Chettinad Karuveppilai Kuzhambu | South Indian kuzhambu recipes

After all festive food and work, it took little time for me to come back to routine. So today i will be sharing the recipe of Chettinad style Karuveppillai Kuzhambu| Curry leaves kulambu. This authentic South Indian gravy recipe, was passed to me by a reader Ceyizhai Pari, sometime back. so i thought i will try it and post this today. So after the festive food this simple karuveppillai kuzhambu with hot rice and beans curry was totally a bliss for me. Check out my other version of karuvepillai kuzhambu too which i posted long back.

Deepavali Wishes | Happy Diwali

Jeyashri's Kitchen wish you all a very HAPPY DEEPAVALI. May this festival of lights brings lot of abundance and joy . Thanks you all for the overwhelming support. Keep visiting for more interesting recipes coming up.

Suzhiyan Recipe| Seeyam| Diwali recipes

Suzhiyan|Inippu seeyam, is generally made during deepavali in most of the houses in Tamilnadu. Adirasam and seeyam is made early in the morning. We always get it from our neighbour aunty along with kurunai vadai. Amma had never made suzhiyan at home. So i have also never tried it at home. since few readers asked for the recipe of suzhiyan, i thought i will post . My frined's mom helped me out with the recipe and i followed my channa dal poornam kozhukattai recipe for the poornam. Check out my full collection of diwali recipes . Follow jeyashri's kitchen on facebook too. Send your tried recipe pictures to jeyashrikitchen@gmail.com.

Suzhiyan| Seeyam

  Preparation Time : 10 mins+ 2 hours soaking time | Cooking Time : 30 Mins |Yields:7

     For Outer cover:
Idli rice   1/2 cup
Urad dal   1/4 cup
   For the stuffing|filling:
Channa dal   1/4 cup
Coconut   1/4 cup
Jaggery     1/4 cup+2 tblsp 
Cardamom powder   2 pinches
Ghee   1 tsp
    Oil     for Deep frying
          

Method:

• Soak rice and urad dal separately. Let them soak for 2 hours.

• Dry roast the channa dal for 2 minutes.
• Pressure cook this till 3 whistles by adding 1/2 cup of water.
• Grind the urad dal in the grinder for 5 minutes and once it is grinding, add the soaked rice and start grinding. Add water little by little. Do not add much water. The consistency should be little looser than the vadai batter.

• Drain the water completely from the channa dal and grind coconut, elachi powder,channa dal and jaggery together. You can first grind the channa dal and coconut first and then in the last round add jaggery and pulse once. 

• Divide the ground paste into equal sized balls. Mine came to 7 balls.

• Heat oil for deep frying. No need to ferment the batter.
• Dip the channa dal ball into the batter and cover it fully and carefully put it into the oil. 
• Do  not over crowd the pan. 

• Fry till golden brown and drain in a kitchen towel.

• Repeat this for the rest of the balls.
• Suzhiyan is ready.

Notes:

1. Always ensure that the channa dal poornam is not watery. If you feel it is slightly loose, add a tsp of ghee in a pan and cook it for 3-4 minutes and allow it to cool. It will be perfect.
2. The batter i have soaked is bit extra for the poornam. So either you double the poornam or in the left over batter add finely chopped onions, red chili powder, salt, coriander leaves and curry leaves and mix well.
3. spoon the batter inside the dough and make it as masala seeyam.
4. The entire suzhiyan can be made with fermented idli | dosa batter as the outer cover too.
5. The oute cover can be instantly made with maida and rice flour batter too.  

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Jalebi recipe| Diwali Sweet Recipes

Jalebi is a popular Indian Sweet, made using maida, sugar and ghee as the ingredient. I have tasted it in many occasions, but never tried it at home. Once i have helped a friend when she did with the instant jalebi mix. When i get requests to post Jalebi recipe for Diwali, i explored for recipes and finally ended up with this recipe here.  It was a  super hit at home and everyone loved it. Though in the original recipe it is not mentioned to ferment, many chefs insisted about the fermentation of the batter. So i fermented the batter and it came out very well. So make this Jalebi for diwali 2015 and surprise your family with a delicious sweet. Check my diwali recipe collection.  Follow Jeyashri's kitchen on facebook for recent updates.

Kaju Pista Roll recipe| Diwali sweets

Kaju Pista Roll, it brings back lot of memories to me. As we have seen the kaju pista roll in mithai shops, it is always tempting . I first say this in Krishna sweets when i was in chennai. Also the different shapes of kaju katli like apple, watermelon will be very fascinating for me. Actually i wanted to do the kaju watermelon but thought first will post the kaju pista roll as i am confident in that, because i have tried this 3 years back too. A reader requested for kaju watermelon too, but will post how to shape into watermelon with a different recipe, and not with kaju.
Coming to this kaju pista roll,as i said i have tried this 2 year back for a  Navaratri. One of my very close friend, who now moved back to India, invited all the friends for Navaratri. Since i don't have the custom of keeping golu at my house, i used to help her out with few things on the day she invites everybody. After breaking our head too much finally we decided to make kaju pista roll for a big crowd of 35-40 people. The beauty is both of us haven't tried the recipe before. I know how to make kaju katli, but never attempted the kaju pista rolls. With some guts we started with large quantity of cashew and pista and made the dough. The recipe she has in her handwritten cookbook, copied from snajeev kapoor's website. Just orally she told how to roll it and we both started making it in my home. I still have have the pictures in my album too. I started rolling it too thick and the kaju pista rolls are coming so big like logs. We both were laughing on seeing such logs and the entire project was totally fun. We laughed and laughed and finished making so much of kaju pista rolls spending more than 3 hours.Later we packed also some  rolls to few close friends as there were many. But taste wise they turned out very perfect. Even if i think about that i will laugh. When i told my friend i am going to post kaju pista roll, she too recalled all the sweet memories we had.
Actually i made this 2 weeks back for an event, but didn't have time to click. Made this again for my friend's son who is very fond of kaju katlis.
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Traditional Mysore Pak | Diwali Sweet recipes

Mysore pak is a traditional sweet made in Tamil brahmin weddings. The Mysore pak served in weddings will be hard and loaded with ghee. The porous texture of the mysore pak is the highlight of the traditional mysore pak. The perfect one depends upon the ghee we use and of course the besan|kadalaimaavu too. I have already posted a super easy Mysore pak recipe , similar to Sri Krishna sweets soft Mysore Pak, few years ago. That was a super hit sweet recipe, tried even by bachelors too. That Mysore Pak recipe involve less ghee and sugar. But still i wanted to try the traditional mysore pak recipe too. During this Navaratri, when i visited one of my friend's house, she served me super yummy lemon sevai, chutney and mysore pak too. The next day i messaged her and asked about the recipe of mysore pak. She told that her mother only made that and after few minutes, aunty called me and told me the recipe.Thank you so much aunty, for patiently clearing my doubts and elaborately explaining the recipe. Though it was loaded with sugar and ghee, the method was very easy only. So i tried it during last weekend and it turned out pretty well. My step wise pictures were not satisfactory, as i was bit tensed about the outcome. The Mysore pak were very nice and tasted the same as i had in her place. I used store bought ghee and besan. If you have access to rice mill, get your besan done at home by grinding channa dal in rice mill. Also make ghee at home or use the Aavin ghee if you get. This will give  perfect colour for the Mysore pak.

Moong Dal Omapodi | Diwali snacks recipes

Diwali 2015 recipes

Omapodi | Sev is a snack which is generally added to South Indian mixture. Basically it is made with besan| kadalaimaavu. I still remember during our childhood, we eat these omapodis crazily and finally end up with stomach upset as the besan  too much consumed will give that effect. I have already posted the omapodi recipe in jeyashri's kitchen When i come across the moong dal omapodi recipe here, it sounded very nice. When i tried it yesterday, it turned out awesome and was a super hit at home too. If not for Diwali, this ompaodi is a perfect tea time snack too. The aroma of ajwain| omam and the moong dal flour enhances the taste of the omapodi. Check out my full collections of diwali recipes.  

Almond Murukku recipe | Easy Diwali recipes | Badam Murukku

Almond murukku | Badam murukku is an easy diwali snack recipe. For bachelors who live in abroad and don't have access to urad dal flour or pottukadalai, this murukku you can make only with rice flour and almonds. I wanted to try cashew murukku, which i learnt from my friend's mil 2 years back. When i saw this almond murukku here , i thought i will give it a try. The murukku turned out very crispy and i loved the flavour of almond in the murukku. You can try this murukku with store bought rice flour too. Even idiyappam maavu works out well for this recipe. Check out my other diwali recipe collections too. Follow jeyashris kitchen on facebook for updates.

Kala Jamun Recipe | Diwali Mithai Recipes

Using Instant gulab jamun mix

I wanted to post this Kala Jamun for last Diwali itself, but as i  posted so many diwali recipes last year, didn't have time to post this recipe. From my childhood i remember, for Diwali apart from other sweets and snacks, Gulab jamun will also be there. Gulab jamun mix will be in the grocery list when we do grocery shopping during diwali. The most fascinating thing will be most of the gulab jamun mix will giveaway something free along with the mix. Most of the times it will be some glass bowls. I have already posted Makan peda recipe using gulab jamun mix. So with the store bought gulab jamun mix, you don't need to make the same usual gulab jamun. Try out this kala jamun recipe and i am sure it will be a treat for your family and guests. I have bookmarked this recipe from Vahchef video. Check out all my diwali recipes collection. Follow Jeyashri's Kitchen on Facebook for updates.

Beetroot halwa recipe | Diwali recipes

Beetroot halwa, i never realised that i didn't have this recipe simple and easy sweet in my website. During this Navaratri, i happened to visit many of friends and among them few i don't know personally and they are my readers. When one among them told me that she searched for beetroot halwa in my website and it was not there, i realised i didn't post this recipe. So made this yesterday and clicked the pictures. I have already posted Gajar ka halwa| carrot halwa with condensed milk. So i wanted to make this beetroot halwa with khoya. You can even make the beetroot halwa with condensed milk too. Or make it plain only with milk and sugar. Adding khoya or condensed milk gives richness to the halwa. Check out my other halwa recipes too.

• Kasi halwa
• Godhumai halwa
• Corn flour halwa

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