Diwali wishes and Paramannam (rice pudding)

WE WISH YOU

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VERY HAPPY, HEALTHY, PROSPEROUS, VIBRANT & COLOURFUL

DIWALI.............

MAY ALL YOUR WISHES BE COME TRUE....

Paramannam or rice payasam is the most common prasadam in andhra.In my house mom used to make this for every festival as this is the most favourite dessert.Paramannam can be done with both sugar and jaggery but i prefer jaggery.This sweet can be eaten both warm or cold.

Ingredients:-

Raw Rice washed and drained 2 cups
Grated jaggery 1/2 cup
Milk 1 liter
Green cardamom 2 (crushed)
Fried cashewnuts and raisins for garnish
1 tbsp ghee(clarified butter)for frying cashewnuts and raisins

Method:-

Soak rice for 1 hour.

Drain water from the rice after one hour and add milk.

Cook till the rice is soft and if needed add little water or milk.

Mean while fry cashewnuts and raisins in the ghee.

Once the rice is cooked and is soft switch off the stove and add grated jaggery,cashewnuts and raisins.

Mix throughly and cover it until served.

PS:-After adding jaggery don't cook payasam,if cooked it will split.

The prasadams i made today.

My laxmi poja.

Bellam Kommulu (sweet muruku) -- Diwali special

Ingredients:-

Channa flour (chanaga pindi) 1 kg
Rice flour 1 cup
Jaggery (bellam) 500 gms
Elachi 2 (powdered)
Ghee 250 gms
Oil for deep frying



Method:-

Mix channa flour and rice flour thoroughly.Warm ghee and add it to the channa flour.Make a soft dough by adding little water.
Now slowly add water and knead a dough which is little more softer than the puri dough.

Heat a kadai with oil enough to deep fry. Once the oil is hot enough, simmer to low flame.



Take the big holes Muruku Aachu, wash and wipe it clean. Then divide the dough into equal balls.
Fill the Muruku maker with the dough. You can either press it directly in the oil or press over a paper or plate and gently slide it down into the hot oil.


Press muruku in the hot oil.Let it cook for 1 min and turn it.Once the bubbles in the oil reduces,then the muruku is done,mostly it will be in light brown colour.Remove it from the hot oil and press muruku with the left over dough.



In a another big vessel take jaggery,elachi and little water.Boil until thick,to check whether the syrup is done or not,take a small plate with little water,add the a tsp syrup and when touched with finger if it forms a ball than the syrup is done.Keep it down on the floor.

Break the muruku into small pcs and add it to the syrup.Don't mix it with spoon or ladle,just hold the bowl with cloth on both the sides and turn the vessel so that all the muruku is coated with the jaggery syrup.Remove and let it cool.Store in a air tight container.It taste best after one day.



This muruku i made it for the first time and it tasted quite well.But one major disaster was averted.Usually i press the muruku directly into the hot oil.Some how my instinct told me not to do, so i pressed few on a plate and transferred them into the hot oil.After finishing two batches when i tried to press another one on the plate the muruku press spring and the handle came off with much pressure that the top lid of the muruku pressing machine came off,had it been on the hot oil i would have got burn injuries and my baby was also present in the kitchen.Later i didn't had courage to make anything with the left dough.So i want to tell my readers/friends to be careful in using muruku pressing machine.The below picture says everything.
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Have a wonderful and SAFE Diwali.

Perugu Garalu (Dahi Vada)

Ingredients:-

Udad dal 500 gms
Curd (thick) 1 liter
Green chillies 2
Salt as per taste
Oil for deep frying

Seasoning:-

Udad dal 1/2 tsp
Rai 1/4 tsp
Red chilly dry 2
Curry leaves few
Oil 2 tbsp

Method:-

Soak udad dal for 3-4 hours.

Blend yogurt for few minutes.Add salt and mix well.

Heat oil add all the seasonings and when they splutter add it to the yogurt.Keep aside.

Grind udad dal into thick paste without adding water.

Wet a plastic sheet with little water and take a lemon sized balls and flatten it on the sheet and make a hole in the center so that vada cooks evenly.

Slowly drop the vada in the oil and cook till golden colour on both sides.

Take it out and immediately dip it in a bowl of water and transfer it to the yogurt mixture. Let the vada soak in yogurt for atleast half hour.

PS:-By dipping the vadas in the water will keep vada soft in the yogurt or else vada will become thick after dipping in the yogurt.

Kajjikaya/Gujjiyas

Kajjikayalu is famous andhra sweet which is made for dusheera or diwali.The main ingredients for the stuffing are the sooji/semolina/bombay rava,sugar,dry coconut and deep fried.I made this for dusheera and made few changes like adding dry dates and roasted chickpeas instead of poppy seeds to the filling.

Ingredients:-

Maida 500gms

Bombay rava/semolina 500 gms

Salt 1/2 tsp

Milk 1 cup

For filling:-

Bombay rava/semolina 500 gms

Nuvullu/Sesame 200 gms

Poppy seeds 100 gms (as i don't get khus khus here i used putnalu pappu/roasted chickpeas)

Dry coconut 1 (finely grated)

Dry fruits (cashewnuts,raisins or any dry fruit of your choice)

Dry dates 10 (finely chopped)

Elachi 5

Oil for deep frying

Method:-

Dry roast rava,sesame and poppy seeds separately.As i have used putnalu,i crushed it.

Mix all the fillings and keep aside.

Mix maida,rava and salt thoroughly.Add milk and make a dough similar to puri dough but not too soft.Keep aside for half an hour.

Roll each ball into thin puri with rolling pin.

Spread 1 tablespoon of the filling on the each puri and apply little water on the edges of the puri and fold it to half.Press the edges firmly.If you have the mould than it is very easy to make this.

Heat enough oil for deep frying and drop kajjikayalu slowly into the oil one at time and can fry 3-4 at one go.Turn them carefully on to the other side and fry till light brown in colour.

Deep fry on medium heat.