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. 

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.

 

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. 

Aval Uppma

Hello All, 

Its a warm and cozy welcome from Tints of Sugar N Spice... Hope you all are having a very warm and sweaty summer... Its been nice meeting you all through this blog... Its going to be a platform for me where i am usually gonna post various kinds of recipes on India, especially from the South India and no wonder you can bet over the recipe as its fully prepared and experimented by me each and every single time before posting it... So once i stay alive and post the recipe over this blog then you can sure believe over the food and try it out yourself... 

Aval is the Tamil name for the beaten rice. This is also called as Poha. Aval has various nutritious benefits such as Fight Off Symptoms of Stress, and Improve Digestion and are non-FDA reviewed or approved, natural alternatives, to use for , Poor Digestion, and Weakened Immune System. Making a recipe with Aval is one of the simplest way of reducing your time with no less than a healthy breakfast and i bet that your kids would sure love it :) 

Ingredients:

• Aval – 200gms
• Big Onion – 1 (Chopped lengthy)
• Red chillies – 2 medium sized
• Cumin seeds – A little to temper
• Curry leaves – A little to temper
• Coriander leaves – To garnish
• Turmeric powder – ¼ tspn
• Salt – To taste

Aval Uppma

Method:

• Take aval and soak it in water filled cup for 3 minutes. Do not leave for a long time as it becomes mushy.
• Drain the water from the aval and keep it aside.
• Take a pan and add 2 tspn of oil. Once the oil is heated add the cumin seeds and wait until it splatters.
• Once the cumin seeds splattered, add the red chillies, curry leaves and the chopped onions and sauté until the onion turns brown.
• After that add the aval to the pan and sauté for 2 minutes in low flame.
• Add the turmeric powder and salt to the aval and sauté for 2 more minutes.
• Once it’s done off the flame and add the coriander leaves and serve it hot with pickle.

(Note: You can also add vegetable like carrot, beans and peas if you like as it adds nutrition to your food. But to keep it simple I haven’t added any)