Thiruvathirai Kali

Ingerdients

1 cup raw rice

1 ½  cups Jaggery powdered

¼  tsp cardamom powder

Few cashew nuts & raisins

4 tbsp ghee

3 ½ cups water

Method

Dry roast rice in a pan till brown color. You will get nice aroma from the rice.

Cool it and powder to coarse consistency in blender. (like rava)

Boil 3 cups of water.

Add 1 spoon ghee in cooker then add boiled water. (prevent sticking to the bottom)

Add powdered rice mix well.

Pressure cook this for 15 minutes in low flame, with whistle.

Since it is roasted rice flour the cooking time & consumption of water is more.

Mean time in another pan add ½ cup water and powdered jaggery.

Melt it and filter it to avoid any impurity in the jaggery.

Allow to boil, till raw smell of jaggery goes.

Now add this to cooked rice flour and mix well.

Cook in low flame till all water gets absorbed.

Add remaining ghee in a pan, fry cashew nuts and raisins add this to above.

Add cardamom powder and mix well.

Thiruvathirai kali is ready.

This kali is served with Thiruvathirai  kootu.  (mixed vegetable kootu).

Thiruvathirai  kootu (Mixed vegetable kootu)

Ingredients

1 cup mixed vegetables (Sweet Potato, Pumpkin, broad beans,Green Mochai Kottai, Vazhakka, potato)

A pinch turmeric Powder

3 green chilli

¼ cup grated coconut

Few curry leaves

Salt to taste

Method

Boil all vegetables with little water, salt and turmeric powder in pressure cooker for 1 whistle.

Grind coconut and green chilli to a fine paste.

Add this to boiled vegetables cook for 5 minutes and add curry leaves.

Thiruvathirai  kootu is ready.

Serve hot with kali.