Ingredients:
Banana 2 big ones mashed
Butter melted 1/4 cup
( I used Pyrex measuring jug)
All purpose flour 11/2 cup
Baking powder 1/4 ts
Baking soda 1/4 ts
Sugar 1/2 cup
Choc chips 1/4 cup
Vanilla essence 1/2 ts
Milk 1/2 cup
Preheat oven at 180 degree
In a bowl add flour,baking powder,baking soda,sugar,choc chips,vanilla essence,milk,mashed banana and melted butter
Mix well.
Pour into cup cake moulds and bake for 15-20 minutes or until muffins look golden brown.
Cool on wire rack and enjoy.
Ingredients:
Idli rice 2 cups
Methi seeds 2 tbs
Poha 1 cup
Yogurt 11/2 cups
Salt to taste
Baking soda 1/2 ts (optional)
Method:
Soak rice and methi seeds 4-5 hours
Just 10 minutes before grinding soak poha.
Grind drained rice ,methi seeds,poha with yogurt and salt to a fine paste.
Leave the batter in a warm place to ferment overnight.
Just before making dosa u can add baking soda.
Heat a nonstick tawa and pour the batter close with the lid.
Cook for 2-3 minute.
Serve with any chutney or sambar.....
Ingredients:
Quick oats 11/2 cups
Semolina 1 cup
Yogurt 2 cups
Grated carrot 1
Oil 2ts
Mustard seeds 1 ts
Curry leaves chopped 10
Green chilli chopped 2
Salt to taste
Cooking soda 1/2 ts
Coriander leaves chopped 2 tbs
Method:
Dry roast semolina and keep aside
Dry roast oats,cool and grind into powder.
Heat oil add mustard seeds when they splutter add chopped curry leaves,chopped green chilli fry for a minute
Add grated carrot fry for 5 minutes or until the raw smell goes
Take a bowl and add oats powder,semolina,salt,cooking soda,carrot mixture and yogurt.
Mix well. Add water to adjust the consistency.
Leave the mixture for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile heat the idli cooker and grease the moulds
Pour the mixture into idli moulds and cook for 15 minutes
5 minutes on high heat and 10 minutes on low heat.
Serve with chutney. Enjoy.
Ingredients:
Chana dal 2 cups
Dill leaves chopped a small bunch
Green chilli chopped 3-4
Ginger grated 1tbs
Onion chopped finely 1
Salt to taste
Cumin seeds 2 ts
Oil 11/2 cup for deep frying
Method:
Soak the chana dal for 4-5 hours,drain and grind coarsely.
Add all other ingredients except oil, mix well
Make small balls and flatten them
Heat oil and deep fry the vadas till golden brown.
Serve.
Ingredients:
Mashed banana 5 big ones
Sugar 11/2 cups or to taste
Ghee 2 tbs
Powdered cardamom 2-3 pods
Method:
Heat a Kadai add mased banana and sugar in it.
Cook stirring on medium flame until sugar caramelises
Add ghee and cook until halwa forms a ball shape
Add cardamom powder
Pour the halwa on greased plate
When it is cool cut into shapes.
Enjoy.
Ingredients:
Butter 1 tbs
Apples 4 grated with skin on
Sugar 1 cup or according to taste
Milk 1 litre
Cardamom powdered 3-4 pods
Method:
Heat butter add grated apples fry for 5 minutes or the moisture from apple disappears.
Add sugar and cook for 10-15 minutes stirring often.
While apples are cooking heat a litre of milk and cook till reduces to half.
Add reduced milk to stewed apples
Add cardamom powder.
Cook for 1 minute and switch off the heat.
Serve hot or cold....
My husband loves everything made out of coconut. This is his favourite sweet.
Ingredients:
Grated coconut 3 cups
Sugar 21/2 cups or according to your taste
Cardamom seeds 3-5 crushed
Ghee 1ts to grease the plate
Procedure:
Add coconut and sugar in a Kadai and Cook.
Sugar starts to melt, cook stirring until all the moisture from the mixture dries up.
Add crushed cardamom powder.
Pour the mixture into a greased plate and cool.
Cut into shapes and serve....
You can store this for 4-5 days in a airtight container.
Ingredients:
Basale soppu 1 bunch
Toor dal 1/2 cup
Oil 1 ts
Red chillies 5-7
Garlic cloves 3-4
Coriander seeds 2 tbs
Jeera seeds 1 ts
Mustard seeds 1 ts
Grated coconut 11/2 cup
Tamarind small piece
Water
Cook toor dal in pressure cooker and keep aside
Cook basale soppu
Meanwhile heat a teaspoon of oil and roast red chillies,garlic,coriander seeds,cumin seeds and mustard seeds until nice aroma comes out.
Grind these with grated coconut,tamarind adding water into a paste.
Add cooked dal,ground paste to cooked leaves and bring to a boil.
Serve with rice or steamed rice balls ( pundi)...
Ingredients:
Tomato chopped 5-6
Onion chopped -2
Green chilli sliced 2-3
Oil 2 tbs
Mustard seeds1 ts
Rasam powder 2-3 ts
Salt to taste
Coriander leaves 2 tbs for garnish
Heat oil add mustard seeds, wait till they crackle add onion and fry till they turn translucent.
Add green chilli,tomato and salt
Cook for 2-3 minutes
Add rasam powder cook until tomato cooks.
Switch off the heat and garnish with coriander leaves.
Serve with chapathi.
My husband and kids love this curry. Here is another look of this yummy curry.
Ingredients:
Finely chopped veggies like potato,carrot,beans,cauliflower and peas-2 cups
Onion chopped 2 medium ones
Tomatoes chopped 2-3
Ginger and garlic paste 2 tbs
Chilli powder 1 ts
Pav bhaji masala 3 tbs
Salt to taste
Oil 2 tbs
Pav buns buttered
Red onion rings
Lemon wedge
Coriander leaves 2-3 tbs
Cook vegetables adding little water and keep aside
Heat oil add onions and fry till light brown.
Add ginger and garlic paste fry for a minute.
Add tomatoes and fry until they turn mushy
Add chilli powder,pav bhaji masala and salt
Add drained vegetables, mash with a masher
Adjust the consistency adding vegetable cooked water.
Boil for 3-4 minutes
Garnish with coriander leaves.
Serve with pan fried bun,onion rings and lemon wedge.
Enjoy this Indian version of mashed vegetable burger!!!
Ingredients:
Paneer crumbled 400 gms
Oil 2 tbs
Cumin seeds 1 ts
Onion chopped 1
Green chilli chopped 2
Tomato chopped 1
Ginger and garlic paste 1 tbs
Chilli powder1 ts
Coriander powder 1 tbs
Garam masala 1 ts
Turmeric powder 1/2 ts
Salt to taste
Lemon juice 2 tbs
Coriander leaves to garnish 2 tbs
Heat oil add cumin seeds when they splutter add onion,green chilli
Fry for 3-4 minutes add ginger and garlic paste
Fry for a minute add tomato
Fry for 2-4 minutes,add all te powders and salt
Add paneer,mix and cook for 3-4 minutes
Add lemon juice ,garnish with coriander leaves.
Serve with chapathi,paratha...
Ingredients:
Snake beans chopped 500 gms
Green chilli sliced 5-7
Salt to taste
Oil 2 tbs
Mustard seeds 2 ts
Urid dal 1 tbs
Broken red chilli 2
Curry leaves 10-15
Grated coconut to garnish 2-3 tbs
Heat oil in a Kadai add mustard seeds,Urid dal and broken red chilli
When seeds splutter add curry leaves and green chilli
Fry for a minute add chopped snake beans.
Mix well sprinkle some water,close with a lid
Cook for 5 minutes
Open the lid add salt cook till dry
Garnish with grated coconut
Serve with rice...
Ingredients:
Tomato chopped 3
Toor dal 1/2 cup
Tamarind water1/2 cup
Turmeric powder 1/2 ts
Rasam powder 2 -4 tbs
Salt to taste
Curry leaves10-15
Coriander leaves
Cook dal in pressure cooker
In a sauce pan add tomato ,water and cook until tomato cooked
Add add cooked mashed dal,tamarind water,turmeric powder,salt and curry leaves
Bring to boil, add rasam powder boil for 2-3 minutes
Garnish with coriander leaves.
Serve with rice and ghee..... Enjoy
Ingredients:
Raddish 1 chopped into cubes
Moong dal 3/4 cup
Onion chopped 1
Tomato chopped 2
Tamarind juice 1/2 cup
Sambar powder 2 tbs
Chilli powder 1/2 ts
Salt to taste
Turmeric powder1/2 ts
Seasoning
Oil 1 tbs
Cumin seeds 1 ts
Curry leaves 10
Broken red chilli 2
In a pressure cooker add moong dal,chopped onion,tomato,raddish and some water
Cook for 3 whistles
When pressure goes open cooker add the contents to another vessel
Add sambar powder,turmeric powder,chilli powder,salt and tamarind water
Bring to boil.
Add the seasoning.
Serve with rice or idli or dosa...
Ingredients:
Bottle gourd chopped 1
Green chilli sliced 4-6
Oil 2 tbs
Mustard seeds 1ts
Urid dal 1 tbs
Chana dal 1 tbs
Curry leaves 10-15
Broken red chilli 2
Salt to taste
Grated coconut to garnish
Heat oil in a Kadai add oil mustard seeds,Urid dal,Chana dal fry till dal turns light brown
Add curry leaves,broken red chilli and green chillies
Fry for a minute add chopped bottle gourd,mix well to coat the seasoning
Close with lid,do not add water because bottle gourd itself leaves water while cooking
Cook for 5 minutes,open lid add salt
Cook till dry,add grated coconut.
Serve with rice,chapathi....
Ingredients:
Sona masoori rice 3 cups
Salt to taste
Grated coconut 1 cup
Cucumber peeled chopped 1 big
( I used one big continental cucumber)
Soak rice in water for 3-5 hours
Drain the water and grind with salt,coconut and cucumber
Make a thin batter adding enough water
Batter should be like neeru dosa batter
Heat non stick tawa pour a laddlefull of batter into a thin layer
Cover the tawa with a lid ,cook for 2- 3 minutes.
Take the dosa out of tawa using spatula.
Serve with chutney or curry....
Ingredients:
Wheat flour 2 cups
Salt to taste
Water to make dough.
Oil to deep fry.
In a bowl add wheat flour ,salt and water.
Mix well and add enough water to make pliable dough.
Keep aside for 1/2 an hour
Take a small ball of dough and roll it into small chapathi.
Deep fry in the oil.
Serve with sagu or potato palya... Enjoy.
Ingredients:
Chopped vegetables 3 cups
( I used choko,carrot,beans,peas)
Onion 1 chopped
Tomato 1 chopped
Oil 1 tbs
Mustard seeds 1 ts
Salt to taste
To grind
Coconut grated 1 cup
Coriander seeds 1 tbs
Cumin seeds 1 ts
Dalia( roasted Chana dal) 2 tbs
Cinnamon 1 cm piece
Cloves 2-4
Green chilli 3-5
Coriander leaves 4-5 sprigs
Ginger 1 inch
Grind all the ingredients under to grind into paste
Cook the vegetables adding enough water.
Heat oil add mustard seeds ,when they splutter add onion fry till translucent
Add tomato fry for 3-5 minutes
Add paste ,vegetables , salt and enough water
Bring to boil .
Serve with poori or chapathi,set dosa...
Ingredients:
Sona masoori rice 1 cup
Salt to taste
Grated coconut 1/2 cup
Jaggery 1 cup grated
Cardamom pods powdered 3-4
Water to grind
Method:
Soak rice for 3-4 hours.
Grind the rice adding pinch of salt and water to a smooth paste.
Heat a Kadai add the batter and start stirring
Batter should be like milkshake consistancy.
stir continuously do not let lumps to form.
When it starts to thicken add grated jaggery and cook
Have a little taste ,you should feel batter is cooked
Add grated coconut and cardamom powder ,stir for 2-4 minutes.
Pour on greased plate and cool completely.
Cut into any shapes ,serve and enjoy...
| Ingredients: |
For dough:
Maida 1 cup
Salt to taste
Water as required
for filling:
Grated coconut 1 cup
Jaggery according to taste
Cardamom powder 1 ts
Oil to deep fry
Method:
Make chapathi like dough using maida ,salt and water.
Prepare the filling.
Roll the small ball of dough like chapathi,place a table spoon of filling on centre and close the edges of dough and make the shape of modaka .
Deep fry in oil until golden brown.
This dish is made on Ganesha festival as offering to lord Ganesha.
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