Aviyal

Ingredients:


Vegetables - Carrot, drumstick, beans, white pumkin and yam (cut into 1inch lengthwise)


Grated coconut - 1/2cup


Green chilly - 2-3nos


Curd - 1/4cup


Cumin seeds - 1/2tsp


Coconut oil -1tsp


Cury leaves - few


Tumeric powder - 1/2tsp


Salt - to taste

Prepartion:



1) Grind the coconut, green chilly and cumin seeds into fine paste and keep aside


2)  Heat a kadai, add all vegs, little water,tumeric powder,curry leaves and salt, cook till it turns soft (dont overcook)


3)Add the coconut paste to the vegetables and cook for few mins


4)Then add curd and mix well and off the flame 


5) Heat the coconut oil and add it to the aviyal and serve hot with rice.

Mysore Pak / Diwali Sweets

               Mysore pak is my favourite sweet i learnt this from  my mom, for all diwali she do it. This is the 2nd time i am try, it came out very well and this recipe i have  already posted and this time want to show step wise pics. Advance Happy Diwali!

Ingredients:


Bengal gram flour - 1cup
Sugar - 2cups
Ghee - 1 cup
Water - 1/2cup
Cardamom powder - 1tsp

Preparation:


1)Heat a kadai, add 1tsp Ghee and flour, fry till raw smell goes and turns light brown & keep aside

2)Heat the Ghee in a low flame continously.(dont off the flame)

3)In another flame, heat heavy bottomed vessel / i used non stick kadai, add water and sugar heat till it becomes thick (string consistancy)

  4)Add the flour slowly into the sugar syrup mix well continously so that no lumps are formed and Add the ghee little by little, stir well..when it becomes thick  

5)Grease the plate with ghee and pour into it the mix, when it cools cut them into desired shapes.