Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, sankranti sweets. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Like every festival in India, Sankranti is also associated with tasty and delicious sweets. Churn out some traditional delicacies this festive season with a bit of help from the Yo Vizag team! Puli Pitha is a sweet dumpling dipped in creamy milk syrup, while Patishapta is stuffed with different fillings.
Sankranti Sweets is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Sankranti Sweets is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sankranti sweets using 14 ingredients and 25 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Sankranti Sweets:
- Get For chikkis
- Get 1 cup white sesame seeds
- Make ready 1/4 cup clarified butter
- Make ready 1/2 cup jaggery
- Prepare 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
- Get 50 grams chopped cashews-almonds
- Make ready For Sakarai Pongal-
- Prepare 1 cup Rice
- Prepare 1/4 cup Yellow moong daal
- Take 1 tablespoon cardamom powder
- Get 1/4 cups each: milk and water
- Make ready 1/4 cup Jaggery
- Make ready 50 grams cashews-raisins
- Get 1/2 cup water to melt jaggery
Til (sesame seed) Based Sweets for Sankranti In India festival means delicious food. They both go hand in hand. No celebration is complete without some delicious, moth watering, yummy and amazing sweets and food. Sankranti is celebrated over four days, the first day is called 'Bhogi', the second day is 'Sankranti', the third day is, 'Kanuma' and the fourth day is, 'Mukkanuma'.
Steps to make Sankranti Sweets:
- Chikkis: Roast the sesame seeds till they splutter in low heat. Keep aside.
- Melt ghee in the pan and melt the jaggery till a frothy mix is obtained.
- Once done, add sesame seeds, nuts and cardamom powder.
- Mix well till combined and the mixture thickens slightly.
- Grease a plate and add the mix on to the plate.
- Before the mix is completely cool and hard, make cuts to obtain the chikkis
- Pick out the pieces once the mix has completely cooled.
- Store in an airtight container.
- Sakkarai Pongal: Soak the rice for 30 minutes prior to cooking
- Melt a portion of the ghee in a cooker.
- Strain the water and add the rice and dal in the cooker.
- Saute on medium heat till aromatic.
- Then add the water-milk mixture.
- Stir well and pressure cook till 2-3 whistles.
- Once done, chk the rice-dal and break grains by mashing them slightly.
- In a pan, melt the jaggery using water.
- Once fully melted, strain and add the jaggery water in the cooker.
- Cook on low heat after mixing well, so that the sweetness of the jaggery is absorbed by the rice-dal.
- Once done, add cardamom powder mix well and switch off gas stove.
- Melt the remaining ghee in a pan, and add the cashews and raisins.
- Saute till cashews brown and the raisins puff up.
- Then add them along with the ghee used to saute in the cooker.
- Mix well and transfer in a bowl.
- Sakkarai Pongal is ready!
- For a detailed, video recipe, browse: https://youtu.be/nOQ90ggMuOc
Celebrate by making sweets and flying kites!. See more ideas about Makar sankranti, Making sweets, Winter solstice. By and large, Kalagaya kura aka mixed vegetable curry is a common traditional Sankranti preparation including Kalagaya Pulusu aka Teepi Pulusu, mixed vegetables cooked in jaggery and tamarind. The sweet dishes might differ based on the customs followed by each home like Boorelu, Ariselu, Kajjikayalu, Bobbatulu, Sunnundalu etc. Ellu bella or yellu bella is very popular sweet trail mix and is prepared during Makara sankranthi festival.
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