Ground nut chikki with Jaggery(Bellam in telugu)

Ingredients:

Ground nut   :     1/2 kg

Jaggery         :    1/2 kg
Water           :     1/2 cup

Preparation:

• Fry ground nuts in a pan/kadai till it turns red.
• Make it cool down and remove the waste and keep it aside.
• Now take another pan and add graded Jaggery and water.
• Make the stove in a slow flame and boil it.
• Take a bowl with water. This water helps to check the thickness of liquid often.
• Add the jaggery liquid in water, it should get a ball shape.
• Soon add the ground nuts in the jaggery liquid and mix it.
• Take a plate, add ghee and apply thoroughly. 
• Now pour the jaggery mixture into the plate.
• Healthy groundnut chikki ready to eat.

Benefits of eating groundnut chikki:
This helps in improvement of blood in body.
Taking  20 grm of chikki a day helps improve blood and reduces anaemia.
Blood improves within a month. Just check and comment.
Dont use sugar chikki, it will not cure anaemia.

Jaggery(Bellam) Ponganalu(Sweet ponganalu)

Ingredients:

Maida                                   -              1 cup

Jaggery                                 -              3/4 cup

Graded coconut                    -              1 tbls

Elachi (cardamom)

Baking soda

Ghee               

                     

Preparation:

Mix jiggery and maida by adding water in a bowl. Keep it aside for one hour. Now add cardamom, baking soda and mix again. Take a pan add ghee 1- 2 tbls, when hot add the maida mixture, evenly apply graded coconut and badham on the mixture. Fry it by closing the pan. Fry this red hot and serve.

Traditional sweet bellam ponganalu is ready to eat.

Dur kheer

Ingredients:

Milk                       -              ½ lit

Sugar                     -              ¼ kg

Sabudana(Sago)-             100 grm

Rice                        -              100 grm

Coconut               -              100 grm

Dry fruits

Cardamom

Preparation:

Soak sago for 1 hour. Grind rice and coconut in a mixer and keep it aside. Now heat milk in a bowl and add sugar. See the sugar mixes completely in the milk. Now add soaked sago and make it cook for 2 minutes. Now add rice and coconut mixture and make it cook for 10 minutes. Now fry the dry fruits in the ghee and add this into the milk. Lastly add cardamom (elachi) to the milk and serve hot.

Chocolate fruit pudding

Ingredients:

Milk                                       -              1 lit

Custard powder                               -              2 tbls

Fresh cream                       -              2 tbls

Fruits                                     -              1 cup

Chocolate syrup               -              2 tbls

Preparation:

Take boiled milk, add 2 spoons of custard powder and mix it. Now add this mixture in boiling milk and mix it again. Boil the milk until it attains thickness. Now off the stove wait until it cools down. Now add fruits, fresh cream and chocolate syrup in the milk. Now keep it in refrigerator for 1 hour and serve it cold.

Hint: 

we can also use condensed milk in place of milk. It saves lot of time. Condensed milk is readily available in market.

Urad dal fryums (Minapa vadiyalu)

Ingredients:

Urad dal                               -              1 cup

Salt                                         -              2 tbls

Red chilli powder / green chilli paste       -              2 tbls

Ginger garlic paste           -              1 tbls

Preparation:

Soak urad dal for 2 hrs and add salt, chilli powder, ginger garlic paste and grind it. Grind it till the batter looks fluffy and white and take this batter into a bowl.

Take a plastic sheet and add this batter like small balls on the sheet evenly and dry it in the sun. In summer it takes one to two days to dry.

Now urad dal fryums are ready. We can deep fry the fryums and have it in lunch or dinner.

Traditional dish

Mango sweet with curd (Mango Srikand)

Ingredients:

Curd                                      -              1 cup

Sugar                                     -              ½ cup

Mango paste                     -              1 cup

Preparation:

 

Take a cloth, add curd and hang it for one hour to remove water completely in the curd.

Take this curd in a bowl add sugar and mix it thoroughly (see no balls form in the curd). Now add mango paste to this mixture and serve great. Use Badham or any dry fruit for garnish.

Sweet Seasonal dish and Good for health.