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Dry fruits Laddu

Dry fruits laddu

After Diwali the craving for sweets reduces a bit naturally. We had small packets of dry fruits which had to be used soon. I always loved dry fruits laddu which we rarely used to get(considering the price) from Udupi duringthe childhood. It used to have dates, dry Coconut, cashews, raisins, badam, pista etc. But never prepared them at home because having so many dry fruits at once and preventing them from eating wasn’t a easy task 😁 so I must say prepared these for the first time and loved the process and taste! Definitely a nutrients rich no sugar sweet. If you also have those tiny dry fruits packets which came as Diwali gift, do try this recipe 😊

Ingredients required-

  1. Dates – 1.5 cup
  2. Raisins- 1/4 cup
  3. Cashews – 1/4 cup
  4. Almonds – 1/4 cup
  5. Oats – 1 cup
  6. Ghee – 5-6 tsp
  7. Cardamom- 1

Method of preparation-

  • Dry roast the oats and make fine powder of it
  • Dry roast the cashew and Almonds and pulse them
  • Deseed the dates and pulse them
  • Now take a pan, add ghee to it
  • To this add pulsed dates and cook till it becomes little soft, on medium flame
  • Now add oats powder, cashews, almond and Raisins
  • Mix well. Add ghee to bind them all together
  • Grease hands with ghee and prepare laddus
  • Store in air tight container

Note :

  • Use dates which are slightly mushy. Once I used dates which were of good quality and it was very difficult to bind
  • You can add jaggery powder as well. But I like it without any sweetner
  • You can add grated and dry roasted dry Coconut as well
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Breakfast

Taushe/Cucumber Muddo/Gatti/Dumplings

Taushe/ cucumber muddo

Started our deepavali celebration by having this healthy breakfast made by mom. She picked up huge cucumber and very aromatic turmeric leaves on her way back from Goa temple visit.

These steamed dumplings can be made in 2 ways. The base remains the same and in one version jaggery is added and in other ginger and green chilly is added. I like the mixture of a little bit of both.

The ingredients required are-

  1. Cucumber – about 1kg
  2. Coconut – half
  3. Jaggery – as per taste(about 50grms or more)
  4. Salt
  5. Rice powder(idli rava) – about 1.5 cup
  6. Turmeric leaves

Method of preparation –

  • First make tiny pieces of cucumber as we cut for salad.
  • Grate the Coconut and jaggery(this can be more if you like sweet) and mix with cucumber.
  • Add salt to taste and squeeze well
  • Next add rice powder and mix well
  • Keep it aside for sometime for rice flour to absorb water
  • Now take the turmeric leaves. If the leaves are big cut then in the middle.
  • Keep 2 pieces in the cross shape and place the mixture.
  • Fold from all the 4 sides
  • Keep in the steamer and steam for about 20min.

Note :

To prepare spicy version in place of jaggery finely chopped ginger pieces and green chilly has to be added.

Alternatively you can add ginger and green chilly to this mixture itself to make it sweet and spicy.