Boondi Laddoo

Ingredients
Chickpea flour - 2 cups
Sugar - 4 cups (or adjust to your sweetness level)
Oil/ Ghee for deep frying
Dry fruits (like cashews, golden raisins, almonds) - upto your tastes

Method of preparation
Mix the senagapindi (chickpea flour) with water and mix it continuously for 5 minutes atleast. This process is to ensure that no lumps are formed.

On the stove, add  sugar and add very little water until the sugar is dissolved.

Set aside the mixed batter (no lumps aside for 5 minutes).

On another stove, heat up the oil/ghee. I used oil.

In a boondi jhalni, slowly pour one laddle of batter and spread, so that the boondi drops fall in the hot oil.

Make sure the boondi turns a little golden and it is crunchy. You can test it, by taking one in hand and try to squish it.

Drain the boondi in a paper.

Now add half of the paakam (sugar syrup) along with the dry fruits. let the sugar syrup sit on the stove (turned on) for some more time until sting syrup is made. Once the syrup is ready then add it to the boondi mixture.

Mix all the boondi nicely and start making round laddoos with it.

Once the laddoos are ready, store it in a air tight container.

Tamarind Pulihora with Tamarind Paste

Well, did anybody want to have pulihora but got tired of the long procedure especially for making tamarind pulihora. Well this should give you a boost to make more tamarind pulihora and sweetly in less than 5 minutes ...... can't believe, read on the recipe:

Ingredients
Cooked Rice
Tamarind Paste
Oil
Green Chillies
Red chillies
Chana dal
Mustard seeds
Asafoetida (hing)
Turmeric
Peanuts (can avoid if you have any allergies)
Salt to taste

Method of preparation
Spread the cooked rice in a wide pan/dish. This helps rice to cool down in hurry and also to mix the rice nicely without falling out of dish. Now take a small pan and start preparing the Popu(Tadka). Add oil and let it heat. ( I used Olive Oil but if you want better taste, try it out with peanut oil). Add mustard seeds, and let it splutter. Once they are ready, add little Jeera, asafoetida, chana dal and both chillies. Add peanuts, turmeric to above. Once the peanuts are nicely roasted along with the chillies, add Salt to it and the tamarind paste. Cook for almost less than a minute and turn off. Let the pan be on the stove for one more minute (after turning off, the heat of the oil is sufficiant to cook the tamarind at this point).

 Now  add the tamarind to the spread out rice. Mix the rice and mixture nicely with hand so that all the rice grains are covered with the mixture.

 Your tamarind rice is ready to serve or eat. You can add some coriander leaves, fried cashews to make it look nice :). enjoy!!!.

Palli Kaaram Podi (Peanut spicy powder)

Ingredients
Roasted peanuts
Jeera - 1 tea spoon
Red chillies
Tamarind - lemon size
Garlic - 4- pods
Salt to taste

Method of preparation
Roast the Jeera and red chillies little bit and grind them along with some part of the peanuts. Roast the remaining peanuts along with salt, until they crunchy (not too soft). Your peanut spicy powder is ready to use along with idli's or dosa's or just like that. Add a little bit of oil or ghee while using to add some nice taste.