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OKRA CRISPY FRY

2012-03-11T19:26:00.005-07:00

Last week Saras posted Bitter gourd fry it is very simple and crispy...but i tried with okra, It came out very well and my kid also enjoyed it. Thank u saras.

Ingredients

Okra/vendakka - 1/2kg
Rice flour - 1tsp
Bengal gram dal flour - 2tsp
Turmeric pwd - 1/4tsp

Chilly powder - 1/2tsp (adjust to ur taste)
Gram masala - 1/4tsp
Oil - to deep fry
Salt to taste

Preparation:

Wash the okra and dry them or with cloth wipe it. slit it finely and add all pwd ingredients

Sprinkle little water and mix the ingredients and keep aside for 10-15mins. Heat a kadai, add oil and slowly add the okra little by little fry till turns brown. Drain and place it in the tissue paper

Crispy okra fry is ready to serve with rice.

Simple Potato Fry( Tawa Fry)

2012-03-06T19:29:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

Potato - 4nos
Chilly pwd - 1tsp( adjust to ur taste)
Tumeric pwd - 1/2tsp
Coriander - 1/2 tsp
Salt - to taste
Oil - 1&1/2tsp

Preparation:

Wash the potatoes, peel the skin and cut roundly

Put chilly, coriander, tumeric powder, salt and set aside for 10 mins

Heat a tawa, when its hot, add oil,place the potatoes and add some curry leaves on the top. Cover and cook till potoato turns brown and soft.

Then turn the potatoes and cook till brown(without covering)

Potato Fry is ready to serve and goes well with any rice.

Gobi Paratha

2012-03-05T01:14:00.004-08:00

Ingredients:

For dough:

Wheat flour - 1cup
Salt - to taste
Hot water - as required

For Masala:

Cauliflower - 1cup (chopped finely)
Grated carrot - 1/4cup(optional)
Coriander leaves - handful
Cumin seeds - 1tsp
Tumeric pwd - 1/4tsp
Chilly pwd - 1tsp
Gram masala - 1/4tsp
Ginger & garlic - 1/4tsp
Salt - to taste

Preparation:

1)Add flour, salt and water. Make a soft dough and set aside for 1/2hr

2)Heat a kadai, add oil, cumin seeds, cauliflowers, carrot, ginger n garlic, saute and cook for few mins

3)Add all powders, salt and cover and cook, till it turns soft

4)Finally add coriander leaves and keep aside

5)Take the small amount of dough,then roll and spread into small chapathi, take a tablespoon of masala and place it in middle of the dough and cover it and keep aside for 5-6mins

6)Now slowly spread the stuffed dough with ur hand or chapathi roller

7)Heat a tawa, when its hot, put the chapathi and sprinkle little oil, cook both the sides till light brown.

Nenthrapazham/Ethapazham sweet fry

2012-02-26T21:46:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

Nenthrapazham - 2nos (cut into round)

Jaggery powder - 1/4cup*

Ghee - 2tsp

Grated coconut - 2tsp

Cardamom powder - 1/2tsp

Preparation:

Heat a pan, add 1tsp of ghee, pazham and fry till colour changes

Add jaggery and mix them well

Then add coconut, cardamom pwd, ghee and saute for few mins

Serve hot with tea

*Jaggery u can adjusted to ur taste

Broccoli Pachadi

2012-02-20T05:14:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

Broccoli - 1small bunch
Curd - 1/2cup
Ginger - small piece
Oil - 1tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2tsp
Red chilly - 1no
Salt - to taste

Preparation:

Cut the broccoli into small piece and put them into boiling water, cook them for 2mins and drain the water and keep aside

Heat a kadai, add oil,add mustard seeds after splutters, add finely chopped broccoli and ginger with salt fry till it becomes soft and off the flame

Whisk the curd with salt and add it to the broccoli and mix them well

Broccoli pachadi is ready to serve..Goes well with briyani rice and fried rice.

Aloo Mutter

2012-02-16T19:04:00.004-08:00

Ingredients

Boiled potatoes - 3nos
Peas - 1/2cup (frozen)
Onion - 2nos
Tomato - 3nos
Ginger&garlic paste - 1tsp
Kashmiri chilli powder - 1tsp
Tumeric pwd - 1/2tsp
Coriander pwd - 1tsp
Gram masala pwd - 1/2tsp
Cumin seeds - 1tsp
Cloves - 2nos
Oil - 3tsp
Coriander leaves - few
Lime juice - 1tsp
Kasturi methi - 1tsp
Coriander leaves - for garnishing

Preparation:
1)Heat a kadai, add 1tsp oil and put boiled potatoes and fry for few mins...drain and keep aside(this process is optional)

2)In the same kadai, add onion and cloves, cumin seeds, tomatoes, ginger&garlic, saute them till tomatoes mashes well

3)Then add tumeric pwd,chilly pwd and coriander pwd cook for 3-4mins and off the flame, after it cools grind them into fine paste

4)In same kadai, add the paste, gram masala, kasturi methi, little water, cover it and cook till oil separates

5) Add peas and pototoes, cook for 5-6mins. Finally add lime juice and garinish with coriander leaves.

Serve hot with chapathi, naan and pulao.

Jam Milkshake

2012-02-14T22:18:00.000-08:00

First time i am tried this milkshake, long back i saw this recipe in the tv. It is very simple and tasty...surely kids will like it. My hubby gave this Beautiful Rose for V'day.

Ingredients:

Jam - 2tsp (mixed fruit jam)

Milk - 1cup

Sugar - as required

Vanilla icecream - 1tsp (optional)

Preparation:

Blend all the ingredients finely and keep it in fridge and serve chill.

Rava Dosa

2012-02-12T21:33:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

Rava - 1cup
Onion - 1no1
Cumin seeds - 1tsp
Green chilly - 2nos(chopped)
Ginger - 1 tsp (chopped)
Pepper - 1/2tsp
Rice flour - 1 tsp
Curry & coriander leaves - few
Salt - to taste
Oil - to sprinkle

Preparation:

In a vessel, put rava, thinly sliced onion, pepper(whole),ginger, cumin seeds, salt, rice flour and curry n coriander leaves and add 3/4cup water. * batter should be watery.

Heat a tawa, (the tawa should be very hot). Take the batter in a small glass or bowl, jus pour the batter on the hot tawa and sprinkle oil.

Cook the dosa till crispy and light brown.
(if u want u can turn the dosa and cook for few mins)

Onion rava dosa is ready to serve hot with coriander chutney or your desire side dish.

Chicken Kurma

2012-02-02T01:35:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:
Chicken - 1/2kg
Onion - 3nos
Tomato - 2nos
Chilly powder - 1tsp
Coriander pwd - 2tsp
Tumeric pwd - 1/2tsp
Cloves - 2nos
Cinnamon - small piece
Salt - to taste
Oil - 3tsp
Curry n coriander leaves - to garnish

To Grind:
Coconut - 1/2cup
Fennel seeds - 1/4tsp
Green chilly - 2nos(small)
Ginger - small piece
Garlic - 2flakes
Cashewnuts - 3nos

Preparation:

1)Grind coconut, ginger n garlic,chilly,fennel seeds and cashewnuts into fine pase and keep aside

2)Heat a kadai, add oil, when its hot add cloves and cinnamon,then add onion fry till brown

3)Add tomatoes and saute till it mashes well

4)Then add chicken pieces,tumeric pwd,chilly and coriander, mix well and close the lid and cook till it turns soft

5)Add coconut paste, adjust salt and cook till raw smell goes and garnish with curry n coriander leaves

Serve hot with plain rice, chapathi or briyani.

Carrot Sago Payasam/Kheer

2012-01-30T03:57:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

Carrot - 1no(medium)

Sago - 1/2cup

Milk - 3cups

Sugar - as required

Cashewnuts n dry grapes - 1tsp

Ghee - 1tsp

Preparation:

1) Heat ghee in a pan and add cashewnuts and dry grapes, fry them till brown and keep aside

2)Add some water in sago and cook them till transparent

3)Meanwhile cut and grind the carrot into fine paste

5)when sago is cooked add carrot paste and milk, allow to boil and bring it to thick consistency

6)Then add sugar and stir continuously till it dissloves

7)Finally add cashewnuts n grapes and serve hot or chill.

Coconut Cake

2012-01-26T19:47:00.000-08:00

Hi friends,
Im back!!! hope everybody is doing well...Happy new to you all.

Ingredients:

Self raising Flour - 1 1/4 cup

Coconut milk - 1/2cup

Butter - 4tsp

Sugar - 1/2 cup

Vanilla essence - 1tsp

Egg - 1no

Salt - a pinch

Preparation:

1)Preheat the oven at 177' c

2)Combine the flour, salt and keep aside

3)In a bowl, add butter, egg, sugar and vanilla essence beat and mix well

4) Add the egg mixture to the flour and slowly add the coconut milk to the flour and mix with lumbs

5)Pour into baking tray and bake them for 30 mins

Recipe courtesy: Kitchen Corner...thank u friend for this wonderful recipe.

Egg roast - kerala style

2011-11-13T23:29:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

Egg - 5nos

Onion - 4-5nos

Ginger & garlic - 1tsp
Tomato - 1no ripe

Chilly powder - 1tsp

Coriander powder - 1tsp

Tumeric powder - 1/2tsp

Garam masala powder - 1/2tsp(optional)

Mustard seeds - 1tsp

Curry leaves - few

Oil - 3tsp

Salt to taste

Preparation:

1)Boil the eggs, remove the skin and keep aside
2)Heat a kadai, add oil, add mustard seeds after it splutters, add onion and green chilly,saute till onions fries well
3)Add giner n garlic saute for few mins
4)Add tomato,salt and tumeric, cook till oil separates
5)Then add chilly pwd, coriander pwd and garam masala fry them finely or cook for 4-5mins
6)Finally add eggs and curryleaves, mix well and serve hot with rice or chapathi.

Sweet Corn Soup

2011-11-10T02:28:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

Sweet Corn - 1cup
Carrot - 1/4 cup chopped
Beans - 1/4cup chopped
Garlic - 2flakes (optional)
Butter - 1/2 tsp
Pepper - as required
Salt - to taste

Preparation:

1)Take 1/2cup of corn(i used frozen corn), little water and grind them into fine paste and keep aside
2)Heat a kadai, add butter, garlic and saute for few mins

3)Add remaining corn n vegs and little water, cook untill vegs turns soft

4)Then add the paste and cook untill it turns thick

5)Finally add pepper, salt and serve hot

Coconut Rice

2011-11-07T23:23:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

Coconut grated - 1/2cup

Boiled rice - 1 1/2cup

Green chilly - 2nos

Ginger - 1tsp chopped

Coconut oil - 1tsp

Mustard seeds - 1/2tsp

Jeera - 1/2 tsp

Cashewnuts - 3- 4nos

Urad dal - 1/2tsp

Curry leaves - few

Preparation:

1)Heat a kadai, add oil, mustard seeds, after splutters, add jeera, urad dal, Cashewnuts and curry leaves saute for few mins

2)Add coconut and fry for 4- 5mins or till nice flavour starts

3)Add rice,adjust salt and mix well....serve hot with papad.

Aviyal

2011-10-31T01:13:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

Vegetables - Carrot, drumstick, beans, white pumkin and yam (cut into 1inch lengthwise)

Grated coconut - 1/2cup

Green chilly - 2-3nos

Curd - 1/4cup

Cumin seeds - 1/2tsp

Coconut oil -1tsp

Cury leaves - few

Tumeric powder - 1/2tsp

Salt - to taste

Prepartion:

1) Grind the coconut, green chilly and cumin seeds into fine paste and keep aside

2) Heat a kadai, add all vegs, little water,tumeric powder,curry leaves and salt, cook till it turns soft (dont overcook)

3)Add the coconut paste to the vegetables and cook for few mins

4)Then add curd and mix well and off the flame

5) Heat the coconut oil and add it to the aviyal and serve hot with rice.

Mysore Pak / Diwali Sweets

2011-10-24T03:16:00.000-07:00

Mysore pak is my favourite sweet i learnt this from my mom, for all diwali she do it. This is the 2nd time i am try, it came out very well and this recipe i have already posted and this time want to show step wise pics. Advance Happy Diwali!

Ingredients:

Bengal gram flour - 1cup
Sugar - 2cups
Ghee - 1 cup
Water - 1/2cup
Cardamom powder - 1tsp

Preparation:

1)Heat a kadai, add 1tsp Ghee and flour, fry till raw smell goes and turns light brown & keep aside

2)Heat the Ghee in a low flame continously.(dont off the flame)

3)In another flame, heat heavy bottomed vessel / i used non stick kadai, add water and sugar heat till it becomes thick (string consistancy)

4)Add the flour slowly into the sugar syrup mix well continously so that no lumps are formed and Add the ghee little by little, stir well..when it becomes thick

5)Grease the plate with ghee and pour into it the mix, when it cools cut them into desired shapes.

Eggless Banana Cake

2011-10-20T03:04:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1cup

Banana - 1no ripe

Butter - 1/4 cup

Water/Milk - 1/4 cup

Sugar - 1/3 cup

Bk. pwd - 1tsp

Bk. Soda - 1/2 tsp

Banana / Vanilla essence - 1tsp

Salt - a pinch

Prepartion:

Preheat the oven at 175"c

Combine the flour,bk soda, bk powd,sugar and salt and keep aside

Combine milk,melted butter and banana essence, and add it to the flour and mixwell without lumbs

Grind the banana into fine paste and add it to the flour and mix it slowly

Pour them into 8 inch tray, bake for 35-40mins at 175'c

*Note: if the mixture is too thick u can add little water.

Coriander Tomato Chutney / Kothamalli thakkali chutney

2011-10-17T22:18:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

Tomato - 2nos (chopped)

Coriander leaves - 1/2cup

Onion - 1no (chopped)

Curry leaves - few

Garlic - 2 flakes

Red chilly - 2-3nos

Fennel seeds - 1/2tsp(optional)

Urad dal - 1/2tsp

Oil - 1tsp

Salt - to taste

Preparation:

1)Heat a kadai, add fennel seeds, urad dal saute till light brown and add onion, garlic, red chilly and curry leaves fry for few mins

2) Add tomatoes, coriander leaves and salt fry till the tomatoes mashes well, after it cools grind them into fine paste

3)Serve with idly or dosa

100 YUMMY DIWALI SWEETS E-BOOK BY INDUSLADIES!!!

2011-10-17T02:57:00.000-07:00

Here's the much awaited "100 Yummy Diwali Recipes" E-book by Indusladies. Happy to share that my sweet recipe Paneer Peda is featured in the E-book.

You can download the contributed recipes from here. Hope you try and enjoy this Diwali.

indusladies-e-book-for-diwali

2011-10-12T19:51:00.000-07:00

For the upcoming Diwali on October 26th, 2011, Indusladies is compiling an E-Book called “100 Yummy Diwali Sweet Recipes”. We are collecting Sweet/Dessert recipes from various bloggers to be featured in this E-Book.

This E-book will be made available as a free download to our community's 1.3 Lakh+ members. In addition, they are also be making this E-Book available to our 9000+ Facebook fans and Twitter followers. It's LOTS and LOTS of exposure to those food blogs entering the E-Book!!

We believe this would be a nice way to get the word out about a wonderful blog to the entire membership of IndusLadies!!

Are you a Food Blogger? Or do you have friends who are Food Bloggers? Here's a great news for the Food Bloggers out there who have been blogging for alteast 1 year now...

Those bloggers interested in submitting a recipe for this E-Book...all you need to do is as follows:

1. Send a link from your blog for a sweet /dessert recipe. It should also include the picture of the sweet/dessert. Your recipe, food picture, recipe URL as well as the entire blog URL will get featured in the E-Book.

2. In return, we need you to do two things:

Now make a blog post in your blog announcing the E-Book compilation by IndusLadies and the recipe you are sending for this E-Book. That way inviting your co-bloggers interested to send in their contribution by Oct 10th,2011.

Any blogger interested can send their entry to partners@indusladies.com by October 8th.

I am sending few of my recipes

Gulab Jamun

Paneer Peda

Mysore Pauk

Chocolate Muffins

2011-10-11T21:49:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 3/4cup

Coco Powder - 1/4cup

Egg - 1no

Oil - 1/4cup

Milk - 1/4cup

Powdered sugar - 1/2cup

Baking powder - 1tsp

Baking Soda - 1/4tsp

Salt - a pinch

Preparation:

1)Preheat the oven at 200"c

2)Sift the flour, add sugar,b.pwd,b. soda,coco pwd and salt

3)Combine the oil, egg, milk and vanilla essence, and add it to the flour and mixwell without lumbs

4) Pour batter into greased muffin tray upto 2/3rd.

5)Bake for 10 -12mins at 200''c

Coconut Ladoo

2011-10-10T04:36:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

Desiccated coconut - 1cup
Condensed milk - 3/4 - 1cup
Cardamon powder - 1/2tsp
Cashwnets - 5-6 nos(chopped)

Preparation:

1)Heat a non-stick kadai or heavy bottomed vessel, add coconut and fry for 1min in low flame
2)Add condensed, cardomon pwd, cashwnets and mix well and remove from the heat
3)After it cools, make a small balls and rolls the balls in coconut and serve

Recipe courtsey: neivedyam

This recipe goes to diwali special sweets n savories hosted by Ticking Palates

Green Moong Dal Sundal

2011-10-06T23:32:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

Green Moong dal - 1cup
Gratted Coconut - 1/4cup
Mustard Seeds - 1tsp
Hing - 1tsp
Oil - 2tsp
Salt - to taste
Curry leaves - few

Preparation:

1)Soak the green moong dal overnight & nextday pressure cook with salt and keep aside
2)Heat a kadai, add oil, mustard seeds after splutters, add curry leaves and hing
3)Add dal and cook them for 2-3mins, finally add grated coconut and saute for few mins

Carrot Thoran/Poriyal/Stir Fry

2011-10-04T00:28:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

Carrot - 2nos (grated)
Grated coconut - 2tsp
Green chilly - 2nos
Garlic flakes - 4-5nos(optional)
Shallots - 3nos(chopped)
Urad dal - 1/2tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2tsp
Oil - 2tsp
Tumeric pwd -
Curry leaves - few
Salt - to taste

Preparation:

1)Heat a kadai, add oil, when its hot add mustard seeds after splutters, add urad dal saute them till it turns little brown

2)Add shallots(small onion), green chilly and curry leaves saute them for 2mins

3)Then add carrot,garlic,tumeric pwd,and salt, cover and cook them until it turns soft (stir inbetween)

4)Finally add coconut and mix well

Serve hot with sambar rice, rasam and curd rice.