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HONEY CANDY (THEN MITTAI)

Hi All, My sweet bonda and then mittai recipe are both similar but only the ratio changes. I love then mittai right from childhood days and even now it is my favorite. I was trying to make it and after a few unsuccessful attempts now I made it. The simple healthy Then Mittai recipe is below,  Servings : 5 members. INGREDIENTS : Raw rice – 1 cup. Urad dal – 1/4 cup. Orange food colour – a pinch. Sugar – 1 cup Water – 1 1/2 cup. Oil – for deep frying. Sugar powder – 1 cup. METHOD : Soak rice and urad dal together for 4 hours. Grind them to fine paste without water.  The batter consistency should be like ulunthuvadai maavu consistency. Boil sugar and water to one string consistency and keep it warm.Add a pinch of orange food colour to sugar syrup too. Now add food colour to batter and mix well. Heat oil in wide pan and when oil is hot enough, drop a tsp if batter to oil. You can use either spoon or han

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WARM WATER CHAPATI / BEGINNER GUIDE FOR SOFT CHAPATI

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KADAMBA / KANAVA MASALA /SQUID FISH CURRY

Hi, Sea has lot of creatures in it that we can cook and we were much more unaware of many . Squid fish is one among the yummy species which I was totally unaware even after coming to Chennai.One day in market I saw them and surprised that they are selling octopus ( it looked like that to me :)). Then I surfed in net and found actually they are squid ( kadamba / kanava) and not octopus , My friend Saranya cooked this gravy for us during her visit to our home .I copied the recipe from her and tried next week itself.Though the squid fish looks very weird the taste was so yummy and there is no fish odor in that.It just tasted like mutton. The cleaning part is little tricky but easy, I suggest once you finished cleaning dispose the waste immediately out of your house as the waste from squid fish is very smelly and also it starts leaving water .So dispose the waste of squid as quick as possible. Other than that the fish tastes heaven , spicy, yummy and very easy to cook. I have