Pongal Recipes / Thai Pongal (தைப்பொங்கல்) Recipes / Festival Recipes

Wishing you & your family a very Happy Pongal. May the almighty bless you all with the best of health, wealth & prosperity.
Wish you a very Happy Pongal to all
We thank sun for burning himself to save us.
We thank plants sacrificing their life for us.
And we thank all the creatures helping us to live in this world for some time.
ANAIVARUKKUM INIYA PONGAL NAL VAZHTHUKKAL

With Lots of best wishes and regards
CHIKKUS KITCHEN (ASHA)

SOUTH INDIAN MEALS:  Avial Recipe

http://chikkuskitchen.blogspot.com/2013/06/avial.html

Cabbage Porial Recipe

http://chikkuskitchen.blogspot.com/2013/12/cabbage-poriyal-recipe-cabbage-stir-fry.html

Potato Roast : http://chikkuskitchen.blogspot.com/2013/11/potato-roast-recipe-simple-potato-roast.html

Cucumber Kitchadi :

http://chikkuskitchen.blogspot.com/2014/01/cucumber-kitchadi-recipe-vellarikka.html

 Vendakkai Roast :http://chikkuskitchen.blogspot.com/2014/01/vendakkai-roast-recipe-okra-roast.html

Tomato Pickle :

http://chikkuskitchen.blogspot.com/2014/01/plantain-chips-recipe-vazhakkai-chips.html

http://chikkuskitchen.blogspot.com/2014/01/raw-green-tomato-pickle-recipe-spicy.html

Valakkai Chips :

http://chikkuskitchen.blogspot.com/2014/01/plantain-chips-recipe-vazhakkai-chips.html

Vanilla Sponge Cake Recipe / Basic Vanilla Cake / Christmas Recipes

Vanilla Sponge Cake / Basic Vanilla Cake

Ingredients :

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Maida flour	100 gms
Baking powder	1/2 tspn
Egg	2 nos
Vanilla essence	1 tspn
Butter	100 gms
Sugar	100 gms

Method :

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• Take the egg and separate white from yellow yolk.

• Keep the yellow yolk and white yolk in a separate bowls.

Maida flour

100 gms

Baking powder

1/2 tspn

Egg

2 nos

Vanilla essence

1 tspn

Butter

100 gms

Sugar

100 gms

• With a electric beater beat the white yolk thoroughly to foamy nature. Like that beat the yellow yolk also.

• Beat the butter and keep aside.

• Sieve Maida added with baking powder twice.

• Grind the sugar.

• Add flour with butter and mix well to lumps free.

• Add gradually white yolk followed by yellow yolk and mix thoroughly.

• Add essence.

• Add grinded sugar and mix well.

• Grease the cake tray with little butter.

• Preheat the oven to 180 deg C for 10 minutes.

• Pour the mixture to the greased tray and place the tray in oven.

• Set 180 deg C and bake it for 35 minutes.

• Don't open the oven while baking.

• After 35 mints open the oven and insert a tooth pick on the surface of the cake to check whether the cake is fully baked.(If the tooth pick comes out clean without any substance that indicates, the cake is fully baked. If it is not allow baking for 5 more minutes)

• Take the cake out of the oven and cool on a wire rack.

• Delicious yummy spongy cake is ready.

Vanilla Sponge Cake / Basic Vanilla Cake

Vanilla Sponge Cake / Basic Vanilla Cake

Vanilla Sponge Cake / Basic Vanilla Cake

Vanilla Sponge Cake / Basic Vanilla Cake

Vanilla Sponge Cake / Basic Vanilla Cake

Vanilla Sponge Cake / Basic Vanilla Cake

Vanilla Sponge Cake / Basic Vanilla Cake

Vanilla Sponge Cake / Basic Vanilla Cake

Vanilla Sponge Cake / Basic Vanilla Cake

Vanilla Sponge Cake / Basic Vanilla Cake

Ingredients :
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Maida flour	100 gms
Baking powder	1/2 tspn
Egg	2 nos
Vanilla essence	1 tspn
Butter	100 gms
Sugar	100 gms

Method :

*******

• Take the egg and separate white from yellow yolk.

• Keep the yellow yolk and white yolk in a separate bowls.

• With a electric beater beat the white yolk thoroughly to foamy nature. Like that beat the yellow yolk also.

• Beat the butter and keep aside.

• Sieve Maida added with baking powder twice.

• Grind the sugar.

• Add flour with butter and mix well to lumps free.

• Add gradually white yolk followed by yellow yolk and mix thoroughly.

• Add essence.

• Add grinded sugar and mix well.

• Grease the cake tray with little butter.

• Preheat the oven to 180 deg C for 10 minutes.

• Pour the mixture to the greased tray and place the tray in oven.

• Set 180 deg C and bake it for 35 minutes.

• Don't open the oven while baking.

• After 35 mints open the oven and insert a tooth pick on the surface of the cake to check whether the cake is fully baked.(If the tooth pick comes out clean without any substance that indicates, the cake is fully baked. If it is not allow baking for 5 more minutes)

• Take the cake out of the oven and cool on a wire rack.

• Delicious yummy spongy cake is ready.

  

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Sakkarai Pongal Recipe / Sweet Pongal Recipe / Celebrating 100th Post

Hi Friends...Iam posting my 100 th post today...Thank u all for the support and encourages through comments and likes.I'm much grateful and thankful to all of u.

Today's recipe in 'chikkuskitchen' is traditional Sakkarai Pongal.

Sakkarai pongal is  a popular indian festival food, especially south indian authentic festival recipe. I'm happy to share this to all of u. Pongal is not only the festival recipe, all time favourite of south Indian.

Sakkarai Pongal Recipe / Sweet Pongal Recipe

Ingredients :

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Raw rice - 1/2 cup

Moong dal / pasi paruppu -2 tspn

Jaggery - 3/4 cup

Grated coconut -1/4 cup

Cashews -15 pcs

Raisins - 1 1/2 tspn

Edible camphor -a small pinch(optional)

Cardamom powder -a pinch

Ghee needed

Water - 3 cups

Method :

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• Heat a cooker with little ghee and roast the moong dal.

• Add rice ,water and cook it for 4 whistles.

Raw rice - 1/2 cup

Moong dal / pasi paruppu -2 tspn

Jaggery - 3/4 cup

Grated coconut -1/4 cup

Cashews -15 pcs

Raisins - 1 1/2 tspn

Edible camphor -a small pinch(optional)

Cardamom powder -a pinch

Ghee needed

Water - 3 cups

• Mash it well.

• Break the jaggery in to small pieces. Add water and boil it, so that the jaggery completely dissolves.

• Filter the impurities.

• Now add the jaggery solution to the boiled rice, moong dal and mix well.

• Roast cashews,raisins,cardamom powder, grated coconut in ghee and add a pinch of edible camphor(optional).

• Add the roasted cashews,raisins,cardamom powder, grated coconut,a pinch of edible camphor(optional) to the mixture and mix well.

• Add extra ghee to taste and flavour.

• Sakkarai pongal is ready to serve.

Sakkarai Pongal Recipe / Sweet Pongal Recipe

Sakkarai Pongal Recipe / Sweet Pongal Recipe

Sakkarai Pongal Recipe / Sweet Pongal Recipe

Sakkarai Pongal Recipe / Sweet Pongal Recipe

Sakkarai Pongal Recipe / Sweet Pongal Recipe

Ingredients :

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Raw rice - 1/2 cup

Moong dal / pasi paruppu -2 tspn

Jaggery - 3/4 cup

Grated coconut -1/4 cup

Cashews -15 pcs

Raisins - 1 1/2 tspn

Edible camphor -a small pinch(optional)

Cardamom powder -a pinch

Ghee needed

Water - 3 cups

Method :

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• Heat a cooker with little ghee and roast the moong dal.

• Add rice ,water and cook it for 4 whistles.

• Mash it well.

• Break the jaggery in to small pieces. Add water and boil it, so that the jaggery completely dissolves.

• Filter the impurities.

• Now add the jaggery solution to the boiled rice, moong dal and mix well.

• Roast cashews,raisins,cardamom powder, grated coconut in ghee and add a pinch of edible camphor(optional) and add this to the mixture and mix well.

• Add extra ghee to taste and flavour.

• Sakkarai pongal is ready to serve.

Sweet somas Recipe / Diwali Recipe / Somasi Recipe

Sweet somas Recipe / Somasi Recipe

• Mix Maida, wheat flour and semolina.

• Add little oil ,water and salt. Prepare the dough to chapatti batter consistency.

• Roll the batter in small round shapes (poori form).

• Take the somas mould , keep the rolled batter inside as shown in the figure, fill it with the mixture and closed the mould .

Sweet somas Recipe / Somasi Recipe

Sweet somas Recipe / Somasi Recipe

• Take the somas mould , keep the rolled batter inside as shown in the figure, fill it with the mixture and closed the mould .

• Now heat a pan with oil  dip the Somas roll to golden brown.

Sweet somas rolls is ready. 

Sweet somas Recipe / Somasi Recipe

Grind roasted gram, sugar, cardamom into coarse form (rawa form) 

• Heat a non-stick tawa add sesame, fry for 1 minute.

• Add grated coconut, roast well.

• Add the grinded roasted gram mixture and fry for sometime till the raw smell goes off.

• Mix well the mixture, and keep the mixture in a airtight container.

Sweet somas Recipe / Somasi Recipe

Sweet somas Recipe / Somasi Recipe

Sweet somas Recipe / Somasi Recipe

 Ingredients :
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Maida flour -1 cup

Wheat flour -1 cup

Semolina -2 tspn

Oil -required

Roasted gram -250 gm

Sugar -1 1/2 cups

Grated coconut - 1 cup

Black sesame seeds -25 gms

Cardamom -4 nos



Preparation of mixture for filling :
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• Grind roasted gram, sugar, cardamom into coarse form (rawa form)

• Heat a non-stick tawa add sesame, fry for 1 minute.

• Add grated coconut, roast well.

• Add the grinded roasted gram mixture and fry for sometime till the raw smell goes off.

• Mix well the mixture, and keep the mixture in a airtight container.

Method :
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• Mix Maida, wheat flour and semolina.

• Add little oil ,water and salt. Prepare the dough to chapatti batter consistency.

• Roll the batter in small round shapes (poori form).

• Take the somas mould , keep the rolled batter inside as shown in the figure, fill it with the mixture and closed the mould .

• Now heat a pan with oil  dip the Somas roll to golden brown.

• Sweet somas rolls is ready.

• Take out the roll and keep the somas in a airtight container ,so that it will be crispy and crunchy for 10 to 15 days.

• Its a easy dish to prepare.