youtu.be/7qmr7oNExyY

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Maida chips:

Maida Chips is a wonderful tea time snack recipe which I tried in Airfrier, which came out really well. It is also a Diwali special recipe.

https://youtu.be/plz4XjnskBQ

The ingredients and method of preparation are available

Maida chips http://swadishtkitchen.blogspot.com/2016/10/maida-chips.html

Thank you.

Method:

 Mix all ingredients we will start with thenzgual, crush little then add maida Chips, sev mix well add beaten rice flakes, cornflakes, peanuts, Kara Boondi and curry leaves and mix well.

You can include fried cashews, Badam and raisins according to your wish.

Watch my video below and subscribe to my YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/8yXWtg61T5w

Please do try and provide comments.
Thank you 

Peanut Burfi - Diwali Special Sweet

Peanut Burfi - Diwali Sweet Recipe, with minimum ingredients it takes just 5 - 10 min to prepare.

Ingredients:

Peanuts - 1 cup

Sugar - 3/4 cup
Ghee - 2 tablespoon
Pista Chopped - 1 tsp

Method:

# Dry roast peanuts and remove skin.

# Coarse powder the peanuts.

# Heat pan add sugar and little water, make 2 string consistency.

# Add coarse powdered peanuts, mix well.

# Add ghee, mix well. It will take hardly 5 min to thicken.

# Grease plate with ghee. Pour the mix and sprinkle Chopped pista.

# Cut into pieces and serve.

Pista is optional, it is just to garnish.

Please do try and provide your comments.
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