KANJAK PRASAD RECIPE
The festival
of Navratri ends with Maha Ashtami and Navami Puja. On both days, people
worship the incarnations of Maa Durga and make offerings to little girl
children, known as Kanjak. Traditionally, poori, semolina halwa, and dried black
gram are offered as bhog on this day. So, let’s know the easiest way to make
your Navratri prasad.
KALE CHANE
Ingredients:
Kale Chane -
1 cup (200 grams) (soaked)
Oil - 1 -2
tbsp
Green chili
- 2-3
Ginger - 1
inch
Cumin - 1/2
tsp
Turmeric
powder - 1/4 tsp
Coriander
powder - 1 tsp
Red chili
powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam masala
- 1/4 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Chopped Green
coriander – 1 small bowl
Method:
1. Clean kale
chane, wash it and keep it soaked in water overnight.
2. The next day, take out the soaked gram from the water, wash it, and put it in the cooker, add half a cup of water and 1 teaspoon salt to it and mix it. Keep the cooker on the gas and keep the gram to boil till 1 whistle. After one whistle in the cooker, slow down the gas and let the chickpeas cook on low flame for 2-3 minutes. Switch off the gas after 3 minutes and open the cooker when the pressure of the cooker is over.
3. Put oil
in a pan, heat it, and put cumin seeds in hot oil, after roasting cumin adds finely
chopped green chilies and 1 green chili cut lengthwise, add ginger cut
lengthwise and fry the spices lightly. Now add coriander powder, and turmeric
powder and fry it lightly.
4. After
roasting the masala, add kale chane along with water, add red chili powder,
garam masala, and dry mango powder, and mix. Increase the flame of the gas and
cook the kale chane on high flame stirring continuously till it thickens.
5. After
cooking for 2 minutes, the kale chane are well thickened and ready, add some
green coriander to the kale chane and mix. Kale chane is ready, turn off the
gas and take out it in a bowl.
SUJI HALWA
Ingredients:
Semolina -
1/2 cup (100 grams)
Ghee - 1/4
Sugar - 1/2
cup (125 grams)
Cardamom
powder - ½ tsp
Cashew - 1
tbsp (finely chopped)
Almond
flakes - 1 tbsp (finely chopped)
Raisins - 1
tbsp (finely chopped)
Method:
1. To make
halwa, heat a pan and put 3-4 tbsp ghee in the pan and let the ghee melt. When
the ghee melts, put semolina in the pan and roast it on medium flame stirring
continuously till it turns golden brown.
2. Semolina
is ready to be roasted as soon as it smells good and looks golden brown. Put
chopped cashew nuts, and almonds in semolina and fry a little more.
3. After 2 minutes, add raisins and mix add 1.5 cups of water and sugar to the semolina and let it cook on low flame for 5 minutes.
4. After 5
minutes, mix the semolina well and cook till it thickens.
5. Suji
halwa is ready after thickening. Add cardamom powder to it and mix. Halwa is
ready, take it out in a bowl.
POORI
Ingredients:
Wheat flour
- 2 cups (300 grams)
Salt - 1/2
tsp
Method:
1. To make poori,
take out the flour in a bowl, add salt and 1 tsp oil to it, and mix. Now add
water little by little and make a hard dough like puri. Cover the dough and
keep it for 20 minutes to set.
2. After 20
minutes, knead the dough with some ghee on hand. Take a small dough ball and
apply some ghee on the rolling pin and disc and flatten it with your hands by
placing the ball on the disc. Make a puri of 3-to-4-inch diameter by rolling it
from the edge.
3. Heat oil
in a pan and put the poori in the oil for frying. Flatten the puri by pressing
with a ladle and fry till it turns golden brown. After frying well, take out
the poori and keep it on a plate.
4. Likewise
prepare all the puris by frying them and your pooris are ready to serve.
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