Rekha's Recipe

Sprout Pulao

2012-02-08T05:29:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

Basamti rice - 1cup
Green Dal - 1cup
Onion - 2nos
Cinnamon - small piece
Cloves - 2nos
Cashewnuts - few
Oil - 2tsp

To Grind:

Ginger - small piece
Garlic - 3flakes
Green chilly - 3nos
Fennel seeds - 1/4tsp
Cumin Seeds - 1/4tsp

For sprout: Wash & soak the green overnight, then drain the water and leave it for 6 to 8hr.

Preparation:

Heat a cooker, add oil, when its hot add cloves,cashewnuts, cinnamon and onion, fry till onion turns brown

Add the grinded ingredients and fry till raw smell goes

Add sprout and tumeric powder mix well, and add the rice and 2 and 1/2cup of water and adjust salt

Close the cooker and put weight. Cook till two whistles.

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.

Carrot Soup

2011-09-28T22:31:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

Carrot - 2 nos (grinded finely)

Tomato - 1 no(small) (grinded finely)

Garlic - 2 flakes

Butter - 1tsp

Milk/Cream - 1/4 cup

Maida - 1 tsp

Pepper - 1 tsp

Preparation:

1. Heat a kadai, add butter n garlic saute them for few mins

2. Then add grinded carrot, tomato,salt and little water and bring to boil or till raw smell goes

3. Mix the maida in 2tsp of water and add it to the carrot, stir them with lumps

4. Finally add the milk and pepper, cook for 2 to 3mins and serve hot.

Recipe courtesy: Chef Jacob's kitchen

Vegetable Appam

2011-09-25T21:20:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

Idly batter - 1cup
Onion - 1no
Vegetables - carrot and beans(chopped finely)
Gratted coconut - 2tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2tsp
Cumin seeds - 1tsp
Curry leaves - few
Coriander leaves - few
Ginger - small piece
Green chilly - 2nos
Salt - to taste

Preparation:

1)Heat a kadai, add mustard seeds, cumin, ginger,chilly, Vegetables ,coconut, and onion fry them for few mins and finally add curry and coriander leaves

2)Then add the mixture to the idly batter and mix and adjust salt

3)Heat a unniappam pan, add very little oil into each section..then pour the batter in it. Cook both the sides for 2-3mins till brown.

7 Link game

2011-09-25T00:53:00.000-07:00

I am glad to share my few post and i thank prema for tagging me.
I like to share with some friends:

Saras
Sangeetha
Priya
Ganga

My Successful Post:

Choco chip cake:
ccp Cake

My Beautiful Post

Jackfruit Appam:

My Favourite Post:

Ada Prathamam:

My Popular Post:

Pomegrante Juice:

The Post didnt get popular

Mango berry smoothie:

The post i am proud of is the Chocolate cake because first time i tried cake and it came out very well

The Most helpful post is Mysore Pauk:

Rose milk Pudding

2011-09-22T04:35:00.000-07:00

First time I am trying this pudding and i tried from my sweet friend Saras blog, it came out very well and my kid enjoyed it.
Thank you Saras for this sharing this recipe.

Ingredients:

Agar Agar - 1cup

Milk - 1cup

Sugar - 1/2cup

Rose syurp - 1tsp (can use any syurp)

Water - 1/2cup

Preparation:

1)Soak agar agar in the water for 1 to 2 hours

2) Heat the agar agar and bring to thick.

3)Then add milk when it starts boiling slowly add sugar

4)Stir till sugar dissloves and allow it to cool and pour it in the jelly mould

5)Keep it in the fridge for 10-15mins and enjoy it.

Paneer Peda

2011-08-24T06:11:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

Paneer grated - 1/2cup
Milk powder - 1/2cup
Powdered sugar - 1/2cup
Ghee - 2tsp
Cardamom powder - 1/2tsp

Preparation:

1)Heat a kadai, add ghee, grated paneer,milk powder,cardamom powder and sugar, mix them well and stir continously until the mixture starts to separate.

2)Make it to dough form and off the flame.

3)Then make the dough into small patties or balls.

This paneer peda goes to Sweets n savories event hosted by Radhika

Fruit Custard

2011-08-16T04:27:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
Custard powder - 3tsp (i used pista flavour)
Milk - 1/2cup
Sugar - 5 to 6tsp or as required
Fruits - banana, apple, orange, pomogrenate(cut into small pieces)

Preparation:
1) In a bowl, add custard powder and milk, mix them without lumps

2)Heat a heavy bottomed vessel add custard mixture, cook in low flame and cook until it becomes thick

3)Cool the custard and add it to fruits and keep it in refrigerator for 1/2hr and serve chill.

Choco Banana Shake

2011-08-11T06:43:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

Banana - 1no (ripe)

Choco powder - 1tsp**

Sugar - as required

Milk - 1/2cup

Vanilla essence - 1/4tsp

Preparation:

Blend all the above ingredients into smooth paste and serve chill.

**Note: U can also add chocolate bars instead of coco powder.

Rava / Sooji Kichadi

2011-08-09T06:19:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:

Rava - 1cup

Onion - 3no(chopped)

Tomato - 1no(chopped)

Carrot - 1/4cup(cut into cubes)

Beans - 1/4cup(cut into cubes)

Green chilly - 2nos

Ginger & garlic paste-1/4tsp

cloves- 2nos

Cinamon -small piece

Tumeric powder - 1/2tsp

Bay leaves - 1no

Oil - 1tsp

Ghee - 1tsp

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Curry & coriander leaves - few

Preparation:

1)Dry roast the rava for 5mins and set aside

2)In a kadai, add mustard seeds after splutters, add onion, green chilly and ginger n garlic paste saute them till raw smell goes, then add cloves, bayleaves and cinamon saute till nice aroma starts

3)Add vegetables and salt, cover and cook till it turns tender

4)Then add tomato and saute for 4-5mins and add 2cups of water and bring to boil

5)Slowly add the rava to the boiling water and mix them well, then cover and cook till the water absorbs.

6)Finally add ghee, curry n corainder leaves.

Hot Rava Kichadi is ready to serve. u can have it with curd or onion raita.