Oats Laddu

Oats Laddu is a sweet dish and its healthy and tasty too.  You can have them at any time of the day.

Things Needed :
Oats : 3 cups.
Sugar : 1 to 1/2 Cup.
Ghee : 3/4 Cup.
Dry fruits : 3 to 4 Table spoons.
Cardamom : 1 Tea spoon. ( 5 to 6 pods).

Method : Powder sugar with cardamom seeds and keep it aside. Now keep a pan on the fire . Put 2 to 3 table spoons of  ghee and fry dry fruits ( Cashew and raisins )  and remove from the pan . Now put  Oats to
the pan.  . Roast oats until raw smell disappear. (  nearly 5 minutes). Remove from the pan leave it for cooling.  Dry grind roasted oats to powder.  Now take a big bowl and mix ground oats, sugar, fried dry fruits  and little ghee and mix well. Take a handful of mixture and prepare all the laddus one by one.  If  you feel the mixture is too dry  add a spoon of ghee to the mixture.  Repeat the same and prepare all the Laddus.

Note : You can divide the Laddu mixture while adding the ghee. ( Adding little ghee to each portion will help us to reduce the use of more ghee ).  You can also use milk instead of ghee but remember these laddus will not remain for long. ( May be a day or two ). Using lots of dry fruits will increase the taste of Laddu. Also adding ghee ( mentioned above )  will help laddu to be very tasty. Can add dry coconut to the laddus  . It taste better. ( 1/2 copra - dry grind and make it into powder and then add to the mixture).

20 to 25 laddus can be prepared.

Palak - Methi Vada.

Palak - Methi Vada is a tasty snack and you can have them during Tea time and  also a starter.

Things Needed : 
Palak - 2 cups.
Methi Leaves -  1/2 cup.
Channa (Besan ) Powder : 1 Cup.
Red chilly Powder : 1 Tea spoon.
Green chilly : 2
Jeera : 1 Tea spoon.
Salt : according to taste.
Water : 1/2 cup.
Curry leaves : 8 to 10.
Onions : 1 to 2.
Oil : 2 cups .

Method :
Wash and cut  Paalak and Methi leaves. Cut onions in to small pieces.   Mix it together and add cut green chillies,, cut onions, red chilly powder mix it thoroughly adding 1 table spoon of oil to the mixture.
Take a big bowl and put channa powder ( Besan ) , salt , palak and methi mixture to it and mix it thoroughly adding little water to it and prepare thick dough.
Now keep a pan on he fire. Put oil and heat. Now take a handful of vada dough and pat it little and fry them on the medium flame.  Cook them  till they are brown and turn them and fry again for few seconds and remove from the fire . Repeat the same with the remaining dough. Serve Hot Vadas with any kind of chutney or ketchup.
Note : Do not add too much of Methi leaves since it gives a btter taste. Let the dough to be thick. Other wise the vada will take more oil and its not good for health.   Can add cashew nuts to the dough to have more taste. Can be cut it into pieces and then add it to the dough.
Serves 3 to 4