Diwali Special: Laayi Pitte Undo ( Popped Paddy Sugariness Balls)

Diwali or Deepavali agency row of lights. It is also known every bit the "festival of lights worldwide. It is celebrated on the New Luna twenty-four hours of the calendar month of Kartik. Deepavali is spread over 4 days starting with the 13th twenty-four hours of Krishna Paksha or minute or black fortnight of the month. It is associated with many episodes from the Hindu holy books similar Ramayana together with Mahabharata.All iv days are celebrated past times making a multifariousness to sweets together with savories, exchanging it with friends together with family, lighting rows of fossil oil together with wick lamps together with bursting firecrackers.

We Mangalorean konkanis ( GSB) celebrate it for 4 days:

Day 1- 21 st Oct 2014: Dhana-trayodahsi, Jala pooje( H2O pooja), thaila bhanga:
Homes are cleaned, with special emphasis on the bathrooms where the "bhana" ( the huge copper pot inwards which bathing H2O is heated) is cleaned, decorated with rangoli designs together with flowers. Little boys ( manful individual kids)are given fossil oil massage together with bath together with interestingly fish dishes ( both fried together with curried) are cooked for dinner.

Day two -22 nd October,2014: Naraka Chaturdashi : This is the twenty-four hours prior to Deepavali is called Naraka chaturdashi.This is inwards commemoration of Lord Krishna along with Satyabhama killing a wicked Asura past times advert Narakasura on the eventide of Diwali.On this twenty-four hours grown men are given fossil oil massage together with bath together with the traditional offering to God, godu phovu is made.

Day 3- 23rd October,2014: Diwali together with Dhanalakshmi Pooja:
The Deepawali Day is celebrated with Dhanalakshmi Puja. People who ain golden shops perform puja inwards the shops.
The Deepawali Day is believed to hold upwards the twenty-four hours on which Lord Rama, Sita together with Lakshman returned to Ayodhya from Lanka. Being black dark (Amavasya or No Luna day), the black earlier novel Luna day) they were greeted past times lighting hundreds of clay lamps. This gives the festival the advert of Deepawali.

Laxmi Puja is also celebrated on this together with reflects the fact that this is a fourth dimension of harvest. Traditionally, the fourth dimension of harvest is a fourth dimension of prosperity. According to myth, Laxmi Puja is performed on the twenty-four hours when Goddess Laxmi emerged from Kshira Sagara piece the churning of Amrutha Madhanam.

Day 4- 24th October, 2014: Govardhan Puja / Angadi Pooja/ Balindra puja.

The twenty-four hours later Deepawali is celebrated every bit Govardhana Puja together with Angadi Pooja. The shopkeepers celebrate this with a puja inwards their shop, inviting people over together with giving out goodies.

The twenty-four hours later Deepawali is also celebrated every bit Govardhana Puja. The sacred colina of Govardhan, virtually Mathura together with Kamadhenu (the cosmic cow) which are connected with Lord Krishna are worshipped. Krishna lifted upwards the Govardhan mount together with held it similar an umbrella, nether which people together with animals took shelter from the relentless rain. Once the pelting subdued, the people gathered roughly the colina together with had a keen feast. This festival is particularly pop with the devotees of Bala Krishna.

One of my favorite laddoos made during festivals is the laayi undo. This is made using popped paddy powder.

Just similar you lot cause got popped corn, you lot cause got popped paddy. The powdered version of this is used to brand this laddoo. It is real tasty, calorie-free together with versatile plenty to hold upwards modified to private tastes; for eg: you lot could add together squash together with poly peptide hold upwards adding bits of nuts similar peanuts together with cashewnuts. You tin john fifty-fifty add together shev( fried crispy noodle pieces). It is uncomplicated together with slow to brand together with tasty to eat! I am bringing this to Angie's Fiesta Friday! It is her birthday together with you lot cannot become to someone's birthday political party empty-handed!

Servings: makes 10- xv medium-sized laddoos ( balls).

Ingredients:

Sticky Jaggery( anta god): 1cup
Laayi pitto ( popped paddy powder): two cups
Peanut halves: two tbsp,
Cashewnut pieces: 1 tbsp,
Cardamom powder: 1/4 tsp
Water: 4 tbsp
Ghee/ butter: for greasing the palms

Method:

Heat jaggery together with H2O inwards a pot until the jaggery is completely melted together with liquid. Now plow off the heat, permit it settle for five mins. Gently pour the molten jaggery into a thick-bottomed pot, leaving behind whatever sandy residue.

Dry roast the cashew nut pieces together with peanuts together with piece of employment on aside.

Heat the molten jaggery on medium flame until it thickens together with is glutinous when attempting to alternative to pour from a spoon. We telephone phone it the "string" consistency, which agency if you lot cause got a driblet betwixt your index finger together with thumb, you lot should hold upwards able to encounter a string of jaggery when you lot line your fingers away from each other.

Now mix inwards the laayi pitto ( popped paddy powder), the nuts together with cardamom powder. Mix good .

Grease your palms with butter/ghee. Take a tablespoonful of the hot jaggery-popped paddy mixture together with shape it into balls of desired size.

If the mixture cools down, you lot volition non hold upwards able to shape it into balls. Do non squeeze the balls hard every bit they volition larn fifty-fifty harder upon cooling down, making it hard to eat!

Store inwards an air-tight container.
Stays fresh at room-temperature for upto a month.

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

Most oftentimes jaggery has sand/ dirt residues inwards it. Melting it, letting it settle downward together with and therefore transferring the jaggery to some other pot helps larn rid of this sand.

Ensure that the jaggery is cooked on a thick-bottomed vessel on a depression flame every bit it is real slow to give notice the jaggery!

Tip for good for you lot living:

Having a fossil oil massage on the caput non solely helps rejuvenate pilus together with assistance it grow, it is also a keen stress-buster together with calms the body.

Food for thought:

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love. Ovid