Rava halwa/rava sweet upma/rava laddoo/rava unda

badam 25 gm
cashew 25 gm
clove 3
elaichi 3
black pepper 6
jeera 1/2tsp
rava 2 cup/400gm
jaggery powder 3/4 cup
bura /sugar powder 3/4 cup
Til oil 1/2 cup
gond 1tb
ghee 3 tsps
2 pinch of rock salt/ table salt
boiling water 2 cup or more
In 1tsp ghee fry gond and powder it


chop badam, cashew to 4 to 6 pieces , In 1 tsp ghee fry it.
add till oil to the hot pan and fry rava  with 2 pinch of rocksalt.
boil 3 cup water on other stove
crush well  clove pepper elaichi jeera in a mortar
after frying rava add crushed masala, fried nuts, gond powder,bura, jaggery powder and mix well
add remaining to it. after mixing add boiling water as necessary stir and cook well.
and make powdery rava upma or grease a plate spread the mix and press the mixture and give flat shape on the top sprinkle some fried nuts on the top and cut into small squares after cooling. This is rava halwa
For making rava unda/laddoo make small balls with hands
This is very healthy and good for winter season
avoid table salt and normal sugar for health, white sugar destroy calcium and mineral from the body . and make the bones weak
avoid ginger powder, and more ghee, it is cooling and increse cold and cough for weak people, If you are healthy add it
Use til oil, groundnut oil, avoid cooling oils like coconut, palm oil etc.
spices, jaggery , nuts, gond  add heat to the body
This recipe is also good for rainy season in kerala.
good for children and weak persons
The recipe produce more heat to the body and it will remove cold related diseases like cough and other allergies related to it.


A very must for winter season and good for cold and cough

kuzhiyappam

1 cup rice flour, 1/4 cup wheat flour,1/4 cup rava mix well
grind 2 ripe bananas and add to this
make a liquid of jaggery with water by heating and cool it.
Add 4 t of sugar to this, add 2 crushed elaichi, 1/4 t jeera crushed, 1/4 t dry ginger powder to this.
Mix all these well add water as necessary. add 2 pinch of salt, 1 t ghee
cut some coconut slices, and cut into thin slices , and saute brown in 1t ghee. add this to the batter and mix, the batter should be like idli batter.
Make kuzhiyappam in its special pot