Kaju Katli

Kaju Katli is one rich and very popular sweet. This is one of my son’s favorite sweet. It’s very simple to and easy to prepare.                                                

But you need very careful while making into get right consistency. It tastes better than store kaju katli’s … wow we love it…

Ingredients

Whole Cashews – 1 cup

Sugar – ½ cup

Water – ¼ cup

Melted Ghee –To Garnish

Method

In a blender add cashews and grind it to a semi fine powder.

If you are grinding as fine paste, then the whole mixture will turn sticky.

Now boil sugar and water, keep stirring in low flame till sugar completely dissolves.

Then it starts to bubble up, keep stirring.

Now add the cashew mixture and keep stirring until it forms a thick rolling mixture.

It should be like flexible dough. The dough should not be fry. This should be soft and flexible.

You can even try rolling a ball. It should be flexible then that’s the right consistency.

Then switch off the flame and let it cool down for 10 min.

In case if the mixture is dry, you can add little ghee and then knead it.

Now lay a butter paper and place the kaju dough and fold the paper such that the butter paper is on top and bottom of the dough.

Now start rolling with a chapati roller. Roll it to ¼ inch thickness; remove the butter paper on top. 

Cut with a sharp knife. Mark lines. And cut into diamonds. Serve this yummy kaju katli

Chilli Parota

This is another simple and yummy snack. It is very good choice of school going kiddos. It is very easy to prepare. We can any kind of vegetables in this dish.

This yummy chilli parota goes very well with onion raita and any kurma.            

Actually Parota is not good for health because of the main ingredient maida.

But when we add some vegetables we can make this as delicious food.

Ingredients

Parota – 5

Finely Chopped Onions – 2 (big)

Finely Chopped Tomato – 1 (big)

Finely Chopped Carrot – 1

Finely Chopped Beans – few

Fennel Powder – ½ tsp

Chilli Powder – ½ tsp

Salt to taste

To Temper

Fennel Seeds – ¼ tsp

Chopped Coriander Leaves - few

Curry Leaves – few

Oil – 2 tsp

Cinnamon Sticks – 1

Cardamom - 1

To Garnish

Chopped Coriander Leaves – few

Ghee – 1 tsp

Sliced Carrot – 1

Sliced Lemon Piece -1

Method

In a kadai, heat oil. Add the tempering ingredients one by one and saute it for few sec.
Then add the finely chopped onions and saute it well until gets slight brown in color.

Then add chopped tomatoes and saute well. Add required salt and mix well.

Now add chopped carrots and beans and cook for another 2 to 3 min.

Then add fennel powder, chilli powder and required water. Let it cook for another 3 min.

By meantime, take the parato and cut into small square pieces. Then add these pieces into masala.

Saute well and let it for another 1 to 2 min.

Switch off the flame and garnish with chopped coriander leaves and pour some ghee. 

Serve yummy hot chilli parota with lemon juice and onion raita. 

Chocolate Peda

It is a very easy sweet and quick to prepare for any festival.These peda has rich chocolate flavor with perfect amount of sweetness.

If you are chocolate lover, I am sure you will love this. Color and taste always depends on the type and quality of cocoa powder you are using.

Ingredients

All Purpose Flour/Maida – ¼ cup

Ghee – 2 tsp

Water – ¼ cup

Coco Powder – 1 tsp

Milk Powder – 2 tsp

Sugar – ½ cup

Sliced Almonds – 2 tsp

Method

Heat a pan, add ghee. When it is done, add all-purpose flour and switch off.

Mix well and fry well the maida and make sure it should not have any lumps and set aside.

In a pan, add sugar and water and start making the syrup once it reaches a stage where it starts to give stickiness when you add this syrup in a bowl of water it should float.

When you get the right consistency add coco powder and switch off.

Take the pan and keep it aside.  Whisk it well and make sure this should not have any lumps.

Now add fried maida and mix well. Then add milk powder and keep stirring and so it starts to thicken. This will form a grainy mixture.

Once it is thick then leaves it for few min to cool down.

Grease your hands with ghee and shape them into balls and make a dent in the center.

Add sliced almonds in the dent and let it to set. Serve chilled or warm.

Roasted Gram/Pottukadalai Murukku

Have you ever tried any easy murukku recipe? It’s a very easy and crispy murukku. It takes only few min.

Normally murukku is one of the favorite dishes of Diwali festival. Have this yummy murukku with coffee/hot chocolate.

Ingredients

Rice Flour – 2 cups

Pottukadalai/Split Roasted Gram – 1/2 cup

Butter – 1 tsp

Jeera – 1 tsp

Ajwain Seeds – 1tsp

Hing – a pinch

Salt to taste

Oil for deep fry

Water as required

Method

In a dry mixer grind fried gram to a fine powder. Now combine rice flour and roasted gram flour and sieve it.

In a mixing bowl take the sieved flours, butter, jeera and salt and mix well with your hands first. Boil water when it starts to boil switch off.

Add water little by little and mix it well and make it as soft dough.

Take your murukku mould and fit in the star shaped disc. Now slowly press directly into oil or on a laddle.

Heat oil - drop a small pinch of dough to check if the oil temperature is right.

When the dough immediately raises to the top with a sizzle then your oil is ready.

Flip the laddle to transfer the murukku into the oil and fry till golden brown.

Drain in a tissue paper. Let it cool down completely.

Then place it in an airtight container.

Peanut Urundai

It’s a very simple and healthy urundai. This is easy to make. It is perfect snack for children. It is a very good snack for kids.

Ingredients

Peanuts – 1 cup

Cashew Nuts – ½ cup

Jaggery Powder – 1 cup

Salt – a pinch

Cardamom Powder – ½ tsp

Ghee – 4 tsp

Method

In a pan, dry roast cashew nuts. Then take it out.

 In that same pan, add peanuts and dry roast well. Then switch off the flame. Let it cool down then remove the outer skin of peanuts.

Once it done, add roasted peanuts, cashew nuts in a blender. Then grind it as fine powder.

Heat 4 tsp of ghee. Now add the ground powder of peanut, jaggery powder, salt and cardamom powder.

Saute it for few seconds. And make this as yummy urundai.

Tomato Dosa

This is another simple and tasty recipe. Are you getting bored with regular dosa? Then why can't you try this new recipe. It's easy and tasty too.

This goes very well with Coconut Chutney...

Ingredients

Idli Rice – 2 cups (Soaked)

Ripe Tomatoes – 5

Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp

Dry Red Chilli – 4

Salt to taste

To Temper

Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp

Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp

Urad Dal – 2 tsp

Finely Chopped Onions – 1 cup

Finely Chopped Curry Leaves – few

Finely Chopped Coriander Leaves – few

Oil – 2 tsp

Method

In a grinder, add all the ingredients above mentioned along with enough water and grind it as fine paste.

In a pan, heat oil. Add the tempering ingredients one by one and saute it for few sec. Then add these into dosa batter and mix well.

In a dosa pan, apply oil and make dosa. Pour some oil on top of it. 

Serve with coconut chutney.