Payasam plays an important role in South Indian Cuisine and any feast is incomplete without them. The rich, creamy payasams with delectable taste makes our celebrations remarkable. Here, ‘Oats Semiya Payasam / Kheer‘ is an interesting variation of the traditional South Indian ‘Paal Payasam’ made using oats and vermicelli.
How to make Oats Semiya Payasam | Kheer?
Just like Paal Payasam, the core ingredient is milk in this recipe. Instead of rice, I have used rolled oats and roasted Semiya, that are slowly cooked in milk with sugar to get a thick creamy texture with subtle caramelized taste in the Oats Semiyakheer. It tastes good without any garnishing too. But I have added roasted dry fruits and elaichi powder for flavour. A great option for bhog or neivedhyam during poojas or festivals like Navratri, Janmashtami and more.
Ingredients
Full Cream Milk – 2 ltrs
Semiya – 1/4 cup, roasted
Oats – 1/4 cup
Sugar -1/2 cup (or as per taste)
Cashew – 5 or 6, broken into pieces
Raisins – 10 to 15
Elaichi Powder – 1/4 tsp
Ghee – 1 tbsp
Method
Roast semiya, oats, cashews, raisins in ghee separately. Keep them aside.
In a heavy bottomed kadai or vessel, boil and condense milk to half the quantity.
Add roasted semiya, oats and simmer for few mins for it to get cooked well.
Add sugar and mix well. Keep scraping the sides of the vessel to mix the malai collected on the sides with the kheer. At this point, the kheer gets even more condensed.
Add cashews, raisins, elaichi powder and mix well.
An interesting twist in the regular samosa recipe… A perfect crowd pleaser in your get-together / kid’s parties… Satisfies your sudden cravings for delectable snacks in the evenings.
How to prepare Pinwheel Samosa?
Extremely easy to prepare…Saves your time in folding and shaping the dough as in the usual version…It’s just rolling the dough, stuffing the filling, cutting into slices and deep frying…as Simple as that… Here, I have used the usual potato stuffing but you can fill with any stuffing as per your choice.
Roll out a large lemon-sized dough into an oval shaped roti of about 1/2 mm thickness.
Spread the potato stuffing evenly on the roti leaving just about 1/2-inch space at the corners.
Roll the roti tightly from one end to another and slice it into 1-inch rounds/pinwheels.
Mix 1 tbsp of all-purpose flour with enough water and make a thick paste. Gently dip the pinwheels in all-purpose flour paste so that the stuffing stays intact.
Heat oil in a kadai and deep fry the pinwheels till golden in colour.
Drain them in kitchen towel to remove excess oil if any.
Serve pinwheel samosas hot with any chutney or sauce of your choice.
Notes
Increase or decrease the spiciness as per your taste.
You can substitute all-purpose flour with whole wheat flour too. In that case, add little bit more oil in the dough to make it crispy.
As the name suggests, ‘Butter Idly’ is flavourful, fluffier and softer than the usual idly. The interesting twist in the recipe is using butter in place of urad dal that takes the taste and texture of idly one step higher.
Though the debate on the goodness of butter is on over many decades, I always believe that moderate usage of butter on a daily basis adds on to the health quotient while considerably enhancing the taste of the recipes.
How to make Butter Idly?
Here is the simple idly recipe with butter that makes you indulge in spongy, jasmine-like white idly.
Ingredients
Idly Rice – 3 cups
Poha – 2 cups
Butter – 3/4 cup
Methi Seeds – 2 tbsp
Curd – 1/2 cup
Salt to taste
Method
Soak idly rice and methi seeds separately for 4 – 5 hrs.
Soak poha for just 12 hr before you start grinding the batter.
First grind the soaked methi into a smooth paste with little amount of water.
To that add soaked rice, poha and grind it into a fine batter.
The consistency of the batter should be medium, neither too thin nor too thick.
Add butter, curd, salt to the batter and grind it for a minute.
Once the butter gets incorporated well with the batter, switch off the grinder.
Transfer the batter into a large container that has enough space to contain the fermented, doubled up batter.
Keep it covered on the kitchen top or at any warm place for 10-12 hrs for fermentation.
Once the batter is fermented, mix well and prepare idly by steaming it for 7-8 mins.
Serve hot with any spicy or tangy chutney of your choice.
Notes
Batter grounded in the wet grinder yields good quantity and also, the idly comes out fluffier. However, you can opt for mixer grinder also but take care not to run it continuously for a longer time while grinding. If the jar gets heated up, the batter inside gets cooked up slightly and that completely alters the process of making soft fluffy idly.
If the batter is not fermented properly due to cold weather, add 1/2 tsp of ENO fruit salt to 2 cups of batter and prepare idly.
In this a no-fuss laddu recipe, I have used Organic Raw Chia Seeds from Lvya that are rich in Omega-3 & Omega-6 essential fatty acids, protein and dietary fiber with antioxidant properties.
I have roasted the almonds to enhance their flavour and crunchiness. Dates and raisins are used for sweetening the dessert. They also add to the health quotient of the recipe and act as a good binding agent while shaping laddus. Chia seeds can be used raw and gets powdered well along with badams.
Ingredients
Almonds/Badams – 1/4 cup
LYVA’s Organic Chia Seeds – 1/4 cup
Raisins/Kishmish – 1/8 cup, finely chopped
Dates – 4 nos deseeded, finely chopped
Elaichi Powder – a pinch
Method
Dry roast badams in medium flame and keep tossing them to avoid burning. Roast till they emit nice aroma and are light golden in colour. You can also blanch and peel badams before roasting as per your preferences.
In a mixer jar, add badams and chia seeds together and pulse them into a coarse powder.
Add finely chopped dates, raisins and elaichi powder. Pulse till the ingredients get mixed well and form a dough-like consistency.
Divide the dough into equal parts and shape them into laddus.
These badam chia seeds laddus stays good for about 10 days at room temperature.
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