Dry nuts Modka/Karigadbu

Ganesha festival's must-have is modka and karigadbu. It was mom's suggestion to make it healthier by adding dry nuts to the fillings. 

Here's a quick recipe of it...

Dough:

Maida: 2 bowls

Few spoons of ghee

Salt to taste

A pinch of soda

Water

Filling:

Dry nuts of ur choice: almond, pista, walnut: half bowl (coarsely powdered)

A handful of Raisins

Kadlepappu: powdered 3 spoons

Dried coconut gratings: 1 bowl

Sugar: 1 bowl

Elachi: 2-4 for added flavor

Frying:

Sufficient oil for frying

• Mix the filling ingredients together and keep it aside as shown in below picture. 
• Mix the dough by adding water and bring it to a consistency little harder than poori. 
• Make small balls and flatten them using a rolling pin(almost the size of poori).
• Fill the flattened dough with dry-nuts-filling and seal them to desired shape.
• Deep fry until they turn golden brown.

They are now ready to be served.

Teacher's Day

Ritvi's first Teacher's Day this is! She started her school (child care actually) around 8 months back.

Her teacher has helped her all this while... teaching new stuffs - be it in language, music, crafts, manners... indeed just a few to name. She has helped rikki craft wonderful arts and sent us surprises often on special occasions like mom's/ dad's day.

Now it was my turn to present her wonderful teacher, something in return, as a token of appreciation.  So I decided to prepare a greeting card with rikki. I came up with this.

I didn't expect it to come out this well. It brought back my school days' memory and both of us had good time crafting it. Well Rikki did enjoy tearing and rolling the bits of paper and I did enjoy chiding her away everytime she tried to grab the completed flowers. Haha.