Meethi Thuli ( Sweet Dalia) , Rice and Kadhi ( Durga Ashthami Prasad)

Meethi Thuli ( Sweet dalia or broken wheat)

Ingredients :

1. 1 cup Broken wheat or Dalia 
2. 1 cup jaggery pieces 
3. 3 cups of water 

Method :

1. Put 1 cup jaggery in a little water and bring to a boil so that jaggery  dissolves in the water to make jaggery syrup.
2. Wash the Dalia with water and put 2 cups of water and 1 cup of jaggery syrup.
3. Mix well and put in a pressure cooker and cook until 3 whistles.

Rice :

1. 1 cup rice
2. 2 cups water

Method :

1. Wash rice and add  2 cups of water and cook in the pressure cooker for 3 whistles, or u can cook the way u generally make plain white rice.

Marwari Kadhi 


Ingredients :

1. 2 cups of curd
2. 1/4 cup besan or gram flour
3. 1 and 1/4 cup water
4. 1 tspoon salt
5. 1/4 tspoon red chilly powder

For Tadka :

1. 1 and 1/2 tbspoon ghee
2. 1/2 tspoon of a mix of mustard seeds, cumin seeds and methi or fenugreek seeds.
3. 2 green chillies cut into pieces
4. 4-5 curry leaves
5. 1/4 tspoon of grated ginger
6. A pinch of Asafoetida
7. A pinch of turmeric powder

For garnishing.

2 tb spoons of finely cut coriander leaves


Method :

1. Beat the curd and add the gram flour to make a smooth paste.
2. Add all the water to make the paste watery.
3. Add salt and red chilly powder and mix well.
4. Meanwhile prepare the tadka.Take a pan and heat the ghee and add the mustard seeds , cumin seeds and methi seeds.
5. let them sizzle and add green chillies and curry leaves and grated ginger.
6. Next add the Asafoetida and turmeric powder and stir them for a half a minute until the ginger and chillies are done.
7. After the tadka is done add the curd, gram flour mixture to the tadka and keep stirring continuously( or the mixture will curdle)  until the kadhi comes to a boil .
8. Let it boil for another 10- 15 minutes and your Kadhi is done.
9. Garnish it with coriander leaves.  And serve hot with plain rice with a little ghee and meethi Thuli as ur Asthami prasad along with the blessing of Goddess Durga.