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A simple snack, for rainy evenings!. Ingredients: 1. Channa flour (Besan)- 1 cup 2. Rice flour- 2 tbsp 3. Ground mixture of Ajwain(1/2 tbsp), pepper (1 tbsp), cumin seeds (1/2 tbsp) 4.Chilli powder- 1 tbsp 5. Butter- 1 tbsp 6. Salt as required. Mix all of the above ingredients adding very lil water. The batter should be thick. Heat oil in a pan and make murukku with this batter. Crush the murukku into small pieces and kaara sev is ready.

Most of us use Roasted gram in chutneys. But this is a delicious variation and a crispy snack. Ingredients: Rice flour-2 cups Powdered Roasted gram- 1/2 cup Cumin seeds- 1/2 tbsp Hing- 1/4 tbsp Butter- 2 tbsp Salt- as required Oil- for frying. 1. Sieve Rice flour and roasted gram powder together and add cumin seeds, hing, butter and salt and mix well. 2.Knead it into a stiff dough. (More butter you add, crispier will be murukku). 3. Make small balls of this dough and squeeze using Muruku maker 4. Deep fry in oil. You can store this a air tight container.

This is a good tea time snack, but consumes oil and hence I would not recommend to make this frequently. Ingredients: 1. Channa dhal flour or besan- 1.5 cups 2. Rice flour- 1/2 cups 3. Chilli powder- 1 tbsp 4. Salt- as required 5. Ajwain- 1 tbsp (soak in water) Mix all the ingredients and make a dough (nearly resembling chapathi dough). Heat oil in a tava and start making oma podi. Once the bubble starts reducing, you can turn and cook in the other side. Store this in an airtight container.

I wanted to try the traditional recipes like Mullu Murukku this time for Diwali. When I asked my mother, she said that I need to soak rice, dry it, powder it, sieve it etc. My head went reeling, but its worth the effort, as the output was too good! How to make Mullu Murukku: 1. You will need the Muruku maker (with star shaped nossle). 2. Soak 3 cups of raw rice for 20 mins and then rinse it. In a dry cloth, spread the filtered rice and let this dry in-house for 3-4 hours. 3. Now, grind the rice and sieve it. 4. Dry roast 1/4 cup of channa dhal and 1/4 cup of moong dhal until they become red. 5. Grind these dhal together and sieve. 6. Add 2 tbsp of butter and salt and mix and make it like a dough (resembling, poori or chapathi dough). 7. Now, apply little oil in the muruku maker and make murukku in a polythene paper. (If it does not become brittle, then you can start making. If it is becoming brittle, you can add 1-2 tbsp of rice powder (bought from stores). 8. Heat oil and start makin...

Hey..., I had a small 3 step golu, for which I had to put in cartons and some suitcases (to form the required height). I did this a weekend before the actual Navarathri start date. A lil park: In a small tray, I spread mud and sprinkled mustard seeds. so by Navarathri time, my park is ready! I also prepared some nice stuff to give to people who come in. 1. 7-cup cake: Ingredients: Channa flour- 1 cup Milk- 1 cup Sugar- 1.5 cup (2 cups is too sweet). Grated coconut- 1 cup Ghee- 1 cup Procedure: 1. In a pan, add 2 tbsp of ghee and roast the channa dhal flour in medium flame (until the smell changes). 2. Mix milk, sugar, grated coconut and channa dhal in a wok. 3. Keep mixing the ingredients in low flame, adding ghee occasionally. 4. It will become like halwa. 5. In a plate, grease with ghee and transfer the contents to the plate 6. Cut into small cubes, while the sweet is hot. ============================================================================== 2. Puzhungarisi Thattai: Ingredie...

This is a typical namkeen, famous in S.India. 1. Soak 1 cup of Parboiled rice for 1/2 hour 2. Drain it and leave aside for 30 minutes or spread it in a cotton cloth for 30 min 3. Grind this into a fine powder and sieve. 4. Dry roast 1 tbsp of urad dhal and grind this and add to the rice powder 5. Add 3-4 tbsp of butter, 1 tbsp of cumin seeds, salt and mix well. 6. Heat oil in a tava and start making thenkuzhal. When i say 1 cup, i mean kaal padi (that we all usually use for measuring rice). 5 kaal padis equals 1 kg usually.heheehe! If you add too much urad dhal, the thenkuzhal will turn brownish. So, pls. add more flour, if you think that your urad dhal powder proportion is not correct. More the butter you add, you would get crunchy ones.