Aloo Kurma

Ingredients:

• 4 potatoes boiled,peeled and cubed
• 2 green chillies
• 1 large onion
• red chilly powder(adjust)
• coriander powder
• poppy seeds(ghasghasalu) 1tsp
• tomato 1
• coconut grated 3tsp
• cloves 3
• cinnamon 1inch stick
• bayleaf 2 (optional)
• ginger garlic paste 2tsp
• coriander leaves 2tsp
• turmeric powder 1/4tsp

       Procedure: 

•  Make coconut and poopyseeds as a  paste by adding little water.    
• Heat oil in a vessel, add the chopped onions, green chillis,cloves,cinnamon,bayleaf,ginger garlic paste and saute for 4-5 mts or till the onions turn transparent.
•  Add tomato, chilli pwd, turmeric pwd, coriander pwd and salt. Combine well and fry for 2minutes.
• Now add coconut-poppy seeds paste and combine. Cook for 2-3 mts.
•  Add mashed potatoes, glass of water and adjust salt and  cook for 5min by closing lid.
•  Garnish with fresh coriander leaves and serve with hot rotis, or any ricedishes.

Pappu chekkalu

Ingredients :

Rice Flour -- 2 cups

Channa daal -- 1/2 cup ( Soaked for 30minutes)

Salt -- to taste

redchilly powder-- 2tsp

zeera-- 1tsp

Coriander -- a bunch,chopped

Oil -- to deep fry

Method :

1. In a bowl add 1cup of water and let it boil for few minutes.

2.Now add salt,red chilly powder,chanadal,chopped coriander and finally add rice -flour and mix it.

3. Cool this mixture and make equal parts of the dough into small balls and on a polythene paper, spread them with the fingers into a small circle.

4. Heat oil in a pan and fry all these small circles 3 or 4 at a time.
5.Cool the fried pappuchekkalu and then store them in an airtight container.

Sojja pulihora

Rice Ravva 1cup
water 2cups
turmeric powder 1/2tsp
tamarind paste 4tsp
greenchillies 4
redchillies 2
groundnuts 3tsp
curry leaves 3tsp
mustard seeds 1tsp
cuminseeds 1tsp
chana dal 2tsp
urad dal 1tsp
oil 5tsp
salt to taste

Procedure:
1.Take a vessel add two cups of water and let it boil for 2minutes,while boiling add 1tsp of oil,turmeric powder and salt to it.
2.Now add riceravva  to boiling water,cover with a lid and cook for 10-15 minutes and stir occasionally.
3.Heat a pan with 3tsp of oil,add mustard seeds,cumin seeds,uraddal,chana dal,redchillies,greenchillies one by one and fry them.
4.Add groundnuts,curryleafs and fry for 2minutes.
5.Now add tamarind paste,salt to the fried dals and fry for 5minutes.
6.Cool this tamarind mixture and mix with cooked rice ravva.
Serve with curd

Bhindi masala

Ingredients:
bhindi or lady finger 500gms
onion 1 large
tomato 1
amchurpowder 1/2tsp
redchilly powder 1 tsp
turmeric powder 1/4tsp
cumin powder 1tsp
coriander powder 1tsp
garam masala powder 1tsp
curd 2tsp
green chilly 2
ginger garlic paste 1tsp
coriander leaves 1/2bunch
salt to taste

Procedure:
Cut the bhindi one inch lenght wise and keep aside.
1.Heat a pan with 2 tsp of oil,add cumin seeds,chopped onion and fry for a minute.
2.Now add greenchillies,gingergarlic paste,salt and fry till onion changes colour.
3.Take one bowl, mix all masala powders with curd and keep aside.
4.Now add chopped tomato to the pan and fry for 2mintues.
5.Add the curd mix to the pan and mix it properly.
6.Now add the bhindi to the masala paste and fry for 10mintues.
7.Finally check the salt and add chopped corianderleaves.
Serve with Roti or Rice.

Ravva Laddu

Ingredients:
1.Ravva 1 cup
2.Shredded coconut 1/2cup
3.sugar 3/4cup
4.ghee 4 tsp
5.cashew nuts and raisins 3tsp
6.cardamom powder 1/2 tsp
Procedure:
Heat a tblsn of ghee in a pan.
Stir fry Cashews and raisins till golden brown and take into a bowl.
In the same pan add remaining  ghee.
Add sooji into the pan,cardamom powder and stir fry it till it turns to just golden brown. Dont over fry Sooji.
Transfer the sooji into another bowl.
Add shredded coconut and stir fry for 2 minutes. Dont over fry coconut too. Fry till the Rawness goes off.
Add the fried coconut,sugar,nuts to the fried sooji.
Mix all of them  with hand  and add few drops of warm milk or water and then immediatley make laddoos.

Make them dry for few minutes  and store it in air tight container.

Choclate Muffins

Ingredients:

All purpose flour 250gms

baking powder 1 1/2tsp
eggs 2

cocoa powder 1tsp

choclate chips 3tsp

Sugar 1cup

Melted butter 1/2cup

water 1/4cup

Procedure:

      1. Mix the flour,cocoa powder into large mixing bowl,then add powdered sugar,eggs,water
           and choclatechips.

      2.Mix it well with whisk untill it is creamy.Do not overbeat.

      3.Put spoonfull mixture into 12large paper cups.

      4. Place these cups in preheated oven at 200degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Dates Laddo

Ingredients:
Dates seedless 10
marie biscuit powder 4tsp
cashew broken 3tsp
Almonds chopped 3tsp
honey 2tsp
ghee 1tsp
Procedure:
1.Chop the dates into very small pieces.
2.Heat pan with ghee,fry chopped dates and cashew nuts.
3.Now take a bowl and mix dates,cashewnuts,almonds,marie biscuit powder.
4.Add honey to bind the mixture
5.Now apply some ghee to hands and make like balls(laddus).