Oats Sweet Pongal Recipe | Oats Sakkarai Pongal | Easy Sweet Pongal Recipe

Happy Makar Sankranti Wishes To Everyone! May the Sun Radiate Peace, Prosperity & Happiness in Your Life On this special Occasion and Always!!

I am sharing a healthy sweet on this special day, Oats Sweet Pongal / Oats Sakkarai Pongal. Last year I shared Thinai Sakkarai Pongal / Millet Sweet Pongal and this year sweet Pongal using Oats. Oats Sweet Pongal is quicker and easier than the regular Sakkarai Pongal using Rice. I followed the Basic Sakkarai Pongal recipe and cooked it on stove top without pressure cooker method. Jaggery Paired well with Oats and the pongal turned out finger licking good. For all Oats Recipes lover this sweet pongal is a must try. I thoroughly enjoyed this delicious Pongal and even My kids loved it a lot.

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Thinai Paruppu Payasam / Thinai Payasam Recipe / Foxtail Millet Kheer Recipe

After a month break I am happy to be back with a healthy and delicious Payasam/Kheer recipe using Thinai / Foxtail millet. Due to some personal commitments i am unable to look after my blog baby for long time. And now i decided to spare some time for my blog too.
I prepared this Thinai Paruppu Payasam for Varalakshmi Pooja. Thinai / Foxtail Millet is one of my recent favorite millet and i have been trying more recipes with it. Instead of plain Millet payasam i added few moongdal/yellow lentils for extra richness and taste to the kheer.

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Thinai Sakkarai Pongal / Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal / Thinai Pongal

Happy Pongal / Makar Sankranti Wishes to all my readers, friends & family. I wanted to share some quick and healthy pongal for the occasion. So today tried this Thinai Sakkarai Pongal / Foxtail Millet Pongal. This is a healthy and good alternative for rice and tastes so delicious and filling.
Thinai/Foxtail millet is a very healthy, fiber rich grain that is good for growing kids, adults and aged people.
I did exactly like the way i do for Sakkarai Pongal using Pressure cooker except the addition on saffron.
I usually do not saffron to my sakarai pongal but this time for extra flavor and colour, i added few strands of saffron to my millet pongal. This is one easy and quick method. Here you go..

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Pachai Payir Vella Sundal / Vella Sundal / Whole Moong Sweet Sundal - Navarathri Recipes

Today being Friday and also tomorrow Navarathri (in India it started today) i wanted to share this Vella Sundal / Pachai Payir Vella Sundal. This Vella Sundal is one of the recipe which is prepared on any one of the nine days as Nivedyam. My neighbor maamis also give this sweet sundal as Prasadham on one of the Nine Days when we visit their Home to see Golu. I would like to watch their Golu on all nine days, each day they decorate the Golu differently. Though my mom make this Vella Sundal during Ayutha Pooja or Vinayagar Chathurthi i love the sundal which is made by my Neighbor maamis during Navarathri. Dunno the reason but i love Maami's Sundals or Kozhukattais more than my mom's recipe.

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Modhagam / Thengai Ellu Poorna Kozhukattai / Sweet Kozhukattai

Today's recipe is Lord Ganesha's favorite sweet, Modhagam / Sweet Kozhukattai for final of Blogging Marathon under the theme, Vinayagar Chaturthi Special. My Grand pa used to say more stories about God(purana kathaigal) n i remember the one about Lord Ganesha. In that story, He told about the birth n power of Lord Ganesha. Of that entire story, Ganesha's childhood part is my favorite, hope its favorite of many of u rt?! I loved the recent movie about the childhood part, Bal Ganesh. In that movie also they have shown like Lord Ganesha love lots of Modhagam n he eats more n more and thus he got such fat body :) That's y we offer this Modhagam to Ganesha on Vinayagar Chaturthi, so that Lord will be more happy by our offering and Bless us with all our needs. These are all small believes n it does not necessary to offer something to God to get his blessings. Simply a whole hearted Prayer n strong belief makes our life peace n happy. May Lord Ganesha gives u all happiness n peace.

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Rava Laddu / Rava Ladoo

Hi Friends
Happy Krishna Jayanthi wishes!!!...
Along with that I am happy to share that i got my own domain,www.spicytreats.net, Thanks for your support n encouragement and hope you will continue the same in the future also.
Because of my health issues i am unable to post for the past few weeks n now i am doing good and am back :) Wanted to start with a sweet recipe, and i chosen Rava Laddu. Rava Laddu is a simple n quick Indian sweet. And its one of the easiest neivedyam too. Yes, u can make this rava laddu within 15 minutes and offer God as Prasadham. I am not much fond of this sweet but my kids n H love this a lot. This is my friend's recipe and i made this for the first time and it came out really good n tasted so delicious. Now to the recipe...

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Poornam Boorelu With Chickpeas ~ Low Calorie Version!

Hi Folks,Hope you all enjoyed your weekend n buddies Here in US still in the holiday mood rt?! due to Memorial day- holiday!! Actually we planned for a trip to enjoy this long weekend but from Friday i caught with cold n Flu suffered with severe body ache. So all our plan was dropped ok we planned again next month :) Today i am feeling much better.
For Day 6, under the theme Pick One Cook All with my star Ingredient, "Chickpeas/Channa" here comes a Sweet recipe, Poornam Boorelu with Chickpeas. Poornam Boorelu is a traditional Andhra Recipe which is done with channa dal and deep fried with urad dal batter. I replaced channa dal with chickpeas and instead of deep frying i used my Paniyaram Pan to fry them. I love anything with jaggery in any form. I just love this version a lot n my kids too. Urad dal n Jaggery n Chickpeas are well know for its nutrients n vitamins n iron contents so without spoiling its health factor i simply made this delicious sweet in Paniyaram Pan as low calorie guilt free sweet. Hope u too like it and do try this at home and enjoy! Now to the recipe...

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