Ribbon Pakoda with Millet Flour - Diwali Savoury Snack

Ribbon Pakoda is one of  Princy's fav snack item. You can make this as an evening snack for your kids when they are back from school. I usually prepare this with normal version but my mom prepare this easy snack very often with jonnalu (millet flour). So I tried my mom's version yesterday asking the recipe from my mom. It came out very well and my hubby told me to do this version especially for Princy. Adding jonnalu (millet flour) in this way is healthy for kids.

Karam Gavvalu / Savory Shells

Today's special is  "Karam Gavvalu",a traditional, delicious crispy snack from Andhra. There are 2 versions, savory and sweeter versions of it and today my post is about the savory one. The particular shape is attained using a special gadget as gavvalu balla or gavvalu peeta specifically designed for this purpose. It is a wooden board with ridges that comes different sizes. But if you do not have it you can use either a new comb or back side of a big fork to prepare this. Usually it is prepared with a mix of maida(plain flour) and rice flour but this time I prepared with wheat flour as it makes these gavvalu more tastier and healthy for kids.

Ragi Peanut Laddu

As always my focus is on my fussy kid, who do not like ragi in any form. The benefits of Ragi(Finger Millets) are never ending by adding extra nuts and several cereals which are dried and powdered. It makes as a perfect recipe to all the nutritional requirements. Kids should be made to take ragi drinks/snacks which is available from an early age before they are introduced to bakery food.. Ragi is best food for weight control, diabetes and a cooling the body.It is rich in calcium & rich source of fiber and helps lower cholesterol level. Instead of popping a pill, you can as well substitute that with ragi kanji.

Ragi cherry is one of the best semi-solid foods that you give your kid before you get him/her used to solid food. As I did to my kid. It's the best baby food in India to make kids strong. Speak to your granny and am sure she will come up with more suggestions!