Hayagreeva Sweet Dish

Hayagreeva is an excellent sweet dish made from Channa Dal. It is an authentic Karnataka delicacy and simply amazing to taste, of course when doled out with copious servings of Ghee!

Ingredients

• Channa Dal - 150 grams
• Bella (Jaggery) - 150 grams
• Gase Gase (Poppy Seeds) - 25 grams
• Lavanga (Clove) - 5-6 cloves
• Elakki (Elaichi) - 5-6 pods powdered
• Grated Dry Coconut - 50 grams
• Ghee - 2 tbsp
• Dhrakshe (raisins) - 25 grams
• Godambi (Cashews) - 25 grams
• Badami (Almonds) - 25 grams

Method

• Soak the Channa Dal for about 30 minutes and pressure cook.
• Roast the Poppy Seeds until they splutter, keep them aside.
• Take the ghee in a wok and add dry fruits and fry.
• Add Cloves to this mixture along with the dry fruits.
•  Now add Grated dry coconut and poppy seeds and mix.
• Now to this add Jaggery and mix till it completely melts and forms a dosa like batter.
• To this now add the cooked Channa dal and mix well.
• Garnish with Elachi powder.
• Serve hot with a generous helping of Ghee!

Hayagreeva !
(Clockwise form top) Dry Fruits & Poppy Seeds, Grated Jaggery, Final Result!, Pressured Cooked Channa Dal

Ganesh Chaturthi 2010 Spead

We had a great Ganesha Chaturthi; obviously it all ended with a sumptuous lunch prepared by my wife Sirisha and my sister Lavanya. The ladies, typical of our culture are excellent cooks and cooking somehow comes all but naturally to them !

• (1) Uppu (Salt)
• (2) Hesaru Bele Kosambri (Split Green Gram Salad)
• (3) Kadle Bele Kosambri (Split Bengal Gram Salad)
• (4) Ambode (Fried like bonda/vada, made from Bengal Dal, Toor Dal, Coriender Leaves and Red/Green Chilies)
• (5) Modhaka (Steamed Sweet Rice dumpling filled with Hurna - a mix of coconut and jaggery simmered into a thick paste over an hour)
• (6) Bendekai Palya(Bhindi Fry)
• (7) Aloo Palya/Masiyal (Potato Curry)
• (8) Plain Rice
• (9) Nimbehannu Chitranna (Prepared rice of Lemon, Peanuts & Cashews)
• (10) Panchambrutha - A holy offering to the lord (containing Jaggery, Sugar, Ghee, Honey, Milk & Banana)
  
• (11) Appi Paysa (Milk Based kheer with Soaked broken Papads made from Rawa mix)
• (12) Ghenasu Raitha (Sweet Potato Raitha)