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Gasagase Payasa – A healthy and a soothing kheer prepared with the goodness of poppy seeds, coconut, and jaggery. This easy to make rich and creamy delicacy from Karnataka is apt for all festival occasion and needless to say it is perfect for Ugadi. Check out the detailed Gasagase Payasa / Poppy Seeds Kheer recipe with step by step pictures. Jump to Recipe or Print Recipe
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A vegan kheer with mango flavor, yes that’s what I am going to share today!!! I prepared this Sweet Vegan Mango Phirni with almond milk, flattened rice and of course sugar. But the flavor doesn’t stop there. I further enhanced it with with the flavors of mango, saffron, and pistachios. You know what, you can prepare this delectable Phirni under 30 minutes, and it is a perfect dessert and an offering/prasadam for any occasion. Here is the detailed step-wise pictorial recipe.
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Kheer or Payasam is one of the quintessential recipes, in particular, on the festive days. And the South Indian Thali is incomplete without the kheer or payasam. When I was browsing through my payasam archives, I realized that I hadn’t posted the sago kheer or javvarisi payasam as we say in Tamil. Sago Kheer is my go to neivediyam recipes on most of my Thursday pooja. Sago is the tapioca pearl, and it is one of the widely used food ingredients during fasting days. With Holi festival coming up, I thought of posting it sooner than later. :-)
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I am wishing you all a very happy and a prosperous new year. Today I am going to share a sweet recipe prepared in my instant pot. It is the rice and walnut kheer or the Akhrot kheer. This is a super simple recipe with just 4 ingredients that can be whipped up pretty easily. It’s is rich and decadent kheer with the goodness of walnuts. Today I am sharing the instant pot method but please check the notes to see how it can be prepared on stove top too.
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After starter and main dish, the third recipe is, of course, going to be dessert. :-) You can prepare tons of dessert with carrots.I have already posted carrot cake and carrot halwa. With Karthigai Deepam festival right around the corner, I thought of preparing kheer or payasam. So here comes the Vegan carrot kheer, prepared with carrot puree and coconut milk and sweetened with cane sugar.
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I am wishing a Happy Navratri / Vijaya Dasami/ Durga Puja to all my friends. Today I am presenting a low calorie healthy kheer or Payasam or pudding. I can hear you asking, how can a kheer; a sweet recipe can be healthy and low calorie? What if it’s prepared with quinoa and without any sugar? Here comes my Quinoa Kheer prepared with Truvia® Nectar
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Chakka Pradhaman – Jackfruit Kheer or Payasam is a traditional sweet delicacy from God’s own country, Kerala. I prepared this as a vegan kheer, by adding coconut milk instead of regular milk. Basically, this recipe is prepared by cooking the jackfruit pieces and then it is pureed. Then it is simmered with coconut milk and jaggery. How can this go wrong huh?
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It’s time for guest post. This month we have Swapna from Swapna’s kitchen and she sent an apt recipe for this festive season – Godhumai Payasam or Broken Wheat Kheer. I can’t thank her enough for this wonderful recipe. When I moved my blog to WP, I started to follow quite a few (errr a lot) bloggers and Swapna’s blog is one among them. I love her blog and she has very versatile recipes. In fact her recent recipe, Choco chip muffins is in my to-do list.
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Yay !!! Navratri Started. One of my favorite festival and I am looking forward for 10 days of fun and of course food. This time I kept my 5 step golu. (No more space constraints). I think I can attend garba this year. I missed last year, hopefully I can make it up this year. Here is my Golu. Starting the navratri festival with sweet kheer with moong dhal. As no moon day (amavasya) started this evening I kept my kalasam and my marapaichi bommai and that’s it my navratri began . This is what we did for neivediyam/prasadam today.
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This is my 300th post. I would have repeated this many times in my blog – It took me 5 years to complete 100 posts but less than 2 years to complete another 200. My blog underwent lot of changes in these two years. Blogger to WP hosted site and then to Self hosted site. I participated in blogging marathons and monthly marathons too and couple other challenges. The hard work didn’t go in vain, my blog was ranked 9 by Indiblogger. Thanks for all your support and encouragement.
Thought of posting a sweet recipe for my 300th post. So tried my hubby’s favorite recipe and here it is. Badam Kheer or Badam milk. It’s a simple recipe and it can be done quickly and its perfect for doing on festival day mornings also. The only thing is you need to remember to soak almonds. I prefer soaking almonds overnight. Its needs to soaked so that you can peel the skin easily. So planning is required for this dish. With few simple ingredients you can make rich and yummy kheer.
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Thats it yummy badam kheer is ready. I like to serve it chilled. So after it gets cool I refrigerate them. You can serve in your preferred way.
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PS: As I am travelling I am yet to read other blog posts and comment. Hope to get back to all posts in august. :-)
This week Diabetic Friendly recipe is a Father’s Day Special recipe. I wanted to try some low calorie sweet and when I was thinking what to prepare I found this “Delicious Diabetic Recipes – Low Calorie Cooking” book by Tarla Dalal. I don’t know how I missed this book for such a long time. Its great book with detailed information about diabetes, types of diabetes, causes and diagnosis. These invaluable information was shared by Dr. R.B Phatak, an eminent diabetologist.
I slightly modified this recipe by ignoring sugar completely and went with fat free milk. Make the apple you are using is sweet and not sour. Sour and sharp apples may spoil the milk. If you feel its not sweet enough try adding 2 tsps of sugar or honey. I am not a big fan of artificial sugar so I am not suggesting that. Now my new cooking and eating mantra is “Moderation”. Will talk about in a separate recipe post soon.
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Here is the simple apple rabadi recipe. Its a four ingredient fix.
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Simple and yummy rabadi ready. Serve cold with nuts and raisins.
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Here are the recipes from other DFT members
1. Anu
http://easybitesonline.com/apricot-cashew-and-coconut-bites-diabetes-friendly/
2.Swati
http://www.letscookhealthytonight.com/oats-cinnamon-berry-baskets/
3. Shailja
https://shailjatomar.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/fresh-fruit-popsicles-dft/
4 . Paro
https://crackleandtemper.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/vegan-gluten-free-brownie-bites-diabetic-friendly-thursdays/
5. Chahat
http://gorgeandserve.com/2015/06/17/watermelon-kiwi-pops/
6. Prachi
http://divinespicebox.com/2015/06/17/cinnamon-scented-oats-tart-with-dark-chocolate-ganache/
7. Aprasa
http://eatingwelldiary.com/2015/06/17/pineapple-kesari-a-fathers-day-special-for-diabetes-friendly-thursdays/
8. Sonal
https://simplyvegetarian777.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/badaam-anjeer-ki-kheer-almonds-figs-pudding-diabetes-friendly-thursdays/
9. Suchi
http://sus-healthy-living.blogspot.ca/2015/06/fruit-bouquet-fathers-day-special.html
This week theme for the BM is festival recipes. For any festival or function or even any auspicious day, we make kheer/payasam, vadai, pachadi and kosambari or kosamalli. When these festival days falls on weekend, there is no issues in preparing these dishes. But if it falls on weekday, morning becomes really hectic and crazy. With packing lunch boxes and preparing neividiyams, it becomes really difficult. Here are three dishes that can be prepared with less than 30 minutes. The first one is the kheer. I am using evaporated milk and condensed milk along with regular milk. Evaporated milk is dehydrated milk and it has longer shelf time. Basically as we say tamil it is the sunda kachina paal. It saves a lot of time.
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Thats it, yummy kheer is ready within 30 minutes.
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As I have mentioned before, most of my dishes are handed down by my mom. I do make some slight variations according our taste, but this kheer /payasam recipe is my mom’s recipe without any change. (Ee adichan copy – meaning copied ditto) For this recipe amma doesn’t use any cardamom powder or cloves and any nuts. Its just rice, milk and sugar but it tastes heavenly. The month of Adi(Āshāḍha) is going to start from next week and lot of pujas and virathams will start too. I got my pujas date list from MIL yesterday. :-) So thought of posting this today so that we can make this for naivedyam also.
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As we are adding rice, milk gets absorbed fast, so if required add boiled milk before serving. You can serve this kheer either hot or cold.
Elaneer payasam – I got this yummy recipe from my friend R. Its a very simple, delicious desert and can be prepared in less than 5 minutes(with store bought ingredients). My friend calls it as a no stove dish, which is very true. All you need is just three ingredients:
Today I am going to share a paayasam/payasam or kheer recipe. It is one of the easy and quick paayasam to make. It just takes half an hour to prepare this, yummy paayasam. I make this on any festive days, especially if it falls on a weekday.
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