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Seven Cup Burfi | Five Star Burfi

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Seven Cup Burfi or Five Star burfi is a sweet with five ingredients. Delicious with coconut, ghee and besan/gram flour as it main ingredients. It is one of the popular sweet in Karnataka. With fresh coconut, ghee and milk taste is just heavenly. It is also one of the sweets you can prepare during navaratri festival and on Deepavali festival.
Festivals are always family and friends get together, share food especially the sweets! Prepare easy and delicious 7 cup burfi and share it with your friends and family.

Try this ALmond burfi, coconut pineapple burfi, coconut burfi , coconut Mango Burfi  and Cashew Burfi .

Rava Halbai | Rava Halubai

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Chiroti Rava Halbai is the easiest and tastiest sweet you can prepare for guests, festivals and/or  just to satisfy your sweet cravings. Halbai is the traditional sweet prepared in karnataka especially Malnad and Mysore region. This sweet has rich flavor of coconut and goodness from jaggery. This dessert is modified version of the traditional coconut -rice -jaggery halbai.

Rava Kesari Recipe

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The most popular south indian festival sweet is Kesari bath or sooji halwa. This dessert is perfect for festival days or just to quench the sweet cravings! With the touch of cardamom and natural color and cooling effect from the saffron makes it more festive and delicious sweet.It is common to relish kesari bath with khara bath/uppittu , popularly called chow-chow bath. This combination dish can be prepared in 30 minutes( yes , both sweet and khara), good for sudden unexpected guests. You can put the kesari bath on a greased plate and spread it and cut into desired shapes, it will be semolina cake, best for the parties and get together.

Satyanarayana Prasada | Sapada Bhakshya

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Satyanarayana prasada is rava halwa which is prepared on the Satyanarayana pooje day as a naivedyam / offering to Lord Sri Satyanarayana Swamy. It is also called Sapada Bhakshya. Satyanarayana Puja or vrata performed in many parts of India. It is usually performed on the hunnime or poornima/full moon day, during weddings and housewarming ceremonies as well. It is believed to be very auspicious vratham which can be performed by anyone anytime to get the divine blessings of God Vishnu – for good health, wealth, prosperity and so on…. At the end of the pooja, there is a story about origin of the pooja, benefits of doing this It is very important to listen to this story. In this story it is given the recipe of the prasadam, what is the right quantity of each ingredients. Here in this recipe we have followed the same method. Each ingredients has to be ¼ cup + a whole number or just ¼ cup is also ok. Example.. If you are planning to make prasadam using 1 cup rava, add ¼ to it and make it 1¼ cup..like that all ingredients must be equal quantity… exception is milk( you have to use only the milk, here we modified little with ¼ milk and rest is water)