Beetroot Halwa

My husband's ammamma (Maternal grandma) cooks very interesting recipes. Some of them are real quickies. She had a stock of shortcut recipes of the otherwise time consuming ones. When ever her grand children ask for sweets, she makes sweets in a jiffy. This beetroot
halwa is one among them.

Grated beetroot - 1 cup
Powdered jaggery - 1/2 cup. (You can increase if u like it more sweet)

Chopped nuts for garnish (optional)

Method

MW grated beets with a teaspoon of water for 4 minutes or till soft. Heat a kadai. Add the powdered jaggery. Jaggery will start melting. Stir in the cooked beets. Keep stirring, till the jaggery melts fully. Cook on low flame, till it comes together as a whole mass. Don't cook till the moisture fully dries up, since it will harden on cooling. Garnish with roasted, slivered nuts. A healthy sweet is ready in 10 minutes. A fat free dessert. You can also serve it with a scoop of ice cream. You can use it as a bread spread for kids' sandwiches too. This is my entry to the following events : 1) The Challenge hosted by Veda Murthy (No garnish halwa fits the challenge) 2) Suganya's Vegan Ventures Round 2 3) Sweet Series-Halwa, Kathli, Burfi, Peda by Mythrayee

Its raining Awards and MeMes and Whatnot!

Dear fellow bloggers have passed on some awards, and a meme too. I've been lazy in posting and passing it on. I had just started drafting this post, and WHOOOM Lakshmi has rained a whole lot more awards!

Well let me begin with a MeMe from Anudivya which goes like this ...
The rules of the MeMe are:* Pick up the nearest book* Open to page 123* Find the 5th sentence* Post the next three sentences* Tag 5 people and acknowledge the person who tagged you.

The nearest book turned out to be 'First Things Fast, A Handbook of Performance Analysis' by Allison Rosset. The 3 sentences on Page 123 starting from line 5, turned out be a set of profound questions that concern the Training Industry "What can be done to turn experiences with customers, clients, products and the literature into archives of lessons for their associates from other disciplines? What role can human resource leaders play in knowledge management? What Technology in the hands of human resources and training professionals has much to offer here?"....

Hee Hee ...sorry it was not more generic! I tried to cheat and found two more books, but with similar and more nerdy results, so I stuck with the first book!

Now for the awards.... Thanks Malar for sending us the Hardworking Food Blogger. I love your Tamil Haiku, but hated the massacared rabbit!!!




And then thanks Lakshmi for sending alllllllllllllllllllllllllll of these!!
I am following her example by passing all of these awards and the MeMe to:
Yosee - Jalan Jalan
Roshni - Not a Science Geek
Malar - Kitchen Tantra
Shreya - Indian Khana
PearlsofEast - Anyone can Cook
Rashmi - Delhi Belle
Purnima - Fantasy Cooking
Rajeshwari - Rak's Kitchen
Purva - Purva's Daawat
Cham - Spice Club
Anjali - Annaparabrahma
Sangeeth - Art of Indian Cooking
Suganya - Tasty Palates
Sukanya - ...and a little bit more...
Simran - Bombay Foodie
Pallavi - All Thingz Yummy
Nazarina - Giddy Gastronome
Sunshinemom - Tongue Ticklers

Bee - Forgive me my Nonsense
Karuna - Foodie by Nature








Teresa - Mexican American Border Cooking
Vibaas - Delectable Vegetarian Recipes
Jayashree - My experiments with Food
Uma - Essence of Andhra
Jayasree - Experiements in Kailas Kitchen
Sra - When my Soup Came Alive
Mandira - Ahar, pleasure & sustenance
Happy Cook - My Kitchen Treasures
Lubna - Kitchen Flavours
Srivalli - Cooking 4 All Seasons
Alka - Sindhi Rasoi
Deesha - Vegetable Platter
Robert Gilles - Shizouka Gourmet
DK - DK's Culinary Bazaar
Sagari - Indian Cooking
Aparna - My Diverse Kitchen
Divya - Dil Se
Ramya - Mane Adige
Andhra Flavours - For Spicy Lovers
Usha - Veg Inspirations
Priya - Priya's easy n tasty recipes
Mansi - Cool Ideas and Gadgets

I have many more to add to this list! Will save that for the next tag!!!

Kuzhi Paniyaram

You need a kuzhipaniyaram pan. Any brand is ok. If you don't have this, add it to your "to buy list" when you go to India next time. Picture of the pan has been taken from here.


Ingredients:
Dosa batter-2 cups
Chopped onions-1/4 cup
Coriander leaves-handful
Jeera-1/2 tsp
Salt- a pinch
Hing-a pinch
Ginger chopped-1/2 tsp
Green chilli chopped-1/2 tsp
Curry leaves-a few

Method:
Heat kuzhi paniyaram pan. Put 2-3 drops of oil in each hole. fill each hole with the batter and drizzle a drop of oil on top. After 2-3 minutes, flip to cook the other side. Once both the sides turn golden brown, switch off and serve with ketchup or chutney.

My mom sometimes makes deep fried version of this. She adds little rice flour(to thicken the dosa batter) and other ingredients mentioned above to the dosa batter and deep fries. They are too delicious.