Carrot Halwa/ Gajar Ka Kalwa

You need to have:
2 cups of Grated Carrot
1/2 cup Ghee/Tuppa
1 cup Sugar/Sakkare
5-6 Cashew Nuts/Gerubeeja
5-6 Raisins/Vana Drakshi
Method:

Put Heavy bottomed vesel on flame and add grated carrot and ghee to it.Fry this on low flame till carrot becomes soft. (this will take around 10 mins).Then add sugar and stir. Sugar starts melting and entire mixture becomes liquid. Continously stir this on flame furthure it forms a semi solid mass(Ghee along with sugar gives very good taste to halwa).

Mean while , fry cashew and raisins in ghee and keep it aside.

Add fried cashew nuts , raisins to carrot and turn of flame.

Serve this alone or with a slab of vanilla ice cream.(Vanilla ice cream-Carrot halwa a hevenly combi)

Sanna polo/cabage Vada

A typical konkani dish loved by every one.

You Need To Have:

1/2 cup toor dal
1/2 cup rice
10 fried dry red chillies
tamarind about the size of a lime
1/2 cup grated coconut, fresh or frozen
1/2 cup onion chopped
1/2 cup cabbage chopped
salt to taste
Pinch Of hing

Method:

Soak toor dal and rice for about 2 to 3 hours. Drain the water and then grind it into a paste along with red chillies, tamarind, coconut ,salt and Hing. Do not add too much water while grinding.



To this mixture add onion and cabbage and mix well.. Take a small amount of the mixture and rool it on your hands and press it to get round shape.Deep fry for 2 minutes, turn around and fry on the other side.
Serve hot. This dish is usually served for lunch or dinner as a side dish with rice and curry.


Instead of the cabbage, you can add twice the amount of onion to make this Vada.