Mangalore Buns

These puffed puri like thing are popularly known as Mangalore buns. These amazing buns fall more on sweeter side but go well with spicy coconut chutney. More interestingly, bananas and curds are its main ingredient. These buns are a must try and I rate them 5 stars.

Sesame Groundnut Ladoo

Ingredients: ( 4 small ladoos)

• 400 grams roasted peanuts
• 50 grams lightly roasted sesame seeds
• 50-100 grams sugar
• small chunk of Jaggery, soaked and melted in hot water
• Ghee/ clarified butter

Preparation steps:

• Grind the roasted peanuts, sugar and sesame seeds into coarse powder
• Add the molten jaggery into the powder and mix well.
• apply ghee on your palms and prepare ladoos as per required size.
• Coat the surface with sesame seeds for decoration.

Sesame Groundnut Ladoo

Sesame groundnut ladoo is one healthy festive treat. Minimal ingredients but there is absolutely no compromise in terms of taste. If anytime you feel you have had enough, then u can stuff them into wheat flour dough and make pancakes( shengada holige/ groundnut sesame obattu).

This delectable delight takes me back to the days when me and my sister (guddu) used to dress up on nag panchami to visit temple, offer milk and these ladoos to nag devata. I can never get those days back but the memories of that time always manages to get a smile on my face.

Happy Nag Panchami everyone.

Upma Pesarattu

Upma Pesarattu is a delicacy of Andhra Pradesh. Pesarattu is more like a dosa, where moong bean/ green gram is used for the preparation of batter instead of rice and urad dal. The most surprising element of this dish is the upma which is the masala unlike the potato masala in the authentic masala dosa. I'am sure for people who haven't seen or tried this dish before it may sound a bit wacky, but believe you me folks, it indeed is a deadly combo. I too was a bit hesitant to taste it in the beginning, but good that I tried, else i would have missed tasting one of the best breakfast dishes of Andhra. Pesarattu is a much healthier breakfast options as its made of moong dal and since it has upma as the masala it is a heavy breakfast item. So folks cook it and relish it.