Kajjaya is a traditional sweet cuisine made for Diwali, also known as Deepavali, as an offering to God. The other names for this food include ariselu, adhirasam and athirasam. In Karnataka, the bhagina, an offering made to the God on the day of the festival, has kajjaya as one of the items.

The kajjaya recipe has health values too because of ingredients, such as the jaggery, sesame seeds and poppy seeds. Raw rice is the main item you need to make kajjaya. A special point about the kajjaya recipe is the dough for this sweet dish is usually made a day before Diwali. Another note on how to make adhirasam / kajjaya is that you need to soak the rice for about 4 hours.

Karijikai/Karanji is a deep fried pastry filled with sweet filling. If you are wondering as what Gujiya is, well, it is similar to Karanji and referred as Gujiya in northern parts of India while it is called karanji in the southern part of India. Karjikai is deep fried crescent shaped pastry sheets prepared with all-purpose flour/wheat flour and filled with sweet stuffing prepared using jaggery, dal, and coconut. The filling can be prepared according to your culinary imagination and gastronomical preferences. Karjikai (Karnataka Style Deep Fried Sweet Pastry Recipe) are prepared during the festive time as an offering to God (Naivedyam) along with other festive recipes and later distributed to kith and kin.

Ellu Unde : Here comes laddu – that is “ELLU UNDE / TIL LADDU” translated in English as “Sesame sweet balls” . Yes sesame is known as “ellu ” in Kannada and “til” in hindi .

Black and white sesame seeds are two different varieties of sesame seed and have slightly different flavors. While the black variety is nuttier with a slight bitter after note, white ones are milder.These seeds are a very good source of copper, magnesium and calcium. Also,they are a heat generating food and hence good to be part of the cold season diet . Most of us usually ignore the black sesame seeds and opt for the white ones may be for the reason that the white ones look and taste better than the black seeds. But the black sesame seeds are more nutritious than the white ones.So today , i,ve selected black ones.

Til Laddus with black sesame are usually made for festivals like Krishna Janmashtami and nagarapanchami and white sesame is used in makara sankranthi.

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