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Jan4

Kalkandu Pongal recipe / Sugarcandy Pongal / How to make karkandu pongal in pressure cooker

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As I shared in my earlier blogs about the home, interiors and stated that “Healthy Home leads to Healthy Life”, when it comes to cleanliness I am more conscious about it. So I use to clean my kitchen at least once in a month. During festivals the cleaning would become a little toughest job, because not only kitchen, but we need to clean the whole house.

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Pongal is one among the most important Tamilian dish prepared on Pongal festival (Tamilian festival). Usually people prepare Pongal with coconut jaggery (vellam) and here I have prepared the same dish with Kalkandu/Rock Candy. This is one of festive recipe prepared among all tamilians. Also check out my Karkandu Pongal / Rockcandy Pongal below…

It tastes delicious and had good texture with the combination of milk, ghee/clarified butter, roasted nuts, green gram dal and raw rice, a very simple, easy and healthy recipe. It is also a favorite dish for kids. Let us move on to the recipe…

 

Kalkandu Pongal / Karkandu Pongal / Rockcandy Pongal

Kalkandu Pongal / Karkandu Pongal / Rockcandy Pongal

Ingredients:

  • Raw rice – 1 cup
  • Greengram dal/Moong dal/Paasiparuppu – ½ cup
  • Ghee/Clarified butter – 3 tbsp
  • Rock candy / Kalkandu – ½ cup
  • Cashew nuts – 10 nos
  • Raisins – 10 nos
  • Milk – ½ litre

Making of Karkandu Pongal / Rockcandy Pongal –

Preparation:

  • Wash the rice and green gram dal/paasiparuppu/mung dal, drain the water and keep it aside.
  • Crush the rock candy/kalkandu and keep it aside.
  • Heat ½ tbsp of ghee/clarified butter in a pressure-cooker, add in the rice and green gram dal/paasiparuppu/mung dal, and cook until the raw smell goes off.
  • Pour in 3 cups of milk and a cup of water, let it boil and pressure-cook it for 3 whistles.
  • Remove the lid when the pressure subsides, the rice should be mashing consistency or should be mashed. Mash the rice and dal with a spoon (no lumps should be formed).
  • Transfer it to a non-stick kadhai and keep in medium flame.
  • Pour over the leftover milk and bring it to boil.
  • Heat a tbsp of ghee/clarified butter, add in the cashew nuts and cook until it starts turning golden brown.
  • Add in the raisins and cook until it doubles in size, pour it to the boiling rice along with the leftover ghee/clarified butter.
  • Add in the crushed kalkandu/rock candy and cook until it melts.
  • Keep on stirring once in a while, else it would be burnt.
  • Cook until it thickens and the ghee/clarified butter separates and floats on the sides of the rice.

Serve hot. Goes out well for breakfast, as an offering to god.

As a tamilian, and now heading to Pongal and other south Indian states heading to Sankaranti, and it’s believed that starting new things over pongal that may get good health and fortune year long. So To welcome prosperity & good health, we thoroughly clean our home & kitchen every Pongal. But cockroaches escape from our cleaning by hiding deep into the cracks and crevices, contaminate food and utensils behind our back to spread food poisoning. Don’t let these cockroaches disrupt your family’s health ever. Use LAL HIT not just this Pongal, but every month during the kitchen cleaning. Its unique ‘Deep Reach Nozzle’ reaches deep into the corners and crevices, and kills even the hidden cockroaches. #SayNoToFoodPoisoning.

Cleaning tips with LAL Hit
Cleaning tips with LAL Hit

I have started with my cleaning process, how about you? Do follow the above instructions for the easy, simple, painless and quick but perfect cleaning of home with LAL HIT as Health is Wealth. Wish you all a HAPPY PONGAL/SANKARANTHI from MADRAASI.

Oct9

Corn Flour Halwa / Bombay Halwa / Karachi Halwa

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Corn Flour Halwa is a very easy, simple and ready in minute’s halwa, compared to all the other halwa’s. Corn Halwa is prepared in many color by adding food color, like green, yellow, orange or red. Corn Flour Halwa has a glassy appearance, which melts in mouth with delicious taste and little crunchiness of Cashew nuts induced in the halwa. Let me share the recipe…

Taking it to Fiesta Friday #140 hosted by Angie@thenovicegarderner.

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Corn Flour Halwa / Bombay Halwa / Karachi Halwa

Corn Flour Halwa / Bombay Halwa / Karachi Halwa

Ingredients:

  • Corn Flour – 1 cup
  • Sugar – 1 ½ cup
  • Water – 1 cup + 1 ½ cups
  • Ghee / Clarified butter – 2 tbsp
  • Cardamom powder – ½ tsp
  • Cashew nuts – 15 nos (broken into pieces)
  • Food Color (red) – ¼ tsp

Making of Corn Flour Halwa / Bombay Halwa / Karachi Halwa –

Preparation:

  • Take corn flour and food color in a wide mouth bowl, pour 1 ½ cups of water, mix well, so that the corn flour dissolves well in water and make sure no lumps are formed.
  • Meanwhile, take sugar in a heavy bottom pan or kadai, pour 1 cup of water, and mix well until the sugar dissolved.
  • Cook in medium flame, until it thickens (not sugar syrup consistency, before reaching sugar syrup consistency).
  • Pour the corn flour water, keep on stirring otherwise lumps would be formed.
  • Cook in medium flame, meanwhile heat ghee/clarified butter in a kadai, add the cashew nuts and fry them until they turn golden brown in color.
  • Pour the roasted cashew nuts and ghee to the corn flour, mix well, until it comes to the halwa consistency.
  • Grease a tray with a tsp of ghee/clarified butter and transfer the halwa to the tray, spread it evenly with the backside of the spoon, sprinkle cardamom powder and let it rest for 10 mins.
  • Now gently slice the halwa into equal shapes.

Serve hot or at room temperature.

Aug21

Uppu Sedai / Uppu Seedai recipe / How to make Uppu cheedai at home – Krishna Jayanthi recipes

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Uppu sedai a most common and authentic Tamil snack. I very well remember that my grandfather use to get this uppu sedai from LALA sweet stall in our Hometown. A best munch served with tea or coffee, I and my grandfather use to soak it in coffee for 2 mins and consume it. It would be divine, only thing I was little scared that it would burst during preparation. But with little loaded guts, planned to prepare this uppu sedai for Krishna Jayanthi 😉

Uppu Seedai

Uppu Seedai

Uppu Sedai is one of the festive snack, which is prepared during Krishna Jayanathi / Janmashtami / Gokulastami and served as offering for Lord Krishna and later consumed by us.

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This was my first time, uppu seedai came out very well with soft inside and crunchy outside. Also it never got bursted. Let me share the recipe with tips…

Uppu Seedai

Uppu Seedai

Ingredients:

  • Rice flour (store bought) – 1 cup
  • Urad dal flour / White lentils flour / Ulundam maavu – 1 tbsp
  • Sesame seeds – 1 tsp
  • Melted butter – 1 ½ tbsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil for deep frying

Check out the making of Uppu Seedai, will update step by step pictures soon –

Preparation:

White Lentil flour – Dry roast white lentils in medium flame for 5 mins or until turns golden brown. Remove from fire, bring it to room temperature and grind them to a fine powder. Sieve the flour for 2 times and store it in an air tight container. Stays fresh for months time.

  • Take rice flour, urad dal flour (white lentil flour) and salt in a bowl, Mix all these together.
  • Sieve the flour 2 to 3 times (because we should only fine flour, else seedai would burst while deep frying).
  • Transfer the flour to a bowl, add sesame seeds, pour melted butter and mix all these together.
  • Pour water little by little and knead the flour to a rolled dough.
  • Take small portion of the dough and roll them gently between your palms to a ball (berry size). (roll the gently, if rolled hardly they would burst when we deep fry).
  • Place the rolled balls in a newspaper, let it rest for 5 to 10 mins.
  • Heat oil in a kadai, gently drop in few balls and deep fry them (keep on turning the sides, so that they get cook evenly).
  • Cook only in medium flame (so that they cooked completely), drain the oil and remove from fire, when they turn golden brown.
  • Transfer it to a plate and serve.

Note: Stays fresh for 4 to 5 days in an air-tight container, once they come to room temperature.

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