Sesame seed laddu / Ellu urundai - Ganesha chathurthy special recipe

Sesame seed is the favorite for the Lord Ganesha. Every year, my mother used to prepare this delicious sweet and i like the most. This time, i tried and it came very well. My husband and my kid liked very much. This is very simple recipe which can be prepared within 10 minutes. Some persons will grind the fried sesame seeds well as powder. But i am grinding partially. I am adding fried peanut also for getting more taste. This is one of the important recipe in Ganesha chathurthy festival. Let us prepare the delicious Ellu laddu.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Quantity	:	15 Nos

Ingredients :

Sesame seeds	:	100 Gm
Jaggery	:	1/4 Kg
Peanut	:	1 Tsp

Method :
Grind the jaggery as powder.

Fry 1 teaspoon of peanut and keep it aside.

Fry black sesame seeds well.

After getting cool, grind fried peanut and sesame seeds partially one by one and mix with ground jaggery.

Mix well with hand and make lemon size balls. (If the mixer is very dry, we can add 1 drop of water).
After making balls, we can keep it in air tight container and we can keep it for 4-5 days in room temperature or transfer to the serving plate and serve.

Try this simple and yummy sweet recipe and enjoy your festival.

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Kozhukattai (modak) recipes - Ganesha chathurthy special Kozhukattai (3 Types)

Ganesha chathurthy special Kozhukattai made with rice flour and two different types of stuffing (poornam). It is very tasty festive recipe. I learnt from my mother. I am preparing two types of stuffing. One is made with coconut and another one is boiled chana dal. Two stuffing are very tasty. I am preparing one more modak prepared with rice flour and jaggery milk. Let us see how to prepare the tasty three verities of Kozhukattai.

Ingredients :

Rice flour	:	2 Bowls
Jaggery	:	1/2 Kg
Cardamon powder	:	2 Tsp
Sesame seeds	:	1 Tsp
Coconut pieces	:	1 Tsp
Grated coconut	:	1 Cup
Salt	:	1 Pinch

Method : 
Mix rice flour with hot water and make smooth dough. We can use this dough for two kozhukattai.
Now we can prepare the stuffing.
Coconut stuffing :
Grind the jaggery and heat it in a pan.
After the jaggery melted add grated coconut and cardamon powder, cashew pieces and mix it well. After mixed well, switch off th flame and keep it cool.

Chana dal stuffing :
Rinse the chana dal and pressure cook or pot cook it till its fully cooked. After cooked well, drain the water and make it dry. Grind the cooked and drained chana dal as powder.

 Mix it with ground jaggery powder. Add cardamon powder. If we want, we can add grated coconut also.

Making Kozhukattai :
Knead the rice flour dough well and make lemon size balls. Press the ball with your hand or chapathy roller in round shape. Fill the stuffing over the round.

Close it in shapes we like. i am folding two types for getting the differences between two modaks.

 After making with all the dough bake it in idly pan or momos steamer. After cooked well transfer to the serving plate.

Making pidi kozhukattai :
Mix jaggery in water, boil it till its dissolves. Add cardamon power and drain the jaggery water.
In rice flour, add white or black sesame seeds, coconut pieces and add jaggery water and mix it well to make smooth dough.

Make lemon sized balls in the dough and press it in your hand. That's it the it is ready for steam.

After making in all the balls, steam it well its cooked well. After cooked well, transfer to the serving plate along with the other kozhukattai. All three types of kozhukattai are ready for pooja and eat.

Try these delicious modak recipes and enjoy the festival. Good day..
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Bread Sandwich roll - Healthy breakfast / Snacks box recipe

This is my daughter's favorite snacks box recipe. Easy and less time to prepare and also very tasty and healthy. I am adding carrots and cucumber in this. We can add any vegetable that we like. For green chutney, i am grinding the chutney partially. We can grind it as paste. If i grind partially only, my daughter likes. That's what i am grinding partially. Let us prepare the healthy, tasty, simple snacks box recipe, "Bread sandwich  roll".

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Serve for	:	2 Kids

Ingredients :

Bread	:	4 Slices
Grated Carrot	:	2 Tsp
Grated cucumber	:	2 Tsp
Onion	:	1/2 No

For green chutney	:
Mint leaves	:	Few
Coriander leaves	:	Few
Garlic	:	4 Cloves
Green chilly	:	1 No
Salt	:	To taste

Method :
Grind the green chutney.  Saute the onion, carrots and cucumber with adding salt and make it cool.Cut out the crust in bread slices. Using chapathy roller, press and roll over the bread slice.

Spread the green chutney. Put fried carrot mix over the green chutney.

Slowly roll the bread slices and finally press it and transfer to the serving plate or snacks box.

Try this healthy rolls and make your kids enjoy...

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Ganesh chathurthy special Sundal

For Ganesha chathurthy day, different types of sundals willbe making in South India, especially in Tamil Nadu. My mother used to prepare verity of sundals. This time, i tried to make little different. I am adding sweet corn and pomegranate. Most of us are not add onions, since it is a festival recipe. I am also not added the onions. This is very tasty and healthy sundal. My daughter liked very much. I am vary glad to share with you all this tasty Sundal recipe. Happy Ganesha chathurthy festival for all.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

Chickpea	:	1 Cup
Sweet corn	:	2 Tsp
Pomegranate	:	1 Tsp
Oil	:	1 Tsp
Mustard seeds	:	1/4 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	Few
Red chilly	:	2 Nos
Grated coconut	:	3 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste

Method :

Soak the chickpea or white channa (chole) over night or for 7-8 hours. Pressure cook the soaked chickpea with adding salt. Boil the sweet corn and keep it aside. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. After mustard pops, add curry leaves, red chilly and cooked chickpea and sweet corn and mix well.

Add grated coconut and mix well.

After mixing well, transfer to the serving plate, garnish with pomegranate seeds.

Try this tasty sundal and enjoy the festival. 

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Chole bhature - Bhature recipe

Chole bhature is a very famous Punjabi dish. I used to have this in many times in restaurants when i was in Delhi. The Bhuture will be very soft and the size also very big in many restaurants. It will be very tasty when we have with chole masala. I already posted the chole masala recipe. Now, i am going to make the bhature for chole recipe. Let us prepare the soft and tasty Bhature.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Quantity	:	10 Nos
Soaking time	:	3 Hrs

Ingredients :

Maida	:	8 Tsp
Milk	:	1/2 Glass
Baking powder	:	1/2 Tsp
Sugar	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	1 Tsp
Oil	:	For fry

Method :
In a bowl, take 8 teaspoon of maida or all purpose flour. In center, add all the ingredients.

Mix well and make a smooth dough. Add some oil and knead the dough well and cover with an wet cloth.

After one and a half an hour, knead the dough well and make 10 equal size balls in the dough.

Again cover the balls with the wet cloth for 1 hour.

After 1 hour, using chapathy roller, sread the dough balls as puri one by one.

Heat oil in a pan, fry the puries well.

After the puri fried well, transfer to the serving plate and serve with chole masala.

Try this yummy soft bhature with chole and share your valuable comments...

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Chole bhature - Chole masala recipe (Chickpea masala)

Chole bhature is one of the favorite dish in Punjab. Making of bhature also different from normal puries. This weekend, i tried chole bhature and my family members liked very much. My daughter liked very much and she ate extra one bhature. This is very tasty, healthy curry and easy to prepare also.

Health benefits :

Chole or chickpea is having a lot of health benefits. It is having Vitamins, minerals, protein, calories, carbohydrates and a lot of omega-3 fatty acids. It is having 365 calories per 100 gm of chickpea. So it is very healthy for growing children.   

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	20 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Chickpea	:	100 Gm
Oil	:	3 Tsp
Fennel seeds	:	1 Tsp
Onion	:	2 Nos
Tomato	:	2 Nos
Grated ginger	:	1 Tsp
Chopped garlic	:	1 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	Few
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 1/2 Tsp
Coriander powder	:	2 Tsp
Cumin seed powder	:	1 Tsp
Garam masala	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste

Method :

Soak the chickpea in over night. Morning or after 8 hrs, pressure cook the chole by leaving 5-6 whistles.

Heat oil in a pan, add fennel seeds. Add nicely chopped onions and saute well till gets golden brown color.

Add ginger, garlic and saute. Add chopped tomato and saute till the tomato smashed. Add all the masala powders and salt.

Add cooked chickpea with the water and cook for 15 minutes.

After 15-20 minutes of cooking, transfer to the serving bowl and serve with bhature or chapathy, naan.

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Chicken biriyani

Chicken biriyani is my husband's very favorite dish. He ask me to prepare very often. I already posted Mutton biriyani and Chicken dhum biriyani. This is i learnt from one of my friend. She prepared very nice when we have gone to my husband's friend house. The taste was very nice. She prepared with basmathy rice. But i am going to prepare with biriyani rice. That is Jeera rice (Jeeraga samba). We can get it from all grocery shops. When we prepare with this rice, we can get great aroma for biriyani and very good taste. Let us prepare the tasty Chicken biriyani.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	20 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Jeera rice	:	1 Cup
Chicken	:	250 Gm
Oil+ Ghee	:	4-5 Tsp
Cinnamon	:	2 Pcs
Bay leaf	:	1 No
Cloves	:	3 Nos
Cardamon	:	1 No
Onion	:	1 No
Ginger garlic paste	:	2 Tsp
Tomato	:	1 No
Chilly Dhaniya powder	:	2 Tsp
Garam masala	:	1 Tsp
Cumin seed powder	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
Mint leaves	:	Few
Coriander leaves	:	Few
Lime juice	:	2 Tsp

Curd                             :  1 Cup

Method :
Wash the chicken pieces well with adding turmeric powder. Heat oil and ghee in a pressure cooker, add cinnamon, bay leaf, cloves and cardamon. Add onion slices, chopped mint and coriander leaves and saute well.

Add Ginger garlic paste and saute till the raw smell goes. Add tomato, saute well.

Add washed chicken pieces and saute. Add all the masala powders and  sour-less curd.

Add rinsed rice and fry a little. Add lemon juice and water in 1:2 ratio.

Close the pressure cooker with the lid and wait for 20 minutes in low flame or allow 2 whistles to come.
After 20 Minutes, wait for 5 minutes for pressure release. Open the lid, mix slightly and transfer to the serving dish and serve hot.

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