Wheat Laddoo (Godhumai mavurundai / Atta laddu)

It is an easy to prepare energetic dessert. It is enjoyable to have during tea time along with snacks. It is also called kodhumai maavu urundai.

Method of preparation:

• Roast 250 grams of wheat flour (Atta / Godhumai mavu).
• Mix 200 grams of grated jaggery (Gud / Vellam) with the roasted flour.
• Add 30 grams of ghee (clarified butter / makkan / vennai).
• Mix well.
• With the help of your palm, prepare ball shaped laddus of your preferred size.
• Serve with or without snacks and tea or coffee.

Kummayam

It is an excellent, easy to prepare, delicious chettinadu / chettinad sweet dish or dessert.

Ingredients:

• Raw rice (pacharisi / colam rice / kachcha chawal): ¼ azhakku (approx 60 ml)
• Black gram (uluttham paruppu / urad dal): ½ azhakku (approx 125 ml)
  Split green gram (pasipparuppu / moong dal wash): 2 azhakku (approx 500 ml)
• Jaggery (vellam / gud): 500 gm
• Ghee (nei): 200 gm
  
  
  Method:
  
  
• Roast the rice, black gram and green gram separately.
• Mix them together and grind to fine flour.
• Sift with the help of a sieve and keep aside.
• Take the jaggery in a vessel.
• Add a little water.
• Heat a little till the jaggery dissolves and filter.
• Mix this with the flour.
• Make up the consistency like that of dosai batter.
• Now, heat it slowly by adding ghee gradually.
• Cook till the appearance of shiny colour.
• Serve hot or cold.
  

Suitable to prepare during festivals and special family functions.

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.