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Peanut Ladoo Ingredients: Roasted unsalted Peanuts without skin- 2 cup. Jaggery (powdered) -3/4 cup. Cardamom (seeds powdered) - 4 to 5. Roasted white sesame seeds - 1 spoon. Ghee (optional) - 1 spoon. Preparation: Roast the peanuts (skin on) for 5-6 mins or till you get a nice aroma on a heated flat bottomed pan. Roast the Sesame seeds for a minute. Take the pan off the fire and transfer the peanuts onto a kitchen towel. While it is still warm, rub the peanuts together using the help of the towel. The skin will come off easily. Use these peanuts for making ladoo's. Method for making these round shaped ladoo's ..... you need to: Powder the roasted peanuts in your mixie/magic bullet (small jar & 4 blade bottom) stopping every once in a while to ensure that it doesn't turn pasty.Nuts release oil when they are ground, so be careful. Transfer this to a bowl and add the powdered jaggery, sesame seeds and cardamom seeds to it. Mix very well, if you have lumps in the jaggery, mash the mixture with a potato masher. Form the mixture into ladoos. You will need to use little bit of strength here to form them into balls as you don't any wet ingredient (you can use 1 tbsp of ghee for to bind). The peanuts must be warm while grinding so that the mixture remains warm when you form the balls, or else it will be slightly difficult. Just in case your mixture turns cold, microwave it for 10 secs and proceed to form the ladoos. ***************************************************************************************** Maddur Vada Ingredients: Rice flour - 1 cup. Plain flour (optional)- 1/2 cup. Fine rava(chiroti rava) - semolina / cream of wheat - 1/2 cup. Red chili powder - 1/2 tsp or more according to taste. Onion - 1 cup finely chopped. Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp. Green chilies - 2 or more according to taste. Oil for deep frying + 2 tbsp. Curry leaves - 1 tbsp chopped fine. Freshly grated coconut - 2 tbsp. Salt - 1 tsp or according to taste. Hing - (asafetida ) - 1/4 tsp. A little water to for dough. Preparation: Cut onions in thin slices and Chop green chilies / curry leaves. Mix together all the ingredients except oil. Heat oil well and add 2 tbsp hot oil to the flour mix. Once the oil is hot, keep the flame medium. Knead to form a dough ball using very little water. Let rest for 10 minutes. Knead well and form into small lime sized balls. Add a drop of oil on a plastic sheet or a butter paper. Flatten a round of dough into a thick round of about 2 inches. Lift the flattened round carefully from the sheet and put in the hot oil. Fry on both sides till golden brown. Drain well and let cool completely before storing. Serve hot or cold. It will be good to eat for 4-5 days. Store in airtight container. ***************************************************************************************** Murukku Ingredients: 4 Cups Rice Flour. 1 Cup Urad Flour. 1 Tsp Jeera. 1/4 Tsp Hing. 4 Tbsp Butter. Oil to fry. Salt to taste. Preparation: Mix rice flour, urad flour, jeera, hing, butter & salt. Add water little by little and knead till you get a soft dough.Dough should not stick to your hand Meanwhile heat oil in a medium flame. Fill the murukku press with the dough and press it directly into hot oil. Fry both sides till crisp. ***************************************************************************************** Corn Snack Ingredients: 1 Cup grated or grinded corn ( do not use the very sweet corns ). 1/2 cup corn cornels. Salt to taste. 1/2 lime juice . Tadaka of mustard, jeera, hing ,curry leaves, chilly & turmeric. Coriander leaves , spring onion & grated coconut to garnish. Preparation: Mix all the ingredients expect coriander leaves , spring onions & coconut. Keep that mixture in microwave for 4 minutes. Take out from microwave mix it with little sprinkled water to keep it moistuned & microwave again for 3 min. Mix well again & garnish with coriander leaves, coconut & spring onions. Easy & tasty Corn snack ready in minutes in microwave. ***************************************************************************************** Archived recipe's.. Sankranthi/Pongal-Specials Summer-Specials Gojju-Specials Beetroot-Specials HAMARA BHARAT MAHAN Cauliflower cheese Grilled corn and tomato salad Stuffed Peppers Recipes From Karnataka Modified For Heart Health II-Using Steel cut Oats Recipes From Karnataka Modified For Heart Health I-Using Rolled Oats