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Coconut - Jaggery Sweet Balls | Kaayi Unde

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Kaayi Unde or Kaayunde is one of my favourite sweet snacks from childhood. As the name indicates, the main ingredients in this sweet dish are coconut and jaggery. To make it more tastier, nuts like toasted groundnuts or cashews can also be added.  Here is the recipe of Kaayi Unde for you all! Time required: 30 minutes Difficulty level: Medium Serves: 28 balls  Ingredients: Fresh grated coconut - 3 cups Jaggery - 1 cup (either powder or liquid)  Roasted groundnuts - 1 cup Cardamom powder - 1 tsp Recipe Instructions: Take the toasted groundnuts, peel off the skin and pulse them in the mixie or food processor into small chunks. Combine fresh grated coconut and jaggery in a wide pan, keep mixing it on medium flame.  Slowly, the water content in the coconut releases and the jaggery combines well with the coconut. If the mixture looks too dry, you can add 1 - 2 tablespoon of water to make it moist.  Keep mixing the mixture for around 20 minutes, till you see the mixtu...

Radish(Daikon) Beans Stir Fry | Mulangi Beans Palya

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  ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ   Just like every year, our summer veggie patch is on full bloom this year too. When there are so much home grown veggies, its very hard to choose the veggies for your cooking, when you don't want anything go waste! We are making a good use of home grown veggies in our daily cooking, sharing some with friends and also, preserving some in the freezer for the winter months.  A few of our white radish plants grew up taller, they didn't produce any bulbs, but we could see big bunches of radish beans on the plant. Then, I got to know from one of my friends that, radish beans are good for cooking curries and stir fries. I tried my hands on making 2 - 3 varieties of stir fry (Palya), and here is the one which was liked by all.. Preparation time: 25 - 30 minutes Difficulty level: Medium Serves - 5 Ingredients: Radish / Muli beans - about 3 cups Salt - to taste Sugar - 1 tsp Amchur powder - 3/4 tsp  - For Seasoning: cooking oil - 3 tbsp, Ur...

Savatekayi Hashi | Cucumber Raita

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ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ   Cucumber is one of those vegetables which is widely used in Indian cooking. Its summer here, and we are making a good use of cucumbers. My cooking style goes more towards my native style food when its summer; we enjoy preparing and eating native style curries like Hashi, Tambli, etc which are mainly yogurt based. But when the winter starts, we prefer more of soups, chapathi and curries. Hashi or Saasive is a yogurt and coconut based curry which is a good combination with rice. We Havyakas can prepare Hashi or Saasive using almost every variety of vegetables and edible leaves.   Today, I am going to share the recipe of Savatekayi Hashi (Sasive) with you all. When we were school age kids, we cousins were all very keen to watch how Amma / Aunty / Grandma chop the cucumber so finely using 'Ilige mane' or coconut scraper. We all loved that aroma which comes when the cucumber is chopped finely. And, we used to wait for that small leftover pieces o...