RAWA MODAK

You people are thinking that- "oh god! she is addicted to modak's", Ha Ha, Actually I love modak's, and Ganesha chaturthi has come so I can't remember anything without these Modak's but I wanted to change the shape so I have used different mould, you can use same original mould of modak.

Ingredients :-

Semolina or Suji - 3 cups

Jaggery - 2 cups

Water as required

Cardamoms - 4-5

Ghee - 3 tbsp

Salt - little bit

Method :-

Heat ghee in a vessel, add coconut, jaggery- Keep stirring continuously on medium flame and make a sticky solution.

Roast Semolina in nonstick pan in low heat till it slightly turns brown.

add ghee,milk and sugar. Stir till mixture becomes sticky. Add salt little bit and take off from flame, cover it.

Make small balls of dough and roll it in round shape.

Put 1 tbsp of the above stuffing in the flat round dough and pack it by taking all the edges up giving it shape

like a cone on top.

Ready to serve.

UPMA

Today in breakfast I have made upma.

Upma is a South Indian delicacy.Mostly it is made in up of semolina, onions, ginger, green chilies, In south India they use Bengal gram pulse(chana dal)and urad dal, curry leaves and mustard seeds but because we have shifted to new house, I couldn't manage curry leaves and made upma without that, the taste was good,I used peanuts too, In breakfast upma and a cup of strong coffee is not bad. My nephew is 5 yrs old, loves it. Not only that it is less time consuming but also tasty, so, when we don’t like to spend most of the time in kitchen ,we can make this.

Here is the recipe----

Ingredients-

                 1) Semolina(Rava or suji) - 1 cup

                 2) Refined oil -1 tbsp

                 3) Peanuts-50 g

                 4) Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

                 5) Curry leaves -7-8

                 6) Onions - 100 g (finely chopped)

                 7) Tomatoes - 50-75 g

                 8) Salt-as per taste

                 9) Green chillies - 2-4 finely chopped
                10) Green Peas(peeled) - 100 g

           
Method- 

Dry roast semolina in a pan

Boil 2 cups of water in a different pan and keep aside

Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds- when seeds crackle add curry leaves, peanut, fry it

After some time add onions, green chillies, saute it till onions become translucent.

Add semolina and saute for a while.

Mix hot water, salt in mixture, stir it and cover it,cook on a slow flame for 5 mints.

 Now switch off the flame.

Serve hot with pickle or tomato ketchup