Coming back to blogging after a long break over the deepavali is like just landing after a jet lag. The weekend of deepavali was filled with fun and feast for us celebrating with family and friends it was overall a fun filled events and celebrations for kids.
From clockwise Rava laadu, Chakkali, mixture, kara sev, Shankar pole, karjikai, Suji cookies, dry fruit burfis

I would like to share the recipe for Mixture. Though many have their versions this is my version of masalas i used.
All you need
poha- 1/2 kg
groundnuts – 1/2 cup
split chick peas – 1/2 cup
curry leaves – 1/2 cup
raisins -1/2 cup
chilli powder – as per taste
sugar powder – 1 tbsp
salt – as required
fennel/saunf seeds – 1 tbsp
corainder seeds – 1tbsp
jeera seeds – 1 tbsp
oil for deep frying

Method:
- Deep fry poha using a strainer in a deep frying pan with oil
- deep fry rest of them groundnuts, chick peas, curry leaves
- Deep fry the coriander seeds, jeera seeds and fennel seeds strain and just pound them coarsely it must not be finely powdered
- Mix all the fried ingredients in a large pan adding salt, sugar, chilli powder well.
- Store in air tight jars can be used for 2 weeks or more.
Dry fruit Burfi
All you need
Cashew nuts chopped – 1 cup
Pistachios chopped – 1/4 cup
Almonds chopped – 1/4 cup
Grated desicated coconut – 1/8 cup
Poppy seeds – 1 tbsp
raisins – 1/4 cup
jaggery - 1 cups
ghee – 1 tbsp
Method
- Dry roast/bake cashews, almonds, and pistachois until lightly roasted
- Heat a tbsp of ghee add powdered jaggery with 1 tbsp of water
- Let the jaggery reach a soft ball consistency for syrup
- Check the consistency by adding a drop of jaggery to cold water to form into soft balls
- Once the syrup reaches the consistency add all the dry fruits mix well
- pour it on a plate coated with ghee. Wait for a 5 mintues and cut into desired shapes.
Thanks a lot for all my friends who have left inspiring comments and asking about my well being. I am doing fine due to personal reasons i am not able to blog at present at the same time my laptop is at service. So i will be on short break until laptop is back to work. I will check on all my freinds please bear with me until then. Thanks for all the time wish you all a happy weekend
A Special thanks to Shilpa from Aayisrecipes for the stepwise rava ladoo which turned out fabulous.



November 17, 2007 at 9:54 pm
What an awesome spread Roopa. I am sure you had a great Deepavali. Best wishes and good luck with everything and hope you blog soon.
Oh, btw love to have your recipe for Suji cookies.
November 17, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Yummy plate! I like all sweets and savories you made! I am tired of eating sweets too.
Glad you had a great Diwali. I am taking a break in two weeks too, my brain is tired!:D
November 17, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Roopa, glad you enjoyed your Diwali…that plate is what I’m drooling over now
November 17, 2007 at 11:36 pm
slurrrrrrrrrp… i liked dry fruits recipe roopa:) i received ur mail. will reply back soon:) have a gr8 weekend
November 17, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Yum…the festive platter looks exceptionally good. I love the dry fruits burfi very much. Thanks for sharing it.
November 18, 2007 at 1:43 am
First of all, thanks for playing Hamsadhvani! it totally cheered me up. and thanks for sharing the mixture, i am all for more variety
. You made soooooooo many sweets, dear
. Do you still have some
.
Oh and your comment about blogging after break and equating it with jet lag totally cracked me up
. i posted after ages y’day and had similar feeling-but you articulated it so well
.
November 18, 2007 at 12:57 pm
thats a yummy yummy food hope u had had a wonderfull diwali
November 18, 2007 at 2:32 pm
hey, nice to have you back after a long time
. Hope you had a wonderful diwali…
and lovely recipes,btw!!!
November 18, 2007 at 2:38 pm
wow that’s a fabulous spread!! i love the dry fruit burfi….love the music too….!!
November 19, 2007 at 4:35 am
Yummy spread of sweets and savories Roopa. I hope you had a pleasant diwali.
November 19, 2007 at 9:55 am
lovely spread…could u please share the recipes of the rest of savouries ….chakli and sooji sweet please
November 19, 2007 at 10:57 am
Fabulous!! I am going to try the mixture recipe for sure..
November 20, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Such a delicious spread for diwali!
I want to try dry fruits burfi sometime. Thanks for the recipes!
November 21, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Hi Roopa, hope you had a nice time during Diwali. All the goodies look very nice. Viji
November 23, 2007 at 11:54 am
lovely platter! Hope you had a great festival season Roopa, good to have you back
November 23, 2007 at 9:27 pm
hope ur laptop has recovered now
November 24, 2007 at 10:03 am
I like the fact that it is one mixture and you can make so many things with it.
Welcome back!
November 25, 2007 at 4:05 am
oh how much I wished I can pick this plate from the screen, it was so lively and tempting am longing to eat all of them, hopefully will have once back to india.. thanks for sharing recipes of two of them.. would love to read other’s recipe too
November 26, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Soory Roopa, me too is a little away from blogging and not visiting my blogger friiends’ places lately..
Hope you had a wonderful diwali..the goodies look perfect..esp I love those ladoos
..and I always flop making them..
Even I am on a semi-break
get back when you really feel like blogging ..:)…hope you will get into the frequency soon
November 26, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Liked your mixture roopa!
November 28, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Hi Roopa, it’s great to see your beautiful festival treats all together — will look for you back when you are able and sans jet-lag too
November 29, 2007 at 12:14 pm
fantastic plate Roopavre.
November 30, 2007 at 1:08 am
rave unde nodalu thumba chennagide.
November 30, 2007 at 2:38 am
You have great patience girl. You made all those yummy stuff!
November 30, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Roopa,
Wow did you make all those for diwali? The plate full of thindis look awesome. You really had feast at your place. Take it easy girl. I am on and off blogging as well. I am missing it but yeah i guess its just taking some time. Enjoy your weekend.
December 1, 2007 at 2:24 am
hey how come I missed this yummy post. You made so many things for Diwali, my god, you are a trooper
December 5, 2007 at 11:54 pm
The poha mixture looks great roopa!!