Kerala style sweet aval | Aval Varratiyathu – Traditional sweet aval recipe for Janmashtami | Krishna jayanthi, recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures.
In Tamilnadu, we make no-cook Vella aval for Krishnajayanth neivedyam. This is similar to that but we cook this for a few minutes and add other ingredients to this. A few months back a friend shared this recipe with me. I decided to make this and share the recipe before Janmashtami 2022. I tweaked the recipe a little bit and it turned out very well.
Traditionally they add roasted sesame seeds and also red poha is used. Since I didn’t get red aval, I used white one. Apart from making this for Krishna jayanthi, we can make this for kid’s snacks too. This is a very healthy kid’s friendly snack.
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Kerala style sweet aval
Ingredients
- ½ cup aval | poha
- ¼ cup powdered jaggery
- ¼ cup water
- 2 tsp ghee
- 2 tbsp coconut bits
- 2 tbsp grated coconut
- 6 cashew nuts
- 1 tbsp raisins
- 1 tsp cardamom powder
- 1 tbsp kalkandu |sugar candy
- ½ chopped banana
Instructions
- In a pan add ghee and add the cashew nuts.
- Roast for few seconds and add the raisins.
- Saute till the raisins puffs up.
- Take out and keep it aside.
- In the same pan add the coconut bits.
- Roast till they turn golden brown.
- Keep this aside.
- Now add ¼ cup jaggery and ¼ cup water to the pan.
- Melt the jaggery and let this boil this for 2 minutes.
- Now lower the flame and add the poha. You can wash the poha and add too.
- If using thick poha, soak in water for 5 minutes, drain and add.
- Add the grated coconut to the pan.
- Mix well and cook for a minute.
- The aval will absorb all the jaggery water.
- Switch off the flame.
- Add the sugar candy(kalkandu), roasted cashew nuts, raisins, roasted coconut, cardamom powder and banana to this.
- Add the lemon juice. This gives a very nice taste to this vella aval, so do not miss this.
- Also adding lemon juice helps the poha to stay soft without getting hard.
- Mix well.
- Aval is ready for neivedyam, offering to God.
- You can serve this as a snack for kids too.
Notes
- In a pan add ghee and add the cashew nuts.
- Roast for a few seconds and add the raisins.
- Saute till the raisins puff up.
- Take it out and keep it aside.
- In the same pan add the coconut bits.
- Roast till they turn golden brown.
- Keep this aside.
- Now add ¼ cup jaggery and ¼ cup water to the pan.
- Melt the jaggery and let this boil for 2 minutes.
- Now lower the flame and add the poha. You can wash the poha and add too.
- If using thick poha, soak in water for 5 minutes, drain and add.
- Add the grated coconut to the pan.
- Mix well and cook for a minute.
- The aval will absorb all the jaggery water.
- Switch off the flame.
- Add the sugar candy(kalkandu), roasted cashew nuts, raisins, roasted coconut, cardamom powder, and banana to this.
- Add the lemon juice. This gives a very nice taste to this vella aval, so do not miss this.
- Also adding lemon juice helps the poha to stay soft without getting hard.
- Mix well.
- Aval is ready for neivedyam, offering to God.
- You can serve this as a snack for kids too.
- Traditionally they add dry roasted black sesame seeds. If you want you can add 1 tbsp of roasted sesame seeds.
- If you get Kerela Nendram banana use it for this recipe.
- You can use red poha for making this Aval varattiyathu recipe | sweet aval
