Sesame, Jaggery Poli/Til Poli/Ellu Holige/Ellu Poli

Sesame jaggery poli is one of the traditional sweet dish many of the South Indians prepare during every bhogi festival. You all know that Pongal, this famous harvest festival calls for 4 days celebration and the first day celebration starts with Bhogi festival, to celebrate this day my grandma makes usually poli, a kind of stuffed sweet flatbread prepared either with channadal filling or else with sesame jaggery filling. One of the delicious and our favourite poli always goes for channadal filled sweet poli though this sesame, jaggery, coconut filling is also our family favourite. Eventhough i make this nutritious flatbread often for neivedhayam or for evening snacks am yet to post it in my space.

Broccoli Black Urad Dal Vadai/ Broccoli Karuppu Ulundhu Vadai

For Pongal festival, i couldnt stop myself making some healthy vadas, yes after making barnyard millet sweet pongal, i simply fried this black urad dal vadais. Usually if its a festival, we usually prepare a feast at home. Though Pongal was a working day for us, i prepared a simple, healthy foods before leaving to my work.One among those healthy foods is this broccoli, black urad dal medhu vadai. Yes you read it rite, i simply added some finely chopped broccoli to the black urad dal batter. The addition of broccoli makes this medhu vadais more interesting and very healthy as well. Trust me, whoever hate broccoli to the core will definitely enjoy thoroughly this crispy and very delicious vadais.

Barnyard Millet Sweet Pongal/Kuthiravali Sakkarai Pongal

Millets, this healthy small grains are excellent to cook varieties of dishes with it. These grains are seriously versatile and you can dish out many droolworthy foods. From desserts to main dishes, millets works awesome. I have tried couple of dishes with millets though i have many to cook. Sweet pongal is my all time favourite, usually rice and dal cooked together along with cardamom,sugar or jaggery syrup tempered with ghee and cashew nuts makes this ultimate sweet dish. Pongal is one of the popular harvest festival celebrated in Tamilnadu. Sweet pongal is a neivedhyam offered to Sun god during this auspicious day. Since i want to give a healthy twist to this usual sweet pongal, i prepared this ultimate dish with Barnyard millet aka Kuthiravali.