Green Ginger Garelu

Garelu(vada) recipe is our traditional one and every one like to prepare this one in festivals and some special occasions.Very healthy  and protein food  for children if we use black gram dal instead of  urad dal.Taste also nice.In olden days only onions and green chillies used to add  in the garelu batter.In green ginger garelu I added mint leaves,coriander leaves,curry leaves that gives green colour to the  garelu.....

Ingredients

urad dal(black gram dal)	1/4 kg
moong dal	50 grs
oil	for deep fry
mint leaves	1 cup
coriander leaves	1 cup
curry leaves	few
ginger	25 grs
green chillies	5
onion	1
salt	to taste

 Preparation

Wash urad dal with water 2 or 3 times then soak for 3 hours.
Wash moong dal and soak for 1 hour.
Take a blender and add soaked urad dal and moong dal,some salt and 4 spoons of water and make a coarse paste.Do not add more water that make batter thin.Thin batter can absorb excess of oil and difficult to do vada shape.
Wash coriander leaves ,mint leaves,curry leaves and cut them into small pieces.
Clean the ginger and peel it and once again wash with water.Then cut into pieces.
Wash green chillies and cut into pieces.Add ginger and green chilli pieces into mixie jar and make a coarse paste.
Wash onion and cut into small pieces.
Take a big mixing bowl.Add urad dal batter,finely chopped onion,mint leaves,coriander leaves,curry leaves and ginger green chilli paste and mix all well.Then taste the batter if salt is enough or not.If not add more salt  and mix well.

Method

1.Take a kadai and put on the flame.
2.When kadai is heated add oil for deep fry.
3.Take a polythin sheet or milk cover.
4.Take a small portion of the batter and make a ball and put on the cover and pat with fingers and make vada(gari) shape and make a hole in the middle of the vada.
4.When oil is heated place this vada in to the oil and fry till it become light golden colour.
5.Then turn into another side and fry that side also.After that remove the vada from the oil.
6.Place this vada on paper napkin for absorb excess of oil.
7.Green ginger vada is ready to eat...Enjoy to eat with coconut chutney or tomato chutney or ginger chutney....

Keep in the mind

Adding onions are option.For prasadams some people do not like to add onions.So with out onions we can prapare this vada also.
Adding mint leaves gives aroma and nice taste  to the vada.
We can add ginger and green chilli pieces with out making a paste.

Sweet Puri Preparation

This is very easy and quick preparing sweet and not expensive one also.We can prepare this sweet as prasadam for god Sai baba and goddess Katyayani Devi.We can make  this sweet in different shapes like diamond shape,round biscuits shape and ball shape also.Adding dry fruit pieces and elachi increase the taste of the sweet.If you like ,you can fry this puris in ghee also(instead of  oil).

Ingredients

 

wheat flour	1 cup
rice flour	2 spoons
sugar powder	3/4 cup
ghee	2 spoons
oil	for deep fry

Preparation

Take a mixie jar and add sugar and make a fine powder.
Take a mixing bowl and add wheat flour and rice flour.And add sugar powder and mix all well.Then add melted ghee and mix well.Then add water little by little and make chapati dough.Keep it aside for 15 minutes.
If you like elachi flavour you can add elachi powder(1/4 spoon) also.
Take small portion of dough and make a ball then do chapati shape with chapati roller. Remaining dough also do like this.and make puris.

Method

Take a kadai and put on the flame.
2.Add oil for deep fry.
3.When oil is heated place the puries in the oil and fry till they get brown colour then turn the puries another side .
4.That side also fry till they get brown colour.
5.Place the Fried puries on the kitchen towels(paper napkins).
6.This is very easy and simple sweet to prepare with in daily kitchen glossary  items.

Keep in the mind

Adding elachi is optional.
We can add dry fruit pieces also. when mixing the flours then add dry fruit pieces.
Some people can make this sweet with jaggery instead of sugar.That is also very tasty.

Vadapappu and Panakam Preparation

Ingredients

Moong dal	1 cup
water	200ml
jaggery	150kg
elachi	5
black pepper seeds	1/4 spoon

Method

preparation of Vadapappu

Wash moong dal with water and drain the water.Then add 1cup of drinking water and soak moong dal for 15 to 30 minutes.
After that drain the water completely and take the soaked moong dal in prasadam plate.Put small piece of jaggery on vadapappu.

Preparation of Panakam

Mash the jaggery pieces with masher or any other thing(chapati roller).
Add elachi in mixie jar and make a powder.
Add this one also in the water.Then add mashed jaggery.
 Take black pepper and crush it or make a powder.
Add this in the water.Then mix all well.If you like more sweet you can increase quantity of jaggery.
 vinayaka chavathi  prasadam  vadapappu and panakam is ready...