Besan Laddoo--three variations

What are festivities without the sweet smell of roasted besan ?
Besan laddoos have been a festival favorite.  when I turned vegan, oil was used to make them.
But with wholefood, oil is out.  so how do I relish these wonders?
My friend Mayavi from My Pure Path, showed me just how.

Raw porridge

Its Navratri and I am on a diet of raw fruits and seeds for these nine days.  Most of the people are fasting,  So I decided to use this wonderful collective energy to go on the fruitarian diet!

As experiments go, made this wonderful porridge of coconut and sabja seeds, sweetened with dates.

Kerala Kalappam

Appam to me meant the deep fried sweet stuff we snacked on.  In our home, the velle appam or kal appam that is so popularly served at kerala restaurants was a rarity since the kall or toddy was not so easily available. Later mom found out about this method of making the rising agent with coconut water.

As I grew up, I developed a liking for this kind of appams.  Going whole food meant no more white rice.
Vella means white and this was a characteristic of this breakfast item.
Doing it with red rice me with some resistance from the mind, but had to try it anyway.
They turned out even better than their white variety!