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Friday, 5 April 2019

Ugadi Pachadi, how to prepare ugadi pachadi for Andhra Ugadi festival

"Sarvari nama samvastara Ugadi shubakankshalu" to all friends and family. Ugadi is famous festival in Andhra, Telangana and Karnataka States. "Ugadi Pachadi" Contains shadruchulu, six different tastes. Ugadi Pachadi resembles the meaning of life like shadruchulu. To prepare this ugadi pachadi drink we mainly use 6 ingredients - raw mango, tamarind, jaggery, neem buds/flowers, green chilli/pepper, salt. These six ingredients signifies the six emotions of our life.
* Raw Mango - Surprise
* Neem buds/flowers - Sadness
* Jaggery - Happy
* Tamarind - Disgust
* Green chilli - anger
* Salt - Fear

Life is combination of all these emotions, when all our emotions are controlled we will get success in life 😍.

The taste of Ugadi pachadi is different in different regions and houses. But the importance of Shadruchulu is same everywhere. Ugadi festival is considered as the new year for Telugu and Karnataka people. Telugu calendar / panchagam for new year starts from ugadi, ugadi is the starting of vasantha ruthuvu / spring season. We will get many varieties of Mango fruits, which is our king of Fruits in India. For Ugadi we prepare food items like Mamidikaya papu/Mango dal, mango rice / mamidikaya pulihora,Mamidikaya pachadi/Mango pickle, boorelu, garelu and many more and ugadi pachadi is compulsory.
Let's start recipe..

Ugadi Pachadi

Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cook Time : 0 minutes
Serves : 4
Category : Festival
Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Main ingredients : all ingredients
Author : Aruna Saraschandra
Ingredients

Raw mango - 1 small
Tamarind - small lemon size
Jaggery - 1/2 cup
Neem flowers/buds - 1/4 to 1/2 cup
Green chilli - 1
Banana - 1
Fresh coconut pieces/ grated - 1/2 tsp
Roasted dal/putnallu/papullu - 1/4 cup(I did not used)
Salt - as per taste

Instructions

1) The main ingredients we have to use are raw mango, tamarind, jaggery, green chilli,neem buds/flowersand salt. (** check tips). In addition I like to add banana and fresh coconut.

2) First of all soak tamarind in water.

3) Finely cut raw mango, banana, fresh coconut, green chilli and remove neem flowers and keep it ready.

4) Now extract tamarind pulp without seeds by adding water.

5) Now add powdered jaggery to the above and mix well. (** check tips)

6) Add all the chopped ingredients to the above and mix well.

7) Now add required amount of salt to the above.

8) Mix the above well, if the pachadi is very thick add water. (** check tips)

That's it divine, tasty ugadi pachadi is ready. Offer it to God and serve everyone.

Tips

** You can also add roasted dal/ putnallu/ papullu.

** You can also replace green chilli with red chilli powder or black pepper powder.

** You can also add dry fruits in ugadi pachadi.

** You can also add water melon seeds in ugadi pachadi.

** If you feel your jaggery is not pure, then soak it in water and strain it.

** Adjust water according to your quantity.

** If you do not like neem flower bitterness then add it in little quantity and increase banana and jaggery quantity so that you will love to have it.

Also check other festival recipes and sweet recipes by clicking the link below the pic.

mango rice / mamidikaya pulihora

Kesari bath

Senaga gugillu

Bellam palathalikalu

Undrallu

Poha Badam Ladoo

Ragi Peanut ladoo

Atukula Payasam

Dates & dry fruits burfi

Homemade butter

Homemade Ghee

Sweet Pongal

Ellu Bella Mix

Pineapple Sheera

Moong dal Kheer

Sabudana Coconut Ladoo

Almond Mango Sandesh

Rava Ladoo

Puffed Rice/Maramarala LAdoo

Kaju Katli

Sooji Kakara Pitha

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Thursday, 4 April 2019

Musk melon milk shake, Kharbuja milk shake, Mulam pazham milk shake

Summer season started milk shakes, fruit juices are must needed energy boosters to stay healthy. Ohh yaa we also need ice creams and cool drinks too 😍😋. Today's post is musk melon milk shake with out addding sugar and ice cream, it is hubby's favorite drink we both love it ❤️. Musk melon is also known as Cantaloupe in English, Mulam pazham in Tamil, Kharbuja in hindi, in telugu and kannada also we call it Kharbuja. It is very easy to prepare and gives instant energy and low calorie juice with milk, badam and honey. I did not added ice cream or ice cubes, I just used chilled milk, if you are using thick milk then you will good creamy milk shake, kids will love to have it 😍. Also check Mango Lassi, Sabja buttermilk, Mango Falooda.

Instead of cutting musk melon into pieces, scoop it and serve milk shake in musk melon kids will enjoy it. Keep some musk melon pieces aside and mix it in juice, melon bites and dry fruits nutty taste gives good taste while drinking. We can also use dry fruits like cashew nuts, pistachios for garnishing. We can also add ice cream like vanilla to prepare this milk shake.

Musk melon Milk shake

Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cook Time : 0 min
Serves : 2
Category : Beverages
Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Main ingredients : Musk melon
Author : ArunaSarasChandra

Ingredients

Musk melon - 1
Chilled milk - 2 glasses(adjust)
Honey - 3 tsp(adjust)
Badam - 7
Ice cubes - 3(I did not added)

Instructions

1) clean musk melon in water, cut into 2 halves and remove the seeds from it.

2) Scoop musk melon and take it into mixer jar or juice blender.

3) Keep some musk melon aside for garnishing. (** check tips)

4) Add 2 glasses of milk to the above, I used 2 small glasses of milk, adjust milk as per the size of musk melon you are using.

5) Now add finely chopped badam pieces to the above, keep some aside for garnishing. (** check tips)

6) It's time to add honey you can replace honey with sugar. (**check tips). If you want to add ice cube add at this point.

7) Now blend the milk shake till it becomes smooth and creamy.

Take the above into serving glasses and add remaining chopped musk melon pieces and finely chopped badam pieces and garnish it with tsp of honey. That's it low calorie, creamy, tasty and healthy musk melon milk shake it ready to serve.

Note

* You can also add vanilla or musk melon ice cream while blending juice to get more creamy texture.

* You can also add elachi powder while blending.

* Adjust milk and honey quantity according to musk melon size you use.

Tips

** Instead of honey you can add sugar, inorder to make it more healthy and low calorie juice I always use honey.

** You can use dry fruits like Kaju, pistachios along with badam for garnishing.

** Do not add more ice cubes it will make your juice thin.

** To get more creamy juice use thick fat milk.

** If your milk is not cool and do not want to add ice cubes then prepare it early and keep it in refrigerator.

Also check other beverages and sweet recipes by clicking the link below pic..

Dates & Banana Smoothie

Sabja buttermilk

Mango falooda

Mango lassi