ohm podi

Recipe tried in 2026 for diwali:

rice flour - use store bought - do not need processed rice flour

besan flour: rice flour = 3:1

Ohm - 1 tbsp roasted, ground and mixed with hot water and filtered with tea filter.

Besan flour - 2 cups sifted 

Rice flour - 2/3 cup sifted 

Salt - 1 tsp

Red chilli powder - 1 tsp

Turmeric powder - 0.5 tsp

Hing optional

Butter - 2 tbsp while butter in soft.

Mix the above. 

Add water and make a dough looser than chapati dough. 

Use idiyappam achu. Grease it with oil.

Fry in medium heat. 

maa ladoo pottukadalai ladoo

Pottukadalai  1 cup. 

Sugar powdered  - 0.5 cup 

Cardamom powder - 0.25 tsp

Ghee - 0.25 cup

Cashews - 10 pieces optional. Break then into small pieces

Optional - you can dry roast pottukadalai for 1 or 2 mins without changing color.

Kesari

Ghee and oil

Cashew and Raisins

Rava - 1 cup

Sugar - 1.5 cup

Hot Water - 4 cups

Cardamom powder - less than 0.5 tsp 

In ghee and oil, roast cashew and Raisins. Take it out. In the same pan, add some more ghee and oil if need be and roast rava.

Reduce the flame. Add hot water to the rava, stir it and break lumps. After sometime, jeep in Sim and cover with lid. After rava has cooked, add sugar. Once sugar melts, add cardamom powder, roasted cashew and Raisins. 

chickpeas salad

Boiled Chickpeas (light brown or dark brown) or boiled black eyed peas

Boiled quinoa

greens (like lettuce, spinach, arugula) - optional. Don't do greens for lunchbox it will become soggy.

Red bell pepper, cucumber, avocado, cilantro or coriander leaves.

1 tbsp each of the seeds and nuts listed - roasted peanuts, roasted pumpkin seeds, roasted sesame seeds, hemp hearts, sunflower seeds.

Lemon juice, salt, jeera powder, pepper.

kanji maavu

Equal proportions of the list of ingredients have to be dry roasted in a chatti till it splutters slightly , mixed & ground.

I buy 200 gms of each from Nilgiris.

Ragi

Javvarisi

Barley

Pottukadalai

Badam

Groundnuts

Green gram 

Chickpeas

Rajma

Vattanaa (white dried Pattani)

Saamai 

Kambu 

Bajra

Samba godhumai 

Soya beans

Puzhungal arisi

Elakkai optional

Mango salad

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arisi upma

Rice rava - 1.25 cup. NO need to dry roast it. 

Coconut - 0.25 cup optional.

3 tbsp - toor dal

1 tsp jeera

0.5 tsp Pepper.

pulse toor dal, jeera, pepper in mixie coarsely.

Take 3 times of rice rava as hot water with 1 tsp salt

In a small pan, add coconut oil, kadugu, kadala parupu, urad dal, red chilli, hing, curry leaves.

In a pip vessel, add rice rava, parupu, jeera, pepper, thalicha things, coconut, hot water with salt. In IP, pip low pressure 6 mins. 

When steam goes down. Fluff it.