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Easy rangoli designs - beginners

Though I have drawn all the designs myself personally I am thankful to my family for the inputs, information and help in drafting all the posts so far.  I have used the terms kolam  rangoli quite freely in all the posts. Probably there would have been differences based on classical (!) explanations in the past but today kolams can also be colourful like rangolis both in the free hand and dots type  I find that even the terms rangoli kolam and kolam rangoli are used at  present. The only area where I think kolam are different are in sikku kolam and arisi maavu kolam. Both are beautiful, challenging and can be intricate . Rangoli is muggulu in Telugu and so this post will be useful for those in search of small and simple muggulu for beginners.  This post   may have answers  kutty rangoli /kolam designs The rangoli in the image below is one of the basic designs that can be used for learning.   Form a star with two inverted triangles.   ...

Ganga Jamuna recipe for Deepavali sweets

Deepavali sweets recipe dishes at home - old recipes

 In the photo below a sweet called Ganga Jamuna ( Don't ask me how it got the name )
  • Prepare a dough with chiroti rava .  
  • Add a pinch of salt and mix with water , make the dough and wait for two hours. 
  •  If chiroti rava is not available we can use ordinary rava after dry grinding it in a mixer.
  • Mix rice flour in ghee so that it forms a semi-solid glue This is used to stick the rolled dough
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  • After rolling the dough into circular shapes as we do for chappati or poori.  
  • Place three pieces one above the other applying the rice flour ghee glue in between.  
  • Roll the dough as shown in the fourth image applying the rice flour ghee combination on the folds too. 
  •  Now cut the rolled dough into three pieces and roll one piece again. 
  •  If we have used three pieces we get a three layered chappati.  
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  • I have rolled into a small triangular shape, fry in oil on medium flame. 
  •  Give sufficient time for the entire sweet to get fried.  
  • Soak it in a sugar syrup and serve.
The sugar syrup is prepared using the following proportion
  • For two measures of rava and one measure of sugar in two measures of water and heat for 10 minutes.  
  • The viscosity at the end of 10-12 minutes is the required consistency for the syrup
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