Carrot Kheer

Ingredients :
Carrots - 2
Milk - 3 Cups.
Ghee, Cashewnuts- little.
Sugar - as appropriate.

Method of Prep :
1. Cut the carrots into slices.
2. Cook the carrot slices in milk till they become soft and the raw smell is gone completely.
3. Grind this in mixie or juicer with enough sugar and more milk, till carrot disappears completely!!
4. Fry cashews in ghee and mix with the kheer.
5. Serve chilled.

This is a very easy to prep kheer. Tastes very nice and has very less fat :)

Jeera Rice

Ingredients :
Jeeraga Samba Rice - 1 Cup. - We can get this rice in the market. This has a nice flavour and is used for this rice. If its not available, we can use normal rice also.
Cumin(Jeera) - 1 tbl sp
Ghee - 3 tbl sp
Coriander leaves - 1/2 bunch.
Salt - as appropriate

Method of Preparation :
1. Cook rice seperately with enough water.
2. Heat ghee in a kadai and add the jeera and fry till it becomes just light brown, (Dont let it turn black, that will spoil the rice )
3. Add the cooked rice to this with enough salt and mix well .
4. Garnish well with cut coriander leaves.
5. Serve hot with raitha or potato fry.

This is a very healthy and easy to prep rice !

Peas Pulav

Everything similar to the previous recipe. Just replace the vegetables with Peas alone and Peas Pulav is ready !!!

Vegetable Pulav

Ingredients :
Basmati Rice - 1 Cup
Coconut Milk Extract - 2 Cups
Carrot, Beans, Potato, Onion, Peas - All finely cut.
Garam Masala items - Cinnamon, Cloves, Elachi, Bay leaf.
Salt, oil as needed.
Lemon - Half

Method of Prep :
1.Take Coconut Extract, ready made is available in the market these days else Grind coconut with water and take the extract and strain through the strainer. Make 2 Cups, 1 Thick and 1 thin one. Or take 11/2 cups of extract and 1/2 cup of water.
2.Wash rice, and fry with a tsp of ghee.
3.Cook rice with the 2 Cups of Coconut extract for 10 mins in the pressure cooker. Squeeze half a lemon in this. This helps the rice retain color and also remains separate after getting cooked.
4. Boil all the cut vegetables(except onion) seperately, in such a way that the colour is not lost while cooking.
5. Heat oil/ghee in a kadai and fry all the masala items, and add cut onions and fry.
6. Add the cooked vegetables and rice and mix well.
7. Add salt as appropriate.
8. Serve hot with raitha.

French Fries

French Fries : I prefer eating them at Marry Brown only, but still thought i will try once at home also :)

Ingredients :
Potatoess and Oil.


Method of Preparation :
1. Scrap the skin of potatoes and wash them well.
2. Cut them into finger like pieces.
3. Put them in salted water for a while.
4. Wash them again a couple of times.
5. Spread them on a piece of cloth till moisture is gone.
6. Deep fry in Oil.
7. Mix salt, pepper and mirchi and serve with sauce !

Oothappam

Tonight , i suddenly wanted to eat oothappam.. first thought will go to HSB and have , but today being a sunday it was bound to be crowded hence plan dropped. So next step, prepare it on your own and believe me it was oooosum :))).

Ingredients :
Dosai Maavu
Onion, tomato, capsicum, coriander leaves finely chopped and green peas.

Method of preparation :
1. Take 1 1/2 ladles of dosai maavu and pour it on the tawa. Don't spread it much , just spread it a little. Make it little more thick in the centre so that it comes out fluffy.
2. Take all the cut vegetables and spread it finely on the oothappam.
3. Pour oil and fry well.
4. Once its golden brown , turn it on the other side and fry again.
5. Remove from stove, and serve hot with chutneys.

Arachuvita Sambhar

This is one recipe i wanted to write for looong... many of friends had asked me to post this , so here it goes. A simple daily do-able one.

Arachuvita Sambhar :

Ingredients :

Vegetables of ur choice : Few famous combinations :
Small Onions (sambhar vengayam)
Drumsticks (murungakkai)
Ladies Finger (vendakkai)
Tomato, Big Onions, Potato.
or any other vegetables of ur choice

Thuar Dhal - 1 Cup
Coconut - 1 Cup
Tamarind - 1 small lemon sized one.
Dhania - 2-3 teaspoons.
Red Chilli - 6
Fenugreek (Vendayam) - 1/2 spoon
Kadalai paruppu - 1/2 spoon
Pottu Kadalai - 1/2 spoon
Turmeric Powder , Salt
Coriander , Curry leaves.


Method of Preparation :
1. Fry dhania,vendayam, red chilli, onion in a spoon of oil .
2. Add coconut,kadalai paruppu and pottu kadalai in the end and remove from stove.
3. Grind together this fried mixture to a smooth paste.
4. Soak thuar dhal in water for a while and pressure cook the same.
5. Soak tamarind in hot water for a while.
6. Boil the tamarind extract till the raw smell goes.
7. Cook the vegetables that u wish to add in sambhar seperately.
8. Add salt and turmeric powder to this and the cooked vegetables.
9. To this add the ground mixture.
10.Mash the thuar dhal nicely and add this to stove.
11.Add water and allow to boil.
12.Garnish with mustard,Coriander and Curry leaves.

Chole

Ingredients :
Kabuli Channa - 1 cup
Onions - 2
Tomato - 2
Potato - 2 (If u need more quantity add potato or u can skip this)

Spices
Cloves, Cinnamon, Elachi, Maratti Moggu, Anas Flower, Sombu, Kasa Kasa, - All little
Turmeric Powder, Chilli Powder, Salt - Per ur requirements
Jaggery - very little.
Oil/Ghee - for frying
Coriander leaves - 1 bunch
Lemon - 1

Grind together
Ginger - small piece
Garlic - If u prefer garlic (not sure of the quantity, 1 or 2 pieces should do i guess)
Green Chillies - 2
Red Chillies - 2
Grated Coconut - 2 tsp
Cashewnuts - 6

Method of Preparation
1. Soak Channa for 10 hrs and pressure cook along with the potatoes.
2. Grind together all the spices with finely cut onions.
3. Blanch tomatoes in hot water and make a thick puree.
4. Heat oil/ghee in a pan and add the onion paste and as it gets fried add the tomato puree with little turmeric.
5. Add the ground masala and chilli powder, salt, jaggery to this and keep in low flame till good smell comes.
6. Add the channa and mashed potato to this and add water based on the thickness u need for the gravy.
7. Keep in stove for another 5 mins.
8. Remove from stove and garnish with coriander leaves
9. Serve hot with rotis, with a piece of lemon.

Vegetable Briyani

I make vegetable briyani or veg pulav quite often , but somehow it wasnt all that satisfactory esp the colour of the briyani, but today it turned out real good, just the right colour and taste i shd say ;)

Ingredients :

Basmathi rice - 1 Cup
Carrot(2), Beans(10), Capsicum(1)(Red & Green ones), Potato(2), Onions(2), Tomato(2),Cauliflower - We can change it as per ur taste and quantity.
Pattai (Cinnamon) - 1 inch piece
Elakkai (Cardamon) - 1
Krambu (Cloves) - 3
Maratti Moggu - 2
Anas Flower - 1
Bay Leaf - 1
Aji-No-Moto - just a small pinch
Turmeric powder - 1 pinch
Garam Masala Powder - 1 spoon
Coriander leaves - a small bunch
Lemon - Half piece
Oil/Ghee - For frying.

Grind Together

1 tsp grated coconut
1 tsp Dhania (Coriander seeds)
Cashewnuts - 8
Red Chilly - 5
Onion - 1 (Just roast it over the flame directly)

Method of Preparation
1. Wash and soak the rice for 10 mins.
2. Cut all the vegetables into small small pieces.
3. Blanch tomatoes in hot water, remove skin and make a thick puree out of it.
4. Boil the vegetables till they get half cooked.
5. Heat oil/ghee in a pressure pan and add the spices and fry them.
6. Add finely cut onions to this and keep frying.
7. To this add the ground paste,tomato puree, turmeric and keep frying till u get a good smell.
8. Add the boiled vegetables to this and continue to fry.
9. Add 2 cups of water and squeeze half a lime into this.
10. In a kadai , add half a teaspoon ghee and fry the basmati rice for 2 mins
11. Once the water boils, add the rice to this and pressure cook for 10 mins.
12. Remove from fire, add a spoon of garam masala and ghee.
13. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with raitha.
14. Result will be something similar to this :)

Corn Capsicum Masala

This is my latest favorite dish, tasted it once when i went to kolkatta recently.

Ingredients :

Sweet Corn Kernels - 2 Cups
Capsicum - 2 Big ones
Onion - 2 Big ones
Tomato - 2 Big ones
Pattai (Cinnamon) - 1 piece
Krambu (Cloves) - 2-3 pieces
Elakkai (Elachi) 1-2 pieces
Red Chilly powder , Salt - as per ur need
Cashewnuts - 5-6
Oil/ Ghee - for frying.

Prep Method :

1.Cut the onions, tomatoes, capsicum to fine pieces.
2.Grind the cut onions, tomatoes, cashewnuts with the masala spices(Cinnamon, Cloves, Elachi) to a fine gravy/paste (The cashewnuts will give more thickness and taste to the gravy).
3.Cook the capsicum and corn in a kadai with oil/ghee. Cook till the raw smell of capsicum is gone and the corn also gets cooked.
4.Simultaneously put the gravy in a kadai and cook the same with oil/ghee till the raw smell of onion and tomato is gone and the gravy comes to a red/brown colour .
5.To this , add chilly and salt and some more oil/ghee and allow it to boil , add the cooked corn n capsicum keep it on stove till u get a good flavor.
6.Garnish with cut corrainder and serve hot with cut lemons and onions.

Can be used with phulkas, naans, or with rice also.
Happy Eating !!!

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