Mango Tapioca Pudding | Sago Pudding | Pudding recipe

Mango Tapioca Pudding, a easy to make pudding with just a couple of ingredients, it's a perfect summer recipe. Mango is my favorite fruit and it's really hard for me to control myself to eat as it is and try some recipe with fresh mangoes. 

Recently i have bought the mango pulp can from Walmart here, it was so good and i have been trying all the mango dishes that i want to try for years. More over, it's very easy to put together the dessert/ sweet when you have mango pulp in hand. 
Coming to today's recipe, this is in my todo list for years, at last i have made them last week with mango pulp that i bought from the store. All you need to do is cook the tapioca and the rest is simply put together everything, mix & refrigerate.

If you're making this for party / get together, pour the mix into individual bowls/cups and refrigerator. It looks cute and definitely looks like a fancy dessert. I have used the "Riveria Yogurt bowl " here and it's look so damn cute. Now, let check out the recipe.

Mango Tapioca Pudding | Sago Pudding

Preparation Time : 4 hrs | Cooking Time : 10 mins | Serves : 1 
Recipe Category: Dessert | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Mango Tapioca Pudding, Sago mango Pudding, Mango Pudding Mango Tapioca Pudding, a easy to make pudding with just couple of ingredients, it's a perfect summer recipe..

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Ingredients
Tapioca - 1/4 cup
Mango Pulp - 1/2 cup
Milk - 2 tbsp(boiled and cooled)
Condensed Milk - 2 tbsp*

*see notes for substitute

Procedure

Wash and soak sago for 30 mins. Heat water in a sauce pan, add the soaked sago.

Bring into boil and then simmer the flame and cook till it's soft & then strain them. 

Wash it in running cold water for 2 mins and then add into a bowl.

Add the mango pulp, milk & condensed milk and mix it well. Keep it in the refrigerator for few hours and it's ready to serve.

Yummy Mango Tapioca Pudding is ready.

Related : How to make Chia Seed Mango Pudding

Notes:

• If you don't have condensed milk, you can use regular sugar as needed. Also add more milk for bringing into the required consistency.
• Depends on the size of tapioca, the cooking time varies.
• Based on the sweetness of the mango pulp, add more or less of condensed milk.
• Condensed milk gives richness to this pudding
• Serve chilled for best taste. 
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Aval Nanaichathu means soaked flattened rice in tamil, it's one of the easiest and no cook snack/sweet to prepare in mins. Since krishna jeyanthi is tomorrow, thought of sharing this easy sweet poha/ aval recipe with you all. 

It's been one of my favorite snacks/sweeta since my childhood and i have fond memories of had  this as after school snack. All you need is some poha/aval, sugar and hot milk. Mix it together and let it sit for few mins, your sweet poha/ aval is ready. 

As it's it tastes so good, for extra flavor and taste,here in the recipe, i have added some cardamon powder & coconut, but that's totally optional. Happy Krishna Jeyanthi to all, now let's see how to make this super quick aval recipe.  

Aval Nanaichathu | Sweet Aval | Sweet Poha

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 0 mins | Serves : 1 
Recipe Category: Sweet | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Aval Nanaichahu, Sweet Aval, No Cook Sweet Aval Nanaichathu means soaked flattened rice in tamil, it's one of the easiest and no cook snack/sweet to prepare in mins.

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Ingredients
Aval / Poha /Flatted Rice - 1/2 cup
Milk - 3/4 cup
Sugar - 1 tbsp
Grated Coconut - 1 tbsp
Cardamon powder - a pinch

Procedure

Measure and take the aval/poha in a serving bowl, add the cardamon powder in it.

Next add the coconut and sugar, mix it well. Heat the milk until it comes to boil. 

Pour the hot milk into the aval/poha, mix it well, give it a resting time time of 5 mins. If needed add some nuts on the top while serving.
Tada, Super Quick Sweet Poha/Aval Nanaichathu is ready.

Related: How to Aval with Palm Jaggery

Notes:

• Add more or less of milk as per the consistency you like.
• The given measurement is just for reference or how i make it. You can add more or less of all ingredients and make it as you like.
• Give a resting time helps the poha to soak well and infuse the flavor too.
• Here in the recipe, i have used thin variety of poha
  

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Broccoli Stir Fry | Sides For Pasta | Broccoli Fry

Broccoli stir fry, an quick to make side for your pasta. It's my absolute favorite stir fry to have with it pasta or sometime i would like to have them with fried rice also, trust me, the combination are so good and wanting to eat more & more. There is nothing fancy in this stir, the basic seasoning does wonder here and the olive oil gives great flavor to this stir fry, since that's the only flavoring agent in this recipe, i highly recommend to use it. Without much delay, let's check out the recipe, but if would like to know what i have prepared for the past two days with broccoli, here they are
Broccoli Soup
Broccoli Paratha

Broccoli Stir Fry

Preparation Time : 2 mins | Cooking Time : 10 mins | Serves : 2 
Recipe Category: Sides | Recipe Cuisine: General

Ingredients
Broccoli - 1 floret(small)
Olive oil - 2 tsp
Pepper powder - to taste
Salt - to taste 

Procedure

Cut the broccoli into the small florets, wash it in running water and drain it completely.Heat the pan with olive oil, add the broccoli florets and saute it in the oil for 4-5 mins in the medium flame.Once the florets becomes tender, add the salt and pepper powder. Give a good mix & switch off the flame.Simplet yet delicious broccoli stir fry is ready . Serve as sides for your pasta. We had it with Avocado Pasta and the combination are so good.

Notes:

• Olive oil gives great taste to this stir fry, highly recommend to use.
• Cook the broccoli till it's fork tender. Mushy broccoli doesn't taste so good for this stir fry.
• Adjust the pepper as your liking.
  

 

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Microwave Palkova | Palkova with Condensed Milk | Gokulastami Recipe under 10 mins

Palkova, a delicious sweet made from milk and it's the most favorite sweet of mine in my childhood.Whenever we visit Sankarankovil, that's my mom's native, we used to buy this from the milk society. 

Next to Srivilliputhur, Sankarankovil is famous for it's palkova and it is so grainy and has melt in mouth texture. I have tried the traditional way of making palkova from milk a few times, but i couldn't get the exact taste and texture.

Later i came to know about the making of palkova from sweetened condensed milk in microwave and so far i had tried this method a couple of times  & every time it turned out so delicious.

l'm so in  love with the grainy texture of this palkova. One thing i have to admit here that it doesn't taste like the traditional palkova made from milk, but still it taste good on its own way and satisfy your palkova craving within minutes.

As Krishna jeyanthi is around the corner, this might to be easy naivedyam that you can offer to Lord Krishna on this auspicious day. Happy Krishna Jeyanthi to all who celebrate it.

Palkova with condensed milk

Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : 6 to 8 mins | Serves : 5 
Recipe Category: Sweet | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Microwave Palkova, Microwave Therratipal, Palkova using condensed milk,10 mins palkova Microwave palkova , an easy to make palkova recipe using condensed milk.

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Ingredients
Sweetened Condensed Milk - 1 tin
Curd - 1 & 1/2 tbsp
Ghee - 3 tsp

Procedure

Open the condensed milk can and keep all other ingredients ready.

Pour the condensed milk into microwave safe glass bowl, add curd(adding curd gives that grainy texture otherwise the palkova would be chewy, so don't skip the curd) into it and mix well.

Put it in microwave & cook it in high for 2 mins. Take it out and add 1 tsp of ghee, mix well and again put it in microwave.

Cook it in high for again 2 mins. Take it out and add 1 tsp of ghee, mix well and place once again in microwave.

Again cook it for 2 mins. Take it out , this time it all bubbles up and becomes thick, add the remaining ghee and mix a good mix. At this stage it's almost ready.

But i want little more color on my palkova, so keep it in microwave for another  1 min. Tada, Your Palkova is ready.

If you like to pack as single serving, let the palkova cool a bit and place it on parchment paper and fold it as i did in the below pictures.
Tasty and yummy Palkova is ready.

Related : How to make Milk Peda 

Notes:

• Depends on the temperature of condensed milk & curd and your microwave settings, it may take from 6 mins to 8 mins.
• Use large bowl and keep an eye on the bowl while microwave, it will start to rise after 2 mins.If it's about to overflow, pause the microwave and let it settle down and then start again. So be stand there near microwave all time.
• Use gloves or thick kitchen cloth while take the bowl out of microwave, it's extremely hot.
• Every time when you take out the bowl, give good mix till the bottom and scrap the sides too for even cooking and coloring.
  

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Gopalkala | Dahi Poha | Gokulastami recipe

Gopalkala / Dahi Poha, a easy to make savory poha dish with curd. Last year around krishna jeyanthi time, i came to know about this dish through some facebook share. I loved the simplicity of this dish and had tried it immediately and it turned out super creamy and flavorful. Later on, i have prepared this dish on many occasion to offer as prasadam. It's super easy and comes handy on your busy days.Even if you don't have any time to prepare anything special for krishna jeyanthi, you can still make this & offer as prasadam to little krishna as both aval/poha & curd are his favorites.😊

Gopalkala/Dahi Poha

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 2 mins | Serves : 2 
Recipe Category: Snack | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients
Thick Aval/Poha/ Flattened Rice - 1/2 cup
Curd  - 1/4 cup
Cucumber - 2 tbsp(chopped)
Salt - to taste
To Temper
Green chili - 1(finely chopped)
Cumin seed - 1/2 tsp
Ghee - 1 tsp

Procedure

Soak the aval/poha in water for 10 mins, then drain the water completely and add curd into it.Add cucumber & salt and mix it well.Temper the ingredients listed under "To Temper"  and add into the aval/poha. Mix it well.That's it, Your Gopalkala is ready to serve.

Notes:

• Don't soak aval more than the mentioned time, otherwise it would be too mushy.
• Ghee gives great flavor to this dish.
• Drain the water from poha completely before adding the curd to get creamy texture.
• For more flavor, you can add 1/2 tsp of chopped ginger in the tempering.
  

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