Thayir vadai/Dahi vada/Curd vada – South indian style

Thayir vadai

Ingredients:

Ulunthu vadai	10
Curd/yogurt	1 ½ cups
Coriander leaves	Few grated
Carrot (grated)	5 table spoon
Green chilli(chopped)	2
Salt	As required

How to make thayir vadai:

• Mix the curd with green chilli and salt.
• Dip the vadais in warm water and transfer immediately in the tray which is optional to reduce oil.
• If not directly keep them on the tray. Pour the curd over them evenly.
• Keep it in refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
• Garnish with carrot and coriander leaves and then serve.

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Sarkara pongal/chakara pongal/sweet pongal - Traditional Indian Pongal Recipe

sarkara pongal

Ingredients:

Raw rice	1 cup
Yellow mung dal/paasi parupu	¼ cup
Jaggery(grated)	1 cup
Water	3 cups
Ghee	4 table spoon
Cashew nut	Few
Raisins	Few
Cardamom/elachi	2
Cloves	2
Dry ginger powder/sukku	¼ tea spoon

This can also a Nivedanam Recipe.

How to prepare sweet pongal:

• Dry roast the mung dal. Roast the cashew nut and raisins separately, also roast cloves and elachi in ghee and set aside.
• Dissolve the jaggery in ½ cup of boiling water and filter it. Keep it ready.
• Wash the rice and mung dal and add water with it and cook it well.
• Now along with that add the jaggery water, cashew nut, raisins, cloves, cardamom and dry ginger powder and cook for few minutes.

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Ven pongal/Ghee pongal - Traditional Indian Pongal Recipe

ven pongal

Ingredients:

Raw rice	1 cup
Yellow mung dal/Paasi parupu	¼ cup(roasted)
Grated coconut	¼ cup
Ginger(chopped)	1 table spoon
Water	4 cups
Black Pepper powder/Crushed black pepper	As required
Salt	As required
Ghee	2 table spoon
Cashew nuts	Few
Curry leaves	Few
Jeera/cumin seeds	¼ tea spoon
Asafoetida	A pinch

How to prepare ven pongal:

• Roast the cashewnut in ghee and set aside.
• Dry roast the mung dal, wash the rice and dal. Fry the ginger and asafeotida for few second in ghee and add the rice, mung dal, salt, pepper  with water.
• Cook it well and mash it.
• Now temper the jeera, curry leaves and add this to cooked rice along with cashew nut and coconut. Now remove from the flame.
• After the add 2 table spoon of milk to increase the taste.
• Have the with the side dish Ulunthu Vadai.

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Sugarcane juice – Home made traditional indian drink(pongal special)

sugarcane juice

It’s a healthy and refreshing drink which reduces body heat. Its also a summer special drink.

Ingredients:

Sugarcane cube	2 cups
Lemon	1 small
Ginger	1 inch piece
Ice cube(optional)	2

How to prepare sugarcane juice:

• Wash the sugarcane and remove the skin with knife and cut it into 1 inch cubes.
• Wash the ginger and strip its skin too.
• Now grind the both in the mixer to prepare juice.
• In a coffee strainer squeeze it to filter the juice. Again filter the squeezed juice because it should be too clear.
• Now add the lime juice along with this.
• Serve it as such or chilled. You can also add ice cube while serving.

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