Karchikai or Karanji

Karchi kayi or karchekayi is a typical sweet that we prepare for many festivals. There are two variations – dry and one with wet coconut stuffing. This one has three variations of the dry variety.
Ingredients:
For the outer cover
2 cups maida , 2 Tea spoons veg oil, pinch of salt  
For the stuffing

Type I

1 cup powdered sugar, [...]

Makhmal Puri

Makhman puri is Prabha attewaree’s specialty. Every raksha bandhan especially, she’ll make yummy makhmal puris and get them home, tie a rakhi to my daddy and then we all feast on the yummy sweet that literally melts in our mouths!
Ingredients:
For the outer cover
2 cups maida , 2 Tea spoons veg oil, pinch of salt  
For the [...]

Surali Holige

This is surali holige and this can be kept for a month and used as sweet snack.
Ingredients:
Maida flour 200 grams. Chiroti rawa(very fine sooji ) 50 grams, pinch of salt , 1 table spoon vegetable  oil and water for making the covering to wrap the stuffing.(Let us call this A)
Phutani (roasted gram) powder 200 grams, [...]

Yellu Holige

This is similar category to the posts above.
Ingredients
For the stuffing (Lets call this A – can you sense the doctorates in chemistry doing this )
White sesame seeds 100 grams, jaggery or brown sugar 100 grams,  gram (besan) flour 50 grams and khas khas 25 grams , cardamom powder 1 tea spoon
For the cover (Let us call [...]

Yenni Holige

This is another really tasty snack..I am trying to find out what is the word for Nevanakki in English. Also if we get it outside India . If any of you know, please let me know.
 Ingredients
Maida 150 grams, Bombay Rawa (fine sooji) 50 grams, pinch of salt, two tablespoons of oil, Nevanakki (Nevani in [...]

Senga Holige

Shenga Holige is another of my favourite recipes. This can also be stored for a long time. We usually make these for Sankranti. My grandfather loved to take us out for a picnic near a place where there is water on this day. We used to pack up yummy Sajji rottis, chutneys, curd rice, crisp [...]

Hesar Undi

Hesar laddu or moong flour laddu is another of my favourites. The preparation process is exactly similar to the preparation of besan laddu. Btw, today my dad called it Amar, Akbar, Anthony day!! Coz today is Holi, Eid and Easter!! Enjoy y’all
Ingredients:
3 cups moong (hesar) flour, 2 cups powdered sugar, 1 ½ cup ghee,  1 [...]

Shevin Undi

Shevin undi or dani undi is laddu made out of bhujia – thin or thick shev. This is one of my favourite undis.
Ingredients:
Plain thin shev made out of gram(besan) flour 500 g, brown sugar or jaggery 400 g, 1 tablespoon ghee, water
Process:

Preparation of the brown sugar syrup – Heat brown sugar by adding 1 cup [...]

Shenga Undi

Shenga Undi is basically laddus made of peanuts. This used to be one of the five laddus that my mom made during Nagara Panchami. Laddus, new dresses, bangles and swings – that is what we had during Naga Panchami. We used to bathe a mud and silver Nagappa with milk and eat the yummy snacks [...]

Churmari Undi

Churmari undi are laddus made of popped rice or murmura.
Ingredients:
Popped rice (Churmari or murmura) – 4 cups, brown sugar or jaggery – 1 ½ cups, roasted gram flour (Puthani flour) ½ cup
Process:

Preparation of the brown sugar syrup – heat brown sugar by adding ½  cup water and 1 spoon of ghee to prepare a syrup (2 [...]