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Sunday 3 March 2019

Senaga guggillu for Shivratri , Black chickpeas prasadam curry, Kadale kaalu usli, Konda Kadallu sundial, Kala Chana dal fry

Happy Maha Shivratri to all friends and family 💐🙏. Today's recipe is black chickpeas prasadam recipe. It is also known as senaga guggillu in Telugu, Kadale kaalu usli in kannada, Konda Kadallu sundial in Tamil and Kala Chana fry in hindi. Senaga guggillu is popular prasadam recipe in South India prepared as prasadam for festivals like Vinayachavithi, Shivaratri, Varalakshmi Pooja, Navarathri festivals. As tomorrow is Maha Shivratri festival, thought to post this recipe. On Shivratri we do fasting from morning and do offer guggillu and panakam to Lord shiva and have it and night we do jagaran.

Not only as naivedyam / prasadam we can also have it as evening snacks or as sides dish for lunch and dinner.Today I used sprouted chickpeas to prepare this. We can also prepare black chickpeas masala curries, biryani's. Will update recipes soon 😍. Black chickpeas is very healthy, it is low in fat, high in dietary fibre, rich in vitamins and minerals. Good for kids growth, prevents diabetes and treats digestive related problems. I think may be because of these many benifits our elders decided it as prasadam😍. Water melon is the seasonal fruit which is offered as naivedyam along with guggillu and panakam or lemon juice indicating that summer season started.

Senaga guggillu

Preparation Time : 5 minutes
Cook Time : 20 minutes
Serves : 1 bowl
Category : Festival / curries
Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Main ingredients : Black chickpeas/sanagalu
Author : Aruna Saraschandra
Ingredients

Black chickpeas - 1 cup

Oil - 2 tsp

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Green chillies - 3
Ginger - 1 inch

Red chilli - 1

Hing - 1 pinch

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Fresh grated coconut - 1/2 cup

Curry leaves - 1 sprig

Coriander leaves - 2 tsp(chopped)

Salt as per taste

Instructions

1) Soak black chickpeas overnight or 6 hr mininum. (After soaking overnight I drained water and kept it out for 1 day to get sprouts, **check tips).

2) wash soaked chickpeas and take it into pressure cooker, add enough water just immerse and cook it for 3 to 4 whistles. Let the pressure comes out and take into bowl. (**check tips)

3) Take a amixer jar add green chilli, ginger and very little amount of coriander leaves.

4) Grind it coarsely without adding water.

5) Heat oil in a Kadai, then add mustard seeds once it splutters add cumin seeds, curry leaves, red chilli and hing one after other and fry it.

6) Now add boiled black chickpeas to the above tempering without water.

7) Fry the above for 2 to 3 min on medium to low flames. Then add turmeric powder, salt (** check tips).

8) Now add grated or scrapped fresh coconut and finely chopped coriander leaves to the above.

9) Mix the above well and switch off the flames.

Divine and tasty sanaga guggillu || Konda Kadallu sundial || Kadale kaalu usili || Kala Chana dal fy || Black chickpeas fry is ready for naivedyam.

Offer it with watermelon and panakam or lemon juice. PC idea given by mom 😍😍.

Notes

* If you are okay with onion and garlic you can add it.

Tips

** I used molaketina sanagalu / sprouted chick Peas. You can use soaked chickpeas accordingly.

** We add salt while boiling so take care while adding salt at step - 7.

** Donot add more water while boilling as proteins will drain out in water. We do not use that water for this recipe.

** Instead of grinding chilli ginger coarsely, you can cut both and use it directly or you can use pistle motar too.

** Use fresh grated or scrapped coconut to get good taste.

** After adding coconut donot fry for long time. Just mix it once and switch off flames as coconut will become dry.

Also check other sweet recipes, by clicking the link below pic 🤗

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Dates & dry fruits burfi

Homemade butter

Homemade Ghee

Sweet Pongal

Ellu Bella Mix

Moong dal Kheer

Sabudana Coconut Ladoo

Almond Mango Sandesh

Rava Ladoo

Puffed Rice/Maramarala LAdoo

Kaju Katli

Sooji Kakara Pitha

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Friday 1 March 2019

Kesari bath, Rava Kesari, How to prepare Kesari bath recipe

Today's recipe Kesari bath is my 100th post. Thank you so much to all friends and family for supporting, encouraging and suggesting me to continue my passion😍🙏🎊. Learned many things in this short time. Planned to post something new and innovative recipe for 100th post, but ended with kesari bath. As it is my dad's favourite sweet which he used to prepare very deliciously for us 😍. Rava kesari is simple and basic sweet item which is regularly prepared in all houses for festivals and parties. And kesari bath is such a famous dessert in South India, prepared with different combinations like Pineapple kesari bath, is served in hotel as sweet in meals.

It is very easy to prepare with less ingredients and in jiffy. We can add Saffron, orange/ yellow food colors or turmeric powder to get color. I d't like adding color, so skipped it today. Though preparation of rava kesari differ from home to home, today I am posting the way which I prepare regularly. You can also do variations accordingly 🤗

   Rava Kesari || Kesari bath

Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 5
Category : Desserts/Sweets
Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Main ingredients :  semolina / sooji / Rava
Author : Aruna Saraschandra
Ingredients

Medium sooji/semolina - 1 cup
Water - 3 cups
Sugar - 1 to 1. 25 cup
ghee- 1/2 cup
Elachi powder - a big pinch
Cashew nuts -7
Raisins- 7
Saffron - a pinch( I did not added)

Instructions

1) Heat a pan add 2 tsp of ghee  add cashew nuts, fry it when it starts changing color then add raisins. Fry it on low flames till cashew changes color and raisins becomes fluffy and take it into plate.

2) Take the above into cup and add semolina, fry it on medium to low flames.

3) Fry till rava changes color and gets nice aroma(**check tips).

4) Take the above fried semolina into plate. Then add sugar, I added 2 tsp of sugar elachi powder (** check tips).

5) Now add 3 cups of water and boil till you get bubbles in water. If you want to add any food color, you can add at this step. (**Check tips)

6) Add fried semolina with one hand and mix it continously with other hand carefully. Otherwise sooji will form lumps.

7) Mix everything well, close the lid and cook in medium to low flames till rava absorb water. Approximately will take 2 minutes, then add ghee to the above.

8) Mix everything well and take fried cashew nuts and raisins to the above.

Take the above into serving bowl.Yummy, delicious and simple rava kesari is ready to serve.

Note

* We can skip using raisins.

Tips

** Do not burn semolina/sooji/ Rava while frying.

** I grinded elachi+ with little amount of sugar, you can use elachi powder.

** Stir continously while adding rava, otherwise rava will form lumps.

** Instead of water we can also use milk.

** If you want to add safforn, then soak it in hot water or hot milk then add it while boiling water.

** If you want to add turmeric powder, then add half a pinch of it otherwise it will gives different flavour.

** If planning to add food color, then it's better to use natural food colors, plan accordingly.

** In order to get smooth velvet texture we have to add good amount of ghee.

** Other variation to prepare rava kesari is prepare sugar syrup then add it into fried semolina. But be careful while adding boiling syrup.

Also check other sweet recipes by clicking the link below pic