Ragi Huri Hittina Unde /Ladoo

Ingredients: 

• Ragi Huri Hittu - 2 cups
• Coconut grated – 2 tbsp
• Jaggery grated – ½ cup
• Elachi (cardamom) – ½ tsp.
• Ghee – 1 tsp
• Warm Milk – 1 cup ( as needed)
• Optional: roasted nuts ( peanut or cashew)

Method: 

1. Mix everything except milk in a bowl. 
2. Gradually add  little by little milk until the mixture holds together to form lime size ladoos/balls.

Limbe Sar

Limbe Sar / Lemon Juice curry is good for new-moms.

Ingredients:

• Lemon juice - 2 (to taste)
• Coconut - 1/2 cup (grated) 
• Cumin/Jirige- 1/2 tsp
• Coriander seed/KothambariBeeja - 1 tsp
• Red Chillies / Onna menasu - 4
• B.Pepper / Kal menasu - 4 to 5
• Turmeric/Haldi -1/2 tsp
• Suger - 1/4 tsp
• Salt - to taste
• For Seasoning:
• Ghee /Purified Butter - 1 tsp
• Cumin/Jirige - 1/2 tsp
• Curry leaves/Karibavu - 6 or 7 leaves

Method:

1. Roast jirige, kothambari, OnnaMenasu, KalMenasu and coconut each separately with bit of Ghee/oil.
2. Grind the the roasted ingredients with haldi and water. 
3. Transfer the ground paste to a sauce pan, add water, sugar and salt. Cook it on medium heat
4. Let it for 4 to 5 minutes. 
5. Turn off the heat and stir in the lemon juice. Amount of lemon juice depends.
6. Seasoning the curry: In a small sauce pan, heat  ghee, add Jirige and Karibavu. Once the leaves stops splattering, pour the whole mixing over the curry.
7. Optional: garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
8. Serve hot with rice and enjoy!

Savatekaayi Kadabu

Ingredients :

• Grated Cucumber(Savatekaayi)
• Medium Sized Rava - 1 cup
• Coconut (grated) - 1 cup
• Cardamom - 2-3 
• Salt - a pinch
• Jaggery - as per the requirement
• Ghee - 5-6 tsp

Method :

• Fry medium sized rava with ghee till it turns a light brown.
• Thoroughly mix grated cucumber(Savatekaayi), grated coconut, cardamom, jaggery, a litte salt, fried rava. 
• All these ingredients has to be mixed in cucumber water. Kindly note that no extra water here is required as cucumber itself leaves out water.
• Smear a little ghee on a steamer plate.
• Put the above mixture on the steamer plate.
•       Steaming time : 15-20 mins
• Cut them into small pieces
• Savatekaayi Kadabu is ready to eat.

Menthya Ganji

Ingredients :

•  Fenugreek Seeds - 3-4 Spoons
•  Rice - 1 cup
•  Coconut milk - 1 cup
•  Jaggery - as per the requirement
•  Cardamom - 1

Method : 

• Soak Fenugreek Seeds overnight.
• Cook the overnight soaked seeds with rice in a cooker adding water(a little more in quantity).
• Boil the same mixture with coconut milk, jaggery, Cardamom.

Note: Add  ground khus khus for better taste