Curd rice

Usha's

Ingredients:

1 cup rice cooked

1 cup milk

2 cup curds

Salt to taste

Oil 1 tbs

Mustard seeds 1 ts

Urid dal 1 ts

Green chilli chopped 3

Ginger chopped finely 1 ts

Curry leaves 4-5

Coriander leaves chopped 1 tbs

 

In a bowl add cooked rice salt ,milk and mash well ,add curds keep aside.

Heat oil in a Kadai add mustard seeds,Urid dal wait for seeds to crackle add chopped ginger ,green chilli and curry leaves ,fry for a minute add this seasoning to rice and curds mixture.

Add chopped coriander leaves. Mix and serve ..

 

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Varamahalakshmi pooja

Usha's

 

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Tricolour palya

Usha's

I prepared this palya on Aug 15 on the occasion of independence day.

Ingredients:

Beans hand ful chopped

Potato 1 big one chopped

Carrot 2 chopped

Onion 1 chopped

Oil 2 ts

Mustard seeds 2 ts

Jeera 2 ts

Curry leaves 10-15

Turmeric powder a pinch

Chilli powder 1/2ts

Grated coconut 2 tbs

 

Heat oil in a Kadai add mustard seeds, jeera,curry leaves wait for seeds to crackle add onion fry for 2-3 minutes.

Add chopped vegetables , sprinkle some water and close with a lid and cook for 5 minutes.

Add salt ,turmeric powder and chilli powder. Cook until vegeies are soft.

Garnish with coconut. Serve with chapathi or rice.

 

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Raw banana dosa

Usha's

Ingredients:

Sona masoori rice 3 cups

Raw banana 2 big ones peeled chopped

Salt as per taste

 

Soak rice for 4-5 hours.

Grind the rice along with chopped raw banana to fine paste.

Add salt. Heat dosa tawa and make dosa. Close with lid and cook for 2-3 minutes.

Serve with coconut chutney or any curry...

 

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Odupale

I have been craving for this dish for long time now. My mom makes this on a wood fired stove which gives a nice smoky flavour . I made this on a gas stove. The taste was not exactly like my mom's dish but was enough to satisfy my craving. Here goes the recipe...

ingredients:

Sona masoori rice 3 cups

Salt to taste

 

Soak rice for 4-5 hours.

Grind to a fine paste ,add salt.

Batter should be like milk consistency.

Pour two ladle full of batter on earthenware tawa, close with a lid and cook for 3-4 minutes.

Take the odupale out of tawa.

Serve with chutney.

 

 

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Spicy paddu/guliyappa

Ingredients:

Idli rice 2 cups

Urid dal 1 cup

Methi seeds 2ts

Salt to taste

Onion 1 chopped

Green chillies 4-5 chopped

Ginger 2 cm chopped

Coriander leaves chopped 3tbs

Curry leaves 6-8 chopped

 

Method:

Soak rice,dal and Methi seeds separately for 4-6 hours

Grind dal and Methi seeds to fine paste, grind rice to paste.

Mix both batters well,add salt and leave in a warm place to ferment.

Mix in all the chopped ingredients to the batter.

Make paddu in paddu tawa. Cook both sides.

Serve with coconut chutney ...

 

 

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Kashi/ash gourd halwa

Ever since I had this halwa in my son's Upanayanam ,I wanted to try this at home.So here is the recipe..

 

Ingredients:

Ash gourd grated 2 cups

Sugar 1 1/2 cups

Ghee 3 tbs

Cardamom powder a pinch

Cashew nuts 5-7

Raisins 10-15

 

Method:

Grate ash gourd and cook this in pressure cooker for 3 whistles.

Transfer this to a Kadai add sugar and cook stirring untill all the moisture evaporates.

Add ghee and cardamom powder.

Add fried cashew and raisins in a teaspoon of ghee.

Switch off the heat. Halwa is ready. Enjoy...

Here is another look of my kashi halwa......

 

 

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