BAKED PARUPPU VADAI

INGREDIENTS :

Channa dal/ Kadalai Paruppu - 1/2 cup

Onion - 1 cup finely chopped

Jeera - 2 tsp

Green chillies - 10 finely chopped

Curry leaves - few chopped

Salt to taste

METHOD OF PREPARATION :

1. Soak dal for 2 hours. Grind it coarsely with very little water.

2. Mix in jeera, onion, green chillies, curry leaves and salt.

3. Apply oil in evenly in the bun tray.

4. Roll small balls of the batter and flatten it, fill in  the tray.

5. Heat oven to 200 deg centigrade, preheat for 5 minutes, then place the tray in the oven and bake for 20 minutes till crispy.

6. Flip to its side, once in the middle.

7. Serve hot with chutney.

GOKULA ASHTAMI 2012 ... AVAL LADOO

Happy Gokulaashtami to all my readers !!!!

Pooja Thali includes Fruits , Milk ,Butter,Curd,Flowers and Laddoos .

INGREDIENTS :

Aval - 200 gms
Dessicated coconut - 200 gms
Sugar - 200 gms
Cashews,Raisins,Elachi powder
Milk 
Ghee

METHOD OF PREPARATION :

1) Ghee roast aval first till golden .
2) Then , add coconut and fry well till the flavour rules out.
3) Then , mix it up well with sugar.
4) Allow it to cool  down .
5) Then , add ghee raosted cashews, raisins and elachi powder.
6) Add warm milk to it , mix it up well . Keep this aside for 5 minutes . Then , roll ladoos of it .

AADI PERUKKU / AADI VELLI FESTIVAL

Aadi month is a special month in Tamil Calender . All the fridays in this month,Aadi Velli's, are very auspicious and special for Goddess Sakthi/Amman . People will offer porridge/koozh in all the amman temples on all fridays . Aadi pooram , day which comes with star sign 'Pooram' is also very special . Aadi perukku or Aadi Monsoon Festival of Tamilnadu is celebration done on the banks of river for rain god to have more rain and surplus water all through the year for flourishment .  This is celebrated on the 18th day of the aadi month . 

During the day , we wear new clothes and offer neivedhyam which includes Variety rice (Lemon rice/Curd Rice/Thenkkai sadam/Puli sadam ) , Payasam and Vadai .