Mango Pachadi

A lip smacking dish made from raw mangoes and jaggery. Try this and I hope you will definitely love with this simple and delicious mango pachadi.

Mango Pachadi is a traditional dish. Typical mango pachadi should have all the combination of tangy, sweet and bitterness. Unfortunately I didn't get neem flowers. If you get these, you can add into this dish.


This dish can be prepared almost all South Indian occasions. So enjoy with great dish.Ingredients
Peeled, cubed Mangoes – 1 cup
Jaggery – 2
Salt – a pinch
Grated Coconut – 5 tsp
Neem Flower (optional)
(To Temper)
Mustard Seeds – ½ tsp
Urad Dal – ½ tsp
Dry Red Chilli – 2
Chopped Coriander Leaves – few
Chopped Curry Leaves – few
Coconut Oil – 1 tsp
Method
In a pressure cooker add mango pieces, a pinch of salt and enough water. Then pressure cook it till second whistles comes out.In a vessel, add jaggery with little water and cook it till completely dissolves in water.

In a pan, heat oil. Then add all the ingredients which are under “to temper” and saute it for few min.

Then add mashed and cooked mangoes into that. Mix it well. Then pour the jaggery syrup with grated coconut. Then let it cook for few minutes.

Yummy mango pachadi is ready to serve!!!

Eggless Banana Cake

This is very easy and tasty eggless banana cake. I have used only few ingredients. It’s really a simple and delicious cake. 

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 Try this yummy cake and enjoy!!!

Ingredients

All Purpose Flour/ Maida – 4 cups

Bananas – 4 (big)

Sugar – 1 ½ cups

Salt – a pinch

Unsalted Butter – 1 and 1/2 cups

Baking Soda – 1 tsp

Vanilla Extract – 1 tsp

Method

In a bowl add unsalted butter, salt, baking soda, vanilla extract and mix it well.

In a blender add sugar and grind it as coarse powder.

In another bowl, add all purpose flour with powder sugar and mix well. Then keep it aside.

Take another bowl and add all the peeled bananas and mash it well using potato masher.

If you want you can grind it in blender.

In another big bowl, combine everything from all the bowls one by one. Make sure the cake batter should not make any lumps.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Apply butter to cake pan, add spread the all purpose flour little bit. And remove the excess.

Then add the cake batter into this pan. Let it bake for 45 min. Then Let it cool for 10 to 15 minutes.

The yummy and delicious cake is ready to serve!!!

Moong Dal Ladoo

It is very healthy, easy to make. I have used sugar. But you can use jaggery instead of sugar. It makes a perfect snacks and healthy snacks. 

 My son loves this very much. It's called as seeni urundai. I hope you will enjoy with this yummy ladoo…

Ingredients

Moong dal/Pasi paruppu – 1 cup
Coarse Sugar -1 cup
Melted Ghee - ½ cup
Cardamom powder -1/4 tsp

Fried Nuts & Raisin – ¼ cup

Salt – a pinch

Method

Dry roast moong dal until you get a nice aroma of roasted moong dal. After it cools, grind it to a fine powder. Moong dal flour is ready now.

In a blender, grind sugar to a fine powder.  Then keep it aside.

In a bowl mix together, moong dal flour, salt, fried cashew nuts & raisin, sugar powder and cardamom powder. Keep melted ghee in a bowl of hot water. 

Now add hot melted ghee little by little to this mixture and make balls.

Yummy and delicious moong dal ladoo is ready to serve!!!

Roasted Gram Ladoo

It is a famous south Indian recipe. This is very simple and easy to prepare. This is also called Maladu or Maa ladoo.

 Enjoy this delicious ladoo with any special occasions and festivals…

Ingredients

Roasted Gram/Pottukadalai – 1 cup

Sugar – ¾ cup

Cardamom/Elachi Powder – 1/4 tsp

Salt – a pinch

Cashew Nuts & Raisin – ¼ cup

Method

Heat a pan, add roasted gram and saute it for few minutes. Let it cool for some times. Then grind it as a fine powder.

Then take it out. In the same pan, add sugar and grind it as a coarse powder.

Heat ghee in a kadai, and add these flours one by one and saute it for few seconds.

Add elachi powder, fried cashew nuts and raisins and salt.

Switch off the flame. Now add the melted ghee little by little and mix well with your fingers until you can shape it into a ball.

Store this ladoo in an air tight container for a few days at room temperature.

Sooji Ladoo

Sooji ladoo is one of the easiest and tasty ladoo. This is a delicious sweet that is made from sooji, fried nuts and ghee.

  These are traditional sweet that is also made during many festivals. So I hope you can enjoy with this great dish.

Ingredients

Rava/Sooji/Semolina – 1 cup

Sugar – 1 cup

Cardamom/Elachi – a pinch

Cashew Nuts & Raisins – ½ cup

Salt – a pinch

Ghee – 1 cup

Method

Heat 3 tsp of ghee in a kadai. When the ghee turns hot, dry roast cashew nuts and raisins. Keep it aside in a plate.

Add the remaining ghee and roast the Rava till its get well roasted or until the aroma starts coming out.

Let it cool for few min. Then grind it as a coarse powder. In the same blender add sugar and grind it as fine powder.

In a big bowl, add all the powders with fried nuts and raisins with extra ghee. Then make it as lemon sized balls.

Yummy Rava ladoo is ready to serve!!!

Sesame Ball / Ellu Urundai

It’s another easy and tasty urundai. Instead of sugar, I have used jaggery to prepare this sweet. Sesame seeds have many medical beneficial. It has rich source of calcium. 

 Black sesame seeds also have high amount of protein, iron,copper and magnesium. That’s why it’s advisable to give ladies, especially during menstruation times.

Ingredients

Raw Rice – ½ cup

Sesame Seeds – 1 cup

Roasted Gram/Pottukadalai – ½ cup

Jaggery – 2 cup

Salt a pinch

Cardamom/Elachi Powder – ½ tsp

Ghee – 3 tsp

Fried Cashews – 3 tsp

Method

Soak raw rice for at least 1 to 2 hours then remove the excess water and keep it in a cotton cloth. Let it be dry for some times.

Heat kadai, add roasted gram and saute it for few minutes till the nice aroma comes out.

Then take it out and let it cool for 5 to 10 minutes then make it as fine powder and keep it aside.

In the same kadai, add sesame seeds and dry roast it till the color changes slightly on a low flame.

Once it done, let it cool and take 5 tsp of sesame seeds, keep it in separate bowl. The remaining seeds should be grind as coarse powder.

Then take the rice and dry roast for few minutes. Once it done, grind it as fine powder.

By mean time, in a vessel add little water with jaggery and heat it till this gets thicken and the color changes.

Once you get the good consistency then switch off the flame.

In a bowl add roasted gram powder, rice flour, sesame powder with little salt, and elachi powder and give a nice mix.

Then add this into jaggery syrup and mix it well. Now add sesame seeds (Kept it in a bowl) and fried cashew nuts.

Then grease your hands with ghee and make balls out of it when still hot.

Store it in an air tight container for long day purpose. And enjoy this tasty sesame balls!!!

Besan Ladoo

Besan Ladoo is one of the easiest sweets you can make to celebrate. This is very popular in Maharashtra. Make sure you use low heat and stir the flour and ghee mixture constantly to prevent burning.

When making the ladoos if they are too dry, add extra ghee to the mixture. That will make soft and tasty. Store ladoos in an air tight container, they will keep for a week.

Ingredients

Besan /Chickpea / Gram Flour – 1 cup

Sugar – 1 cup

Ghee – 100 g

Pista Powder – 2 tsp

Cashew Powder – 2 tsp

Salt – a pinch

Method

In a kadai, add ghee bring it to boil then reduce the flame and add besan mix well till changes its color.

In a blender add sugar and make it as fine coarse powder.

Once the besan is done then add sugar mix well. Add pista and cashew powder on it.

Now add cardamom powder mix well. Then switch off the flame and let it cool down then make into small ladoos.

Ladoos are ready to serve. Enjoy well

Urad Dal Ladoo

It’s a popular and healthy ladoo. This is very easy to prepare and the tastes yummy and highly delicious. It is high in protein.

 This is one of the favorite foods by lord Ganesha. So I hope you can make this ladoo and enjoy with your festival times.

Ingredients

Urad Dal – 1 cup

Sugar – ¾ cup

Rice – 2 tsp

Ghee – 1 cup

Dry Fruits – ½ cup

Salt – a pinch

Cardamom – 1/ 4 tsp

Method

Take a pan, dry roast urad dal till golden brown in color. Then add rice and roast for another 3 minutes on a flame.

Switch off flame. Then take it out and let it cool for few minutes. And grind it as a fine powder.

Then take sugar and and grind it as a coarse powder and keep it aside.

In the same pan, heat ghee. And add dry fruits and saute it for few sec.

Now add urad dal coarse powder and saute it for few min on low flame.

And add coarse sugar powder and mix well. Finally mix all ingredients well and add ghee.

Take a small portion of mixture in your hands and press it to give it a small round ball shape.

Repeat the same for the rest of mixture.

Healthy & yummy ural dal ladoos are ready.

Sabudana Vada

It’s a tasty and crispy vada. This is very popular in north Indian restaurants. And it is extremely popular during Dussera festival time among the Maharashtrians.

 

I loved the crispy outside and the soft inside. I hope this is a perfect snack for tea party. So enjoy…

Ingredients
Sabudana /Sago/Javvarisi – 1 cup
Chopped Onions – 1 (big)
Chopped Green Chilli – 2
Chilli Powder – ¾ tsp
Rice Flour – 2 tsp
Chopped Coriander Leaves – ½ cup
Grated Potato – 1
Chopped Ginger – 3 tsp
Chopped Curry Leaves – few
Chat Masala – 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil for deep fry
Method
Soak sabudana in water for at least 3 hrs. Remove the excess water from grated potato.
In a bowl, add grated potato, chopped green chilli, coriander leaves, curry leaves, chat masala, red chilli powder, and ginger, salt, 2 tsp of oil and mix well.
Then make it as dough and prepare small balls. Then make this shape as vada.
Heat oil in a pan, and add this vada into oil. Then deep fry it till get golden brown in color.
Use Paper towel to remove excess oil. Then serve hot with any chutney or any sauce.

Spicy Chicken Drumstick

This is another yummy and tasty dish. Normally we used to deep fry. But I have used little oils to fry the chicken. For minimum oil, no need to worry about the cholesterol.                                 

 Enjoy this yummy and delicious, tasty, spicy chicken drumstick.

Ingredients

Chicken Leg Piece – 4

Sliced Onions – 1

Chilli Powder – 2 tsp

Pepper Powder – ½ tp

Yogurt – 1 tsp

Coriander Powder – 1 tsp

Turmeric Powder – a pinch

Cumin Powder – ¼ tsp

Fennel Powder – ¼ tsp

Lemon Juice – 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tsp

Oil for fry

Chopped Coriander Leaves – few

Method

Wash and clean the chicken legs and make a small slits on each leg piece.

In a bowl, add chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt and lemon juice. Then mix well into a paste.

Marinate the chicken legs with this paste.

In another bowl, add yogurt, ginger garlic paste, pepper powder, cumin powder, coriander powder and a tsp of oil. Then give a nice mix.

Cover the chicken pieces with this masala mix and refrigerate these marinated legs for 2 to 3 hours.

In a pan, heat 2 tsp of oil. Add sliced onions and fry for few minutes. Then add the chicken legs and keep fry on low flame.

It will take some times to cook the chicken completely. I haven’t used more oils. So check the simmer and keep cook till the chicken becomes soft and cooked fully.

Once it done then switch off the flame. And garnish with chopped coriander leaves.