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Carrot Halwa – a seasonal delight
Indian cooking highly emphasizes eating right for the season and using seasonal produces. We have festivals based on change of season and harvests; and dishes based on the ingredients available in a season. Winter is the season for undhiyu, thiruvathira … Continue reading
Kesari Bath/Sooji Halwa
Kesari bath/sooji halwa is one of my favorite sweets. It is a common neivedyam (food offering made to God) and a sweet served along with breakfast at Palakkad Iyer weddings. It is made even when there is no special occasion … Continue reading
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Tagged amma's evening snacks, breakfast item at Palakkad Iyer wedding, camphor, cardamom, easy sweet dish, elaichi, ghee, halwa, ISCKON Juhu, kesari, kesari bath, Mani's Cafe, milk, neivedyam, offering to God, pacha karpooram, prasadam, saffron, semolina, sooji, sooji halwa
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Pazham Nurukku/Jaggery Coated Plantain/Steamed Plantain
Plantains are an integral part of Onam, the harvest festival of Kerala. Malayalis cannot think of an Onam without plantains. Keralites leverage plantain in all its forms and age. Raw plantains are deep fried and salted or jaggery coated to … Continue reading
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Tagged amma's evening snacks, authentic Kerala dessert, banana, breakfast, cardamom, cooked plantain, ela ada, etham pazham nurukku, ghee, healthy sweet snack, jaggery, Kerala sweet, nenthra pazham nurukku, onam, Onam breakfast, pazham nurukku, plantain, sharkara, steamed plantain, sugar, Thiruvonam special
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Enna Pothi/Sweet Pouches
A fitting follower to Ela Ada, my previous post. The ingredients are the same as ela ada. Just that the proportions are different and they are mixed differently. These are little steamed pouches of a mixture of rice, jaggery, jackfruit … Continue reading
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Tagged 4 mani palaharam, anupurath pisharam special, arippodi, banana leaf, cardamom, cardamom powder, chakka varattiyathu, cinnamon leaf, elaichi, enna pothi, ghee, healthy sweet, jackfruit jam, jaggery, mundur palaharam, mundur specialty, oil-free dessert, oil-free sweet, raw rice, raw rice flour, sharkara, sweet idli, sweet pouches
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Sharkara Payasam (Sweet Pongal)
People in different parts of India celebrate each festival in their own unique ways. In South, Makara Sankranti is a harvest festival. One of the items made with the newly harvested rice is Sharkara Payasam or Sweet Pongal. Back home we do not have … Continue reading
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Tagged cardamom, coconut, elaichi, ghee, harvest festival, Jan 15, Jayettan's neivedyam, kalkandam, makara sankranti, nei, neivedyam, payasam, sharkara, sweet pongal, vijayadashami
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Unni Appam
Sweet balls, crisp on the outside and soft inside. The dessert of the Gods! Ingredients: Rice flour* – 1-1/2 cups Jaggery/molasses – 1 cup Plantain – 2 (tiny yellow ones, Elaichi kela in Mumbaiya hindi, rasa kadali in malayalam) Cardamom … Continue reading
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Tagged cardamom, coconut, dessert, ghee, jaggery, plantain, rice flour, unni appam
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