Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Vella (Sweet) Cheedai

Ingredients:
  • 1 cup rice flour (wash , drain and pound )
  • 3 tea spoons (fried and powdered) udad dal powder
  • 1sp ghee
  • 2 -3 tea sp. coconut
  • 3/4 cup Jaggery (grated)
  • 1 sp seasome seeds
  • salt a pinch
  • 1/2 sp cardamom powder
  • Oil to fry


Method:
  • Dry fry rice flour and try to put a line by holding the flour in between your
  • fingers , like when you put kolam / rangoli.
  • If the line comes stright with out gap, stop frying and keep aside.
  • In a deep pan put jaggery and water. let it dislove.
  • Remove and filter it. Again keep the jaggery water on the stove.
  • Add the fried flour, udad powder, ghee, salt, coconut, cardamom powder and
  • seasome seeds and mix well.
  • Remove from the fire and mix well. That should be like chappati dough
  • Pinch the dough and make small balls and spread them on a cloth.
  • Do all the dough and then start frying.
  • Remove the fried vella cheedai from the oil when they become golden brown.


Notes:
  • lean seasame seeds well, if there is any mud in that the
  • cheedai will bust.
  • Ghee will render the cheedai very crisp, so this is a must.

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Magizhambu Thenkuzhal (Manamkumbu)

Ingredients:
  • cups rice flour
  • 1 cup besan
  • 2 - 3 tea sp. sesame seeds (white or black)
  • a pinch asafoetida
  • 2 - 3 sp butter
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil to fry.


Method:
  • Mix all the ingredients well and make soft dough.
  • Heat oil in a pan. Take Thenkuzhal achu and put the mullu muruku disc.
  • Now put one hand full dough in that.
  • Press on the hot oil, and make round magizhambu thenkuzhal/
  • manamkumbu/mulluhenkkuzhal.
  • Turn it once and wait for 2 min. or till it becomes golden brown.
  • Check the crispness by puting one piece on the floor.
  • Do all the dough and keep the Magizhambu Thenkuzhal in a air tight
  • container.

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Butter Muruku

Ingredients:
  • 1 cup ( wash rice, dry it and pound it)
  • 2 - 3 sp Butter
  • 3 sp udad powder ( fried and powdered)
  • 2 -3 tea sp. coconut
  • a pinch asafoetida
  • 1 sp cumin seeds
  • salt to taste
  • Oil to fry


Method:
  • Mix all the ingredients and make a soft dough with little water.
  • In a cloth make murukus and after finishing all the dough, heat oil
  • and start frying them.
  • At a time you can put 4 to 5 murukus in the oil and remove them when they
  • become golden brown.
  • If you want to check the crispness just put one muruku on the flour, (dont through) just put , if it cracks in to many pieces, then it is good.
  • Store it in a air tight container after it cools.

Thiratu Pal (1)

Ingredients:
  • This is a very delicious sweet and you can prepare this in two ways. This is
  • very important sweet and we use to prepare this for all our functions.
  • Ingredients:
  • 1 lt full cream milk
  • 200 gms sugar
  • 1/4 cardamom powder (optional)


Method:
  • Pour the milk in a deep big vessel. Stand near the stove and watch.
  • Sim the flame and allow it to reduce like a paste.
  • Add sugar and increase the flame.
  • And when it becomes thick and light pink in colour,
  • remove from the fire.
  • And put it in an air tight container, after it reaches room temp.


Notes:
  • you can use jaggery instead of sugar to prepare this. If you use jaggery use 250gms.

Salt Cheedai

Ingredients:
  • 1 cup rice flour ( wash rice, dry it and pound it)
  • 3 tea spoons (fried and powdered) udad dal powder
  • 2 sp butter
  • 2 -3 tea sp. coconut
  • a pinch asafoetida
  • 1 sp seasome seeds
  • salt to taste
  • Oil to fry


Method:
  • Mix rice flour, udad powder, butter, salt, coconut,asafoetida and seasome
  • seeds and mix well.
  • Then slowly add water and mix well.
  • Pinch the dough and make tiny little balls and spread on a cloth.
  • Do all the dough and then start frying.
  • Remove the fried salt cheedai from the oil when they become golden brown


Notes:
  • clean seasame seeds well, if there is any mud in that the
  • cheedai will bust.
  • Butter will render the cheedai very crisp, so this is a must.

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