Godikadli Ladoo

Hi!!

Welcome to My Kitchen,
Hi I am Megha Desai ,
I always wanted to write something about food , kitchen , cooking new and interesting Food.
My Amma (Mother)and Ajii(Grandama) alway gave me tips for cooking and I just love the way  they cook ,so many hard recipes in no time and finding new and easy way to improvise the traditional dishes,
I am basically a North Karnataka born and brought up in Dharwad ,
got married and had to move to Pune, but never could leave behind North Karnataka ,
I would like to start with a laddoo (undi) made by my Amma and Ajji ..
Called as Godikadli Undi..Me and my brother enjoyed it so much.. Amma made it so that we both Brother- Sister, would eat healthy rather than something useless..


So here goes the dish..

Recipe to  Godikadli Undi 

Ingredients :

1. Wheat Flour 130gm Approx (1 cup)
2. Besan Flour(Gram Flour) 130gm Approx(1 cup)
3. Clarified Butter 50gm Approx(1/2 cup)
4. Jaggery  150gms(1cup)
5. Elachi(Cardamom) a pinch

Recipe with images of Process:

Step 1:

           Grate Jaggery and keep aside as shown below , keep  all the ingredients near your workplace.

           

Step 2:

          

        

    now place a Kadai on the gas stove ,add 1/4 cup ghee(Clarified Butter) in the kadai and
let it heat a bit on slow heat, then add Besan to ghee as shown below .

Step 3:

 Roast the mixture on low flame till it turns brown.(stir the mixture regularly)

Step 4:

 now empty the content to a plate so that it cools down.

Step 5:

in the mean time add ghee to the same kadai on low flame and add wheat flour to it.

Step 7:

           

   Add Elachi  powder to the mixture and stir it till it turns brown in color and a good flavored smell comes,.

  

Step 8:

  

   Add the Basen kept aside to cool to the mixture in kadai

   

Step 9:

 Stir till all the mixture is mixed properly 

   

 Step 10:

 Now switch of the Gas and Add grated Jaggery to the mixture in the Kadai and mix well .

Step 11:

  

  Now with the help of your hands ,make round ladoos of desired size,,

  and tastes amazing...

   

make it at home and enjoy the ladoos ,..Happy Cooking to all...

Mango Chatni

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Welcome to My Kitchen,

Hi I am Megha Desai ,

as my first recipe was a sweet so thought of making something tangy and tasty this time,

this  is also my(Ajji) Grand Mom recipe improvised by my Amma.

I remember my Ajji making it during our May holidays and we just couldn't wait to taste it ,

and here it goes.. 

Recipe to  Mango Chatni

Ingredients :

1. Raw Mango Grated 1cup
2. Jaggery 1cup
3. Coconut Dry grated(Desiccate Coconut powder)1/2 cup
4. Red Chilli Powder 1 teaspoon full.
5. Hing(asafoetida)  1pinch 
6. Oil  1 tablespoon
7. Mustard(Rayi) 1/2 teaspoon
8. Jeera(Cumin) 1/2 teaspoon
9. Carry leaves 5-6 nos
10. Fenugreek seeds(meethi dana) 1/2teaspoon
11. Salt to taste

Recipe with images of Process:

Step 1:

    Scrap the top layer of raw Mango and grate it,so that it doesn't have  any lumps and keep aside.

  

  

Step 2:

  now in the Kadai  add Fenugreek seeds and roast them till golden,and keep aside.

Step 3:

for the tempering add in the Kadai add oil and heat it ,then add Mustard , Cumin ,turmeric ,powder .

Step 4:

Add a pinch of asafoetida(Hing) to the tempering .

Step 5:

now  powder the fenugreek seeds that you roasted before.

Step 6:

 add Jagerry and Chilli powder to the mixture.

Step 7:

 let it melt in the tempering and add dry coconut powder(Desiccated Coconut powder)  to the mixture and stir it.

Step 8:

now add  grated Raw Mango into the mixture and stir it properly.

Step 9:

now add salt to the mixture according to your taste.

Step 10:

Now let it cook till the oil oozes out of the mixture and then your Raw Mango Chatni is ready,

Doesn't it look yummy!!!

Enjoy the Tangy and Sweet mango chatni with anything from Roti to Rice to Bread..