Red Aval (poha) Laddu Recipe | Gokulashtami Recipes

The aval recipe is a mush have recipe for Gokulashtami. I have already posted white aval laddu recipe. But this recipe is a more healthier yet tasteful aval recipe. Why not try this for this Gokulashtami?

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Related Recipes:

1. Aval Laddu

2. Aval Chocolate Laddu

3. Aval Ven Pongal

4. Sweet Aval

5. Aval Sweet Pongal

Recipe Cuisine : India | Recipe Category: Sweets

Preparation Time: 5 mins  | Cooking Time: 5 mins | Yields: 8 Laddus

Ingredients:

Thick Red Aval	½ cup (1 cup =  240 ml)
Sugar	¼ cup
Ghee	2 tbsp
Chopped Mixed Nuts	1 tbsp
Cardamom Pods	2

Procedure:

1. Dry rost the poha till nice aroma comes out from it or till the poha becomes crisp.

2. Allow it to cool down completely and grind them into a fine powder using the dry mixie jar. Keep it aside.

3. Powder the sugar and cardamom together into a fine powder using the same mixie jar.

4. Now mix the both the powders in a wide bowl using the spatula or wire whisk.

5. Heat the ghee in a pan, fry the nuts till they become golden color.

6. Now pour the hot ghee over the poha and sugar mixture (from 4).

7. Immediately mix them quickly with spatula. At one stage the mixture looks like a bread crumbs.

8. Immediately make gooseberry size balls from the mixture. You have to make the balls when the mixture is little bit hot, otherwise the balls will break down.

 Healthy and yummy red aval / Red Poha / Red Riceflakes Laddu is ready to serve.

Note:

1. Powder the aval first before powdering the sugar.

2. Do not pour more ghee than the ratio suggested. Otherwise the balls will not be dry and in perfect shape.

3. Nuts are optional or otherwise your choice.

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Nutty Crunch Maalaadu with Preethi Turbo Chop

I went to a Blog- Jam hosted by Preethi. Preethi introduced their Iconic Table Top Wet Grinder. The Iconic Table Top Wet Grinder simulates traditional stone (Attukkallu) grinding process so that you get exactly the same quality of Idlis our elders used to make. Preethi also showcased their Turbo Chop Kitchen Appliance.

Preethi Turbo Chop: The Kitchen Appliance for today’s Nuclear family

Kitchen Appliances too evolve with the times and needs of the people. Today's families are mostly nuclear family with two kids or just one kid, Double Income No Kids families etc. In Today's households, Ladies are also harried whether they are housewives or working women. Hence the quality time for cooking is shrinking year by year. To address this need of families, today Innovative food companies are coming up with ready-mixes for every main dish from idli, dosa to rasam etc. The next important step to simplify regular cooking is simplifying making side-dishes. Indian (and South Indian in specific) Side dishes like chutneys and pooriyals have to prepared fresh and cannot be pre-packaged like tomato-sauces of the west. 

In today's regular cooking, the chopping of vegetables for these side dishes is the most time-taking and laborious activity. Though some enterprising entrepreneurs have come up with chopped vegetables packed in special sealed packages, either they are very costly or not fresh. There is also a worry about added preservatives. There are some very important drawbacks in current mixie models in the model. For example, it is not very easy to clean as removing blades from earlier mixie models is difficult and fungus would form if we do not clean it properly. Also, older appliances like mixies, grinders are not suited for cooking for just one, two or three people only.

Preethi Turbo Chop is an innovative combination of Chopper and Mini-Mixie. You can chop the ingredients in the jar through a simple-to-use push button on the top. You have to just keep pressing till you want to chop and remove when you are done. It is very safe that even kids can do it. Turbo Chop is ideal for preparing all types of chutneys, purees and chopped vegetables for poriyal ie all key side dishes of regular cooking today. Turbo Chop can also be used to prepare all types of poodi items for monthly or long term use. It can also used for crushing nuts and preparing ingredients for festival sweets. 

As Turbo Chop is very less weight, you can easily carry it while travelling also. For example, you can take it to hospitals to prepare juices. Similarly, you can take even during tours and travels to prepare chutneys, juices on the fly and avoid hotel foods.

Preethi Turbo Chop is digital kitchen Swiss-army knife in the kitchen. With Preethi Turbo Chop you have a very well researched innovation that addresses the need of today's women of all segments - always on the run Working women in IT and other Industries, cost-conscious housewives, college-goers, bachelors, elderly people etc. 

Preethi Turbo Chop is just the type of innovation that solves a nagging -issue in cooking instead of meaningless marketing gimmick innovations which flood that market all the time. Kudos to Preethi for coming up with Turbo Chop.

Preethi Turbo Chop Technical Specifications:

1. 450 W Powerful Motor

2. Stainless Steel Blade

3. 0.7 L Bowl

4. One Press Chopper

5. Easy to use and clean

Turbo Chop Mini Mixer-Grinder is a 450W compact kitchen appliance with laser sharp blades that can grind, mix, chop, and blend within seconds. This Mini Mixie is, therefore, the perfect kitchen companion.

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More About Preeti Blog jam: 

Unlike other Blogger-Meets, Preethi arranged for two great talks, one by Archana of ArchanaKitchen.com on how to take our blogs to the next level. The other talk was on improving food photography skills by Chef.Umasankar Dhanapal, Winner of IKA / Culinary Olympics (http://www.knifeandimpressions.com/). Both the speakers gave very good tips for improving our blogging and photography capabilities.

Nutty Crunch Maalaadu with Preethi Turbo Chop:

Festival Season has already started. Easy to make sweet recipes are in demand for both beginners making their first sweet and well-versed people planning their additional sweet. Maalaadu is a simple sweet but it is not liked by many because it is sticky. Nutty Crunch Maaladu is a variant of Maalaadu which makes it non-sticky and crunchy so that kids and adults also would relish it.

Ingredients:

Roasted Gram / Pottukadalai	1 cup
Badam	1/3 cup
Cashew Nuts	10
Ghee	¼ cup
Cardamom Powder	¼ tsp
Sugar	¼ cup
Nattu Sarkkarai / Brown Sugar	¼ cup

                                                              

Procedure:

1. Dry roast the roasted-gram (pottukadalai) till they become hot. Don’t over roast it. Keep it aside.

2. Dry roast the badam for 2 mins or till they become hot.

3. Grind the roasted gram into fine powder without any lumps using the dry mixie jar. Keep it aside.

4. Grind the badam into small granules. Don’t grind them into fine powder.

5. Chop the cashew nuts into small pieces.

6. Heat one tbsp of ghee in a pan. Fry the chopped cashew nuts till they turn into brown in color. Switch off the flame.

7. Grind the white sugar and brown sugar into a fine powder using the same jar separately.

7. In a wide bowl, add powdered roasted gram, badam granules, powdered sugar, and powdered brown sugar, roasted cashew nuts with ghee and cardamom powder. Mix them gently with ladle or with your fingers.

8. Now heat the remaining ghee in a pan, add the hot ghee little by little in the above mixture.

9. Mix them immediately with the ladle. When you can hold the mixture to make balls, stop to adding ghee.

10. Grease your hand with oil and immediately make gooseberry size balls from the mixture and keep it aside. Allow it to cool down completely.

     Now nutty and crunchy Maladoo is ready to serve!

Note:

1. Roasting badam and roasted-gram (pottukadalai) is optional.

2. You can microwave them for 2 mins instead of roasting.

3. You can grind the badam into fine powder also.

4. The given amount of ghee is enough for this recipe. You can add if you needed.

 5. If you find that the ghee is more add more powdered roasted-gram (pottukadalai).

6. Adjust the sugar level according to your taste.

7. You can use ½ cup of white sugar or ½ cup of brown sugar instead of 50-50.

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Groundnut Laddu / Nilakkadalai Urundai / Verkkadalai Ladoo without Ghee

     

There will be times when your family would ask you to prepare a sweet and you have the energy only to prepare a sweet with very few easy steps. Well Groundnut Laddu is a recipe which can come handy exactly in those situations.. you don't even have to have ghee with you to prepare this. Still the Laddo will be very taste and will be liked by all including kids. Try this and you will love it enough to make this many many times.

Related Links:

1. Green Gram Laddu

2. Energy Balls

3. Dry Fruits Laddu

4. Poha Chocolate Laddu

5. Poha Laddu

6. Rava Laddu

7. Coconut Laddu

8. Peanut Laddu

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Recipe Cuisine : South India | Recipe Category: Sweets

Preparation Time: 5 mins  | Yields: 10 Laddus

Ingredients:

Roasted and de skinned groundnut	1 cup
Idiyappam Flour / Rice Flour	¼ cup
Grated or Powdered Jaggery	¾  cup
Cardamom Powder	½ tsp

Procedure:

1. Powder the groundnut using the dry mixie jar.

2. Add the rice flour and cardamom powder. Again grind them into a find powder.

3. Now add the grated jaggery and grind them for few seconds.

4. Transfer the mixture into the wide bowl. Immediately make gooseberry size balls from the ground mixture.

        Tasty and easy peanut laddu is ready within 5 mins.

Note:

1. Adjust the jaggery level up to 1 cup according to your taste. 

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Aval Chocolate Laddu / Poha Chocolate Laddu | Krishna Jayanthi Recipes

For Krishna Jayanthi, Aval laddu is the special sweet. In Chocolate laddu, we are using butter (Krishna’s favorite) instead of the Ghee in standard aval laddu. We are adding chocolate to make it more attractive for kids. Try this chocolate aval ladoo as a new special sweet and make this Krishna Jayanthi more memorable.

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 Recipe Cuisine : Indian| Recipe Category: Sweet

Preparation Time: 15 mins   | Yields: 13 Laddus

Ingredients:

Aval / Poha/ Riceflakes	1 ½ cup
Sugar	¼ cup
Butter	2 tbsp
Warm Coffee Syrup	2 tbsp
Salt (optional)	¼ tsp
Coco Powder	1 tbsp
Vanilla Essence	1 tsp
Desiccated Coconut (Recipe HERE)	¼ cup

                                         

Coffee Syrup: Use 2 tbsp of warm filter coffee or mix 1 tsp of instant coffee powder with 2 tbsp of warm water.

Procedure:

1. Dry roast the aval till the nice aroma comes out from it. Allow it to cool down completely.

2. Add roasted aval, coco powder, sugar and salt in a dry mixie jar.

3. Grind them into a fine powder. Keep it aside.

4. In a wide bowl add warm coffee syrup, vanilla essence and butter. Mix them well with the spoon.

5. Then add the ground  aval powder (from 3) and mix well with spatula or with your fingers.

6. Now you can get a soft and pliable dough.

7. Make gooseberry size balls from the dough.

8. Spread the desiccated coconut on the dry plate.

9. Roll the balls over the desiccated coconut and press them with your fingers.

    Yummy, healthy and kids friendly poha chocolate coconut laddu is ready!

Note:

1. Suppose the dough is sticky, you can add little bit aval powder.

2. The dough is too thick, you can add little bit coffee syrup or warm water.

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3 mins 3 ingredients Energy Balls

     This recipe procedure is very simple and fast grinding and mixing of the three ingredients - Peanut, Dates and Jaggery which can be done in 3 minutes. Mixing

of Peanuts and Dates makes it  very healthy and energetic. Peanut is a good low cost alternative for Badam. Kids do not have more than one or two dates at a time. This Energy Ladoo helps them have more.

Recipe Cuisine : Indian | Recipe Category: Sweets

Preparation Time: 1 ½  mins  | Cooking Time: 1 ½  mins | Yields: 12 (gooseberry size)

Ingredients:

Roasted De-skinned Peanuts / Ground nuts	½ cup
Deseeded and Chopped Dates	¼ cup
Grated Jaggery	2 tbsp
Cardamom Pods (optional)	2

Procedure:

1. Add peanuts, cardamom pods and dates in a dry mixie jar. Ground them into a coarse powder.

2. Then add the grated jaggery and again powder them into a little bit coarse powder.

3. Immediately transfer the powder into a plate or bowl.

4. Make gooseberry size balls from the powder.

    Healthy and yummy Dates Peanut Laddu is ready!!!

Note:

1. Make laddu immediately after transferring the mixie it into a plate. If you delay, the mix will get dry.

Related Links:

1. Peanut Laddu

2. Green Gram Laddu

3. Dates and Dry fruits Laddu

4. Poha Laddu

5. Coconut Laddu   

6. Rava Laddu

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Rava Laddu using Sugar Syrup | Laddu Recipes

     There are many different ways to prepare rava laddu. This recipe is very traditional and uses sugar syrup and less ghee.

Related Posts:

1. Peanut Laddu

2. Green Gram Laddu

3. Coconut Laddu 

4. Rice Flakes Laddu 

5. Dry Fruits and Dates Laddu

Recipe Cuisine : South Indian | Recipe Category: Sweets

Preparation Time: 10 mins  | Cooking Time: 15 mins | Yields: 12-15 Laddus

Ingredients:

White Rava / Semolina	1 cup
Sugar	¾ cup
Water	½ cup
Ghee	2 tbsp
Cardamom Powder	from 3 pods
Cashew Nuts	10
Dry Grapes	10

Procedure:

1. Heat ghee in a heavy bottom pan, add cashew nuts and dry grapes. Fry till they become golden brown.

2. Then take them out from the ghee and keep it aside.

3. In the same pan with ghee, add rava and fry till nice aroma comes out. Keep the flame at simmer. This will take 5-6 mins. Keep it aside and allow it to cool down.

4. In the same pan, add water and sugar. Mix them well with ladle. Keep the flame at medium.

5. After sugar dissolves completely add the cardamom powder. Mix them well.

6. Then add the fried rava (from 3) little by little. At this stage, keep the flame at simmer.

7. Immediately add the fried nuts (from 2) and mix them well.

8. Cook till the mixture becomes thick or leaves the sides of the pan.

9. Immediately transfer it into another bowl and allow it to cool down slightly.

10. Now make lemon size balls from the mixture and keep it aside.

        Tasty traditional Rava Laddu is ready!

Note:

1. No need to worry about the sugar syrup consistency.

2. If you over cook, the laddus become very hard.

3. You can keep them at room temperature for 4-5 days.

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