Thursday, May 31, 2012

Methi seed rice (vendaya satham)

Ingredients
Jasmine Rice - 1cup (pacha arisi)
Methi seeds - 1 tspn
Green chili - 1
Onion - 3/4 cup chopped
Garlic - 6 pods
Oil - 1 big spn
Thick coconut milk - 3/4 cup
Water - 2 cup

To Make Vendayam satham
  • Heat the oil in kadai add Bay leaves, crambu and some spices as you like
  • Add Methi seeds, garlic, green chili, Onion fry it for 2minutes
  • Add Jasmine rice Fry it and add coconut milk, water and salt
  • Close it with lid and Pressure cook it for 1 sound
  • Keep the flame in slow after 10minutes switch it off
  • And serve it hot with Kurma, Potato fries

Friday, April 6, 2012

Banana Fritters

Ingredients
Banana - 2 smashed
Egg - 1
Butter - 2 tsp room temperature
All purpose flour - 1 cup
Salt - 1/3 tsp
Baking powder - Pinch
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Milk - 1/4 cup
Vanilla essence - 3 drops (optional)
Oil - to fry

To make Banana Fritters
  • Mix All purpose flour, salt, Baking powder, Sugar together
  • Mix Egg, Butter together and combine with All purpose flour
  • Add Vanilla essence, milk and mix it well
  • Heat the oil in pan 
  • And Pour one by one spoon in hot oil
  • Once it become brown color from one side turn it to other side
  • Fry it and remove it from oil (it will happen very quickly)
  • Keep the flame in medium
  • Serve hot with Ice cream, frozen Yogurt
  • Or drizzle with chocolate syrup or dust it with powdered sugar and serve it

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Liver Pepper Fry

Ingredients
Liver - 500 gm
Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
Red Chili powder - 1 tsp
Block Pepper - 1 tsp
Onion chopped - 1 medium size
Tomato - 1 chopped
Ginger garlic Paste - 1 tsp
Cinnamon powder - 1/4 tsp
Cloves - 3
Curry leaves - Little
Salt - 1/4 tsp

To Make Liver Pepper Fry
  • Heat the pan add oil, Add cinnamon, cloves, Chopped onion fry it until onion becomes brown
  • Add ginger garlic paste fry it until raw smell goes off
  • Add the tomato, salt fry it until tomato becomes soft
  • Add curry leaves and washed liver fry it for 5 minutes 
  • Finally add the coriander powder, red chili powder fry it with liver 
  • Add little water mix it well and close it with lid 
  • Reduce the flame and cook 
  • Finally add block pepper and mix it well
  • Cover it and cook for 15 minutes, don't over cook it liver will become hard  
  • Switch it off and garnish with cilantro
  • And serve hot with Roti's, Rice, Dosa


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