Ragi Pakoda (Finger millet fritters)

Ragi or Finger millet is one of the most nutritious and healthy cereals.  Include ragi in our daily diet because of it's health benefits.  Mostly ragi introduce to everyone in the form of porridge from our childhood. It's health benefits are amazing.  So, today we are going to prepare an easy and healthy Indian snack with ragi or finger millet. Let's start to prepare tasty ragi pakoda in our home...

Ingredients:

Ragi flour                                            - 1 cup

Rice flour                                            - 2 tbsp

Big onion (Chopped)                          - 2 numbers

Ginger (Finely chopped)                    - 1 tsp

Curry leaves                                       - one sprig

Asafoetida                                          - 1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil for deep frying

Water as needed

Coriander leaves (optional)

Preparation:

>  Take all the ingredients other than oil and water and mix it well in a bowl

> Add required amount of water to prepare a sticky dough

> Heat enough oil in a bowl for deep frying 

> Sprinkle raw ragi mixture in to the oil

> Deep fry till crisp and golden brown on medium hot oil

> Once its ready, remove from oil and drain on absorbent paper and serve hot

It will be perfect to have with some tomato ketchup and tea... :-)

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More recipes with Ragi / Finger millet / Panjapullu :-

* Ragi milkshake

* Ragi puttu / Ragi steamed cake

* Ragi porridge / Ragi kurukku for toddlers


* Ragi ada

Avalose Podi (Avalose Powder)

Avalose podi (powder) is a traditional kerala snack… This snack can be eaten either as avalose podi, with sugar or banana or as avalose unda (ball)…. Here, I wish to introduce the easiest method of preparation of avalose podi in this page….

Ingredients:

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Preparation:

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It can be served with sugar or with banana…..

If you wish to prepare avalose unda (balls), take jaggery and make a thick water of jaggery and sieve the same and pour the thick jaggery water into the avalose podi (hot), add 2 teaspoon lemon juice and mix well and make gooseberry sized balls…. Avalose balls (avalose unda) is ready ....

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Aval / Rice Flake / Flattened Rice Vilayichathu

Aval or Rice flake or flattened rice is a very nutritious item.  This contains iron, carbohydrates, etc… So today we are going to prepare aval vilayichathu, a sweet recipe with brown rice flake… It’s a common snack in Kerala…. Everyone will love the taste….

 

Ingredients:

1.     Aval / Rice Flake / Flattened Rice ------------------------1/2 Kilogram

2.     Grated coconut ----------------------------------------------- 1 to 2 cups

3.     Jaggery / Vellam / Sarkara --------------------------------- 1 – 1 ½ Kilogram

4.     Cashew nut ---------------------------------------------------- 10-15

5.     Raisins ---------------------------------------------------------- 10-15

6.     Water ----------------------------------------------------------- 3 cups

7.     Ghee ------------------------------------------------------------- ¼ cup

8.     Cardamom powder ------------------------------------------ 2 teaspoon

 

Preparation:

1.     Heat the pan and put the jiggery and water and allow it to boil and melt. After it melt fully, switch off the flame and sieve the water and keep it aside

2.     Heat another pan and pour ghee and fry cashew nut and raisins and keep it aside

3.     Heat a pan with thick bottom, and pour the jaggery water into the pan and allow it to boil and stir well, after the water boils, add grated coconut into the jaggery water and stir well in low flame

4.     Stir till the water content in the coconut goes, and the jaggery water become very  thick

5.     Take the pan out of the flame and allow it to cool for 5 minutes and then add rice flake / aval into the thick jaggery and coconut mixture and stir well

6.     Add fried cashew nuts and raisins and cardamom powder into the mixture and mix well

7.     Allow it to cool and serve as a snack

 

 

Notes:

·        We can prepare this snack and keep for more than a week, so after it cool down, put the aval vilayichathu in a good container and keep.

·        It can be served alone or with banana.

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SWEET STUFFED POORI

In this recipe, I wish to introduce a new and easy recipe to you… Sweet stuffed poori, can be used either as breakfast or as evening snack…. In my childhood, my mother prepared sweet poori as evening snack… When we had reached home after school hours in the evening, my mother served hot sweet poori with lots of love in many days… I am sure this recipe will be helpful for those mothers’, who is having confusion of what to prepare for their children, in the evening after their school hours… This recipe is very easy and simple to prepare and tasty too… I love to eat this poori now also J… My husband likes to eat sweet recipes in the morning, so mostly I prepare the same as breakfast J.. As this is prepared with wheat powder, it’s healthy too…

Ingredients for poori dough:

Wheat powder ---------------------------- 1 cup

Salt ------------------------------------------- to taste

Water--------------------------------------- as needed

Oil -------------------------------------------- for frying

Ingredients for filling:

Grated coconut -------------------------------- ¾ to 1 cup

Sugar ---------------------------------------------- 3-6 teaspoon (as per the sweet requirement)

Preparation:

1.     Mix grated coconut and sugar well and keep it aside

2.     Make a dough with wheat powder, salt and water, in the same consistency of chappathi or poori dough

3.     Make small lemon sized balls out of it

4.     Roll or press each balls, just like poori balls (or if you have poori presser, use that and press)

5.     Then place 2-3 teaspoon of coconut and sugar mix into the one side of the rolled poori (as shown in the photo)

6.     Fold the poori and press the sides very tightly, so that avoid open it when fry in the oil (as shown in the photo)

7.     Make each balls into this form

8.     Heat the oil and put each poori into the hot oil and fry in medium flame like normal poori

9.     Now sweet stuffed poori is ready to serve

Notes:

Ø Make sure that the sides of the poori, after placing coconut and sugar mix, are pressed very well.  Otherwise, when you put the same for frying, the sides will open and oil enter into the filling, and taste will vary.

Ø Make sure that the poori is frying in medium heat.  Otherwise, the chances of burn the poori without cooking well are high

Ø If you like the taste of cardamom, add ½ to 1 teaspoon of cardamom powder into the filling and put, it will also be very tasty…. But in my home, everyone like the normal filling, so I prepared this without cardamom…J

I am sure that you and your children will definitely like this dish very well….. This is very simple and easy to prepare item in your kitchen…. Add this recipe to your daily cooking… If you have any question, feel free to ask…

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