We all at home are a big fans of any kind of holige, of which bele holige is our most favourite sweet dish and the best thing is, I always make holige using whole wheat flour/whole wheat flour+semolina and the stuffing contains lentils and sweetness is obtained from jaggery …. So this is always a
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ಕಳಿತ ಬಾಳೆಹಣ್ಣಿನ ಪದರು ಪರಾಠ Do you have ripen bananas no no…. over ripen bananas ? if yes, then you should definitely try this recipe. This is a kind of two in one Paratha. Just by adding some amount of jaggery along with the below given ingredients, this Paratha can be converted into Banana Sweet Paratha
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Yet again I’m here with one more extraordinary recipe (my own) made using Beetroot and very soon I shall come up with one more awesome recipe which also uses Beetroot in it Very gladly sharing, one of my recently innovated recipe, which uses beetroot, makhana seeds, coconut, jaggery and I have named it as beetroot
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Vijayadashami greetings to All / ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ವಿಜಯದಶಮಿಯ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು The comprehensive success of the Pandavas in their endeavor has been inferred to the everyday ventures of the common man. So on this day people exchange Shami leaves, take blessings from the elders in the family and wish each other victory in their own ventures and efforts
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Wishing you All a very happy Sri Swarna gowri & Shri Vara siddhi vinayaka/Ganesha chaturthi Festival ! May The goddess & The God fill your life with health and happiness Today I’m here with one of the Karnataka special, traditional, all time favourite holige recipe, which people across Karnataka take a fancy to this sweet
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Wishing You All a very happy UGADI Puran Poli or Holige as we call this in Kannada is a pleasing sweet dish. Though I have made this delicious sweet numerous number of times and every time thought of taking the pics and shooting the video but couldn’t/didn’t do so !! But I’m glad that …
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Earlier kayi holige (coconut puran poli) & bele holige (lentil sweet puran poli) were the two most famous, well known, commonly prepared holige recipes in Karnataka. But of late everyone have started making many many more varieties of holige, of which even I have tried a few like Pineapple holige, badami/almond holige, carrot holige, Khova
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After making ananas holige/pineapple pooran poli, which I got inspired by ‘mane holige’ (the holige/pooran poli selling store, located in Bengaluru, which sells varieties of holige/pooran poli made using lentil, coconut and many kinds of fruits and dry fruits), back with yet another their special holige/pooran poli using badami/almond/badam. They use khova and sugar to
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My latest innovation – alasande kalu/black eyed beans/lobia holige or pooran poli. I just recently tried/innovated two sweet recipes ie… Semiya-horse gram payasa & alasande kalu holige. And both turned out to be very tasty, yummy and perfect …it just didn’t disappoint me. I made the regular outer layer/dough for the holige, only stuffing is
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Recently I got date palm jaggery through someone from Kolkata. I have never seen or used this jaggery before. So today I tried making kadlebele holige or bengal gram pooran poli using this particular jaggery. It is differently aromatic and tasty compared to sugar cane jaggery. Rest of the procedure & is same as any
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My first attempt at making melt in mouth sweet potato or sihi genasina holige. It was in my to do list since long time, but this time for Sankranti festival I made it. It turned out to be thin, crispy, delicious, yummy and melt in mouth dish…..wah ! Other holige recipes on my blog are dates/Kharjura
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One of my most favourite sweet ! hmmm….. but now everybody likes it at home. It is a sweet dish from Karnataka, which is generally made using maida & sugar, But I prefer using fine quality rava/sooji/semolina & jaggery in this recipe. The specialty of this particular type of holige is, deep fried pooris are
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Sajjige holige is a delicious, yummy sweet which is necessarily made on the day of Ananthapadmanabha vratha. Either sajjige holige or bele holige is made on that day. Sajjige is a kannada word which literally means sheera or sooji ka halwa made using jaggery. So sweet jaggery sheera is stuffed in whole wheat flour dough.
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Yet another, an authentic sweet recipe from Karnataka…. Kayi holige or Coconut Pooran Poli, which is made using fresh coconut & jaggery mixed filling. It is known with different names across India. The outer layer differs from person to person. Most of them use maida as a main ingredient and some use fine quality semolina
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ಪೈನಾಪಲ್/ಅನಾನಸ್ ಹೋಳಿಗೆ During my recent visit to Bangalore, I came across a different kind of Holige/Pooran poli name in the menu card of a holige/Pooran Poli selling store ‘Mane Holige’ (they make varieties of Holige using many kinds of fruits and dry fruits apart from the regular Bele holige/Pigeon peas pooran poli, Kayi holige/coconut pooran
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Holige is a traditional sweet dish, which is a must during festivals like Ugadi (Kannada new year day), Swarna Gowri vratha and on Upakarma day. And it is also made during big functions at home as well as temples. There are many kinds & procedures of preparing Holige The one which I’m going to share
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PEANUTS SWEET FLATBREAD | One more way of adding protein to your diet by making a dish using groundnut in the cold season or during winter when fresh groundnuts are available in plenty or also on any day, any time for that matter using the dried ones as well This is a super easy and
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ಬೆಲ್ಲದ ಕ್ಯಾರೆಟ್ಟಿನ ಹೋಳಿಗೆ sweetened with jaggery | This is something which I tried with left over carrot halwa. I never thought it would serve a day’s breakfast programme !! but it did so happy me ! So gladly sharing it with you all. First I thought of making paratha, while in the process it strike
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ಖರ್ಜೂರದ ಹೋಳಿಗೆ One of the yummy sweet dish containing Iron……! Iron is an important nutrient for our body and for our health. Iron carries oxygen around the body. If Iron stores are low then our body is prone to more frequent infections. So getting the right amount of iron and other nutrients from food is
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