Happy Deepavali - Malai Peda and Seedai

I wanted to add a nutritious recipe, but here is Deepavali, So I made many goodies for Deepavali. First, I would like to wish all readers, bloggers, web community and their families a Happy and Prosperous Deepavali. And here is what I made - Seedai and Malai Peda. The recipe follows:



Malai Peda

This is my mom's favourite sweet so I sent her in India Malai peda and thought of making too :-) It's a famous north indian sweet and is made in Gujarat lots. This is a short method so it needs very less time.


Ingredients:

Condensed Milk - 1 tin
Butter - 4 table spoons
Milk Powder - 8 Tablespoons
Almond/Pista - For Decoration [Almond soaked, peeled and cut into pieces]
Saffron - 8 to 10 strands


Preparation:

1. Heat a pan, add butter.
2. After butter is melted, add milk. Put the heat in sim and add milk powder slowly little by little and keep stirring.
3. Add Saffron powder and keep stirring until the mix has become a little brownish and lot thicker. You can wait until the mixture does not stick on the pan. The consistency should be as little less than halwa... ;-)
4. Remove from heat and let it cool.
5. After it is cold, make small balls out of it and press a little bit on top. Decorate it with Almond or Pistachios.
And thatz it, the making time is just 10 minutes.... So Enjoy!!


Seedai

This is a very popular festive snack in Tamil Nadu. Its tasty and an all time favourite snack.

Here it comes:




Ingredients:

Rice flour - 2 cups
Rava/Semolina - 3/4 cup
Butter - 2 table spoons
Jeera - 5 tsps
Asafoetifa/Perungayam - 2 tsps
Oil- For frying
Salt - 2 tsps or As Required


Preparation:

1. Dry Roast rice flour and Rava together(in low flame) in a pan until the raw smell goes. Once done, remove from heat, let it cool.
2. Heat the butter in a pan and when it is hot, add it to the flour rava mixture. PS: This would make sure that less oil is being used up for frying. This is my mom's super trick.
3. Add Jeera and asafoetida and mix this with some water and make sure the miture is dry such that you can make small ball of it.
4. Heat oil in a pan for frying. Now add the seedai in the oil and fry in low flame.

And Voila, here is some crunchy, crispy and tasty seedai.

I hope you liked the sweet as well as the savoury. Let me know!

This is my contribution for JFI Nov '08 Festival Treat. This is my first contribution to these round ups. I am happy that I made it this time. Thanks for hosting Srivalli.

Quick Masala Vada

Think about the masala vada ...hmmm mouth watering And I present you with a simple and a very quick version of mine! Very quick to make, simple, easy and Yummy!!! Just Yenjoy!! :-)


Ingredients:

Besan - 3/4 Cup
Rice Flour - 1/4 Cup
Rava - 1/4 Cup
Onion - 1 medium finely Chopped
Green Chilli - 1 or 2 finely chopped
Sounf/Fennel seeds - 4 tsp grinded
Ginder garlic paste - 2 tsp
Corriander Leaves - 4 Table spoons finely Chopped
Salt - as per taste
Oil - For frying

Preparation:

1. Mix all the above ingredients except oil along with water and make it in a semi solid paste such that you can make thick vadas.
2. Heat oil in the pan and by the time gently make small balls from the mixed flour and then pat it a little flat. You can make this in the palm of your hand. Just rub your palm with cold water, so that the flour does not to stick to your hands, and then make these vadas.
3. Put the vadas into the heated oil, turn and remove when golden brown.
4. You can eat it with corriander chutney or tomato chilli sauce....Yummmyyyyy

I know that this post is after a long time....Was busy shifting to my new place. But I know that after trying this recipe you would surely tell me, that I am back with a BANG!!!

Ooh ... Om Pudi

Festival comes and Mom makes Om pudi :-) This time I made it for Navrathri... Om pudi is a easy snack..easy in the sense, it goes into the mouth very easily!! ;-) And by the way this snack is good for digestion since its one of the main ingredient is omam(ajwain). Check out the recipe...



Ingredients:

Besan/Gram flour - 3 Cups
Rice Flour- 1 cup
Omam/Ajwain- 2 Table spoon
Oil - As much as needed
Chilli Powder - 1 Tsp
Salt - as much as needed

Things needed:

Press with small holes to make ompudi

Preparation:

1. Add gram flour, rice flour, chilli powder and salt in a mixing bowl.
2. Boil 2 cups of water with the omam/ajwain nicely and then filter that and keep the water.
3. In a pan, boil 2 table spoons oil. Add this hot oil to the flour mix and stir it with a big spoon.
4. Now add the omam water to the flour and mix it to make it a thick paste.
5. Heat oil for frying. Add the flour paste to the press.
6. Oil should not be very hot, the heat should be moderate or else om pudi would become red soon and it would not be very tasty.
7. Press the flour in a circle over the pan with the oil in moderate heat and then fry the ompudi.
8. After one side is done, turn it on the other side to fry it on both sides and then when done, remove from oil and repeat...

And wow crunchy crispy om pudi ready!!!