Aluwadi ( Karwari Style )

 

Crispy Crunchy tasty Aluwadi .

Authentic Karwari style aluwadi made with rice, dal and coconut.

Once you eat these yummy aluwadi you will always want to make them the same way.

Undalka - steamed sweet

 

A Traditional Naivedyam Recipe from Karnataka prepared during Ganesha / Vinayaka Chaturthi.

Steamed rice balls coated with coconut jaggery mixture .

This delicious sweet tastes yummy when served warm.

Do try this healhy non fried sweet and give us your feed back in comments sections.

Sweet Mushti Kadubu

This is a very traditional naivedyam for Ganesha Chaturthi Festival .

This recipe is very tasty, delicious and healthy too.

These kadabus are shaped with fist and hence the name Mushti kadabu.

The word mushti means fist.

It hardly takes 15-20 minutes for the whole procedure .

So do try this lovely naivedyam for Ganapati Bappa this year.

Patolya / Patole / Patoli

 

Patolya / Patole / Patoli is a very delicious konkani sweet recipe prepared stuffing coconut and jaggery mixture inside a turmeric leaf coated with rice flour batter.

This sweet is usually made during rainy season when fresh Haldi paan ( Turmeric leaves) are available .

Haldi leaves give these pancakes a really lovely flavour and the aroma is simply irresistible.

You can steam them in banana leaf too if haldi leaf is not available.

These steamed sweet pancakes tastes best when consumed hot with ghee.

Do try them at home and share your feedback in the comments below.

Steamed Jackfruit Wheels - For Shhh Cooking Secretly Challenge

From this month I am a member of a very interesting new group called shhh-cooking-secretly-challenge  cook  started by Priya Suresh . In this we are paired with other blogger and we tell the ingredients to each other with which we need to cook. We are not supposed to reveal the ingredients before posting the entry and thats actually very exciting as to each one keeps guessing the ingredients.We are supposed to post out entry between 16th - 18th of every month and till then other then the pair no one else knows that the dish is cooked with which ingredients. Isn't it very interesting. If you too want to join this challenge please check here.  This month I was paired with Hema Vijay  who has a very nice collection in her blog aromatic-cooking  please check her blog for many wonderful recipes. She gave me the ingredients Jackfruit and rice and I decided to make these delicious steamed wheels . They were yummy.

Ingredients :

2 cups .......................rice flour
2 cups........................water
1 tsp............................ghee
salt
200 gm .....................jackfruit (8 -10  individual portions )
1/2 cup.....................fresh scraped coconut
1/4 cup....................sugar ( if needed)

Method :


Discard the seeds of jackfruit and chop them finely.

In a vessel add little ghee and roast the scraped coconut.

Now add sugar to it and when it starts melting switch off the gas.

Add the chopped jackfruit and mix well and keep aside.

Now boil water in a pan with ghee and salt .

When it starts boiling add rice flour and mix both very well.

Switch off the gas and keep the pan covered for 15 minutes.

When the mixture is still warm knead it carefully to a semi soft dough.

Make 3 to 4 balls of this dough.

Roll each ball into a round of 8 inches diameter.

Spread the above mixture of jackfruit evenly on this rolled chapati and make a roll.

Steam this roll in a idli maker or even a cooker without keeping the pressure.

Steam for 20 to 25 minutes.

When cool cut into wheels .

While serving make them little warm in oven and serve with a spoonfull of ghee.



We also have a very cute logo for this event made by Divya . Thanks Divya for making such a wonderful logo for all of us.

Ukdiche Modak

Ukdiche modak are loved by all and really don't need any introduction as such.
Till day I have rarely come across a person whose face hasn't lit up at the idea of eating hot ukdiche modak with pure ghee dripping over it.
Its a heavenly feeling ..........personally to be experienced.............

Ingredients :

For the filling :

2 cups...................fresh coconut grated
1 1/2 cup...................jaggery
3 to 4 tbsp.................milk powder
1 tbsp......................charoli (chironji)
1 tbsp................kismis (raisins)
1/2 tbsp.................freshly crushed cardomom powder
1 tbsp.....................ghee

For the covering :

2 cups....................rice flour for modak (bought ready made )
2 cups ..................water
1/2 tsp..................salt
1 tbsp.....................ghee
1 tbsp...................sugar

Method :


For the filling :


Mix the grated coconut with jagerry pieces and ghee and heat till the jagerry melts.

Add charoli, kismis, cardamom powder and stir till little sticky.

In the end add milk powder and mix well.

Remove from the fire and let it cool.

Instead of milk  powder you can also add 3 - 4 crushed pedhas or barfees if you have .

Then according reduce the quantity of jaggery.




For the cover :


Heat 2 cups water with salt , sugar and ghee.

When it is about to boil add the rice flour and mix well .

Cover the lid and keep just for 2 minutes.

Switch off the gas and mix well.

When still warm knead it well into a soft smooth dough.

Keep the dough covered with a wet muslin cloth.


Method to make modaks : 

Take a lemon sized ball and flatten it into a thin round puri shape with fingers. 

If you find using fingers difficult then you can also roll it into a round puri. 

Now take this puri on your palm and make pinches with your fingers all over the edges as shown in the video.

Put 1 tbsp filling in the centre. 

Now carefully bring all the edges close together and form a modak shape as shown in the video. 

Spread a wet muslin cloth on a plate and keep the modaks on the plate. 

Keep this plate in a steamer or a pressure cooker without the pressure. 

Steam for half an hour. 

While serving serve hot with ghee. 

Linking this to festive food ganesh chaturthi @ priti's  indiankhanna

and also to Sharan's  vinayagar-chaturthi-festival-event

and  Indrani's event @   festivals-of-india