Monday, June 6, 2011

Steamed Vegetable Dumplings

Ingredients
All Purpose Flour - 1 cup
Sesame oil - 3 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Water - to make dough

For Stuffing
Vegetables - 1 cup
Cabbage
Carrot
Beans
Onion - 1/2 medium size chopped
Green chili - 1 chopped
Ginger, Garlic paste - 1 tsp
Block ground pepper - 1 tsp
Soya sauce - 1 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp

To Make Steamed Vegetable Dumplings
  • In a bowl mix all the ingredients to make dough
  • Add water little by little and make smooth dough
  • Cover and keep it aside for 15 minutes
  • In the mean time we can make filling 
  • Heat the oil in a pan add ginger garlic paste 
  • Add Onion and fry until becomes golden brown 
  • Add green chili fry it 
  • Add All the vegetables and stir for a minute
  • Finally cabbage mix well and cook for 2 minutes 
  • And add Salt, Pepper and soya sauce and stir for a minute 
  • Mix well and switch it off 
  • Vegetables should be crunchy and not over cooked 
  • Vegetables should be dry and leave it for cool down
  • Take a lemon size of dough 
  • Make it as small round shape Flatten the dough in round shape with chapatti roller 
  • Use some round shape cutter or small steal bowl cap cut in to round puri
  • The size depends on how big you want your momos to be
  • Add the filling in center of the rounds close the puri filling 
  • Heat the water in idly maker 
  • Brush the plates with oil and place the momos in idly plates 
  • And steam it for 8 to 10 minutes
I made Soya sauce for Dipping
To make soya sauce
Soya sauce - 2 tsp
Water - 3 tsp
Green chili - 2 chopped
Salt - pinch
  • Mix it all together and serve it with hot vegetable momos 
Note : In this measurement ca make 8 momo,  and can add Chicken also, while adding chicken, should cook it properly with vegetables

Friday, June 3, 2011

Bisi Bela Bath

Ingredients
Rice - 1 cup
Toor dal - 1/4 cup
Moong dal - 2 tsp
Vegetables - 2 cups
Carrot
Beans
Potato
Tamarind paste - 1/4 cup
Red chili powder - 2 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Small onion - 10(Pearl onion) or Big onion - 1/2
Tomato - 1

To Make Bisi Bela Masala powder
Chana dal - 2 tsp
Red chili - 2
Fenugreek seeds - 1/4 tsp
Coriander seeds - 2 tsp
Dry Coconut - 3 tsp
Asafoetida - 1/2 tsp ( Perungayam)

To Make Bisi Bela Bath
  • Dry roast the above ingredients except the coconut
  • Let it cool, add the coconut and make fine powder 
  • Cook the rice with moong dal
  • Pour the rice in wide basin to cool down
  • In a pressure cooker add toor dal and vegetables 
  • Add tamarind paste and 4 to 5 cups of water 
  • Add Red chili powder and salt
  • Leave it for 4 whistles and switch it off 
  • Heat the ghee in a pan add Onion fry it until becomes golden brown 
  • Add tomato fry it and reduce the flame 
  • And add the sambar in to the pan, mix it well and switch it off
  • And mix the sambar with rice 
  • And add the Bisi bela bath masala powder 
  • And Mix it well
  • Serve with some ghee on top and some pappad 

Monday, May 23, 2011

Tofu Scramble

Ingredients
Soft tofu - 1 cup
Big onion - 1/2  finely chopped
Ginger & Green chili paste - 1 1/2 tsp
Tomatoes - 1/2 finely chopped
Coriander powder - 1tsp
Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder - pinch
Block pepper - 1/2 tsp
Coriander leaves - Finely chopped
Salt - 1/2 tsp

To Make Tofu Scramble
  • Heat the Oil in fry pan 
  • Add Chopped Onion and Ginger green chili paste fry it until becomes golden brown
  • Add Cumin powder and Coriander powder, Turmeric powder and mix it well 2 minutes
  • Add Tomatoes and saute for a minute
  • Add crumbled Tofu and salt 
  • Mix well and saute for 5 to 6 minutes to let the tofu absorb all the flavors
  • When the mixture is dry add the coriander leaves 
  • Season with freshly ground block pepper
  • Serve it warm with bread and Sambar rice

Friday, May 6, 2011

Kuzhi Paniyaram

Ingredients
Boiled rice - 1 cup (Pulungal arisi
Jasmine rice - 1 cup (Raw rice, Pacha arisi)
Urud dal - 1/2 cup
Methi seeds - 2 tsp
Onion - 1 medium size chopped
Green chili - 2 chopped
Coconut - shredded 6 tsp

To Make Kuzhi Paniyaram
  • Soak the Rice and urud dal separately for 3 hours
  • And grind it as like Idly batter 
  • While mixing the batter add 1 tsp of salt and mix it well
  • And leave it over night for fermentation
  • Next day heat the oil in pan add mustard seeds, Onion, Green chili 
  • Fry it until onion becomes golden brown
  • And add in to the batter 
  • Add Coriander leaves, Coconut and mix it well with batter
  • If required can add little salt
  • Pour in to the paniyaram pan 
  • Wait for 2 minute and using the small stick turn upside and down 
  • And allow it to cook for 2 minutes and take it out
  • And serve it hot with Kara chutney 

Banana Muffins

Ingredients

All Purpose Flour - 1 1/2 cup
Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
Brown sugar - 1/2 cup
Bananas - 2 (smashed)
Vegetable Oil - 1/4 cup
Milk - 1/4 cup
Egg - 2
Salt - Pinch
Vanilla extract - 1/2 tsp
Chopped walnuts - 1/2 cup

To Make Banana Muffins
  • Pre heat the oven for 425 degree F. 
  • Brush the muffin tray with butter and set aside
  • Whisk the All purpose flour, Baking soda
  • Brown sugar in a medium bowl and set aside ( dry ingredients together)
  • In  another bowl whisk the Eggs for 2 minutes
  • Add smashed banana mix it for 2 minutes
  • Add Milk, Salt, Oil and vanilla extract and mix it well
  • Make a small well in the dry ingredients (all purpose flour)
  • Pour the wet ingredients in the center 
  • And mix it with hand mixer machine 
  • Mix until dry ingredients become moisture and lumpy(mix it for 5 minutes)
  • Add the baking powder and mix it 
  • Do not over mix the batter
  • And gently stir in the nuts
  • Divide the batter evenly in to the muffin tray
  • Put the muffins in to the oven
  • And immediately reduce the oven temperature in to 350 degree F
  • Bake until golden brown for 25 minutes
  • Insert a toothpick in to the center of the muffin to check if it is done 
  • If toothpick come out clean means muffins are ready
  • Cool down the muffins for 10 minutes and serve it
Note : Once the Batter is ready should keep it immediately in to the Oven, And in this measurement can make 10 muffins

Green gravy Chicken

Ingredients
Chicken - 1/4 kg
Onion - 1 1/2 medium size cut in to pieces
Pistachio Nuts , Cashew Nuts - 1/4 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup

To Make Paste
Green chili - 4 Chopped (how spicy required can add that much)
Coriander - 1/4 cup
Ginger Pieces - 1
Garlic - 5 flakes
Coriander Powder(dhania) - 1 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp

To Make Green gravy chicken
  • In a Kadai put onion and Nuts in 1 cup of water, Cover it and cook it for 5 minutes 
  • Cool slightly and grind the boiled onion pieces and Nuts along with water 
  • And all the ingredients written under paste  make it as a fine green paste 
  • In a pan add 1 tsp of oil and fry the chicken. Cook until becomes tender
  • Add prepared green paste and onion paste and cook it for 5 minutes
  • And add a pinch of sugar and salt
  • Add milk and Mix well and 
  • Switch it off and serve it hot with Chapatti 

Friday, April 1, 2011

Poli

Ingredients
All Purpose flour (Maida) - 1 cup
Channa dal - 1 cup
Jaggery - 1 1/2 cup
Shreded Coconut - 1 tsp
Rice flour - 2 tsp
Rava (suji)- 1/4 cup
Cardamom Powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1 pinch
Yellow color - Pinch

To Make Dough
  • Mix the All purpose flour, salt, oil 
  • Add water little by little 
  • Make it as soft dough but not sticky
  • And close it with lid for 1 hour
  • In the mean time can make puran

To Make Filling (Puran)
  • Soak the Chana dal for 1/2hour and boil it in the pressure cooker 
  • After boiling the chana dal smash it and keep it aside
  • Heat the ghee in pan fry the Coconut, Rava, Rice flour in the low flame for 2 minutes separately and keep it aside 
  • Heat the ghee in pan add cardamom smashed chana dal and mix it well
  • Add jaggery and mix it 
  • Keep the flame in medium heat
  • Cook the dal until jaggery melts and become moisture
  • And add fried Rava, Coconut, Rice flour in to the jaggery mix 
  • And mix it well for 10 minutes 
  • Switch it off after becomes dry mixture 
  • Let it Cool down 
To make Poli
  • Take a small lemon size dough 
  • Flat it as small round shape
  • And stuff the puran and seal the dough 
  • And again sprinkle some oil
  • And bring  it as round shape with chapati roller

  • Keep the flame in medium 
  • Heat the chapati maker and place the puran poli 
  • Cook it on both the sides by applying ghee or oil
  • Cook until becomes golden brown 
  • And serve it hot