KASI HALWA

Ingredients: White Pumpkin 250 Gms

Milk 200 ml

Sugar 200 Gms

Ghee 75 Gms

Cashew Nuts 10 pieces

Yelaichi Powder 2 tea spoon

Saffron A small pinch

Cut pumpkin into pieces. Steam cook it and mashes it well. In a strong bottomed pan, fry cashew nuts with a tea spoon of ghee and keep it aside.

Add milk, sugar and mashed pumpkin in to the pan. Keep the flame low.

Stir it well. It will become a slight thick paste. Add the remaining ghee, and yelaichi powder. The halwa will separate the ghee and come to a stage, without touching the walls of the pan. Add saffron with milk and fried cashew nuts. Transfer the halwa into a ghee laid plate. After 5 minutes, make into diamond shaped pieces

CORIANDER POWDER (FOR RICE)

Ingredients: Black Gram 25 Gms

Bengal Gram 25 Gms

Coriander Seeds (Dhania) 50 Gms

Pepper 10 Gms

Red Chilies 3

Asafotetida 1 small piece

Oil 1 tea spoon

Salt To taste

In a frying pan put oil and roast all the ingredients. Make a nice powder. This powder can be used to make dhania rice.

COCONUT POWDER(FOR RICE)

Ingredients: Black Gram Dhal 50 Gms

Bengal Gram Dhal 50 Gms

Red Chilies 3

Asafotetida 1 small piece

Mustard Seeds 10 Gms

Coconut (scrapped) 200 Gms

Ghee ½ teaspoon

Salt To taste

Dry roast all the ingredients except scrapped coconut. In a frying pan, add ghee and roast the scrapped coconut nicely till it becomes red. Grind everything into medium powder.

DHAL POWDER (FOR RICE)

Ingredients: Tur Dhal (Red Gram) 200 Gms

Pepper 10 Gms

Red Chilies 1 No

Salt To taste

Dry roast all the ingredients except salt. Then salt crystals separately. Grind everything into a nice powder.

IDLI CHILI POWDER

Ingredients: Red Chilies 200 Gms

Black Gram 50 Gms

Mustard Seeds 10 Gms

Bengal Gram 50 Gms

Asafotetida 1 small piece

Sesame seeds 10 Gms

Oil 2 Teaspoon

Clean all the ingredients. Roast all the ingredients with oil except sesame

seeds. Roast till the dhal become red. Then grind all along with sesame seeds and

salt into a medium powder.

SAMBAR PODI

Ingredients: Coriander Seeds 600 Gms

Pepper Black 200 Gms

Tur Dhal 200 Gms

Bengal Gram 200 Gms

Fenugreek 50 Gms

Mustard Seeds 50 Gms

Turmeric 10

Red Chilies 1 Kg

Dry roast all the ingredients and make a nice powder. This measure will come for 2 months for a small family.