Finally my dream of having my own website has come true today. It has been almost 11 months I started this blog. I always knew I would migrate to my own website some day. More because of the flurry of new readers to this blog. So it happened sooner than I expected.
I had to migrate all the posts from blogspot to my site, assign categories and do a bit of formatting etc, which kept me busy for the last few days. That was the reason I could not post anything new.
Don’t forget to update your bookmarks(links) to https://www.aayisrecipes.com . It will only take you a minute, and will always take you to the new web address the next time you want to visit and avoid you a redirect.
I hope all of you will continue to visit and support my blog.
I am thinking to start new posts to this blog with some famous Konkani sweets. Though I don’t like sweets, I like to make them, because no food is complete without a sweet. So let me start with a sweet which I like (that means I can eat a little bit of it).
This is prepared using ‘ arraroot ‘ or ‘ Kachra peet’ (I don’t know the English names). I was not having any hopes of finding either of these here. So I asked Aayi for some other alternative. As always, she had an alternative to it. So yesterday I prepared it and it tasted great. Some people do not use chana dal, but I prefer this sweet with dal because it gives a different taste to this sweet.
Ingredients : Rice 1/2 cup Coconut 1/2 cup Milk 1 and 1/2 cups Chana dal 1 tbl spn Cashew nuts 1 tea spn Sugar 1/2 cup Cardamom powder 1/2 tea spn Ghee(optional) 1 tea spn
Method : Soak rice for about 2-3 hours. Then grind coconut and rice to a very smooth paste, use as much water as required. Cook chana dal and cashew in cooker(or microwave). Boil milk and add the ground rice-coconut mixture stirring continuously (be careful to avoid any lumps). Add sugar, chana dal and cashews. Add the ghee(optional). Stir till all the liquid is absorbed and you get a thick paste. Add cardamom powder. Grease a plate and spread the paste on it. Allow it to cool. Cut it into big square pieces. Serve. (I prefer this sweet with pickle).
Serves : 3 Preparation time : 20min
