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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.   ...

Puri kheer recipe in English

Required ingredients
1. Chiroti rava or sooji (else use standard rava ) - 200 gram
2. Milk - 3/4 litre
3. Sugar -as desired
4. Cardamom
5. Cashew nuts
6. Raisins
7. Optional (almonds and saffron)

Take required quantity of chiroti rava in a vessel and mix water to obtain a dough similar to poori dough.  

Let the dough settle for at least two hours.  Knead the dough and using a rolling pin flatten as we do for poori or roti. 

 Cut the dough  with a suitable cutter in two directions to obtain square or rhombus shaped pieces and fry them in ghee (if you don't have objection to calories ) else use cooking oil.

 Boil milk  and use flame in "sim" position. Add cardamom powder, saffron to it.  Now add the fried dough pieces to the milk and stir for a few minutes. Add required quantity of sugar.

 Fry cashew nuts, raisins and add them to the kheer.  Your special kheer as shown in the photo below is ready to serve (and eat!). If standard rava is used grind it in a mixer for a few seconds to make it 

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Allow the dough to settle for couple of hours.  Make holes with a fork to remove air 

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Cut with cutter to make small pieces 
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Fry them
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Some of the ingredients. Yummy poori kheer is ready 
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 Poori kheer or appalam payasam is prepared for Varalakshmi Pooja , Navaratri Friday and Ugadi.
So if you are looking for appalam payasam, appi payasa this festival recipe may be the one you are looking for.

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