Susiyam

How many love this crispy outside, soft sweet stuffing inside vadais??

You can prepare this very easily at home. Over to the recipe.

Ingredients:

Raw rice              - 3/4 cup

Urad dal              - 3/4 cup
Channa dal         - 1 cup

Jaggery                - 1 cup
Cardamom          - 4 or 5
Ghee                     - 1 tbsp
Salt                        - As required
Oil                          - for frying

This recipe yields around 25 to 30 susiyam

You can click here for the video on how to make susiyam

Procedure:

Wash and soak rice and urad dal together for an hour. Crumble jaggery into pieces . Crush cardamom.

Grind rice and urad dal together adding little water. The batter should be thick so that it covers stuffing well. So be little careful while grinding batter. Add salt to the batter .

Boil chana dal. I used to cook for a whistle in high flame and then in low flame for ten minutes.

Take crumbled Jagger in a pan. Add  little water (around 1/4 cup) to it. Boil in medium flame. Once jaggery is all melted , switch off the flame and filter jaggery .This is done to remove impurities in jaggery.

Take boiled Channa dal and jaggery extract in a heavy bottomed pan .cook in medium flame till the stuffing thickens. Keep on smashing the stuffing in berween. When its half done, add crushed cardamom. You can also use 1/4 TSP cardamom powder instead.

Let the stuffing cool. The stuffing will become more thick once its cooled down completely. Make small balls out of stuffing.

Heat oil in a kadai. When it's hot, take stuffing, dip it in batter and deep fry on both sides .

Your susiyam is ready. Happy cooking..

Notes :

If you are left with batter alone, you can add chopped onion, ginger, green chillies, curry leaves, salt to it and make kaara Vadai

No need to ferment the batter .

Ribbon Pakoda

Ribbon Pakoda

Coming here is the snack, which can be prepared very easily...You can prepare it in less than 20 minutes. Guests visiting suddenly?? Prepare this Ribbon Pakoda instantly and impress your guests..

Ingredients:

Rice Flour                 - 3 cup

Fried Gram Flour      - 1.5 cups  (Porikadalai Maavu)

Butter                         - 1 tbsp

Salt                            - As required

Water                        - As required

Oil                             - For frying

To Grind:

Red Chilli           - 2

Fennel Seeds      - 1/2 tsp

Garlic Pods         - 4

Procedure:

• Grind Everything under 'To Grind'. Adding Fennel seeds and garlic give very nice flavor to Pakoda.. So Don't ever skip this step.
• Take a bowl. Add Rice flour, Fried Gram flour, ground masala, salt and butter to it. Add water in small instances and start binding the flour.
• Be careful while adding water. The dough should be of Chapathi dough consistency. 
• There are many ways of preparing this pakoda. Can prepare it also with Gram Flour (Kadalai Maavu) or else with both gram flour and Fried Gram Flour.
• Adding little Butter is must. You can also use Hot oil instead. Because of this, pakodas will be crispier and it won't absorb much oil.
• Take a muruku press. Add dough to it. Use plate for Ribbon Pakoda.
• Heat oil in  a pan. When the oil is hot, start pressing the pakoda directly into the oil.
• When its cooked on both sides, remove from oil.
• Drain excess oil and enjoy your pakoda..

ribbon