Sweet Aval Puttu| Sweetened Poha

Sweet Aval Puttu| Sweetened Poha is a healthy, tasty sweet dish made using rice flakes as main ingredient. It is usually prepared as Neivedyam during Hindu festivals like Krishna Jayanthi, Navaratri, Aadi Velli, etc. The recipe is a simple one with minimum ingredients and even a newbie can make this as it doesn’t warrant much effort. 

I’m posting this recipe today as “Sri Krishna Jayanthi|Janmashtami” is going to be celebrated on 5^th Sep, 2015. This festival is observed in remembrance of Lord Krishna’s birth. Krishna is fond of aval, butter and other snack items like murukku, seedai, etc. So it is mandatory to prepare the favourites for a birthday baby on this occasion.  I think we, Indian women love to celebrate this festival as we all see mischievous Lord Kanna in our children. Those who don’t have time to make all the traditional sweets|snacks can easily go for this recipe as it needs minimum time for preparation.

“Happy Gokulashtami to one & all”

Recipe for Sweet Aval Puttu| Sweetened Poha| Krishna Jayanthi Recipes:

Cuisine : Indian| South Indian

Category: Sweet|Prasad

Preparation time : 10 Minutes

Cooking time : 10 Minutes

Serves  – 4

Ingredients:

• Thick aval (poha) – 1 cup
• Milk – ½ cup
• Jaggery (powdered) – ¾ cup
• Coconut gratings – ½ cup
• Cardamom Powder – 1 tsp
• Ghee – 1 tsp
• Cashews – few

Method:

1. Dry fry aval in a heavy bottomed kadai and powder coarsely in a mixie.
2. Transfer the powdered aval to a bowl, add milk and mix well. Keep aside for 10 minutes.
3. In the mean time, melt jaggery with ¼ cup of water and strain the impurities.
4. Heat the strained jaggery syrup so that it forms “Honey” consistency.
5. Add coconut gratings to the jaggery syrup and mix well.
6. After a minute, add the soaked poha & cardamom powder and mix everything well.
7. Switch off , when the mixture forms a puttu consistency.
8. Garnish puttu with ghee fried cashewnuts.

Krishna’s favourite aval puttu is ready for Neivedyam. 

Note:

• The given measure of milk works out for thick poha. If you are using thin variety, just sprinkle little milk over the poha powder.
• You can increase the quantity of jaggery to 1 cup

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Finger Millet Flakes Kheer | Ragi Aval Payasam |Ragi Poha Kheer

Finger Millet Flakes Kheer | Ragi Aval Payasam |Ragi Poha Kheer is a simple payasam which could be made in 5 minutes. Since the Tamil month “Aadi” has come, we need quick recipes to offer to Goddess since almost all days in the month of Aadi are auspicious. This payasam is one such recipe, not only for Poojas, a healthy dessert which could be made on any day!

Ingredients:

• Ragi Flakes – ½ cup
• Sugar – ½ cup
• Boiled milk – 2 cups
• Coconut gratings– 3 tbsp
• Cardamom – 3 Nos.
• Ghee – 2 tsp
• Nuts of your choice

Method:

1. Grind coconut gratings with cardamom to a fine paste by adding ¼ cup water and keep aside.
2. Fry ragi flakes with a tsp of ghee in a kadai till you get nice aroma.
3. To this add boiled milk and allow the ragi flakes to get cooked well.
4. Add sugar and coconut paste and wait till sugar dissolves.
5. Chop nuts and fry in a tsp of ghee till golden brown colour. Add this to the kheer, mix everything well and  switch off.

Delicious Ragi Poha Kheer is ready. You can have it hot or cold.

Note:

• Adjust sweet according to your taste.

Tags: Ragi Poha Kheer recipe, Ragi Aval Payasam, Fingermillet Flakes Kheer, Finger Millet recipes, Millet Recipes, Healthy Desert Recipes, Festival Recipes, Pooja Recipes

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Red Aval Payasam (Red Poha Kheer)

Happy Krishna Jayanthi to all!

Krishna …. A character liked by all age groups, adorned worldwide and  linked with everybody’s life. Krishna is the eighth avatar of Lord Vishnu and  his birth is celebrated as Krishna Jayanthi/ Gokulashtami/ Janmashtami .

We all know Krishna is fond of butter, milk, sweets , aval and snacks like seedai, murukku etc. So it is a practice to offer these things  as “Nivedyam” on Krishna Jayanthi.

Today I prepared Red Aval Payasam as Gokulashtami Special. Very simple but delicious, healthy desert made with minimum ingredients.

Ingredinets:

• Red aval – 1/2 cup
• Milk – ½ litre
• Jaggery              - ¾ cup
• Grated Coconut – 2 tbsp
• Cardamom powder – 1 tsp
• Ghee – 1 to 2 tsp
• Cashews -few

Method:

First roast cashews with few drops of ghee  until golden brown colour and keep it aside. In the same pan, roast  aval till you get a nice aroma, cool it and grind coarsely. Boil milk in a sauce pan, add the ground aval and cook for 5 minutes. In the mean time,  powder the jaggery, add a cup of water and melt it and filter the impurities. Add this jiggery syrup to the aval-milk mixture, bring it to a boil . then add coconut, cardamom powder , add the balance ghee and give a nice stir and switch off.

Aval payasam is ready to offer to Lord Krishna!

Note:

1. You can use  raisins and other nuts as you wish.
2. I used thick aval for this recipe. If you use thin aval (Silky Aval), then you need not even grind.

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