Thengai Mangai Pattani Sundal

It is a tasty evening snack, also called chundal, rich in protein.

Ingredients:

• Dry green peas (pattani): 2 cups
• Raw mango (mangai / kachcha aam): 1
• Coriander seeds( malli / dhania) : 4 tsp
• Coconut (thengai / nariyal): 1/4 cup
• Mustard (kadugu / rai / sarson): 1/4 tsp
• Red chili (vara milakai / lal mirchi): 8
• Asafetida (Perungayam / Hing): one pinch
• Husked black gram (Ulundham paruppu / Urad dal): 1 tsp
• Oil: 1 tsp
• Salt: 1 tsp

Method:

• Soak peas overnight in four cups of water, pressure cook in medium flame for two whistles, strain the excess water and keep it aside.
• Grind coriander seeds, coconut, and red chilies.
• Fry mustard, black gram and asafetida in oil and add the ground masala.
• Keep frying until a pleasant flavor comes out.
• Now add peas and salt.
• Cook for a few minutes.
• Remove from flame.
• Garnish with chopped mangoes.
• Serve hot or cold.
• Suitable to serve during festivals like Navarathri and Ayudha puja / Saraswathi puja. During non season of mangoes, mango powder can be used effectively.

Ellurundai / ellu urundai / Til ke Laddoo

Sesame seed sweet ball (Winter laddu). It is a suitable dessert that warms up our body during winter season. Narimedu (Madurai special)

Ingredients:

• White Sesame seeds : 1 cup
• Jaggery (gud) : 1 cup
• Grated dry coconut : 1/2 cup (Optional)
• Peanuts (groundnuts) : 1/2 cup
• Cardamom Powder : 1 tsp
• Ghee : 1 tbsp

Procedure:

• Roast the sesame seeds till golden brown.
• Roast the grated coconut.
• Roast the groundnuts and coarsely powder them.
• Melt jaggery in a heavy bottomed pan, add 1 tbsp of ghee and stir.
• On boiling, add all other ingredients and stir.
• Remove from flame.
• Grease your hands with a little ghee and make laddoos when the mixture is of bearable warmth. You can heat again a little, if mixture becomes cold.
• Laddus can be stored for 10 to15 days in an air-tight container.

SWEET, TASTY AND HEALTHY PORRIDGE

• Boil 100 gms of broken wheat with 100 ml of milk, a tablespoonful of coconut turnings (Tenkai thuruval) and a little water, till the broken wheat becomes soft.
• Add 50 gms of jaggery (vellam) and a pinch of cardamom powder.
• Boil further for 5 minutes.
• Serve for 5.