செவ்வாய், 1 நவம்பர், 2011

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Sweet bholi




 Ingredients:
Chana Dal -- 1 cup ( half cooked and water to be drained completely)
Jaggery -- 1 cup
Cardamom - 2 or 3
Grated coconut -- 1/2 cup
Maida -- 1 1/2 cup
Refined oil - 1 cup
Colour powder -- a little
Soda salt -- a pinch
Salt to taste
Ghee 


Method :

Chana Dal boiled, Jaggery, Grated coconut  and Cardamom are ground together and heated to form a thick paste.

In a big bowl add maida flour, salt, colour powder along with the oil.  
Make it into dough.  
The dough should be mixed well for smooth finish.
Add more oil and keep it aside for one hour.
Take little dough and flatten it with hand.   
Place a small ball of the stuffing in the flattened dough and close it completely. 
Then apply oil to the back side of a banana leaf.  
The closed side of the ball should rest on the oily side of banana leaf. 
Spread  the ball using hand moistened with oil.
On a preheated pan , place the flattened bholi.
Heat the bholi on the pan for few min. applying ghee on both sides of bholi.
Serve hot with ghee .


திங்கள், 31 அக்டோபர், 2011

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CHICKEN GRAVY








Ingredients:

Chicken...1/2 kg
Finely Chopped Onion...2 cups
Finely chooped Tomato medium sized....3
Ginger Garlic Paste......2 tsp
red chillli powder.....4 tsp
coriander powder......4 tsp
turmeric powder.....1 tsp
Coriander leaves,Curry leaves.....as you wish
cumin seeds,,,5 tsp
aniseeds....2 tsp
cloves.... 3
cinnamon....a small piece
coconut powder......3 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil

Method:


In a  frying pressure pan add cumin seeds,aniseeds,cloves,cinnamon and allow it to get heat.
Fry it till it becomes light brown..
Now grind it with coconut powder make it to a fine paste.

In a frying  pan add oil, allow it to get heat.Then add onions ,tomato and keep frying, when it is done, add coriander and curry leaves,ginger - garlic paste , red chilli powder,coriander powder,turmeric powder saute them well so that they get mixed well with each other.

Now add chicken and stir it around so that  the masala spreads evenly all over the chicken, pour water until the chicken is immersed to 3/4 level. Add salt as per taste.
Allow the chicken  to cook for 15 mins and now add the masala powder.
Again cook for 15 mins garnish with coriander leaves .and serve hot with rice ,chappathi  or idli.

சனி, 22 அக்டோபர், 2011

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TRI COLOUR BOONDI








Ingredients:

Gram flour - 1 cup
Rice flour - 1 tsp
Salt - a little
Soda salt - a little
Colour powder - a little ( orange , yellow, green)
Oil

Method:

To make sugar syrup:

Sugar - 2 cups
Water - 1/2 cup
Take sugar and water in a vessel and boil to make a thick syrup.


Mix all the ingredients except the colour powders.
Gradually mix the water into the flour to make a smooth batter.Whisk well.
Now divide the batter into three equal parts.
Add the three colours with the  three batters.
Heat the oil in a heavy-bottomed pan using perforated spoon with round holes,
pour the batter into the oil, shaking the spoon so that the batter drops fall through in pieces.
Use a little of batter at a time.
Use a clean, perforated spoon to turn the boondi and to take them from the oil. 
Fry them till oil sizzles.
Remove them and Drain the boondi on sugar syrup.
Do the same for other two coloured batters and finally mix all the boondies.
And store in an airtight container.

வியாழன், 8 செப்டம்பர், 2011

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KAIMA IDLI







Ingredients:

Idli   - 10
Finely  chopped  onion  --  1  cup
Finely  chopped  tomato  -- 1 cup 
Chilly  powder  --  1  tsp
Turmeric  powder  -- a little
Oil  --  3  tsp
Salt  -  to  taste
Coriander leaves --  a  little  
Tomato sauce -2 tsp

Method:

Cut all idlies to small pieces and keep aside.
Place  a pan  on  fire  and  pour  the oil and heat. Now  add  onions  and  tomatoes  one by  one  and  fry  it until it becomes light brown. Then  add chilli , turmeric  powders   and  again  fry  it to a fine paste. Add salt to taste.Now add the chopped idlies and mix well.Stop the fire and then add tomato sauce to it...
Garnish  with  coriander  leaves  and  serve  hot.