Wednesday 26 September 2012
Vegetable Cutlet !!!
Ingredients:
Onion - 2 finely chopped
Potatoes -
4 cooked and smashed
Carrots -
2 cooked and smashed
Green peas - half cup cooked and smashed
Bread crump’s - 1 cup
Salt - For your taste
Chilli powder - 1 tspn
Oil - For a deep fry.
Step-wise preparation:
·
Take a bowl and
put the smashed potatoes, carrots and green peas with the onion and mix it well
until it gets into a thick paste.
·
Make small
balls of the mixture and place it separately.
·
Take each balls
of mixture and dip it completely inside the bread crump’s.
·
Take a pan and
heat the oil in it.
·
Put the vegetable
mixture coated with bread crump’s into the oil and deep fry it until it turns
brown.
·
Take it out of
oil and serve hot with tomato sauce.
Monday 21 May 2012
Indian Pasta
Ingredients:
Pasta - 200gms
Tomato - 3 big
Onion - 2 large
Curry leaves - 2 pinch
Coriander leaves - to garnish
Cumin seeds - 1 tspn
Urad dhal - 1 tspn
Salt - on your
requirement
Red/green chilli - 2 large
Coriander powder - 1 tspn
Garam Masala - 2 tspn
Oil - 5 tspn
Step-wise preparation:
·
Heat water in a
large pan and once the water starts boiling add the 2 tspn of salt and pasta
into it and let it cook for 2 mins.
·
Dry down the
water and add cold water to the pasta and let it be for 2 mins.
·
Dry down the
water and keep the pasta aside.
·
Chop the
onions, chilli and tomatoes into smaller pieces.
·
Add oil to a
pan and add the cumin seeds and urad dhal.
·
Once its done
add the onion, chilli and tomato slices and sauté them for 5 mins until its
cooked well.
·
Add the
coriander powder, garam masala powder and 1 tspn of salt and sauté well.
·
Add the pasta
to the mixture and add 3 tspns of oil and sauté the pasta well until it blends
well with the mixture for around 3 mins.
·
Add the
coriander leaves and switch off the flame.
Note:
You can also add vegetables
like carrot, beans, cabbage and peas to it along with the onion to make the
dish healthier.
Cabbage pakkoda
Ingredients:
Cabbage - ¼ kg
Bhujji mix - 100 gms
Kadalai maavu - 100 gms
Salt - on your requirement
Coriander leaf - to garnish
Oil - to fry
Step-wise preparation:
·
Cut the cabbage
length wise into finer pieces.
·
Mix the bhujji
mix and kadalai maavu with a cup of water.
·
Add the cabbage
to the mixture and leave it to marinate for 10 mins.
·
Add oil in a
deep pan for frying.
·
Once the oil is
heated add the cabbage mixture little by little by sprinkling it in the oil
evenly.
·
Once it turns
slightly brown take it from the oil.
·
Add the
coriander leaves and serve hot.
Note:
You can also add vegetables
like carrot, cauliflower, onion to make different pakkoda’s. It is healthy and
an easy snack for all.
Tomato sevvai
Ingredients:
Tomato sevvai - A packet
Onion - 2 large
Curry leaves - 2 pinch
Cumin seeds - 1 tspn
Urad dhal - 1 tspn
Salt - on your
requirement
Red chilli - 2 large
Step-wise preparation:
·
Take the sevvai
out of the packet and wash it once in cold water.
·
Add the sevvai
to the idli cooker and allow it to cook for 7mins as like how you do cook for
idly.
·
After it has
been cooked take it and keep it in a plate.
·
Add oil to the
pan and add the cumin seeds to burst.
·
Once it got
burst add the urad dhal and add the onions and curry leaves.
·
Saute it until
the onion turns brown.
·
Then add the
sevvai to the mixture and add salt as per your need and sauté for 3 mins.
·
Add the
coriander leaves and switch off the flame.
Note:
It will be available in
grocery shops & super markets in variety of flavor. U can use any flavor
you like to.
You can also add
vegetables like carrot, beans, cabbage and peas to it along with the onion to
make the dish healthier.
Thursday 3 May 2012
Potato gravy (Araicha kulambhu)
Ingredients:
Potato - ½ kg
Small onion - 1 cup
Tomato - 2 large
Kadalai paruppu - 2 tspn
Pepper - 1 tspn
Red chillies - 2 /3 big
Curry leaves - 2 pinch
Sliced Coconut - 1 cup
Coriander powder - 2 tspn
Salt - on your requirement
Oil - 3 tspn
Coriander leaves - To garnish
Step-wise preparation:
·
Clean the
potatoes and boil it under pressure-cooked for 5 mins.
· Take the potatoes and peel off their skin and cut them into fine cubes as shown in the picture.
·
Add 1 tspn oil
to a pan and add the onions, kadalai paruppu, red chillies, curry leaves,
pepper, sliced coconuts and coriander powder and sauté it till the mixture
turns brown.
·
Leave the
mixture to cool for around 10mins.
·
Grind the
mixture leaving some water and make it into a paste.
·
Cut the tomato’s
into smaller pieces.
·
Add 2 tspn of
oil to a pan and add the tomato and potatoes and sauté for a min.
·
Then add the
ground paste and saute it for around 1 min and add a cup of water to it to make
it into gravy.
·
Let the gravy
boil for around 10 mins. Saute the gravy frequently to avoid it getting burnt
down.
·
Finally add
coriander leaves and off the flame.
·
Serve it hot
with rice or chapattis.
Note:
You can also add the
potato directly to the gravy without boiling it. But it takes a bit long time
as the potato needs to get boiled well. But for better and quick result boil
the vegetable prior to it.
Wheat rotti
Ingredients:
Wheat flour - ½ kg
Salt - 1 tspn
Big onion - 2 medium sized
Curry leaves - A pinch
Coriander leaves - A pinch
Oil - on your requirement
Step-wise preparation:
·
Chop the onions,
curry leaves and coriander leaves into smaller pieces.
·
Mix the flour,
chopped onions, curry leaves and coriander leaves with enough of water (around
1 cup) to make it into a semi-solid state. Do not make it too watery or too
hard.
·
Leave it for
half an hour.
·
Take a dosa tava and add oil all over the
tava. Wet your hands in water and take a handful of mixed flour and spread it
evenly over the surface of dosa tava.
·
Add oil to it
and leave it to get boiled on medium flame for around 5 mins and do the same by
turning it upside down.
·
Once the raw
smell of the flour leaves and the aroma of the wheat rotti comes up you can
take it off the flame.
· You can serve it with coconut chatni or pickle or raita.
Note:
- You must wet your hands
again if you find the flour sticking to your hands while spreading it evenly.
- You can also add some
other vegetables like cabbage, carrot, beans or peas and also green leaves to it which
makes it a healthier recipe.
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