BANANA BALLS

Ingredients:




 ½ kg fully ripe Bananas  ½ cup Coconut  4 tbsp Sugar  ½ tsp Cardamom Powder  Few Cashew Nuts  Few Raisins  4 tbsp Maida  Corn Oil (for frying)  2 tbsp Ghee




Method:

	Place bananas in a pan and steam them. Remove and slice into round pieces.
	Heat ghee in a pan and add bananas, sugar, cardamom powder, coconut, cashew nuts, and raisins. Mix well and cook covered on low flame for 3 minutes.
	Remove from heat and mash the mixture finely.
	Shape into small round balls.
	Mix maida with little water in a bowl to make a smooth thin paste.
	Dip the banana balls into the maida mix.
	Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the balls until golden on all sides.
	Serve hot.

JackFruit Pradhaman

 Ingredients:

Sweet  jackfruit -15

Jaggery - 3/4 cup

Coconut milk -11/2 cup to 2 cup

Ghee -1 tsp

Method:

Cut  the jackfruit into Small pieces.

Cook the fruit in 2 cup if water in low flame.

After cooking smash well the fruit.

Add jaggery in 1/4 cup if water dissolve the jaggery in low flame

after that filter the jaggery water.

Then mix the jaggery water with smashed jackfruit 

add Ghee and allow to boil . at last add the coconut milk

and serve it hot.

Mango Payasam

Ingredients:


Sweet Mango - 2
Milk -4 cup
Sugar -1/2 cup
Condensed milk-1/4 cup
Cardamom powder- 1/2 tsp


Method:


Add Sugar into Milk and boil well.Then add condensed milk, mix it well
switch off  stove and add cardamom powder.
Remove then mango Skin ,cut into small pieces and grind well.
Add grinded mango to the milk , stirrer well.
Make it cool and serve it.

Carrot poli

Ingredients:




4 carrots-peeled and boiled
3 tsp sugar (adjust as per taste)
1 tsp cardamom powder
1 cup maida/all purpose flour
Pinch of salt
2 tsp oil
Ghee



Method:

Make a dough of maida, salt and water. Add the oil and mix well to the dough. Keep aside covered with wet cloth for 1/2 hour.

Grind the carrots along with sugar without adding water. Now heat 1 tsp ghee and add this carrot paste and cook well till it gets thick and forms a big lump. Add cardamom powder and keep aside till it cools down. Make small balls of it.
Make balls of the maida dough and pat it to small and thick rounds using little oil. Use a greased plastic sheet for this. Keep the carrot balls in the cente

Beetroot Halwa

Ingredients:



2 big beetroots (grated)
5 tbsp sugar
Some roasted nuts
2 tbsp ghee
1/2 tsp cardamom powder.



Method:

Heat the ghee and add grated beetroot to it. Keep stirring until the beetroot gets cooked by itself without adding any water.

When beet gets cooked in about 10 to 15 minutes time, add the roasted nuts,cardamom powder and sugar. Mix well till the sugar melts and you get the halwa kind of consistency.

Tasty beetroot halwa ready to eat.

Mysurpak

Ingredients:


1 cup chickpea/gram flour (besan)
1 1/2 cups of sugar
3/4 cup water
1 1/2 cups of ghee
1/2 cup oil.



Method:

Heat about 2 tbsp of ghee and add the flour to it. Roast till you get nice aroma of it and it is in the stages of changing colour.

Boil sugar and water in a thick bottom vessel to get one string consistency. Add 5 tsp of ghee to it and slowly add the roasted flour to it. Keep stirring it well and adding ghee in between. Ensure that there are no lumps in the mixture. When it starts frothing and leaving the sides of the vessel, transfer it to a greased plate and leave for a few minutes. Cut into pieces.

Ragi halwa

Ingredients:


1 cup ragi flour
1/2 cup all purpose flour
3 cups water
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp cardamom powder
Roasted nuts and raisins
2 tbsp ghee.



Method:

Heat ghee and roast the ragi flour for 3-4 minutes. Add the all purpose flour and roast for another 2 minutes. Add 3 cups of hot water to it and mix well without lumps. Add sugar, cardamom powder and keep stirring till it becomes a big lump. Add the roasted nuts and raisins and mix well.

Transfer to greased plate. Cool and cut into pieces.

Sugar coated crunchy snack

The procedure to make the main biscuit is same as the salted ones....however you need to prepare the dough without salt.

Make a sugar syrup with 1 cup sugar and 1 tsp water. When the syrup becomes real thick and is full of bubbles, add these biscuits and mix well. Seperate them on a plate and allow it to cool.

Yet another version is adding sugar to the dough itself and is popular as shankarpale... will post that later.