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Wish you all a very merry Christmas! This is my 75th post in My Scrawls I wanted to try something sweet to celebrate the occasion. Dear reader Chitra had asked me about this recipe. She had kindled my taste buds and I wanted to taste it very badly! Why not celebrate the 75th post with sweet hayagreeva…. So tried the recipe and it came out great! Sharing it with you all

Hayagreeva Muddi

Ingredients:

Kadalai paruppu (Bengal gram): 200 gms
Jaggery: 300 gms
Khus khus (poppy seeds): 3-4 tsps
Copra (desiccated coconut): 50 gms
Cashews: few
Cardamom powder: 1/2 tsp

Preparation Method:

• Pressure cook kadalai paruppu and drain the water completely.
• Dry fry poppy seeds till the raw smell goes off.
• Cut copra in to small pieces.
• Mix jaggery in 1/2 cup water and allow it to boil.
• Add cooked paruppu, poppy seeds, coconut to the boiling jaggery syrup.
• Mix well and remove from the stove top.
• Fry cashews in ghee.
• Add the fried cashews and cardamom powder to the hayagriva.
• Serve hot or cold.

Anu's Kitchen hayagreeva mandi, hayagriva muddi, hayagriva sweet recipe

Belated Karthigai Deepam wishes to all. Thirukarthigai has always been very special to me. I love this festival of lights! I take immense pleasure in decorating our house with kolams and vilakkus. This year, the fun of this festival doubled, as Anna (my dad) celebrated his 60th birthday with his newborn grandson. I baked vanilla cake (Dad is not a fan of chocolates). Both mom and dad loved this special treat.

Eggless vanilla Cake

Ingredients:

Butter: 1/2 cup
Cooking oil: 1/2 cup
Maida: 2 cups
Baking powder: 2 tsps
Sugar: 1 cup
Vanilla essence: 2 tsps
Milk: 1/2 cup

Preparation Method:

• Melt butter.
• Add sugar and vanilla essence to the butter and mix well.
• Sieve maida and baking powder.
• Add the flour mixture with butter, oil and mix well by adding milk.
• Preheat the oven to 450F.
• Transfer the dough into baking dish and bake the cake at 450F for 20 mins or till its done.

Anu's Kitchen Annamalai Deepam, Eggless vanilla cake, Karthigai deepam