Chakkera Pongal || South Indian temple style Chakkera Pongal for Makara Sankranti/Pongal festival

Chakkera Pongal is south Indian Temple prasadam recipe. This is very delicious,aromatic and divine in taste. We prepare this chakkera pongal recipe during festivals like Makara Sankranti, Navaratri, Diwali, Vara Lakshmi Pooja and also on any special occasions at home. It is very easy to prepare in less time and with less ingredients.

Check this recipe in our youtube channel :

Chakkera Pongal video link : https://youtu.be/sE2OlUTL2Y0

We prepare different varieties of pongal like  Sweet Pongal, which is prepared using milk and texture of this Sweet Pongal will be thick, mushy and creamy. Texture of Chakkera Pongal which I am sharing today will be grainy. The main divine aroma and taste of this chakkera pongal is from edible camphor (pachakarpuram in telugu). So do not miss adding this edible camphor to get good aroma and taste, exactly which we get in temples.We also prepare many til/sesame seeds/nuvvulu recipes for pong al. Do check out this unique Til Sago  & nuts Laddu / Sagubbiyam nuvvula laddu which is prepared using sesame seeds, sago and many healthy ingredients.

Also check other festival recipes by just clicking below links..

Youtube links :

Chakkera Pongal

Coconut Rice || Kobbari annam

Karnataka Style Puliyogare

Pineapple Rava Kesari

Flax Seeds Laddu

Blog Links :

Sweet Pongal

Til Sago Laddu / Sagubbiyam nuvvula laddu

Foodie Monday Blog Hop

Taking this delectable,aromatic and delicious Chakkera Pongal to  FoodieMondayBloghop fb groups #280SankrantiSpecial theme. By this time you are all aware that I am part of this lovely group where we bloggers share recipe for theme suggested by a person in alphabetical order every week. This week we group members decided to share Sankranti festival recipes. So here I am sharing my part  Chakkera Pongal recipe.

              Chakkera Pongal

Preparation time - 10 minutes

cook time : 20 min

Serves : 1 bowl

Category : Sweets / Festival

Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Main ingredients : Rice, yellow moong dal

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients 

Rice - 3/4 cup

Yellow moong dal/ pesara pappu - 1/4 cup

Jaggery - 3/4 cup

Sugar - 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup (adjust)

Ghee - 1/2 cup (adjust)

Cashew nuts - 12

Raisins - 12

Dry coconut pieces - 2 tsp

Edible camphor - 1  small pinch

Cardamom powder - 1 tsp

Instructions

1) Dry fry 1/4 cup of  moong dal in pressure cooker on low to medium flames till it changes color.

2) Switch off  the flames and add 3/4 cup of rice and mix everything well. 

3) Wash rice and moong dal in water twice and add 2 cups of water to it.

4) Pressure cook this for 3 whistles on medium flames, switch off the flames and keep it aside.

5) Now prepare jaggery syrup, for this take jaggery and sugar in a pan. To this add 1/4 cup of water and cook till you get 1 string consistency and keep it aside.

6) Open pressure cooker lid and mix cooked rice and dal well. Now strain jaggery syrup in cooked rice and mix everything well.(**check tips)

7) Cook this on low flames till rice absorbs jaggery syrup and becomes thick.

8) Now add cardamom/elachi powder , edible camphor, 2tsp of ghee and mix everything well. Mash edible camphor with ur finger and then add.

9) Pongal is almost ready, keep this aside. 

10) Add remaining ghee in pan, add cashew nuts, dried coconut pieces and fry it on low flames.

11) When above nuts and coconut pieces starts changing color then add raisins. Fry till raisins becomes fluffy.

12) Now add this in prepared pongal and mix everything well.

If you want you can add some more ghee. 

That's it our Chakkera Pongal is ready to serve.

Tips 

** Adjust ghee as per your taste. 

** You can skip adding sugar, but adding sugar gives good taste to this Chakkera Pongal.

** For 1 glass of rice and moong dal add 2 glasses of water.

** In order to get grainy texture we do not soak rice and dal.

** Adding coconut pieces gives good taste to pongal.

** Add only 1 small pinch of edible camphor to perfect taste, adding more will ruin pongal taste. So be careful while adding it.

Hope u liked this delicious and eigen chakkera pongal.. Also check other festival  recipes from my  YouTube  channel & blog by just clicking the link below pic.

                     

 Flax seeds ladoo

      Oats and nuts ladoo(B)/ Oats & nuts ladoo(YT)

Jowar popcorn ladoo

                            
                                                        Besan Ladoo      

         

                     Poha Badam Ladoo

                              

                     Ragi Peanut ladoo            

       Sabudana Coconut Ladoo

Rava Ladoo

              Puffed Rice/Maramarala Ladoo

Ellu Bella Mix
                                
                               
                                                  bread gulab jamun

                          Sweet Pongal

                

                             Pineapple Sheera 

Rajasthani Moong Dal Halwa

yellow pumpkin halwa

Hope you like this delicious, divine and aromatic Chakkera Pongal recipe. Give it a try and drop your comments in inbox.

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Til sago & nuts Ladoo || Til sabudana ladoo || nuvvulu saggubiyyam ladoo for Makara Sankranti

 Til Sago & Nuts Ladoo || Til Sago Ladoo || sesame seeds, sago & nuts ladoo with step by step pics and tips. As Makara Sankranti is around we all prepare many varieties of til/ sesame seed recipes. Til in Hindi is also known as sesame seeds in English, nuvvulu in Telugu, ellu in Kannada & Tamil. Try this healthy, tasty, nutty and chewy taste ladoo's for Sankranti festival and enjoy with your friends and family. We regularly prepare til ladoo, once try this til sago & nuts ladoo surely you will love it. I made this ladoo healthy by adding different nuts. 

Check out tasty & delicious ladoo & Sankranti festival recipes from my blog & YouTube  by just clicking below links..

Video links

** Flax seeds ladoo

** Oats & nuts ladoo

Blog links

** Jowar popcorn ladoo

** Besan Ladoo

** Wheat flour ladoo using milk solids of ghee

** Poha badam ladoo

** Ragi peanut ladoo

** Rava Ladoo

** Sabudana coconut ladoo

** Maramarala Ladoo/ puffed rice ladoo

Sankranti festival recipes

** Ellu Bella mix for sankranti

** Sweet pongal

** Katte Pongal

** Oats Ven Pongal

 To prepare this sesame seed, sago & nuts ladoo I used sesame seeds, sago/sagubiyyam/sabudana as main ingredients. Also I added ground nuts, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds to make these ladoo's healthy.  Sago gives good nutty and chewy taste to ladoo. 

Health benefits of sesame seeds:

**Having sesame seeds regularly controls blood pressure

** Keeps heart healthy

** Improves bones strength

** Protein and fiber rich

** Good for heart and eyes

** Regulates blood sugar and good for diabetic people

Foodie Monday Blog Hop

Taking this  chewy, nutty and delicious sesame seeds ladoo to FoodieMondayBloghop fb groups #279Sesameseeds theme. By this time you are all aware that I am part of this lovely group where we bloggers share recipe for theme suggested by a person in alphabetical order every week. This week theme was suggested by "Mayuri", she is very talented chef who blogs at "mayuris-jikoni". I love her recipes, presentation and giving detailed information about recipes. Learning many things from her, I bookmarked her Italian sesame seed cookies & chilli avocado chocolate cake recipes to try soon. 

                          

                                   til, sago & nuts ladoo

Preparation time - 15 minutes

cook time : 20 min

Serves : 20 ladoo's

Category : Sweets / Festival

Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Main ingredients : sesame seeds, sago

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients 

Til / sesame seeds / nuvvulu - 1cup

sago - 1 cup

ground nuts - 1 cup

almonds - 1/2 cup

sunflower seeds - 1/4 cup

pumpkin seeds - 1/2 cup

brown sugar - 1 & 1/2 cup(adjust)

ghee - 3/4 cup

green cardamom - 5

Instructions

1) Dry fry groundnuts in a wide pan on medium flames till it changes color & take it into plate.

2) Now fry sesame seeds till it changes color and take it into plate.

3) Now dry fry sago till it becomes lite & fluffy on low flames. Sabudana turn white and crispy when it fried well, do not burn it.

4) Later fry almonds till you get crackles on it and take it into plate.

5) Now dry fry pumpkin seeds & sunflower seeds for few seconds and take it into plate.

6) Let the above fried ingredients cool to room temperature.

                                            

7) Keep some fried sesame seeds aside and take all remaining ingredients into mixer jar add cardamom seeds and brown sugar and grind it coarsely .

8) Take above coarsely prepared powder, remaining fried sesame seeds into wide bowl or in wide plate and mix all the ingredients well.

9)  Add little by little ghee and mold ladoo's. Repeat the same process and prepare ladoo's.  Instead of ghee you can also add some milk and mold ladoo's. (** check tips for more info)

That's it our sesame seeds, sago & nuts ladoo's are ready. Keep it in dry & air tight container. 

Enjoy this healthy, delicious and chewy til sago & nuts ladoo's with your friends, family & stay healthy.

Tips

** Fry all the ingredients on low to medium flames, do not burn any ingredient.

** Instead of brown sugar you can also use sugar or powdered jaggery.

** Instead of ghee you can use little(1/8 cup) milk to mold ladoo's or you can use 2 tsp of milk and ghee  to mold ladoo's.

** If pumpkin and sun flower seeds not available skip adding it.

** You can also add cashew nuts in it.

** You can also fry cashew nuts and raisins in ghee and mix in coarsely prepared powder.

Hope you liked this delicious, healthy til sago and nuts ladoo. Also check other ladoo's recipes from my  YouTube  channel & blog by just clicking the link below pic.

                     

 Flax seeds ladoo

      Oats and nuts ladoo(B)/ Oats & nuts ladoo(YT)

Jowar popcorn ladoo

                           
                                                        Besan Ladoo      

         

                     Poha Badam Ladoo

                              

                     Ragi Peanut ladoo            

       Sabudana Coconut Ladoo

Rava Ladoo

              Puffed Rice/Maramarala Ladoo

Ellu Bella Mix
                                
                               
                                                  bread gulab jamun

                          Sweet Pongal

                

                             Pineapple Sheera 

Rajasthani Moong Dal Halwa

yellow pumpkin halwa

Hope you like this healthy, delicious and festival til sago & nuts ladoo's. Give it a try and drop your comments in inbox.

Also follow me on
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Thanks for visiting my blog,

Aruna Saraschandra 😊

Sweet corn soup || Sweet corn veggie soup

Sweet corn soup || Sweet corn vegetable soup with step by step pics and tips.  This sweet corn soup is very delicious, comfort and soothing to have anytime. I made this soup healthy by adding veggies along with sweet corn kernels. We can use vegetables of your choice, today I used carrot, beans, spring onions greens & sweet corn kernels to prepare this soup carrot soup and spring onion, carrot badam soup are my all time favorite soups. 

Event : Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge

Taking this soulful and healthy sweet corn soup to "Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge" fb group started by Priya, and taken further till date by Mayuri di, I bookmarked her tomato carrot soup to try soon. Do check her space for wonderful recipes. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it.

                              

          This month theme "HotPot" was suggested by "Priyer Iyer" who blogs at " thephotowali". She is very talented chef, I love all her recipes and photography a lot. I bookmarked her Indian style burger, Gujarati bhakri pizza to try soon. Do check her space for more healthy, traditional and many innovative recipes from many regions. My partner for this theme is "Swaty Malik" who blogs at "foodtrails25". Do check her space for wonderful recipes, surely you will love it. Swaty gave butter and garlic as secret ingredients in return i gave cinnamon and green apple as secret ingredients. I bookmarked Swaty's  star bread, chocolate mascarpone mousse soon. 

                                      Sweet Corn Soup

cook Time : 20 minutes

Serves : 2 people

Category : Soup

Recipe Cuisine: Indian 

Main ingredients : Sweet Corn

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

Sweet corn kernels - 1 cup

carrot - 1

beans - 4

spring onion greens - 1/2 cup

butter - 1 tsp

ginger pieces - 1 tsp

garlic pieces - 1 tsp

green chilli - 1

salt - as per taste

pepper powder - 2 tsp

corn flour - 1/2 tsp

Instructions

1) Grind half cup of sweet corn kernels to fine paste.

2) Wash veggies, cut into small pieces and take into plate

3)  Add 1 tsp of butter in pan, to this add ginger and garlic pieces, fry till you get nice aroma and starts changing color.4

4) Then add all the veggies and half portions of spring onion greens till veggies becomes smooth.

5) Later add sweet corn paste and 1 liter of water and mix everything well.(adjust water accordingly )

6) Add required amount of salt and pepper powder to the above and boil it on low to medium flames.

7) Take 1/2 tsp of corn flour in a cup, add 1/2 cup of water and mix it well.

8) Add corn flour slurry into soup and mix everything well and  boil soup for few minutes. 

That's it our sweet corn veggie soup is ready to serve, garnish it with remaining spring onion greens and serve hot :)

Tips

** Adding veggies make this soup healthy.

** Adding corn flour gives good texture to soup.

** Adjust water as per veggies and sweet corn you used.

** You can also add 1/2 tsp of green chilli sauce in soup.

Hope you liked Sweet corn soup, also check other soup and starter recipes by just clicking the link below pic..

                                   

                                  carrot soup

       
                                spring onion carrot badam soup

                          Homemade butter

             

                             pomegranate raita

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