Ellu Bella || Ellu Bella Mix || Karnataka Sankranti special Ellu Bella Mix

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(in advance).  Makara Sankranti is festival of  Lord Sun 🌞.In different regions it is celebrated in different dates, different names and different food😋. D't see like that 😉 where ever I go I stop at food becoz I am big foodie 🤗😍. Today's recipe is Ellu(Sesame seeds) Bella(jaggery) mix, which is prepared in every kannada family's and in parts of Karnataka. As a Kannadiga Ellu Bellu is one of my favourite from childhood, I not only love its taste but also like its flavour too😍😍. Ellu Bella Mix  is healthy as the ingredients mixed in it are power packed, ingredients like ellu (Sesame seeds), bella(jaggery), dry coconut, nuts which contains calcium, iron,  required to rejuvenate our body in this winter season. We use achu bella (yellow color jaggery) to prepare this but here in Jolarpet it's not available so I used brown color jaggery. 

      There is popular saying in kannada that "ellu bella tindu olle maathadi" means "eat sesame seeds and jaggery and speak good words"😍😍.  Ellu bella mix is packed and we offer to friends and family along with fruits, sugarcane and tell the above lines 🤗 spread happy and joy🌸. 

                 Ellu Bella Mix 

Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 1 bowl
Category : Desserts/Sweets
Recipe Cuisine: Indian 
Main ingredients :Sesame seeds, 
                                   Jaggery
Author : Arunasaraschandra       

Ingredients

Sesame seeds/ellu/nuvullu-                                                               1/2cup
Jaggery/ achina Bella  - 1/2 cup
Ground nuts - 1/2 cup
Roasted chanadal/putnalu/hurigadale -                                                       1/2 cup
Dry coconut - 1/2 cup
Candid cumin/ jeerige metai -                                                          1/4 cup
White pearl sugar balls - 1/4 cup(I did not added)
Instructions 

1) Remove the brown part of dry coconut using grater. 

2) Cut the above dry coconut into small pieces. 

3) Also cut the jaggery into small pieces. Use yellow mould jaggery if available. 

4) Take a pan dry roast ground nuts on medium - low flames. 

5) Let it cool and remove its skin and keep it aside. 

6) In the same pan/Kadai add sesame seeds fry till it starts crackling. 

7) Now switch off the flames and fry roasted Chana dal on the heat and take it into plate. 

8) It's time to start mixing the above ingredients. Take a dry bowl add fried  ingredients one after other. 

9) Mix above everything well  

Healthy, tasty and festive sweet ellu bella mix is ready 😍😋🍁. 

Note

* Adjust quantity as per your wish. 

* You can also sugar candy balls. 

Tips


** Sun dry jaggery and dry coconut to increase the shell life and taste. 

Also check other sweet recipes by clicking the link below pic

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Poha Badam Ladoo

   

                       Ragi Peanut ladoo               
     

Moong dal Kheer

Poha Payasam

Dates & dry fruits burfi

        Sabudana Coconut Ladoo

          Almond Mango Sandesh

Rava Ladoo

  Puffed Rice/Maramarala LAdoo

                        Kaju Katli

Sooji Kakara Pitha

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Gongura Pulihora, Roselle Leaves Rice,Red Sorrel leaves spicy rice, How to prepare Gongura pulihora

Gongura  Pulihora is traditional  and popular Andhra pulihora recipe. It is also called as Roselle and Red Sorrel in English, Pulicha keerai in Tamil, Pundi palya in Kannada. It comes in 2 different varieties, with green stem and with red stem. I got green stem roselle leaves in Wednesday market @Jolarpetai. But we use to get red color stem roselle leaves at mom's place @Adoni which is bit sour than green stem roselle.I never saw Roselle(Gongura) Flowers before, it's very beautiful🌺. ** I used very little amount of tamarind juice as I am using green stem roselle leaves, if you are using Red stem leaves avoid using tamarind juice. 

    It's spicy with tart flavour and taste. I just loved the flavours used in this pulihora where we use Methi seeds(menthulu), mustard seeds(avalu) and sesame seeds (nuvullu). It's very easy to prepare one pot meal. We can have it for lunch with a cup of fresh curd along with papad and sun dried chillies(majjiga  mirapakkay).

  The leaves decorated in the pic are Roselle(gongura) flowers as I used green stem Roselle flowers are green. Red stem roselle flowers are beautiful than green 😊🍁🌺

Let's start recipe 

              Gongura Pulihora

Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 20 minutes
Serves : 1 bowl
Category : Rice items / Pulihora
Recipe Cuisine: Andhra 
Main ingredients : Gongura/Red                                      Sorrel Leaves 

Author : ArunaSarasChandra

Ingredients

Cooked Rice - 1 bowl/2 cups(cook rice such that each grain is seperated)

Oil - 1/2 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

For grinding

Gongura/ Red Sorrel - 1bunch

Sesame seeds(nuvullu) - 11/2 tsp

Mustard seeds (avallu)- 1/2 tsp

Methi seeds(Menthullu) - 1/4 tsp

Red chilli - 2 to 4 

For seasoning

Oil - 3 tsp

Ground nuts - 3 tsp

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Urad & Chana dal - 1 tsp

Curry leaves - 1 sprig

Green chilli - 4 to 5

Red chilli - 2 

Hing - 1 pinch

Tamarind juice - 1 tsp(optional)

Salt - as per taste

Instructions

1) Wash and soak rice for 15 minutes. For 1 glass rice add 2 glasses of water and 1/2 tsp of oil and cook it. Later spread the rice into plate and add turmeric powder. Also extract  1 tsp of tamarind juice and keep it ready. 

2) While cooking rice lets prepare for pulihora paste. Take a bunch of red/green sorrel remove only leaves from it. 

3) Wash the leaves in water 2 to 3 times. 

4) Take a pan dry fry sesame, mustard, Methi seeds along with red chilli and take it in to plate. Do not burn it, fry it on low flames.

5) Now add 1 tsp of oil and then add washed red/ green sorrel leaves and fry it. 

6) Fry the leaves till it becomes smooth and water evaporates. Let it cool. 

7) Take a mixer jar add fried seeds and chilli first, grind it to fine powder. 

8) Now add fried gongura to the above and grind it to a paste.  And take the paste into cup. If need add little amount of water. 

9) Dry fry groundnuts and take it into plate.

10) Add 3 tsp of oil let it heat for a second then add mustard seeds once it start splutters add urad and Chana dal. Once they started changing color add cumin seeds, hing curry leaves  red & green chillies one after other and fry it on medium to low flames. 

11) Now add grinded paste, 1 tsp of tamarind juice mix everything well on medium flames fry it till oil oozes out. 

12) Now add salt, fried ground nuts (half) and mix everything well and switch off the flames. 

13) Now add 1/2 part of pulihora paste to the rice and mix it well. 

14) If required add some more paste and mix well by adding remaining ground nuts. 

Yummy, tasty and delicious Gongura pulihora is ready. Serve it with papad, sun dried mirchi, curd and enjoy😋😋. 

Note

 * You can add ground after adding urad and Chana dal too. I like crunchy groundnuts so I added later. 

* Adjust red chillies according to your red chilli spicy. Red chilli I used are very spicy so I used only two, otherwise you can add 3 to 5 red chillies. 

* You can avoid tamarind juice still if you are using green stem leaves according to your wish. 

Tips

** By adding 1 tsp of oil while cooking rice will makes rice  fluffy and each grain separated which is very important to get perfect pulihora. 

** Keep Gongura Pulihora aside for minimum 1 hr aside before serving to get perfect taste. 

** Do not add pulihora paste all at once. As it becomes to sour. 

Also Check other Rice and  chutney varieties by clicking the link below image👇

   Amla Rice/ Usirikaya Pulihora

  

Curry leaves powder rice

Restaurant style curd rice

Pongal

Kashmiri Pulao

Coconut milk pulao

                 Brinjal chutney

                   Kobbari perugu pachadi

Ridge gourd chutney

         Coriander Tomato chutney

                        Cocnut Chutney

            Raw Mango Moong dal chutney

                  Pudina coconut chutney

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