Kugan's Kitchen Part 4

Suvai nga, thanks, thanks for all the nice word.
Very, very encouraging.

Suvai nga let me look at my m.i.law's old files.
I remember her having the payasam.
She will do it for prayers. Very rich.


Suvai in olden days the ellu urundai was made in a different way.
They used to fry the ellu, and the vellam will be sand free.
cardamom powder ellu and vellam all will be put into
a ural and pounded. Then they are made into balls.

Nowadays you have to cook and strain the vellam to remove all the
impurites. So the new ellu urundai is made with paagu, and
dry roasted ellu.
I will post the recipe soon.


Dev and aarthii, please post your versions of the ellu urundai
too. Thanks. Kugan 98

This is a fast disappearing sweet.


ELLU URUNDAI

Ingredients:
2 cups ellu ( I used the white ones)
1 1/4 cups vellam (more if you like )
1/2 tsp cardamom powder
little water
little rice flour or ghee

Method:

Clean and wash the ellu, dry it well.
Lightly dry roast the ellu.
Heat a wok with little water, add in the grated vellam.
cook till it becomes thick. It should form a stiff ball
when dropped in water.
add the roasted ellu and the cardamom powder at once.
mix well and remove from the stove.
make balls from it while it is still warm.
use a little ghee or rice flour so that it does not
stick to your hands.
This is a very healthy sweet.

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nice ellu urundai kugan. i will go through for the receipe. in shops they are adding little pottukadal.ai in that. it is very tasty

aarthi,
thanks for the compliments.

Thanks Selviem, not only potukadai, they even add coconut scrappings, or peanuts instead of potukadalai.
I just make it like the olden days.
Very good source of iron.
Thanks. Kugan98

kungannnnnnn ngaaaaaa!! awesomeeeee that u have posted the authentic ellu urundai recipe....i commend yr energy & eagerness.... :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

selvi & kugan...i didnt know that they use pottukadalai/verkadalai/coconut scrappings for ellurundais..

dev...thank u for asking yr contacts for yr perimas recipe...;-)..

kugan nga....antha aravana paayasam is veryyyyy rich....plz do post the recipe from yr mil's file...:-) i least expected anyone to even recognize the name of the payasam...leave alone the recipe.... :mrgreen: thank u!

aarthi....sure all ellurundai's recipes are welcome....thank amma too plz.

okay oru doubt.....kugan did u post regular pongal's recipe? i see paal pongal & sweet pongal....could u kindly post that recipe too...or the page link if anyone could help...wld appreciate....tanks tanks & tanks a lot!
:mrgreen:

infact i had that payasam in a Perumaal temple in kerala..... :mrgreen:

Super ellu urundai.. perima used to make it using black ellu...

Suvai, chk this link for the payasam recipe... http://forumhub.com/southfood/29076.05.23.38.html

Suvai, if u r looing for moong dhal+ raw rice +pepper,jeera pongal, u can try Mrs.mano's recipe... very tasty...:thumbsup:

omg dev.............thank uuuu so very much for this link....it sounds similar to the ingris that were in that payasam.....i was under the impression they also add coconut milk...(maybe i am wrong).....the rice is not cooked too well...it has to be kadak mudak...kandipaaa try panni...neivedhiyam pannitu.....saaapitu solaren ;-)
thanks once again dev....u r :thumbsup: