Monday, March 12, 2012

Rice Murukku

Ingredients
Rice flour - 1 cup
Urad flour - 1/4 cup
Split chick peas powder - 2 tsp
Butter - 2 to 3 tsp (room temperature)
Sesame seeds - 1 tsp
Hing (Asafoetida powder) - 1/4 tsp
Cumin powder - 1 tsp
Water - as need for consistency
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Oil - to fry

To Make Murukku
  • Take a Big bowl add rice flour, urad flour, split chick peas, Butter, Sesame seeds, Hing, Cumin powder, salt
  • Mix all the ingredients together 
  • Make it as soft dough by adding little by little water
  • Heat the oil in big kadai to fry murukku
  • Take 1 star shape attachment and fix to the murukku maker 
  • Take 1 plastic sheet brushed with oil lightly
  • Take a small amount of dough place it inside the murukku maker
  • Close the maker with top and press it as round shape in the plastic sheet 
  • Remove it from the plastic sheet and drop it in the hot oil
  • Fry it until becomes golden brown
  • Once finish making the murukku
  • Let them cool and store it in the air tight container
Note - If Murukku becomes little hard, can add little hot oil in the dough and press it as round shape


Saturday, January 28, 2012

Methi Mushroom Mutter Masala

Ingredients
Methi Leaves - 1 bunch
Boiled green Peas - 3/4th cup
Mushroom buttons - 3/4th cup
Cashew - 8 to 10
Garlic cloves - 6
Green chillies - 6 to 8
Big Onion - 1 medium size chopped

To Make Methi Mushroom Mutter Masala
  • Make a paste of Green chillies, Garlic, Cashew
  • Heat the oil in pan add Onion and fry it until becomes brown color 
  • Add a paste to the onion and saute it until raw garlic smell goes
  • Add Mushroom saute it until give out water
  • Add methi leaves and saute it for 5 minutes
  • Add half cup of water and bring to boil
  • Mushroom will cook and the gravy will thicken
  • Keep the flame in medium 
  • Add the green peas and cook it 3 minutes
  • Switch it off and serve it hot with Rice 

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Mysore Pak

Ingredients
Basan flour - 1 cup
Ghee or Butter - 1 1/2 cup
Oil - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 2 cup
Water - 1 cup

To Make Mysore Pak
  • Melt the ghee, in Room tempareture and keep it aside
  • Grease a tray evenly with ghee and keep it aside
  • In a big kadai add sugar and water and bring them to boil until string consistency
  • Reduce the flame in to low
  • Heat the oil and ghee in low flame and mix it well
  • Fry the Besan flour in kadai for 2 to 3 minutes color should not change
  • Now add besan flour in to the sugar syrup and mix them well  
  • And slowly add by using one by one big spoon of oil and ghee mixture 
  • Mix it continuously and throughly stirring
  • Cook until the ghee starts to leave the sides of the pan and the mixture starts to thicken
  • And the mixture turns to become light golden color 
  • when the mixture is hot pour in to the greased tray 
  • And level it out evenly with spatula
  • when it is in medium hot cut in to shape as you required and serve it.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Pacha payar dosai (Pesarattu)

Ingredients 
Green gram - 1 cup
Idly rice - 1/4 cup
Onion - 1 medium big
Dry Red chili - 3
Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup
Salt - 1 tsp

To Make Pacha payar dosai
  • Wash and soak the green gram, rice, red chili over night
  • Next day morning grind it in the mixi by adding little water
  • Make it as dosa batter
  • Add Chopped onion, coriander leaves, salt to the batter 
  • Mix it well, Heat the dosa tawa
  • Spread the batter to the dosa tawa to round shape 
  • If one side is cooked turn it to other side 
  • If other side also cooked, remove from tawa 
  • Serve it hot with Kara chutney, coconut chutney
Note : In this measurement can make 12 to 14 dosas  

Friday, November 4, 2011

Ribbon pakoda

Ingredients
Rice flour - 1 cup
Besan gram flour - 1/2 cup
Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Butter - 1 tsp
Water - 1/2 cup
Oil - to fry

To make Ribbon pakoda
  • Mix all the ingredients of above mentioned and make it as dough
  • Heat the oil in kadai, take a small portion of dough and place it in murukku mold and close it
  • Squeeze the murukku mold in separate plastic sheet.
  • Once the oil is hot enough, take the squeezed one and add in oil, fry it deeply
  • You can see the bubbles immediately, once these bubbles are almost stopped
  • Remove the ribbon pakodas from oil and drain it in papper towel
  • Let them cool and store it in air tight container

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Chicken Kola urundai

Ingredients
Grounded chicken - 1/2 kg (1 LB)
Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
Jeera - 1 tsp
Garlic - 3
Ginger - 1 inch
Green chili - 4 or 5
Kasa Kasa (poppy seeds) - 1/2 tsp
Cashew - 5
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Egg - 1
Bread gums - 5 tsp
Oil - for fry

To Make Chicken Kola Urundai
  • Heat the 1 tsp oil in kadai add fennel seeds, cumin seeds, ginger, garlic..
  • Green chili, kasa kasa, cashew fry all these ingredients for 5 minutes
  • Boil the grounded chicken in water with 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder and salt
  • And grind it as powder with 2 tsp of grounded chicken
  • Beat the egg and keep it ready
  • Filter the water and smash the chicken in hand 
  • And  mix the grinded powder with boiled chicken and make it as dough
  • And make small small balls 
  • Dip the balls in egg 
  • And roll over the bread gums 
  • Fry the balls in Oil 
  • Serve it hot with tomato sauce 

Vinayaga chathurthi Kozhukattai(Mothagam)

Ingredients
Raw rice (Pacha arisi) - 1 cup
Powdered Jaggery - 3/4 cup
Water - 2 1/2 cups
Cashew - 5
Cardamom - 1
Grated Coconut - 1/4 cup

To Make Rice
  • Wash the Rice and dry it in Cotton cloth for 4 to 5 hours
  • And grind it in the mixi like Rice upma 
  • Should not make it as powder
To Make Kozhukattai
  • Take the powdered jaggery mix it with 1 cup of water
  • And heat it slightly for 3 to 4 minutes(should not make it as pagu)
  • It should be watery consistency and keep it aside
  • Heat the ghee in kadai 
  • Fry the Cashew 
  • After it came brown color, add the broken rice and fry it for 3 to 4 minutes 
  • Add 1 1/2 cup of water mix it well 
  • Cook it as like upma
  • And add the jaggery water to rice, mix it well 
  • Cook until becomes thick like upma again for 10 minutes
  • Finally add the coconut and cardamom and mix it 
  • Switch it off  and leave it for 10 minutes to cool down
  • After that make it as round balls and boil it in the Idly cooker or rice cooker