Neer More

This is usually prepared on Sri Rama Navami. This is nothing but butter milk offered for Neivedhyam.

Ingredients:

1.       Curd: 2 Big ladles

2.       Water: 400 ml

3.       Salt

4.       Asafoedita

5.       Curry leaves

Preparation Procedure:

1.       In a vessel, add 2 ladles of curd and with a Thayir Mathu / curd beater stir it well. Add water and stir well again.

2.       Add salt and asafoedita and mix well

3.       Add curry leaves. You can tear the leaves and add to give more flavour.

Panagam

This is also offered as Neivedhyam on Sri Rama Navami.

Ingredients:

1.       Powdered Jaggery: 200 gms

2.       Water: 400 ml

3.       Sukku Powder: A pinch

Preparation Procedure:

1.       Add little water and jaggery and crush them nicely by hand in the form of paste. Slowly make it dissolve in water, filter out the impurities and then add the remaining water also. Do not keep it on stove, it may become like vella pagu otherwise.

2.       Add little pinch of sukku powder.

Masala More / Spicy Butter Milk

This is a very healthy and nutritious drink , very useful to quench thirst.  Intake of Butter milk on regular basis is very good for health and this also acts as a effective diet menu with less calorific value. This spicy butter milk has an enhanced taste that most of us would really love to have this as a summer drink too. And most of all, this is so easy to make…

Ingredients:

1. Curd: 2 Big Ladles
2. Water: 400 ml
3. Green Chilly: 1/4^th of a big green chilly
4. Ginger: very small tiny piece (same size as green chilly)
5. Curry Leaves: 10
6. Corinader leaves: few
7. Salt
8. Asafoedita
9. Mustard: ½ tsp
10. Jeera: 4
11. Oil: ½ tsp

Preparation Procedure:

1. Grind the following with little water in the form of paste: Green chilly, ginger, 5 curry leaves and few coriander leaves and keep it aside
2. In a vessel, add 2 ladles of curd and with a Thayir Mathu / curd beater stir it well. Add water and stir well again.
3. Add salt and the grinded paste and asafoedita
4. In a kadai, add ½ tsp oil and season mustard and while it starts spluttering, add 4 jeera and switch kadai and add this kadai contents to the butter milk.. Add the remaining curry and coriander leaves

Spicy Butter Milk is all ready to serve…you can consume it as such or serve chilled.

Badam Kheer

Very nutritious and healthy recipe and easy to prepare.

Ingredients:

1.       Almonds: 250 gms

2.       Boiled Milk: 800 ml

3.       Sugar: 120 to 150 gms (1/2 Azhakku)

4.       Cardamom powder (elakkai)

5.       Water

6.       Badam essence: 1 drop or two

7.       Saffron (a pinch)

Preparation Procedure:

1.       Soak the Almonds in water for 2 hours and peel the skin and keep it aside.

2.       Grind the soaked almonds very nicely in the form of a paste

3.       In hot boiling milk, add this grinded paste along with sugar and a drop or two of badam essence and saffron and keep stirring very well in sim for ten to fifteen minutes.

4.       Switch off the stove and add a pinch of cardamom powder.

You can serve this hot or keep this refrigerated and serve it chill..

Carrot Kheer / Carrot Badam Kheer

This is a very healthy, nutritious and also a tasty kheer. Esp, when you are always bored of preparing and serving and having Payasam for Virundhu, you can try your hand on this..

Ingredients:

1.       Carrot: 7

2.       Badam (Almond) : 10 to 15

3.       Sugar: ¾ Azhakku (180 gms)

4.       Milk : ¾ l

5.       Elaichi Powder / Cardamom Powder

6.       Water

Preparation Procedure:

1.       Soak the Badam in water for 1 hour and peel the skin and grind them to a fine powder

2.       Peel the carrot and boil the carrots without cutting them by adding the carrot and little water to the pressure cooker. Allow 4 whistles.

3.       In the meantime, boil milk.

4.       Allow this to cool for sometime, mash the carrots by hand and put it in the same mixer along with the grinded Badam.

5.       Grind this as a very fine paste.

6.       Transfer this paste to a container and add little water (100 ml) and sugar and keep stirring them on a low flame till sugar dissolves.

7.       Add the boiled hot milk and keep it on stove and stir for 5 mins.

8.       You may add 1 or 2 tbsps of Milk Maid or Mithai Mate also for enhanced taste. Add a pinch of cardamom powder

9.       Switch off the stove and allow the Kheer to cool for 2 hours in refrigerator.

Chill tasty Carrot Kheer is ready to serve..