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                                                Wish You All a Happy New Year 2013 Spritz cookies are cute little cookies made by using a cookie press with different shapes and often called as pressed cookies.I got this recipe from the cookie press recipe booklet. The original recipe is with egg but as I always prefer to make eggless version so used corn starch and baking soda to substitute the egg.The cookies came out delicious and crunchy. These cookies can be eaten as such or decorate with sprinkles,jelly, royal icing,colored sugar to make it pretty for the holiday season. I made these cookies for my son's holiday party in his school and packed the Christmas theme shapes such as Christmas tree,candy cane,only 15 cookies were left to take the pictures. If you want to make the cookies using egg use an egg for the given measurement,here is the recipe......... Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Butter/Vennai(at room temperature) 1/2cup(1 stick) Granulated sugar

For the final day of BM#23 I made spicy version of murukku with the cooked urad dhal and rice flour.I have already posted the Diwali Muruku or Thenkuzhal Paasiparuppu(moong dhal) murukku .But this is a slightly spicy version of murruku and my mom learnt it from her neighbor.Here goes the recipe for crunchy murukku.......... Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Rice flour/arisi maavu 2cups Whole urad dhal/ullutham paruppu 1/2cup Chilly powder/milagai podi 1tsp Cumin seeds/jeeragam 1tsp Asafoetida 1/8tsp Butter 2tbs Salt to taste Oil for frying Method Pressure cook the urad dhal for 2-3 whistles with 11/2ups of water.Blend the cooked urad dhal in a blender to a fine paste and keep aside. Take a wide mouth bowl and add rice flour,ground urad dhal,butter,chilly powder,salt,asafoetida,cumin seeds.Mix it well and sprinkle water little by little and make a soft dough. Mean while heat a pan with oil,fill the murruku press with the prepared dough using the 3

Today's recipe under traditional dishes for blogging Marathon#23 is Chivda a guilt free snack.This tea time snack is made with rice flakes(aval) which is popular in North India.We make the similar version of chivda with the puffed rice and follwed the same procedure. This chivda can be made with both thin and thick variety of poha,today I used the thick variety.Now on to the recipe....... Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Thick Poha/rice flakes/aval 1cup Peanuts/verkadalai 1/4cup Roasted gram dhal/pottukadalai 1/4cup Cashews/mundidri paruppu 2tbs(broken) Fresh Coconut Pieces 2tbs Green Chilly(finely chopped) 2nos. Curry leaves/karivepillai 2sprigs Red chilly powder/milagai podi 1/2-1tsp Turmeric powder/manjal podi 1/4tsp Sugar 1/2tsp Salt 1/2tsp Oil 2tsp Method Dry roast the poha/aval in pan in a medium flame till it becomes crisp and set it aside. Heat a wide mouth pan with the oil,fry the coconut pieces,green chilly and curry leaves till it turns

Today is the 4th week of blogging marathon#23 and I will be blogging under the traditional dishes. Karanji is a sweet which is popular in Maharastra whereas it is named as sweet somas or karchikai in TamilNadu and Kajjikayalu in Andhra.The shape of making the sweet is same and varoius kinds of stuffing is used in each part of the state. Coming to today's recipe,it  is a simple and easy to make stuffing with the basic ingredients and the stuffing can be made in advance. This sweet is one of my child hood favorite and my paternal grandmother is an expert in making this sweet.Whenever she used to visit us she brought this sweet and used a special gadget called somas karandi(spoon) to trim the edges.As I don't have that one, used the pizza cutter to trim the edge and pressed with the fork to get the decorative edge.Here is the recipe................ Ingredients For the outer covering Ingredient Quantity All purpose flour/Maida 1cup Semolina/rava 11/2tbs Ghee 2tbs S

Suji cookies are mouth melting cookies which is very popular in Malaysia.I have bookmarked these cookies from Uma's Kitchen Experiments which she adapted from Fun wid Food . I bookmarked this long time back and didn't get a chance to make these yummy cookies.Last week when I got a mail from Hubby dear's office for a baking competition,without any second thought I baked these delicious cookies.It came out very nice and mouth melting with the flavor of ghee.Now on to the recipe.................. Ingredients Ingredient Quantity All Purpose Flour/maida 1cup Ghee/clarified butter/nei 1/2cup Icing sugar 1/2cup Roasted ground almond 1/2cup Baking powder 1/2tsp Baking soda 1/2tsp Salt 1/8tsp Vanilla Extract 1/2tsp Food Color(pink,yellow,blue) few drops Caster sugar for coating the cookies Method                            Mix all purpose flour,salt,baking soda and powder,sift it.To this add the icing sugar. Then add the almond powder,ghee and