MosaruKodabale_MosaruNipathu

Mosaru Kodabale and Mosaru Nipathu: Dough out of curds Snacks from curds, this was an eye catcher for me, when I checked this recipe out on Prathibha's blog - The Chef and her Kitchen. In my house, we make curds and once in a week we will have sambar/curry made out of curds. This was a real new thing in my house, which added smile to all of us in this winter. Ingredients: Mosaru Kodabale Sour Curds - 1 cup Rice Flour - 1 cup Moong...

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BeetrootPalya

Beetroot Palya: Ingredients: Beetroot - 3 Palya Powder - 2 tbsp Sugar - 1 tsp Salt - to taste Oil - 1 tbsp Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Curry leaves - few Cilantro/Coriander leaves - few Method: Grate the beetroot using a handy grater Heat oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds to it and wait till it splutters Add curry leaves and leave them to roast Add Salt, Sugar to the oil Put the grated beetroot to the oil Stir them well Once the beetroot is cooked,...

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PalyaPowder

Palya Powder: Using different powders in cooking, cooking would be very simpler and fast, as they are handy. Ingredients: Groundnut Seeds (roasted) - 1 cup Fried gram (pottukadale) (putani) (chanagapappulu) - 1 cup Red Chillies (guntur mirpakayalu, which is not twisted) - 1/2 cup Method: Grind all the above ingredients in a food processor / mixer Note: You need to just add this powder while making palya/poriyal along with salt for the cooked vegetabl...

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RasamwithDhal

Paruppu Rasam or Rasam with Dhal: A must required for our lunch, as my son and my hubby both are crazy of having rasam rice. Toor Dhal with tomato is cooked for 4 to 5 whistles. (or till the dhal is properly cooked) Prepare tadka with mustard seeds and curry leaves, which is nothing but once the oil is hot add mustard seeds and wait till it splutters, add curry leaves. Add tamarind syrup and cooked tomato into the tadka and leave it to boil. Add...

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DhalTadka

Dhal tadka: Its nice to eat in occasion, along with chappati. Its very simple to cook. Dhal Tadka Wash the channa dhal once and add little turmeric to it and cook for 3 whistles. Heat 1 tsp of oil in a kadai, when its hot, add mustard seeds and wait till it splutters. Add curry leaves, chopped green chillies, salt and fry Put cooked dhal and fry them for some more time Sprinkle coriander leaves on top of dhal tadka. Back to Saturdaylun...

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SweetPongal

SweetPongal: A perfect lunch should have atleast one sweet (diabetes patient try the same with  sugar free ingredient). Ingredients: Rice - 1 cup Channa Dhal - 1 handful Jaggery - 1/2 cup Cardmom Powder - 1 tsp Dry grapes / kismis - 1 handful (quantity can vary as per your taste) Cashewnuts - 5 to 6 Ghee - 2 tbsp Poppy Seeds - 2 tsp Coconut - 1/2 Method: Sweet Pongal/Chakra Pongal Cook rice and channa dhal (kadale bele) for 4 whistles Add...

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SaturdayLunch_19Nov11

I was delighted to cook last Saturday, 19th Nov 2011 a variety of dishes viz., Rice, Dhal Fry, Rasam with Dhal, Beetroot Palya/Poriyal, Sweet Pongal and curds (of course, curds is just adding sour curds into the milk nothing more than that). Sweet Pongal/Chakra Pongal Beetroot Palya Dhal Tadka Rasam with Dhal MosaruKodabale-MosaruNipatu In the evening, I had prepared Mosaru Kodabale and Mosaru Nipatu. Thus was my beautiful...

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TomatoBread

My working day starts with writing a post. I am getting addicted to my blog. Thanks for all those whom I follow through their blogs. Added advantage is event in their blog. Yesterday, I had just posted my tomato gojju recipe which I prepared on last friday. As it was over I just did tomato gojju and mixed it with my bread. Had tomato bread and coffee for my breakfast, an yummy and healthy breakfast. Ingredients: Tomato Gojju - 1 tbsp Bread...

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Paddu

Paddu Paddu or Khara Panniyaram can be had as a breakfast or as a snack. This is made up of dosa batter. This can be served with any kind of chutney. Children would love to eat them with tomato ketchup. This is also a South Indian recipe. Paddu with coffee serves as a winter recipe for your sweet evening. Ingredients: Dosa Batter – 1 cup Groundnut seeds – ½ cup Onion – 2 nos Coriander leaves – ½ cup Salt to taste Method: Roast and...

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KolluSundal

Kollu Sundal: Winter in Bangalore is too cold because of its nature, but due to cut down of trees it is not that cold comparatively to previous years. To keep ourselves warm in winter, we would tend to eat more snacks. On Sunday, my hubby wanted to have  Kollu Sundal, means Horsegram Sundal for snacks and its rasam. My mother-in-law started her preparation for the same. Horsegram should be soaked atleast for 5 to 6 hours, then it should...

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UllavaluRasam

Ullavalu is a telugu name for horsegram. Its tamil name is kollu. Rasam is good for digestion. Its famous in South India and elders would prefer to have rasam in their food to ease the process of digestion, especially when there is heavy lunch/dinner. Ingredients: Cooked ullavalu – 1 bowl Cooked ullavalu water Ripped tomatoes – 2 nos Tamarind Juice – 2 tsp Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp Rasam Powder – 1 tbsp Curry leaves - few Jaggery – a small...

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BadamDatesBalls

BadamDatesBalls: I am very eager to post this today itself, which I prepared yesterday night within 20 minutes. I wonder how could a person who was not knowing how to cook sweets, could do it in 20 minutes? Coincidence is, I checked madscientist'skitchen today written by  Archana and she has also prepared DatesLaddoos from her partner blog, Radhika, author of Ticklingpalatea. I am also sending my post to Blog Hop Wednesday - Week #9. Ingredients: Badam...

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TomatoChappati

Tomato Chappati: I came to know that Anu is hosting an event called LGSS-Tomato between 5th Nov to 5th Dec 2011. This LGSS series was started by Vatsala in June 2011. Checked out my dining table, luckily found Tomato gojju and added it along with Chappati. Ingredients: Atta or Wheat flour – 250 gms Ghee – 2 tsp Oil – 4 tbsp Salt to taste Water to make Chappati dough Tomato gojju – 4 tbsp Method: Take atta in a bowl, add ghee,...

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TomatoGojju

Tomato Gojju: My mom-in-law, Vani says gojju will save our time and will remain handy for days together if it is cooked properly. Reason behind is, it can be had as a side dish or with rice when you have less time to cook. Ingredients: For grinding: Ripped tomatoes – 6 nos Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp Fenugreek Seeds – 1 tsp For cooking: Oil – 2 tbsp Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp Curry leaves - few Chilli Powder – 2 tsp (according to your taste) Salt to...

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Pesarathu

A famous Andhra breakfast recipe is Pesarathu. It’s made up of green gram dhal and it looks more or less like dosa. This is a slighter different version from my partner Saraswathi's blog. Ingredients: Green Gram Dhal – 500 gms Green chillies – 6 nos Onion – 3 nos Coriander leaves – ¼ bunch Water (as required) Rice flour – ¼ gms Method: Soak green gram dhal overnight almost about 8 to 10 hours Next day morning add green gram...

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MasalaPapad

After a week full of hectic work schedule at office I am free on weekends. Thanks to all my bloggers whom I follow, because of them I have learnt to think how better my lunch table can be on Saturday. Isn't it a cool and nice idea to add a hot "masala papad" along with rice, sambar, rasam and curds to make your winter day little hot.  Radhika of tickling palatea, a fellow blogger has come up with a great theme called Winter Carnival...

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FruitSaladOats

Oats helps us in reducing cholestrol. Fruits are rich in vitamins, minerals. Then isn't a combination of these two along with milk is good for health? I would like to thank  my colleagues Davameena and Aditya for this wonderful dish. This served me today as my light lunch. Ingredients: Quaker Oats - 50gms Pineapple - 2 small pieces Papaya - 4 small pieces Musk Melon - 2 small pieces Banana - 1 Sugar - 5 cubes  Milk - 1 cup to...

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Sabbakivada

I was wondering what to prepare for snacks on Saturday afternoon for my children who would come home after their school with a holiday mood. I checked out and found Sabudan or Sabbaki and thought of doing Vada out of it. I took them out, washed and rinsed for 4 hours in water. After 4 hours I was ready to prepare Sabbakivada or Sabudan vada. Ingredients: Sabbaki - 500gms Coriander leaves - 1/2 bunch Onion - 4 Green Chillies -8 nos. (it...

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Christmas_NewYearEve_2011

I am very delighted to see events happening in various blogs. More people are getting connected with each other due to these events, even from different cities, remote corners of the world.  I feel its great to see the world come closer with friends through various things, here are few of them: Famous Social networking site viz., facebook or twitter  Blog Email Christmas is nearing, most of us are becoming busy in practicing...

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Diwali_Sweet_Savory

Diwali is a festival of lights. I remember the small story about this festival. Story is as follows: Once the SUN asked all the other sources of light, when I set, who would give the light to the world. Everyone was in immense silence, then a small diva light said in his low voice, i would be happy to give the light after you set. That's the reason, today we all lit small diva(s) in the night and early in the morning during Diwali and Karthika...

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SugarSyrup

I used to think all the while, that this is really difficult, but thanks to my sister-in-law she showed me once with jaggery. Sugar - as per the requirement to make the sweet Water - 1/2 cup (small one) Water to be added just to ensure that sugar doesn't get burnt off before it starts melting Mix Sugar and Water and heat them in a kadai Stir them occasionally Check as and when the syrup has become thick (when you touch the syrup in...

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CopraPak

I was delighted to cook Coprapak on this Sunday evening. Thanks to my mother-in-law to teach me how it should be made. This post is sent to My Diwali My Way Event announced by Kushi. Ingredients: Coconuts - 2 Nos Sugar - 750g Poppy Seeds - 2 tbsp Cashewnuts - 100 gms Ghee for frying - 2 tbsp Ghee for grease - 2 tsp (depending on the plate size) Cardamom powder (optional) - for taste - 2 tbsp Baking Soda (optional) - 1 tbsp Method: Grate...

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Tribute-to-jayasreeaval-BananaChips

Thanks to Jayashree aunt of Kailas Kitchen, her blog has got easy recipes too for an amateur like me. A tribute to her by this post. I selected to make Banana Chips as it was easy and fast. Banana Chips: Ingredients: Banana Chips 2 Bananas (used yelakka banana so it was sweet and hot) Oil for deep frying - 100 gms Salt - 2 tsp Chilli Powder - 3 tsp Method: Heat oil in a kadai Cut the bananas and keep it ready Once the oil is ready,...

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