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Chocolate cup cake recipe
Oats kheer with jaggery recipe
Oats kheer or oats payasam with jaggery is a very delicious and healthy kheer made with oats, jaggery and coconut milk and garnished with nuts. It can be prepared quickly and coconut milk added it to gives a rich taste to the kheer. This kheer is nutritious too due to iron rich jaggery used and oats which is a good source of dietary fibre.
Sweet pongal or Sakkarai pongal recipe
Pongal is a harvest festival of Tamil Nadu. People pray to Sun God on this occasion. In Tamil language, ‘pongal’ means ‘boiling over’. On that day, women boil the new rice with fresh milk and jaggery and allow it to overflow the pots. It is an expression of happiness that the new harvest is here and should enjoy it. The date of pongal festival remains constant every year, on the 14th of January. However the festival is celebrated for 4 days from 13th to 16th of the month. Sweet pongal is a sweet dish which is prepared and first offered to the Sun God. Sweet pongal is made from raw rice, jaggery, milk, ghee and nuts and is very easy to make.