Friday, August 28, 2009

Sweet Corn Soup


Ingredients:
2 carrots
50 gms beans
1 corn
Sugar 1 tsp
salt to taste
corn flour 2 tsp
milk 4 tsp
ajinamoto 1/4 tsp
Pepper powder 1tsp

Procedure:
1.Cut the carrot,beans into small pieces.
2.Take big vessel,add 4 glasses of water and boil it.
3.Now add carrot,beans,1/2 of the corn kernels.
4.Now take remaining corn kernels and blend it for 1/2 minute.Make sure that corn is not mashed fully.
5.Once corn,carrot,beans are boiled,add blended corn,salt,sugar,ajinamoto and cook for 5minutes.
6.Take cornflour into a bowl add milk and mix it properly,make sure no lumps are formed.
7.Add this cornflourmilk to boiled vegies.
8.Finally add pepper and serve it hot.

Carrot Beans poriyal


Ingredients:
Carrot 4
Beans 200gms
Coconut grated 4 tsp
Green chillies 4
Salt to taste

Procedure:
1.Cut carrot and beans into small pieces.
2.Heat pan,add one tsp of oil,add zeera,mustard seeds and fry for a minute.
3.Now add carrot,beans to the pan,add salt and cook for about 10minutes untill carrot,beans become soft.
4.Add grated coconut,green chillies paste to it and for 2minutes.
5.Serve with rice.

Very healthy and easy recipe.

Capsicum Aloo Stuff Curry

Ingredients:
Small size capsicum 6
Aloo 3
Green peas 2 tsp
Onion 1
Green chillies 4
chopped ginger and garlic 2 tsp
Red chilly powder 1/2 tsp
garam masala 1/2 tsp
salt to taste

Procedure:
1.Boil aloo and greenpeas in pressure cooker for 3 whistles.
2.Mash boiled potatoes,green peas and keep aside.
3.Heat pan,add one tsp of oil,add green chillies,ginger,garlic,chopped onions and fry for 3minutes.
4.Now add mashed potatoes,greenpeas,red chilly powder,garam masala,salt to it.
5.Fry for 5 minutes and cool this mixture.
6.Cut the capsicum from top in a circular way so that we can stuff aloo mixture into it.Put the aloo stuff in all capsicums.
7.Heat pan with 1 tsp of oil,add 3 capsicums at a time and fry all sides till it turns golden brown.
8.Serve hot with rice.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Pumpkin Halwa

Ingredients:
milk 1 liter
pumkin 600gms or 3 cups grated pumpkin
Almonds 1/2 cup
sugar 1 cup
elaichi powder 1/2 tsp


Preparation:
1.In a heavy bottom vessel,boil milk in medium flame,stir in middle and boil till it become 1/4 of original quantity .It takes for about 1 hour.
2.Add sugar to milk and boil for 5minutes.
3.Now take another pan and add 3 tsp of ghee,fry grated pumpkin till raw smell evaporates.it takes about 20 minutes.
4.Soak almonds 2 hours before,peel skin and grind it to make fine powder.
5.Add almond powder,elaichi powder,milk to pumpkin mixture and fry for about 15minutes.
6.Put this halwa in fridge and serve it cool.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Gobi Parata


Ingredients:
Gobi grated 1/2 cup
Wheat flour 2 cups
garam masala powder 1/2 tsp
coriander powder 1/2 tsp
cumin powder 1/2 tsp
tumeric powder 1/4 tsp
Ginger garlic green chilly paste 4 tsp
salt to taste

Procedure:
1.Add salt to grated gobi and keep it a side for 30minutes.
2.Now Squeeze water from gobi and add gingergarlic green chilly paste,masala powders to it.
3.Now knead wheat flour and divide into equal size balls.Take each ball and make roti, add 1 spoon full of stuffing,fold it and again make roti.
4.Heat tawa and fry like aloo parata with one tsp of oil.
5.Serve with sauce or pickle.

Sambar


Ingredients:
Drumstick 1
small onion 10
ginger chopped 2 tsp
green chillies 4 or 5
Sambar masala 4 tsp
tomato 1
toor dal 1/2 cup
tamarind lemon size
hing 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds,jeera,urad dal,red chillies for tampering
coriander leaves 2 tsp



Procedure:

1.Cook toor dal for 3 whistles.
2.Heat pan add one tsp of oil and add mustard seeds,jeera,urad dal,redchillies,green chillies,onion,ginger,garlic and fry for 5 to 6 minutes.
3.Take vessel add tamarind extracted water and add tomato,drumstick,fried ingredients to that water and boil for few minutes.
3.Now add toordal,sambar powder,hing,salt,turmeric and boil for 15minutes.
4.Finally add chopped coriander and serve hot with idly or rice.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Chakkera banalu


Easy and tasty snack
Ingredients:
1cup wheat flour
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar
Oil for deep fry

Procedure:
1.Mix sugar in milk and make it to dissolve,add this milk to wheat flour make a dough like chapati dough.
2.Now make like chapatis with this dough.
3.Cut each chapati into small squares with knife.
4.Heat oil and deep fry this small squares.
5.Store in air tight container.

Vangi bath



Ingredients:
Basmati rice 1 cup
Egg plant 1 big
MTR vangi bath powder 3 tsp
Jeera,mustard seeds,urad dal for tampering
cashew 10
ground nuts 2 tsp
green chillies 5
redchillies 3
Lemon juice 1 tsp
Onion 1
Ginger chopped 1 tsp
1tsp jaggery

Procedure:
1.Cook rice with 2 cups of water,add 1/2 tsp of ghee and salt to rice.
2.Heat kadai,add 2 tsp of ghee.
3.Now add jeera,mustardseeds,urad dal,redchillies,greenchillies,ginger,onion and fry till onion turns colour.
4.Now add chopped brinjal pieces,jaggery and close the lid for 5minutes and fry till brinjal cooks.
5.Now add vangi bath powder,salt to it.
6.Take this mixture out and fry cashew,ground nuts in kadai.
6.Now cool this mixture,add lemon juice and this mixture to rice.
7.Serve hot with thick curd.

Atukulu(poha) dosa


Ingredients:

Poha 1/2 cup
Rice 1 cups
urad dal 1/4 cup
methi seeds 1 tsp
salt to taste
green chillies 7
Grated carrot 3 tsp
Sour Buttermilk 3 cups

Procedure:
1.Soak atukulu,rice,urad dal in buttermilk for about 4 to 5 hours.
2.Grind atukulu mixture with greenchillies and salt together.
3.Leave this batter for whole night like dosa batter.
4.Now heat a nonstick pan and spread this batter in pan,add one tsp of oil around dosa and garnish with carrot,coriander or onions.
5.Close the pan with a lid for 1 min and turn dosa,keep it for one more minute in pan and take it out.
6.Serve hot with ginger or cocconut or peanut chutney.

Onion Samosa


Ingredients:
Pastry sheets
onions 3
redchilly powder 1 tsp
coriander powder 1 tsp
garam masala 1/2 tsp
turmeric 1/4 tsp
salt to taste
maida 1 tsp
oil for deepfry

Procedure:
1.Heat pan with 1tsp of oil and add onions.
2.Fry till onions become soft and add all masala powders.
3.Thaw pastry sheets, fold the sheet horizantal wise and make like a cone and add 1 tsp of onion mixture.
4.Add water to 1 tsp maida.Cover the ends of cone with maidamix and deep fry in oil.
5.Fry in slow flame untill it turns golden brown.
6.Serve hot with tomato sauce.

kanda pachadi


Ingredients:

Kanda grated 1/2 cup
urad dal 1 tsp
tamarind juice 2 tsp
jaggery 1 tsp
red chillies 4
jeera 1 tsp
oil 1/2 tsp
salt to taste

Procedure:
1.Heat pan with one tsp of oil,add zeera,urad dal,redchillies and fry for a minute.
2.Add grated kanda to pan and fry for 2 minutes to avoid raw smell.
3.Now cool the mixture and grind with remaining ingrdients.
4.Serve with hot rice.

My style of cooking

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