Navarathri Day 4 Goddess Kushmanda.
Fourth Day (9th October) Orange
This color is full of positive energy and keeps the person upbeat.
Ingredients
Shredded Carrot — 1 cup
Peanut — 1/2 cup
Sesame oil — 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds — 1 tsp
Asafetida — 1/4 tsp
Salt — 3/4 tsp
Coarsely grounded ginger and green chili — 1 tbsp.
Navarathri Day -3.• Goddess Chandraghanta
Third-Day (9th October) Grey
Grey color represents balanced emotions and keeps the person down-to-earth.
Ingredients
Black Ellu —- 1 tsp
White Ellu —- 2 tsp
Jaggery —- 1 cup
Thick coconut milk — 1 1/2 cup
Ghee —- 2 tbsp
Cashews —- 1 tbsp
Cardamom pwd — 1/2 tsp.
Navarathri, day 2. Goddess Brahmacharini.
Second Day (8th October) Green
Green color symbolizes nature and evokes a sense of growth, fertility, peace and serenity
Ingredients
Dry Green Peas — 1 cup
Fresh coriander — 3 tbsp
Green chili — 1
Sesame oil — 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds — 1 tsp
Salt — 3/4 tsp.
NAVARATHRI 2021 Navratri festivities are filled with vibrant colors thqat are visible in the decorations and dresses.
Nine days are full of vibrant colours, decorations, Durga Puja and delicious food. This time I have taken a small attempt to make the offering in nine colors. Publishing ahead of Navaratri so others can try it. Goddess Shailputri. First Day (7th October) Yellow
This is a warm color that keeps the person cheerful all day.
Would you like to know a simple method to prepare fluffy and soft chapathis? Take a look at this recipe!
Ingredients
Wheat flour —- 3 cup
Thin poha —- 1 cup
Fresh coriander —-1 cup
Oil —- 2-3 tbsp
Salt —– 3/4 tsp
Ghee.
Method
Wash and soak the poha for 2-3 mintues. Drain the water from poha. Add poha , chopped coriander, oil and salt to the wheat flour. Mix well, add water as required to get a stiff dough. Knead well. Take small balls and make chapathi’s. Heat a pan, place the chapathi on the pan and cook it, drizzle some ghee flip it , drizzle some more ghee. Cook both the sides. Enjoy Poha Roti.
A unique Modak prepared on the auspicious day of Ganesh Chaturti. A rich and flavorful combination of Paneer and Poha, kneaded together as a Modak!
Ingredients
Paneer — 250 gms
Poha / Aval — 3-4 tbsp
Sugar —- 3-4 tbsp
Raisin — 1 tbsp
Ghee — 1 tsp
Honey — 1 tsp
Cardamom — 1/2 tsp.
Method
Powder the sugar. Get paneer to room temperature. Mix together poha, raisins, cardamom, ghee and half the quantity of powdered sugar. Cut the paneer and crumble it. Add the remaining sugar to the crumbled paneer and knead well. Transfer the paneer mixture to a pan and cook it in low heat for 5 minutes. Cool the paneer mixture. Add the poha mixture. Mix everything together and shape it into a Modak. Your Paneer- Poha Modak is ready.
Lord Ganesh loves Modak / Kozhukkatta. Kozhukkatta is usually made with coconut, jaggery and rice flour. Here’s a recipe of a Modak that has different ingredients, quick and easy to make. Prepare and offer it to Lord Ganesh.
Ingredients
Peanut — 1 cup
Jaggery — 1/2 cup
Dates — 1/2 cup
Almonds, cashews — 3 tbsp
Ghee — 2 tsp.
Method
Dry roast peanut for 5-7 minutes in low heat. Cool it , remove skin. To remove skin either rub the peanut between your palms or place the peanut inside a towel and rub it. Grind the peanut. Add the jaggery to the peanut powder and grind again. Add a teaspoon of ghee to the peanut mixture and knead well. Deseed the dates and grind well. Powder the dry-fruits add this to the dates add 1/2 tsp ghee mix well and make small balls. Take small quantity of peanut-jaggery mixture, flatten them and give a circular shape. Now place a dates- dry-fruits ball and slowly cover the dates-dry-fruits with peanut-jaggery mixture and shape it into a Modak. Lord Ganesh prasad is ready.
Krishna Janmashtami special. Vell Aval is most treasured dish by Lord Krishna lovingly given to friend Sudama. Here’s another version of Aval. Make this Aval Ladoo and offer as prasadam.
Ingrdients
Aval / Poha —- 1 cup
Jaggery — 1/4 cup
Ghee — 3 tbsp
Almonds , Walnuts — 1 tsp
Cardamom pwd — 1/4 tsp.
Method
Dry roast the aval in a pan till the aval changes coour. Cool it and blend it in a mixer coarselly. Add the jaggery and blend it again. Heat 1 tbsp ghee and fry the chopped dryfruits add this to the aval mixture, add cardamom pwd mix everything together. Heat the reamining ghee,, add to the aval mixture. Use a spoon mix the ghee with the aval mixture and make ladoos.
Krishna Janmashtami special. Quick and easy way of draping vesti on lamp.
With the blessings of all the elders in the family the official book launch of Sujatas Recipes was held in Ernakulam Samooham today evening. Sending a few snaps.
Sujatas Recipes 