Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa
Wish you & your family, a very happy & prosperous New year 2008. Hope your dreams come true this year and bring more colors to your life.
Life is short, so live it Big.
So, the events of the day goes like this. I got up too early today, it should be 5:15 AM i guess. The main reason was the ayyappa bajan in india. I wanted to join with other friends on mine and hear it. We all were conferencing to india and hearing the bajan for around 2 & 1/2 hours. It was kinda refreshing after that. Since my trip to temple was preplanned, i didn't want to miss it either. Started at around 8:45, reached temple at 10:00, came back home by 12:15.
Started to prepare Aravana payasam. This time i wanted to be really very careful. In 2006 when i tried my hand, the whole thing god solidified to an extent that i had to break it, in order to eat it.
Aravan Payasam - Recipe & method
1 cup rice - cooked it with less amount of water [usually for rice to cook, we do a 1:2 ratio of water, i.e 2 cups of water per cup of rice, in case of this i used 1.5 cups of water]
take 3 cups of jaggery, add a cup of water to jaggery and heat it till the jaggery melts. Keep stirring. Once the jaggery is completely liquified, add the cooked rice to it. and immediately ad a spoon full of ghee.
Keep stirring till the mix till the jaggery & rice get gelled together.
Roast cachews & coconut[if available] in a spoon ghee and pour it over the mix. Add some elachi powder, chukku [if available] & diamond kalkandu. Let it cool.
Guessing why i am giving the recipe? Yeah right, this time, it came out really well. Kudos to me!
The rest of the day went on with watching some movies & reading a novel. Of course, i miss my home during such occasions !
Once again, a happy new year to all you people.
Wish you & your family, a very happy & prosperous New year 2008. Hope your dreams come true this year and bring more colors to your life.
Life is short, so live it Big.
So, the events of the day goes like this. I got up too early today, it should be 5:15 AM i guess. The main reason was the ayyappa bajan in india. I wanted to join with other friends on mine and hear it. We all were conferencing to india and hearing the bajan for around 2 & 1/2 hours. It was kinda refreshing after that. Since my trip to temple was preplanned, i didn't want to miss it either. Started at around 8:45, reached temple at 10:00, came back home by 12:15.
Started to prepare Aravana payasam. This time i wanted to be really very careful. In 2006 when i tried my hand, the whole thing god solidified to an extent that i had to break it, in order to eat it.
Aravan Payasam - Recipe & method
1 cup rice - cooked it with less amount of water [usually for rice to cook, we do a 1:2 ratio of water, i.e 2 cups of water per cup of rice, in case of this i used 1.5 cups of water]
take 3 cups of jaggery, add a cup of water to jaggery and heat it till the jaggery melts. Keep stirring. Once the jaggery is completely liquified, add the cooked rice to it. and immediately ad a spoon full of ghee.
Keep stirring till the mix till the jaggery & rice get gelled together.
Roast cachews & coconut[if available] in a spoon ghee and pour it over the mix. Add some elachi powder, chukku [if available] & diamond kalkandu. Let it cool.
Guessing why i am giving the recipe? Yeah right, this time, it came out really well. Kudos to me!
The rest of the day went on with watching some movies & reading a novel. Of course, i miss my home during such occasions !
Once again, a happy new year to all you people.
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