CORN PAKODA

If you like pakodi slightly on sweeter side then this could be your choice. The crispy pakoda with fluffy corn tastes awesome. Unlike other pokoda you should be utmost careful while making these. The corn will pop up while frying and some time hot oil will spill out of the pan, so be careful. And if you are a starter in cooking don't try this.

INGREDIENTS
1             Corn cob
1 cup      Besan
2 Tsp      Rice flour
1 Tsp      Ginger garlic paste
1 Tsp      Green chilly paste
A pinch  Cooking soda
1/2Tsp    Salt
oil for frying

PROCEDURE
Remove the Corn from the cob. You can use a knife and scrape the corn by holding the cob vertically.
Add all the ingredients except oil. (Corn, Flours, ginger garlic paste, salt, chilly paste, soda)
Made a thick batter by using water.
Heat oil for deep-frying.
Drop small portions of the batter and deep-fry the pokada till golden brown.
Serve with any sauce or chaat chutney.

HAPPY VINAYAKA CHAVITHI - UNDRALLU PRASADAM

 After a whole month of pooja for Lakshmi and Gowri, bhadrapadam comes with Vinayaka chavithi, the festival which is observed to worship the supreme of all Gods, Ganesha(Vinayakudu). Vinayaka, the God of wisdom, lord of letters and writing is worshipped at the beginning of every new venture to remove obstacles in the work we do.

As a child I used to wait for the festival as many other children. Selecting the Ganesh vigraham is full of fun. I used to go with my father to buy the vinayaka prathima, palavelli, poolu-pallu,  patri and finally the matti vinayakudu. The main naivedyam for this festival is Undrallu. Apart from this special dish many other naivedyams are also offered to Ganesha. The pooja used to be completed in less than an  hour, but I used to do the pooja preparations and decoration for 2 hours. Setting the palavelli, decorating it with flowers and fruits, decorating the peeta, making the pasupu Gouri and Ganapathy, setting all the other deities. Listening to the story is the main thing that we do in the pooja. The vinayaka nimajjana was also a fun. we used to go to the krishna river and immerse the vinayaka , poolu and patri. Watching the nimmajjana festival in the TV is lot of excitement. We used to count the number of vigrahas and the enormous height of the vigrahas will make us say wow!!!! Those days will never be back.

Today I am giving the recipe for Undrallu. Well this is made on the vinayaka chavithi day. But if the Ganesha is worshiped for 10 days then the prasadam can be offered every day.

I have already posted the making of biyyapuravva at home.

INGREDIENTS

Biyyapuravva                 2cups

Salt                                  to taste

Jeera                                1 Tsp

Bengal gram dal              2 Tsp

Ghee                               2 Tsp

Water                              2 Cups

PROCEDURE

Mix all the above ingredients and cook in a pressure cooker.

When it is cooked completely cool the mixture a little bit and make the undrallu.

Now place them in another vessel smeared with ghee.

Steam them in the pressure cooker on a slow flame for 10 minutes(don't put the whistle)

The final steaming make them soft and even more tastier.

Offer the prasagdam to vinayakudu and then enjoy with allam pachadi.

ECO FRIENDLY VINAYAKUDU AND ICREAM STICKS PALAVELLI

For this Vinayakachavithi I decided to go green. I made the Vinayaka prathima with air dry clay. You can find many videos in youtube for making one on your own. Also I made the palavelli with the Ice-cream sticks, umbrella with plain brown paper.