Jackfruits are easily available in this season. Raw jackfruit is called pansa kadgi or Chakke kadgi in Konakni. It is one of the very commonly used ingredients in Konkani recipes. These phodis have a silghtly different method of preparation compared to any other phodis that we prepare. These are not as common as the other ones. But they have a distinct taste and liked by many. Recently, one of our readers asked about this. So I prepared them after a long time. They cook slowly. Hence it is required to cook them in cooker and then shallow fry.
Ingredients: 7-8 Raw jackfruit (kadgi) pieces 1/2 cup rawa(sooji or rice rawa) 1 tbl spn rice flour or Chana flour(besan) – (optional) Salt 1/2 tea spn chilly powder Asafoetida Oil
Method: Cut the raw jackfruit into two halves. Remove the skin. Remove the innermost part. Cut 1 cm thin slices and immerse in water for about ten minutes to get rid off any gum that comes after cutting. Remove the slices and cook in a cooker under steam pressure for one whistle. After cooling, sprinkle salt, asafoetida and leave for about five minutes. Mix rawa, chilly powder and chana flour(besan) on a plate. Roll the jackfruit pieces in the mixture. Put them on hot tawa and shallowfry them on both sides. Chana flour or Riceflour is used to keep the rawa intact.
Serves : 2-3 Preparation time : 30mins
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Last time when aayi told me to eat almonds, I bought a big pack of it, put it in freezer and forgot all about it!. I have been thinking to finish it off for a while now. But that didn’t happen. I tried to give those to Ishaan a couple of times, but he doesn’t like them. Then I made badam milk for him, but forgot all about it soon.
So last week, when I was coming home from Ishaan’s daycare, all I could think of was almonds. I wanted to bake some cookies. Ahh, it has been ages since I baked cookies. So as soon as I reached home, I baked these. I wasn’t sure if they would come out well. But they tasted heavenly, they were very crunchy and had amazing aroma of saffron. Even after almost 1 week, they tasted great.
Ingredients: 1 cup almond flour 1 cup all purpose floor 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup butter 1/8th tea spn saffron 2 tbl spn milk 1 tea spn baking powder
Method: Preheat the oven at 350F for about 10mins. Powder the almonds (I use them along with skin). Measure the powder, use 1 cup of flour. Mix the almond flour, all purose flour, sugar, baking powder. Melt the butter. Add the butter to the mixture. Mix the saffron in warm milk. Add to the mixture. Mix everything. Make small balls from the mixture and bake them in the oven at 350F for about 40mins (time depends on the size of the cookies).
Makes about 2 dozen cookies
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