Kitchen and Home Making

Everyone loves all kind of legumes and particularly when it comes in the form of  sundal varieties ! They are rich in protein and fiber and so good for our health too. It can prepared for evening time snacks and can be packed for children’s snacks box also, instead of giving them usual biscuits and chips. Sundal is very easy to prepare and we usually cook it for Nivedhanams i.e., to provide for God.

Ingredients: Home Made Rice Flour - 1 cup Salt - 1/4 tsp Bengal Gram - 1 cup Jaggery - 1 cup Cardamom - 5 Cooking Instructions: Modak / Kolukattai is the main offering / neivedyam offered to Lord Ganesha during the festival of Vinayaka Chaturthi / Ganesh Chaturthi. Vinayaka Chaturthi is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Ganesha. To know more about, Vinayaka Cahturthi, click HERE. we can use ready made rice flour available in stores also but it will be little hard when cooked. This is the reason for why we are using home made rice flour. To prepare rice flour at home. soak the rice in water for about 30 minutes and drain the water completely. Let the rice to dry under sun well. Grind the rice to a fine powder without adding water. Grind the cardamom to a fine powder. Grind jaggery to fine powder. Cook the bengal gram in a pressure cooker for 3 whistles in high flame and drain the excess water. Now grind the cooked dhal little coarse without adding water and now add jaggery powder and c...