Quinoa Sweet Kozhukattai

Wishing you all a Happy Ganesh Chathurthi, hope you guys are very much busy in preparing this wonderful festival with many delicious dishes, seriously am missing those days in India..Eventhough its working day here, we wont skip this festival at any cost as Ganesh is my favourite god...Coming to this sweet kozhukattais, i prepared them using quinoa and rice together eventhough i dont have any idea about the final result, but i was very much happy to see my creation turned out super prefect,addictive and highly delicious..Quite a healthy kozhukattais to offer as prasadam to Lord Ganesh...This sweet kozhukattais tastes and ressembles exactly like our usual kozhukattais, quinoa in this dumplings didnt changed the taste and turned this kozhukattais super prefect...I couldnt stopped myself having them,yep they are quite addictive..My teddies helped me to make these cute looking balls, i dont want to change their shape as my mini chefs helped a lot for making them, you can very well prepare them as pidi kozhukattais..

1/2cup Quinoa (soaked for two hours)
1/2cup Rice(soaked for two hours)
1/2cup Jaggery syrup
1tbsp Oil
1tsp Cardamom powder
2tbsp Yellow moongdal (roasted)
1/4cup Grated coconut

Grind the soaked rice,soaked quinoa with enough water as fine paste..take this grounded paste,jaggery syrup with oil in a non stick pan, cook in medium flame until this grounded paste turn as thick dough, add the cardamom powder,roasted moongdal and grated coconut,mix everything well and keep aside,let them cool completely..

Take a small ball from the dough and roll them with your fingers, arrange them over a greased plate and steam cook for 10minutes in Idly cooker..

Enjoy warm..

Celebrating Three Years Of Blogging With Lychee Badam Kheer

Its a real pleasure to celebrate third birthday of my blog baby today..Three years in this blogsphere, never thought of this fabulous milestone, am soo excited..I have to say big thanks to each and every reader of this blog,nothing is possible without you all..Thanks for all ur continous encouraging supports which gives more enthu to continue this wonderful journey...Am very much thankful to this blogworld coz i have met so many wonderful friends through this virtual world and learned many healthy stuffs and still learning more and more..Am celebrating this third blog anniversary with this rich looking delectable lychee badam kheer,needless to say this kheer turned out super delicious with a delicate lychee flavour and nutty texture, i didnt blanched the almonds and chironji seeds in this kheer and used them directly by soaking in hot milk, this delightful drink tastes simply awesome when they are served chilled...With a generous pinch of saffron strands and plenty of nuts, this kheer goes for a quick preparation and we couldnt stop enjoying this incredible kheer...

20nos Almonds
1/2cup Lychee (chopped)
1tsp Chironji seeds/charoli seeds
4cups Milk
1/2cup Sugar
1tbsp Saffron strands
1/2tsp Cardamom powder
Pistachios (for garnishing)

Take the almonds,chironji seeds with enough water in a microwave safe bowl,cook for a minute in high power and keep aside..Grind the almonds,chironji seeds and chopped lychee with enough milk as a smooth paste..Meanwhile heat the milk with saffrons in a vessel and bring to boil,add the sugar,almond-chironji paste,cardamom powder and cook for few minutes..Allow it to cool,arrange in fridge atleast for 2 hours and serve it chilled ..

Garnish with  pistachios...

Jackfruit Sweet Pidi Kozhukattai

If you searching something new and completely different from our usual kozhukattais, give a trial to the wonderful looking jackfruit sweet dumplings, actually after trying this kind of sweet dumplings with Wheat flour and ragi flour, this year for Vinayaka chathurthi i wanted to make something different from my usual preparation, i tried these sweet dumplings today by grinding soaked rice and canned jackfruit chunks together with sugar which i cooked later in medium flame until they turned as a thick dough and prepared this dumplings along with roasted moongdal and freshly grated coconut..For my surprise this pidi kozhukattais tastes fabulous,quite addictive and completely new and different from the usual pidi kozhukattais..If you like jackfruits very much,you will definitely love this cute looking kozhukattais..

1cup Rice (soaked for two hours)
1cup Jackfruit chunks(canned or fresh one)
1/2cup Sugar
1tbsp Oil
1tbsp Cardamom powder
2tbsp Yellow moongdal (roasted)
1/4cup Grated coconut

Grind the soaked rice, jackfruit chunks,sugar with enough water as fine paste..take this grounded paste with oil in a non stick pan, cook in medium flame until this grounded paste turn as thick dough, add the cardamom powder,roasted moongdal and grated coconut,mix everything well and keep aside..

Take a small ball from the dough and press with your fingers, arrange them over a greased plate and steam cook for 10minutes in Idly cooker..

Enjoy warm..

Fresh Fruits Cocktail

My teddies love fresh fruit juices anytime of the day also i never stopped making them often.They are still having their summer vacations for one more week and needless to say they are trying to skip their breakfast quite often..Am trying to feed them either by preparing smoothies with fruits or else fresh juices for their brunch..Coming to this fresh fruits cocktail, i prepared this cocktail  with varieties of fruit pieces and this fresh fruits cocktail tastes super delicious when served chilled also i skipped completely sugar and went for honey...They just enjoyed it a lot..

1cup Watermelon (chopped)
1/2cup Peach (chopped)
1/2cup Apple(chopped)
1/2cup Pears (chopped)
1/4cup Nectarines (chopped)
1tbsp Lemon juice
Water
Honey
Ice cubes (as per need)

Take the fruits,lemon juice,water and honey in a blender, blend everything together with ice cubes..Serve immediately or chilled...