Topic started by Skanthavelu Nadarajah (@ edtntnt2-port-47.dial.telus.net) on Sat May 25 18:10:48 .
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Does anyone have any recipes for laTTu or pongal (hot as well as sweet) they can provide me with?
I really like these two sweets and would like to prepare them sometime. Thank you!

Responses:

• From: Chitra (@ sdn-ap-021txhousp0787.dialsprint.net) on: Sun May 26 00:22:49
  
  How to make Ladoos:
  
  Ingredients to make bundies:
  You need a sieved pan with a long handle to make bundies. When you pour the batter inside this container the holes on this container should make little round bundies.
  Besan flour 3 cups
  Salt a pinch
  Baking Soda a pinch
  Water 1 ¼ to 1 1/3 cups
  Yellow food coloring a few drops
  Peanut oil for deep frying the bundies
  
  Ghee 3 tablespoons
  Raisins 2 ½ tablespoons
  Cashew nuts sliced ½ cup
  
  Sugar syrup:
  Sugar 3 cups
  Water approximately ¾ cup
  
  To make bundies:
  In a bowl combine besan flour, salt and baking soda. To this add water little at a time and beat until the batter becomes light and smooth. The consistency of the batter should be a little thinner than pancake batter. Add a few drops of yellow food coloring to this batter and mix well.
  Pour the peanut oil in a deep fryer to a depth of 3 to 4 inches. Heat it up in a medium flame. Place a drop of batter in the heated oil and see whether it forms a bundi. If so the oil has reached the correct temperature. Now hold the sieved pan over the heated oil and pour a ladleful of batter inside the sieved pan. Rub the batter through the holes with your fingers. Batter will fall into the oil and form small bundies. Let them fry for a minute. Now stir them continuously and fry them for two more minutes over medium highheat to a somewhat crispy consistency. When done scoop them out of the oil and drain them on a paper towel. Repeat the whole process until all the batter is used up.
  
  Take a small pan and heat ghee in it. Fry raisins for a minute or until they pop up. Remove them with a slotted spoon and drain them on a paper towel. Likewise add the cashew nuts and fry them for a minute and scoop them out and drain them on a paper towel.
  
  Sugar syrup:
  To make sugar syrup of one thread consistency:
  Take a heavy bottomed container, large enough to hold the whole batch of bundies. To this add the sugar and slowly add water until the sugar is completely wet with no extra water on top of the sugar. Slowly heat this up, stirring continuously. The sugar will start melting and then it will begin to boil. Let it boil for 2 minutes. Now is the time to test the consistency of the sugar syrup. Take the stirring spoon out of the syrup and touch it with your index finger. Now touch your thumb with the sugar syrup coated index finer and release the fingers to see whether this forms a thread of one strand consistency between the thumb and the index finger. If so the syrup is ready. Remove the container from the stovetop and quickly add in fried bundies, raisins and cashew nuts and mix them well. Add powdered cardamom to this and mash some of the bundies with the back of the spoon to break them up. This will help to bind the mixture while making ladoos.
  You can let the mixture cool down a bit before shaping them into round ladoos. Grease your fingers with ghee, and then you take a small quantity of the bundies that is soaked inside the syrup and press them hard to shape them into small round ladoos. This will yield about 25 to 30 ladoos. Let them cool completely before storing them in an airtight glass container.
  
  
• From: Skanthavelu Nadarajah (@ edtntnt10-port-110.dial.telus.net) on: Sun May 26 07:44:33
  
  What are bundies?
  
  
• From: Chitra (@ sdn-ap-009txhousp1458.dialsprint.net) on: Sun May 26 09:57:31
  
  Bundies are the small round crispy item made from the besan flour. Bundies are made by letting the besan flour maavu fall into the heated oil through a sieved pan. Finally ladoo is made by pressing together many bundies soaked in sugar syrup. Hope this explanation helps.
  
  
• From: Skanthavelu Nadarajah (@ edtntnt4-port-58.dial.telus.net) on: Sun May 26 20:37:22
  
  Now, how are sweet pongal and hot pongal made?
  
  
• From: Skanthavelu Nadarajah (@ edtntnt5-port-17.dial.telus.net) on: Wed May 29 08:12:20
  
  Hello, can someone tell me how sweet pongal and hot pongal are made? nanRi.
  
  

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