Saturday, August 13

Avani Avittam

Traditional Recipes...for Avani Avittam
Neyyappam 
Ingredients
* 1 cup rice (cleaned washed & Soaked for 4 hours) or rice flour
 *1 cup jaggery
 *1 tbsp coconut pieces 
* 10 pods cardamom (powdered)
* Ghee (for frying)
Method
Grind rice and jaggery to a very fine paste. (if you r planning to use the rice flour -make the jaggery water then add the rice flour )rice flour Add Cardamom powder and coconut pieces and mix well. Heat an Appam griddle and put a large spoonful of ghee in each dent. Pour batter. When cooked, turn over and cook on the other side.


Paal Payasam 
Ingredients
 2 Litres full cream milk
 2 cups sugar
 2 1/2 tbsp rice (small grain)
Method
Clean and wash rice and set aside. Heat milk in a heavy bottomed vessel. When it comes to a boil, add rice. Cook on a low fire stirring from time to time. When rice becomes soft, add sugar. Cook till well blended and serve hot or cold.
Paruppu Vadai 
Ingredients
 3 cups Bengal Gram Dal
 1 cup tur dal
 1 cupmblack gram dal
 2 tbsp grated coconut
 2 tbsp ghee
 Oil for frying
 4 red chilles
 15 green chilles
 4 sprigs curry leaves
 3/4 tsp asafoetida powder
 Salt to taste
Method
Clean, wash and soak dals together for 3 hours. Drain completely. Grind red and green chilles, curry leaves, asafoetida, salt and a spoonful of dals together to a fine paste. Add rest of dals and grind coarsely. Do not add water. Add ghee and grated coconut and mix well. Take a spoonnful of batter and pat into 5 cm Vadais. Make 4 to 5 Vadais at a time. Heat oil and deep fry Vadais, till crisp. Drain and serve hot.

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