Malpua

 Here I am with double great news !!!! My sweet little blog turns one,this september and Rohith is going to get a little brother soon .Yes I am due for a lilliput.And thats the reason,I am not regular in blogging. Pretty much excited in celebrating the double joy with Malpua.I would thank all my friends,fellow bloggers for extending their hands to support me.I owe to u a lot dearies.Also to my beloved husband,who takes pain in giving comments to my new creatons.
 This recipe,originally is my friend saras' s ,where I have altered a bit.She prepared it in one of our pot luck,which was a great hit.We all loved it.

Ingredients:
1.Condensed milk          -         350 gm (1can)
2.Milk                            -        1 cup
3.All purpose flour        -        1 cup
4.Rice flour                   -         3 tbsp
5.Kowa                          -         1/2 cup (grated)
6.Baking pwdr               -          a pinch
7.Sugar                           -          1 1/2 cup
8.Cardamom pwdr          -         a pinch

Method:
For Malpua:
* Take a mixing bowl,add the rice flour,all purpose flour and baking pwdr .
* Mix them well.
* Now add milk slowly to the mixture and form it into a batter consistency.
* At last add the condensed milk and let it get coated well with the mixture.
* Rest the malpua mixture for an hour.
* Take a shallow pan,add oil .Heat the oil to medium heat.
* Now take a small laddle full of the batter and pour it on the oil.
* Let it cook for a minute or untill, it gets a nice golden yellow colour.
* Flip it and cook it on the other side.
* Take out and strain the excess oil.

Making of sugar syrup:
* Mean while,take a heavy bottomed pan,add sugar .
* Pour water ,so that the sugar gets fully covered.
* Bring the syrup to boil ,untill u get a string consistancy.
* Turn it off and add cardamom pwdr.

Now take the malpuas,and immerse it in the sugar syrup for a minute and take it out.Store it in air tight containers and enjoy.

Note:
* Make sure ,malpuas are not cooked hard.
* Immerse the malpuas into the ugar syrup,immediately after taking from the oil.

Vinayagar Chathurthi Special - Pidi Kozhukattai

I wish all my friends and fellow bloggers a very happy Vinayagar Chathurthi.Let  god shower u with abundant wealth and health.Today I prepared sundal,pidi kozhukattai,vadai,Brinjal & drumstick sambhar,Potato kaara kari,Paruppu rasam for the neivedhyam.Here I am giving the recipe of pidi kohukattai.

Ingredients:
1.Rice Flour             -          1 cup

2.Jaggery                  -           3/4 cup

3.Water                     -           1/2 cup

4.Grated coconut       -           2 tbsp

5.Ghee                       -           1 tbsp

6.Cardamom pwdr     -           a pinch

Method:

* Dry roast the rice flour and keep it aside.

* Take a mixing bowl,add roasted flour,grated coconut,salt and ghee.

* Take the jaggery in a pan and dissolve the jaggery.

* Filter the impurities and again bring it to boil.

* Now add the jaggery to the flour and knead it into a soft dough.
* Grease your hand with oil or ghee .

* Divide them eqaully and form cylyndrical shaped dumplings.

* Press the dumplings softly,to bring it to the desired shape.

Note:

* Dont add too much water.If the mixture is watery,then we can adjust the dough,by adding some flour.

* If u think,jaggery is more,then u can take just 1/2 cup,instead of 3/4 cup.