SAGO KHICHDI (SABUT DANA)

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS        

SAGO 

Sago 1 cup

Mustard seeds 1 tsp

Potato chopped 1 small

Peanuts 2 tbsp

Curry leaves 7 or 8

Green chilly 1 slit 

Sea salt as per taste

Red chilly powder 1/2 tsp

Oil 1 tbsp

METHOD

Soak the sago with 4 cups of water overnight. Drain the excess water and take the sago out in a strainer to get rid of all the water. Let it dry a little.

In a pan add oil and let it heat, then add the mustard seeds let crackle. Add the chopped potato and cover with a lid for 3 - 4 minutes. Check if the potato is cooked.

Then add the curry leaves, green chilly and peanuts. Add the sago, salt and red chilly powder, cook for a minute. Mix well and serve hot. 

SOOJI HALWA

This is an Indian sweet dish made in clarified butter(GHEE). Very popular during the navratri or and other religious festivals.

Preparation Time 20 mins

Serves 4

SOOJI HALWA SERVED WITH POORI & CHANA

INGREDIENTS

Ghee (Clarified Butter) 1/2 cup 

Sooji (Semolina) 1 cup

Sugar 1 Cup

Water 4 Cups

Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp(Optional) 

GARNISHING

Few chopped almonds 

METHOD

Take a pan. Add ghee & sooji and saute on low flame until it turns golden brown in colour.

Take another pan, Add sugar & water & cardamom.Keep it on full flame until the sugar gets completely dissolved.

Now add this sugar syrup to roasted suji & keep it on gas for 3 min until the water is absorbed by the suji.

Now Halwa is ready to eat.Garnish it with almonds.Serve Hot as a sweet dish or with Poori and Chana.