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Taste of Mysore wishes all it's readers and visitors a very happy and prosperous deepavali.
Benne Chakkuli / Benne Muruku
Benne Chakkuli/Muruku is one of the popular snacks in Karnataka. Probably they would never say 'No' to it if you offer them a bowlful of it with coffee or tea like this :D
Caution : Highly addictive high calorie food :)
Before I sign off I would like to thank Vani of Illatharasi and Indu of Kaipakkuvam for giving me honest scrap awards. Sorry folks being honest on internet/virtual world is something scary. I mean it honestly. However I enjoyed reading many honest revelations of other bloggers and appreciate them.
Sanghi of Sanghi's Food Delights has passed on Diamond Friends award. I honor your friendship too Sanghi.
Caution : Highly addictive high calorie food :)
Here is how you make them :
Easy way :
MTR or any store bought Muruku mix - 4 cups
Ghee(Melted Butter) : 2-3 tbsp
Salt as per taste
Sesame seeds -1 tbsp
Cumin seeds - 1tsp
Omam Seeds -1tsp
Oil for deep frying. Heat oil on medium flame while to prepare the chakkuli dough.
Mix all ingredients except Ghee. Melt ghee and pour over the muruku flour.
Rub ghee and flour well. Take 1 cup of this mixture at a time and add water to make a soft dough.
Take this dough in muruku maker and press them to make long sticks. Deep Fry in hot oil over medium flame till it is golden brown.
Drain them on a absorbent paper and let them cool down before you munch them..er...keep munching...it goes on batch after batch..
Straneous Way :
Rice/Akki : 4 cups
Deskinned black lentils/Uddinabele : 1 and 1/4 cups
Wash and soak rice and lentils separately for 2 hrs.
Drain water and let them dry separately in a shady area.
When both the ingrediants are thoroughly dried they are milled/powdered together to make flour/fine powder.
Use 4 cups of the above flour and follow the procedure given above in the 'Easy Way' omitting 'Muruku mix'
Tasty Benne Chakkuli for you all with little art...
Before I sign off I would like to thank Vani of Illatharasi and Indu of Kaipakkuvam for giving me honest scrap awards. Sorry folks being honest on internet/virtual world is something scary. I mean it honestly. However I enjoyed reading many honest revelations of other bloggers and appreciate them.
Sanghi of Sanghi's Food Delights has passed on Diamond Friends award. I honor your friendship too Sanghi.
Hesarumolake Dose/ Moongbean Sprout Dosa
A protein rich treat to vegetarian's. Not sure if this is called pesarattu in Andhra as I have never tasted pesarattu. However, this version of moongbean sprout dosa tasted delicious. Try it to know it :) .It can be classified under instant dosa category if you buy sprouted moong bean from supermarket ;)
Though I am a big fan of sprouts I could have not eaten sprouts equivalent to 2 dosas........Recipe Courtesy : http://greenjackfruit.blogspot.com/2005/05/world-in-pancake-adai-or-sprouted-mung.html and
http://www.nandyala.org/mahanandi/archives/2005/06/12/sprouted-moong-dal-dosa/
My Variation : Added Semolina to dosa batter to make crispy dosas
Ingredients:
Hesarumolake kaalu /Moongdal Sprouts : 2 cups
Ginger+garlic+greenchilli paste : 1/2 tsp
RedChillies :3
Corainder leaves : 10 lines
1.Grind all the ingredients above to make a smooth paste without using water or using very little water.
Onions : 1 medium (finely chopped)
Semolina: 3-4 tbsp
Jeerige/Cumin : 1/2 tsp
Salt
2. Add the above ingredients to ground paste and mix well. Add little water and adjust the consistency of the batter to normal dosa batter consistency.
3.Heat tava and smear oil. Ladle a spoonfull of batter over the tava and spread the batter with the back of the spoon. Close the lid and let it cook for 30 sec-1 min. Turn over and roast.
4. Enjoy protein filled dosas with your favorite chutney. We devoured it with coconut chutney.
Caution : To avoid any kind of disappointments please try with small quantity of sprouts. We liked it :)
Since Dosa can be eaten any time of the day this healthy dosa goes to WYF-breakfast event by EC and Cooking for Kids-Evening Snack hosted by Divya of Dil Se. Happy hosting both of you.
Karida Kadubu/Karjikayi
All readers must have enjoyed Ganesh chaturthi feast. We too enjoyed celebrating the festival and feast :D . I made two types of Karida kadubu (deep fried Kadubu) for Ganesh chaturthi. Hoornada Karjikayi (sweetned dal filled Kadubu) and Kadlehittina Karjikayi (sweetened roasted&powdered chickpea filled Kadubu).
Dear friend Mangala has sent me Ganesh Chaturthi picture. They enjoyed celebrating it. Thanks for the picture Mangala.
Hoornada Karjikayi:
The stuffing is made of split pigeon peas/togari bele/toor dal/arhar ki dal , jaggery/gur/gud and cardamom/elaichi/elakki
You need them to make Hoorna or stuffing 1 :
split pigeon peas/togari bele/toor dal/arhar ki dal - 1 cup
Water - 5 cups
Jaggery - 1 cup
Turmeric: 1tsp
Gasagase/Khus Khus : 1 tbsp
Ghee : 1tbsp
Raisins and cashewnuts : 2 tbsp
Method:
1.Bring 5 cups of water, turmeric to boil. Add split pigeon peas/togari bele/toor dal/arhar ki dal cover and cook.
2.Watch the vessel carefully as the water might spil, reduce the flame and cook for next 5-10 mins . Spoon out little dal and check whether the outer rim of the peas is cooked, if it is then switch off the gas and let the peas sit in hot water.
You can happily finish other kitchen work till the hot water of peas comes back to room temperature.
3.Decant the water from peas and add grated jaggery to it. Mix it over low flame till jaggery melts. Let it cool again. Reserve the water to make a sweet and spicy holige saaru*
4.Grind cooked peas in a mixer grinder with very very little water (only if required) to make a smooth yet thick paste of peas and jaggery.
5. Pan fry gasagase and powder it. Heat 1 tbsp of ghee and fry cashew and raisins till they are brown in color. Add powdered gasagase, fried cashew and raisins to the above peas and jaggery paste and mix well.
Ingredients for making Karjikayi Skin :
Madia Hittu/ Plain Flour : 1 cup
Chiroti Rava or Fine semolina : 2tbsp
Hot oil : 1tbsp
water to mix
Mix all the above and make a tight dough.
1. Pinch small portion of the dough and roll it to make a circle of 10 cm diameter.
2. Keep the pea and jaggery stuffing/hoorna in the middle and fold over. You now have a half moon shaped karjikayi with you. Seal the edges by pressing the dough with your finger tip. You can fold the edges to give it a nice ripply edge as shown in the picture below or just leave it plain.
Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan on a medium flame. Deep fry karjikayi till they turn golden brown.
Enjoy them hot with little ghee on them!
Stuffing 2 :
Kadalehittu :
Hurkadale/Putani/Kadalepoppu/Roasted and deskinned chickpeas : 1 cup
Jaggery : 3/4 cup (if you need it less sweet) or 1 cup
Gasagase : 1 tbsp (panfried and powdered
cardamom : 1 pod
Dried Coconut : 3 tbsp (grated)
Take all the ingredients above except coconut in a coffee grinder/mixer and powder it. Add grated coconut and mix well. Stuff this inside the karjikayi skin, seal and deep fry it.
Enjoy hot :)
These two types of Karjikayi will go to Purva and Priti's Festive Food Event.
Awards and Tags :
Many thanks to Sireesha, Nivedita, ShantiKrishankumar for passing me Scrumptous Blog, Kreativ Blog, I love your blog and One lovely Blog awards to me. Few of them have tagged me too. I have already done one of the tags in my earlier post.
2) B - Best Friend ? -- My Sisters
3) C - Cake or Pie ? CAKE
4) D - Drink of choice ? TENDER COCONUT WATER .
5) E - Essential item you use every day ? Comb.
6) F - Favourite color ? Green, Purple/Lavender
7) G - Gummy Bears or Worms ? Gummy Bears
8) H - Hometown ? Mysore.
9) I - Indulgence ? Singing
10 ) J - January or February ? Both can?
11) K - Kids and their names ? 1, Akash
12) L - Life is incomplete without ? Family
13) M - Marriage date ? May 21
14) N - Number of siblings? 2
15) O - Oranges or Apples ? APPLES
16) P -- Phobias / Fears ? Heightophobia :))
17) Q - Quote for today ? Health is Wealth
18) R - Reason to smile ? Akash's innocent talk
19) S - Season ? Spring
20) T - Tag 4 people ? Sireesha, Nivedita, ShanthiKrishnakumar, Vanishree
21) U - Unknown fact about me ? I have to ask my husband
22) V - Vegetable you don't like ? none..I like all
23) W - Worst habit ? sleeping :(
24 ) X - X-rays you've had ? Someone wants them? :O
25) Y - Your favourite food ? Any tasty vegetarian food cooked with love
26 ) Z - Zodiac sign ? Aries
Dear friend Mangala has sent me Ganesh Chaturthi picture. They enjoyed celebrating it. Thanks for the picture Mangala.
The stuffing is made of split pigeon peas/togari bele/toor dal/arhar ki dal , jaggery/gur/gud and cardamom/elaichi/elakki
You need them to make Hoorna or stuffing 1 :
split pigeon peas/togari bele/toor dal/arhar ki dal - 1 cup
Water - 5 cups
Jaggery - 1 cup
Turmeric: 1tsp
Gasagase/Khus Khus : 1 tbsp
Ghee : 1tbsp
Raisins and cashewnuts : 2 tbsp
Method:
1.Bring 5 cups of water, turmeric to boil. Add split pigeon peas/togari bele/toor dal/arhar ki dal cover and cook.
2.Watch the vessel carefully as the water might spil, reduce the flame and cook for next 5-10 mins . Spoon out little dal and check whether the outer rim of the peas is cooked, if it is then switch off the gas and let the peas sit in hot water.
You can happily finish other kitchen work till the hot water of peas comes back to room temperature.
3.Decant the water from peas and add grated jaggery to it. Mix it over low flame till jaggery melts. Let it cool again. Reserve the water to make a sweet and spicy holige saaru*
4.Grind cooked peas in a mixer grinder with very very little water (only if required) to make a smooth yet thick paste of peas and jaggery.
5. Pan fry gasagase and powder it. Heat 1 tbsp of ghee and fry cashew and raisins till they are brown in color. Add powdered gasagase, fried cashew and raisins to the above peas and jaggery paste and mix well.
Ingredients for making Karjikayi Skin :
Madia Hittu/ Plain Flour : 1 cup
Chiroti Rava or Fine semolina : 2tbsp
Hot oil : 1tbsp
water to mix
Mix all the above and make a tight dough.
1. Pinch small portion of the dough and roll it to make a circle of 10 cm diameter.
2. Keep the pea and jaggery stuffing/hoorna in the middle and fold over. You now have a half moon shaped karjikayi with you. Seal the edges by pressing the dough with your finger tip. You can fold the edges to give it a nice ripply edge as shown in the picture below or just leave it plain.
Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan on a medium flame. Deep fry karjikayi till they turn golden brown.
Enjoy them hot with little ghee on them!
Another look ........
Stuffing 2 :
Kadalehittu :
Hurkadale/Putani/Kadalepoppu/Roasted and deskinned chickpeas : 1 cup
Jaggery : 3/4 cup (if you need it less sweet) or 1 cup
Gasagase : 1 tbsp (panfried and powdered
cardamom : 1 pod
Dried Coconut : 3 tbsp (grated)
Take all the ingredients above except coconut in a coffee grinder/mixer and powder it. Add grated coconut and mix well. Stuff this inside the karjikayi skin, seal and deep fry it.
Enjoy hot :)
These two types of Karjikayi will go to Purva and Priti's Festive Food Event.
Awards and Tags :
Many thanks to Sireesha, Nivedita, ShantiKrishankumar for passing me Scrumptous Blog, Kreativ Blog, I love your blog and One lovely Blog awards to me. Few of them have tagged me too. I have already done one of the tags in my earlier post.
It is the Scrumptious Blog Award -a blog award given to sites who:
Inspire you
Encourage You
May give Fabulous information
A great read
Has Scrumptious recipes
Any other reasons you can think of that make them Scrumptious!
Inspire you
Encourage You
May give Fabulous information
A great read
Has Scrumptious recipes
Any other reasons you can think of that make them Scrumptious!
Shama has tagged me for ABC's of you tag...here you go with my ABC's :
1) A - Available/Single ? Available to my husband only 2) B - Best Friend ? -- My Sisters
3) C - Cake or Pie ? CAKE
4) D - Drink of choice ? TENDER COCONUT WATER .
5) E - Essential item you use every day ? Comb.
6) F - Favourite color ? Green, Purple/Lavender
7) G - Gummy Bears or Worms ? Gummy Bears
8) H - Hometown ? Mysore.
9) I - Indulgence ? Singing
10 ) J - January or February ? Both can?
11) K - Kids and their names ? 1, Akash
12) L - Life is incomplete without ? Family
13) M - Marriage date ? May 21
14) N - Number of siblings? 2
15) O - Oranges or Apples ? APPLES
16) P -- Phobias / Fears ? Heightophobia :))
17) Q - Quote for today ? Health is Wealth
18) R - Reason to smile ? Akash's innocent talk
19) S - Season ? Spring
20) T - Tag 4 people ? Sireesha, Nivedita, ShanthiKrishnakumar, Vanishree
21) U - Unknown fact about me ? I have to ask my husband
22) V - Vegetable you don't like ? none..I like all
23) W - Worst habit ? sleeping :(
24 ) X - X-rays you've had ? Someone wants them? :O
25) Y - Your favourite food ? Any tasty vegetarian food cooked with love
26 ) Z - Zodiac sign ? Aries
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