My Prasadams for Navaratri !

you can make sundal with horse gram. kidney beans, rajma or any other gram as per your wish. Here are some tips to make sundal more delicious.


You can grind chilly ginger and salt. After seasoning first add the cooked gram and then this mixture.
Mix well and this powder will coat all the dhal or gram evenly and taste will be super.

You can add tomatoes instead of mango/ lemon.

You can fry coconut in a seperate pan and then add to the sundal. This will keep sundal's shelf life for more hours. You can use sheared coconut also.

If you are not going to keep the sundal as 'naivediam' you can add onion or garlic in that as per your taste.

Ingredients:

Horse gram - 1 cup
Chopped onion - 2 tbs (optional)
Grated coconut - 2 tbs
Oil - 1/2 tbs
Dried red chillies - 3
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Urad dal - tsp
Curry leaves - a few
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste

Method:

Soak the horse gram over night.

Wash and cook next day in a pressure cooker with salt till done.

Drain and keep aside.

Heat the oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, urad dal, cumin seeds, dried red chillies and curry leaves.

Stir for few seconds. Add the onion. Add a pinch of salt if necessary.

Add grated coconut and stir for a while.

Add the cooked horse gram and serve hot.

Another Great thread of yours . Really nice to see your receipes. Thanks for spending time for us.

Love
Preethi

Ingredients:

100 gms black sesame seeds
100 gms powdered jaggery
1/2 sp cardamom powder

Method:

Clean sesame seeds and dry fry them.

(You can add powdered jaggery and cardamom in that as it is and use.)

Put them in a mixer grinder with jaggery and cardamom powder.

Just powder it and remove from the mixer.

Your yummy 'ellu podi' is ready.

I have already given the recipe of 'appam' so I am giving the link here.

Please click on that. Appam

Hello Krishnamma,(Sumati Madam)
I had been u r thread how to make prasadams for the festival. All the prasadams(esp.sundals) are all fantastic. Really to say just i was reading all the prasadams they are all mouth watering.(But shd not give before nivedyam) One thing i did not understood the word karamani. Pl tell me how it will be. I will prepare all of them . Very good information . Thank u for sharing with us. Keep on sharing good things and also give good advises coz u r sharing and suggestions r needed.

Pl share u r other info too

Bye
Sudha Batni....

Hi Sudha,

Thank you for your mail. I think in Hindi they call 'karamani' as 'Chowla' .
Karamani is Choli or Chola in Gujarati, Chowli in Hindi,also known asLobia in Hindi and urdu.
Black eyed beans in english in dry state and string beans when a green vegetable.

(Please go and see in 'Misc. Forum" and check the name in "English to Hindi" Grocery thread).

Ingredients:

1/2 Kg. Parboiled rice
400gms. Jaggery
1/2 sp turmeric powder
6 Cardomam (make powder)
1/4 cup coconut grated
2 sp cahsewnuts crushed
1 sp ghee
1 pinch salt


Method:

Dry fry the rice till it become some what 'big ' and smells good.
Keep aside. Bring it to room temp.
Then make like powder by using Mixer.
In a deep vessel put the rice flour and add turmeric powder.
Add salt and 2 tab. sp water. Mix well. Dont pour more water.
Just sprinkle and mix well. Try to make a ball out of it.
If you can then break it. If you could do this, then dont add more water.
Or otherwise just sprinkle little more water and try to do the above again.
Now Put this in a cooker vessel and cook it like 'Idly' (without putting the weight)
After opening the cooker, you just check whether it cooked or not.
Take a pinch of the cooked flour and rub it with your two fingers.
If the flour turned like a thread then the cooking is over.
It is ready. If you can do that , keep it again in the cooker and cook for some more time.
Remove from the cooker and bring it to the room temp.
Mix well with hands without any lumps.
Fry cashew nuts in 1 sp ghee and keep aside.
Now, in a deep pan pour 50 ml water and put crushed jaggery and when it melts filter it.
Make syrup out of it.
The syrup should become thick enough, so that when you add a drop of it in a vessel of water, it should solidify immediately.
When the syrup reaches this stage remove from the stove and add the cooked flour in syrup.
Mix well. Add cardamom powder, grated coconut and fried cashew nuts.
The 'puttu' is ready and it must be like 'dry sand' after adding the jaggery.

Actually it is some what difficult to make this. But you can try and do it. All the best.

Originally Posted by preethi27

Another Great thread of yours . Really nice to see your receipes. Thanks for spending time for us.

Love
Preethi

Sorry Preethi,

I missed your post. Thank you for your words. It means a lot to me.

Hi ladies,

Here is my "Naivediam and Menu for Saraswati Pooja".

Moor Kuzhumbu with vada in it.
Beans Parrupu Usuli
Tomato Rasam
Plain Vadai
Applam and
Cooked rice payasam.

In the evening I will make 'white channa sundal'

What about you ladies?