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August 30, 2021

Aval Puttu Recipe | Poha Puttu - Sweet Poha | Gokulashtami Recipes

Aval puttu / Poha jaggery puttu is one of the easy and yummy neivedyam recipes you can prepare for Gokulashtami, Navarathri and other occasions at home. I learnt this recipe from my MIL. She used to make it often for our Friday Thiru vilakku poojai.

Last week I made this for my pooja asking the recipe and procedure from her. Actually my MIL told me to add powdered jaggery to the powdered and soaked poha directly. But I made jaggery syrup and strained it as it had some impurities. If your jaggery is clean, you can powder and add it as such.

Friends, do try this easy Aval puttu / Poha puttu for Gokulashtami festival and enjoy.

Aval puttu / Poha puttu recipe

Aval puttu / Poha puttu recipe for Gokulashtami and Navarathri festivals.

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Sweet

Serves: 4

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 20 Minutes

Total time: 30 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

1 cup = 250ml

Thick or thin poha - 1 cup
Powdered jaggery - 1/2 cup
Grated coconut - 1/4 cup
Cardamom - 2 (Crushed)
Hot Water - as needed
Salt - a pinch
Cashew nuts - few
Ghee - 1 tbsp

HOW TO MAKE AVAL PUTTU

Dry roast aval / poha for 5 minutes in medium flame till crispy.
Remove and powder it coarsely. Wash and keep it aside.
Add little hot water to make the poha soft. Cover it for 10 minutes
Poha becomes soft and crumbly in few minutes.
Boil jaggery and melt it. Strain the syrup and boil till frothy and thick.
Add the syrup to the soaked poha. Mix well.
Add cardamom powder, grated coconut and mix well.
Lastly roast the cashews in ghee till golden in color.
Add to the aval puttu and offer as prasadam to Lord Krishna for Gokulashtami !

METHOD - STEP BY STEP PICTURES

Heat a kadai and dry roast the aval / poha for few minutes in medium flame. Roast till it becomes crispy. You can use thin or thick poha.

Remove and cool down. Grind to a coarse powder and add little hot water to it. ( Say 1/2 to 3/4 cup). Cover and sit for 10 minutes. Poha absorbs all the water and it becomes soft, crumbly.
In the mean time, boil the jaggery adding 1/4 cup water and melt it. Strain the syrup and boil again till syrup becomes frothy and slightly thick.

Add the syrup to the soaked aval and mix well. It will look mushy initially but it becomes crumbly and fluffy after some time.

Lastly add the crushed cardamom,grated coconut and mix gently. Roast cashews in ghee and add to the poha mix.

Mix well and offer as prasadam to Lord Krishna. You can also make this neivedyam for Navarathri along with some sundal varieties.

Note

For variations, you can add powdered jaggery to the soaked poha if its clean.
For thin poha, just follow the same procedure but do not add all the syrup at once. Add gradually till poha absorbs it because thin poha doesn’t take all the syrup.

Delicious Aval Puttu recipe is ready to relish !

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August 13, 2021

Akki Tambittu | Akki Hittina Thambittu | Karnataka Rice thambittu recipe

Nagara Panchami and Maha Shivaratri is one of the most popular festivals in Karnataka. Every year during Nag Panchami and Shivaratri, my neighbor used to pass this akki tambittu recipe as pooja prasadam. We all love it. I wanted to get the recipe from her and blog it for long time. Due to this pandemic situation, we are not able to get this prasadam from her for the past two years.

This year, I got the recipe from her and made it in my kitchen. I also offered this laddu / unde as prasad for my Thursday Guru pooja. My neighbor makes it big in size but I made it small as per my family’s liking. Friends, this tambittu is a super healthy ladoo recipe with all the goodness of jaggery, roasted rice, roasted gram, sesame seeds, peanuts, poppy seeds and desiccated coconut. You can give it to your kids snacks box as well.

Apart from this akki thambittu recipe, people also make Chigali ladoo/ sesame seeds laddu, hurigadale tambittu on this occasion. Soon I will try to share those recipes here.

Now lets see how to make Karnataka special akki tambittu recipe with step by step pictures. Prepare this special recipe for Nagara Panchami festival tomorrow and enjoy !

Akki thambittu recipe / Akki tambittu recipe

Akki thambittu recipe / Akki tambittu recipe for Nagara panchami and Maha Shivaratri festival prasada.

Cuisine: Karnataka

Category: Sweet

Serves: 8

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 20 Minutes

Total time: 30 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

1 cup = 250ml

Raw rice / Sona masoori rice - 1/2 cup
Grated jaggery - 1/2 cup (Use 3/4 cup for more sweetness)
Roasted gram dal / Hurigadale - 1/4 cup
Peanuts - 1/4 cup
Sesame seeds - 2 tbsp
Khus khus /Poppy seeds - 1 tbsp
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
Ghee - 1 tbsp
Desiccated coconut - 2 tbsp (Grated)
Water – 1/3 cup

HOW TO MAKE AKKI THAMBITTU RECIPE

Heat a kadai and dry roast the rice till puffy. Transfer to a plate.
Dry roast sesame seeds and poppy seeds till they splutter.
Add roasted gram dal and roast for a minute. Reserve half and transfer to the rice plate.
Dry roast peanuts till skin crackles. Remove the skin and keep aside.
Dry roast coconut and set aside.
Grind the rice, sesame seeds, roasted gram dal mixture to a fine powder.
Transfer to a plate. Grind peanuts coarsely and add to the plate.
Now add the roasted coconut, cardamom powder, reserved poppy+sesame seeds+gram dal and ghee. Mix well.
Melt jaggery adding water and boil till frothy. Let it cool down. Filter it and add to the rice mixture.
Mix evenly and make balls. Karnataka Akki thambittu is ready !

METHOD - STEP BY STEP PICTURES

Heat a kadai and roast the rice in low to medium flame till puffy. Remove in a plate.

Dry roast sesame seeds and poppy seeds till it starts to splutter. Add the roasted gram dal and roast for a minute. Switch off the flame.

Reserve half of this mixture in a plate and add the remaining in the rice plate. Cool down and grind to a fine powder.

Transfer to a plate. Dry roast desiccated or fresh coconut for few minutes and add to the rice flour plate.

Dry roast peanuts till its skin crackles. Cool down and remove the skin. Grind coarsely.

Add the powdered peanuts to the rice flour mixture. Add cardamom powder, ghee and the reserved poppy seeds, sesame seeds and roasted gram dal. Combine and mix everything well.
Take jaggery in a kadai. Add water to cover it. Boil and melt the jaggery. Boil for few minutes in medium flame till it becomes frothy and slightly thick. No need to look for any consistency. But make sure, jaggery syrup is not too thick. Thambittu will become hard to bite after it sets. So keep the syrup slightly thick like oil. Let it cool down completely.
Now filter the syrup and add to the rice flour mixture. Mix well to coat the rice flour. No problem if the mixture looks wet and loose. Shape ladoo and arrange in a plate.
This ladoo becomes hard after its set in few hours. So make sure the ladoo is soft to handle while shaping.

Note

For variations, you can skip grinding sesame seeds and poppy seeds. You can add the roasted ones as such.
You can skip desiccated coconut or use fresh coconut instead. In that case, roast the fresh coconut till its dry.

Try this easy, healthy akki thambittu recipe for festivals and enjoy !

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November 2, 2020

35 Diwali Snacks Recipes | South Indian Dry Snacks For Diwali

In this post, I have shared the collection of simple, easy and top South Indian Diwali snacks / deepavali dry snacks like murukku recipes, mixture recipes, ribbon pakoda, kara sev, kara boondi, thattai, Tirunelveli special snack thukkada, mixture biscuit, maida biscuit etc which is commonly prepared in Tamilnadu and in most of our houses for Diwali. I have shared this snacks list under one page for quick reference. Hope you find it useful.

This year I am planning to make Madras mixture/ South Indian mixture recipe. I will include that as soon as I post in my blog. Ok friends, do try these easy snacks for this Diwali and have a fun-filled celebration. I am sure these snacks would be loved by everyone including children/kids.

Ok, Lets see the list of easy Indian Diwali snacks below. I have also shared some Diwali day neivedyam recipes like Idli, vada, bajji, sambar and chutney for your reference. Last but not the least, 2 diwali special legiyam recipes to enhance the digestion.

HERE is my full collection of Diwali Recipes with celebration procedures !

Also check out my murukku varieties post .