Hayagreeva

Hayagreeva is very popular and traditional sweet of southern part of India especially Karnataka,  which we usually prepare during any auspicious days or festivals at home as 'Naivedyam' . It's not only tasty but very easy to prepare , it's protein rich sweet which is a good for all ages  . It's prepared mainly with coconut , Jaggery and not to forget chanadal. I know as per today's lifestyle where we are all health conscious we do try to omit sweet from our daily routine but it's good to have it once in a while especially during festival days and whenever I prepare sweet I tend to prepare sweets which has got Jaggery in it cause of so many various reasons like it's good for blood purification , detoxes the liver too . Now moving to the recipe here is the way I prepare this sweet ..Hope you and your family love it too :) #

Ingredients 

1 cup Chanadal

1/2 cup Jaggery

large pinch of haldi

1/2 cup desiccated coconut or dry coconut (kobri) ( have used desiccated coconut here)

2 tbsp ghee +1 tsp to fry nuts

1 tbsp Khus Khus (poppy seeds)

2 tbsp cashews 

2 tbsp raisins 

1 tsp crushed cardamom powder

Method

• Pressure cook Chanadal with haldi for about 3 whistles and then simmer for 2 mins. (Make sure chanadal is cooked) it shouldn't be mushy but grain must break easily when you press one grain of chanadal. ( Don't discard the water and you can make yummy Rasam out of it .
• Heat  1 tsp Ghee and fry khus khus and keep aside. Now in a same pan add nuts and raisins and fry till golden and keep aside.
• In a Deep pan melt Jaggery adding 1/4 cup water , when it melts well and comes to a boil add in cooked chanadal, desiccated coconut and fry till all the Jaggery mixes well with the chanadal and it starts leaving the pan add in ghee , fried khus khus, fried nuts, cardamom powder .
• Give a final mix and serve with love :)