The Pink Café

Yet another sweet prepared for Diwali. Health Tagline in mind, so again Oats, Ragi and Jaggery :) This is such a wonderful ladoo, that you cannot stop in one, and guilt free because of its ingredients.  Try out and see yourself ! Ingredients: Oats - 2 cups Ragi flour - 1 cup Peanuts - 1/2 cup Cashews  - 1/4 cup Clove powder - 1 tsp Cloves - 8 to 10 Raisins - 1/4 cup Jaggery or brown sugar - 1 cup Ghee - 1/2 cup Method: Dry roast oats and make a powder out of it. Dry roast ragi flour as well. Now roast peanuts and grind it also into a powder. A little bit of chunks is fine. In a pan pour ghee and add all these powders. Add clove powder as well. Add jaggery powder or brown sugar and cook till it is melted and combined with the flours.  Now add roasted or plain cashews and raisins and cloves. Sprinkle little water to make balls out of it. Try to roll when it is still hot. If it gets cooled down, the powders won't stick to...

So this was yet another participant of my Diwali event, Pancharatna Dal. This is a north Indian delicacy, of course Dal is something Northies will die for. I have a small North Indian inclination which I figured out lately. Its to their cuisine, the dressing and my love for hindi even though my hindi sometimes kills the language :P lol My North Indian friends will raise the flag saying, Swathy, lets talk in English please. But as you know nothing can stop me, I will still go on with the horrifying hindi that finally makes them run away :D So as the name itself, Panchratna, means 5 stars. I should say, what all mother nature gave us are real stars, of which the legumes and grams, oh my god how versatile they are and how well they get along with any other partners of them. Dals are always made as accompaniment to main dishes like rice, parathas, phulkas and rotis. This Diwali my pancharatna dal was backing my ghee paratha, which is yet another super hit recipe of mine...