திங்கள், 26 ஆகஸ்ட், 2013

Cherry Fruit Squash

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Boil Cherries with 1 cup of water and smash it .
Then remove its seeds and grind the cherries to fine paste.
Now add 1/2 cup water to the paste and again cook it in low flame for 5 or 10 mins.
In a separate pan prepare sugar syrup (For 1 cup cherries add 3 cups sugar) and allow it to cool.
Then mix Cherry extract to sugar syrup and transfer it to a glass bottle and refrigerate.

Add 1/4 cup of Cherry squash with 3/4 cup of water and serve chill.


புதன், 3 ஏப்ரல், 2013

Egg Kola

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Ingredients:

Coconut powder - 1 cup
Fried gram - 1/2 cup
Green Chilly - 4
Garlic pieces - 5
Cloves - 2
Cinnamon- 1/2 inch
Cumin seed - 1 tsp
Curry leaves  and Coriander leaves
Egg - 1 or 1/2
Small Onions - 5 or 6
Turmeric powder
Salt

Method :
Grind all except Egg , without adding water .
Transfer it to a bowl and add egg , turmeric powder and salt
Mix well and make it into small balls .
Fry it in Oil in low flame.


வெள்ளி, 29 மார்ச், 2013

BROKEN WHEAT KESARI

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It contains all healthy ingredients, and here is the ingredients and the method of preparation.

Wheat--1cupwater--3 cupsghee--3 to 4 tspJaggery - 2 cupscashews--1 tspkismiss or raisins-1 tspcardamom powder--1/2 tsp
Take a deep bottom thick vessel,with about 2 table spoon of ghee, now add broken wheat and fry it for 5 min..Now add 3 cups of water in fried Rava ,stir well keep the vessel closed with a lid and cook it on a low flame.After it completely cooked,add jaggery and mix well.Keep stirring until it absorbed completely.Add few amount of ghee if you want more taste.Fry raisins and cashews to light golden brown colour and add these to kesari.An easy and simple recipe is ready to eat....A healthier version too....:)

செவ்வாய், 19 பிப்ரவரி, 2013

BEANS (KIDNEYS)

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They're even called Kidney Beans.
And through their color and shape Mother Nature is perhaps hinting that kidney beans actually reduce the risk of chronic Kidney disease.
They also indirectly help boost kidney health by stabilizing blood sugar and strengthening heart function.

திங்கள், 18 பிப்ரவரி, 2013

THE AVOCADO (UTERUS)

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THE AVOCADO (UTERUS)




 


The Avocado resembles the uterus, perhaps for a very good reason.
It’s a great source of folic acid.Research proves that folates reduce the risk of cervical dysplasia ,a precancerous condition.Which means this beautiful light bulb-shaped fruit can actually protect you from uterine cancer. 






வெள்ளி, 7 டிசம்பர், 2012

PEPPER CHICKEN MASALA

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INGREDIENTS :

COCONUT POWDER  -2 tsp
GINGER – 2 inches
GARLIC – 12 pieces
RED CHILLY -5
PEPPER – 1 tsp
CUMIN SEEDS – 1 tsp
CUMIN BLACK SEEDS – 1 tsp
CLOVES – 3
CINNAMON – ½ inch
CORIANDER SEEDS – 1 tsp
CURRY  LEAVES  AND  CORIANDER LEAVES – ½ cup

FRY ALL THE ABOVE INGREDIENTS IN 2 tsp OF OIL AND GRIND IT TO A FINE POWDER.

CHICKEN -1 kg
FINELY  CHOPPED ONION -2 cups
FINELY  CHOPPED TOMATO -3 cups
TURMERIC POWDER – ½ tsp
OIL – ½ cup


METHOD:

 Heat ½  cup of oil in a cooking vessel, add the onions and saute till pink.
Add tomatoes and saute further for another 4-5 mts on medium heat.
 Add the cleaned chicken pieces and cook on high heat for 4-5 mts, combining once in a while.
 Then, add the turmeric powder and again mix well.
 Reduce heat to medium, cook covered for another 4-5 mts.
 Let the chicken cook in its own water, covered for 4-5 mts. ,then add half a cup of warm  water and cook covered for another 4-5 mts or till you get the desired gravy consistency.
Now add the masala powder and mix well..again cook it in slow flame until the oil splits.
Garnish with Coriander leaves and serve hot with Rice or Chappathi.


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.































புதன், 3 நவம்பர், 2010

ANKUR BOONDHI

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INGREDIENTS:
Maida - 1 cup
Rice Flour - 1 cup
Urad Dal Flour -1 tsp
Soda Salt - a little
Salt - a little
Colour Powder - Green , Orange , Yellow
Water

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.






METHOD:
Mix all the ingredients except the colour powders.
Add water to make a paste like bajji mix.It should not be very light.
Meanwhile heat the oil for frying.
Now divide the batter into four equal parts and keep one part as its original colour.
Now add the three colours with the other three batters.
First drop small pieces of the white coloured batter.
Fry them till oil sizzles.
Don't make it crispy.
Remove and immerse in sugar syrup and then transfer to a different vessel.
Repeat the same for the other coloured batters  and prepare four different coloured boondhies.
Mix them and garnish with cashews or any other nuts as you wish.

THENGAI PAL MURUKKU

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INGREDIENTS:

RICE FLOUR - 4 CUPS

URAD DAL FLOUR - 1 CUP

BUTTER - 60 Gms

GRATED COCONUT - 2 CUPS

ASAFOETIDA - 1 tsp

WHITE SESAME - 4 tsp

SALT - TO TASTE

OIL - 1 Kg

WATER - 1 OR 2 CUPS.

TO PREPARE RICE FLOUR: 

Soak 4 cups of rice in water for 2 hrs .
Drain water and spread out in a dry cloth in a shady place for  1 hr.
When there is no moisture ,grind it to a fine powder.
Place a kadai on fire and fry all the powder and sieve it to make a nice powder.

TO MAKE DAL POWDER:
Roast 1 cup of dal , without oil,in a low flame and spread out in a plate to cool off.
Then grind it to a nice flour and sieve it.







METHOD:
Mix all the ingredients except coconut, oil and water.
Now make 2 or 3 cups of coconut milk and mix it in the flour and make a soft dough.
Add water to it , if coconut milk is not enough for the dough.
Stuff the maker with dough.
Now press the murukku onto an oil greased plate.
Heat oil for frying ,in a kadai,and drop 3 or 4 murukkus gently at a time.
Fry till crisp on medium flame.
Drain excess oil and spread it on a plate.
Store in an air tight container.

புதன், 26 மே, 2010

Crab fry

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Ingredients:

crab pieces  --  10

finely chopped onion --  1 cup

finely chopped tomato  --  1 cup

sambar onion -- 6 or 7

garlic  -- 5

chilly powder  --  2 tsp

coriander powder  --  2 tsp

turmeric powder  --  1/4 tsp

grated coconut  --  1/2 cup

oil  -- 1/4 cup

salt -- to taste







 





Method:

Grind coconut to a fine paste and finally add sambar onion and garlic and

grind them to small pieces.

Place a thick bottomed frying pan on fire and pour oil and heat.

Now add onion and stir-fry until it becomes golden brown.

Then add tomatoes and again fry them.

Now add crab , chilly powder,coriander powder,turmeric powder, salt,coconut

paste and fry them well until it becomes deep brown.

Serve hot. 

செவ்வாய், 20 ஏப்ரல், 2010

Malbuva

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Ingredients:
Milk - 1 litre
Maida  --  1/4 cup
Soda salt --  a little
Ghee  --  1/2 litre
Sugar  syrup  --  2 cups





Method :
Place a thick bottomed pan on fire and pour the milk and bring it to a boil.

When the milk reduced to half litre stop the fire and allow it to cool.
Then add maida and soda salt and mix well to a thick batter.
Now place a kadai  on fire and pour the ghee and heat .
Now drop one spoon of batter to the ghee and fry, keeping the flame uniform.
Then drop it into sugar syrup and do the same for the remaining batter.
Soak all the malbuva in the syrup .
Serve hot .
No need to refrigerate.Malbuva will stay fresh for two days.

வியாழன், 8 ஏப்ரல், 2010

BREAD BAJJI

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Ingredients:

Bread slices  --  10
Bengal gram flour -- 1 cup
Chilly powder -- 1 tsp
Turmeric powder -- 1/4 tsp
Salt -- to taste
Rice flour -- 2 tsp
Asafoetida  -- a little
Oil  --  3 cups
Water  -- 1/2 cup









Method  :

Cut bread into 2 pieces. Mix all the ingredients well except oil and bread. Make it to a thick batter.Now dip bread slices one by one and fry it in oil.Serve hot with tomato sauce.

வெள்ளி, 26 மார்ச், 2010

Mixed Vegetable Idli

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Ingredients:

Idli  batter -  4  cups
Mustard  seeds -- 1/2 tsp
Urad dal -- 1/2 tsp
Bengal  gram --  1 tsp
Asafoetida  --  a  little
Green  chillies  -- 2 (cut into small pieces)
Grated Carrot  --  3 tsp
Beans --  3  tsp
Cabbage -- 3 tsp
Chopped onion  --  3 tsp
Grated Beetroot  --  2 tsp (to garnish)
Coriander leaves  -- a few
Salt  -- a little
Oil  --  2 tsp













Method :

Heat  oil in a pan and add mustard  seeds ,urad dal  and  bengal gram.
When the seeds starts to splutter add asafoetida , onion, green chillies one by one and stir-fry until onion becomes light brown.
Now add all the vegetables one by one except beetroot and fry it.
Add salt to it.
Now transfer the ingredients to a bowl.
Add idli batter, coriander leaves and mix them well.
Pour them in idli plate and garnish with grated beetroot and cook.
Serve hot with sambar or chutney.

திங்கள், 8 மார்ச், 2010

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வியாழன், 25 பிப்ரவரி, 2010

BREAD KOFTA GRAVY

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 Ingredients :

For  Kofta :
Bread slices -   8
Mashed  Potatoes   --   3
Chilly  powder  --  1  tsp
Salt  --  to taste
Coriander  leaves  --  a little
Oil  --   2 cups

Dip all the bread  slices in water  and  mash them well.
Mix  them with mashed potatoes , chilly powder,salt and coriander leaves .
Make them into small balls .
Heat oil  and  fry all the koftas.





 For  gravy :
Finely chopped onions  --   2 cups
Finely chopped  tomatoes  --  2  cups
Ginger and garlic paste  --  1  tsp
Garam masala powder  -- 1/4 tsp
Chilly powder  --  2 tsp
Turmeric powder  --  1/4 tsp
Salt  - to taste
Coriander leaves  -- a  little
Sugar  --  1/4 tsp
Oil -- 5 tsp





Method :
Place bowl on fire and pour oil in it.
Add onions and tomatoes one by one and fry.
Then add ginger and garlic paste and stir - fry for some time.
Now add water ,garam masala powder, chilly powder, turmeric powder and  close the bowl with a  lid  for sometime.
Finally  add sugar and salt and stir the gravy.
Stop the fire and transfer the gravy to a bowl and then add all the koftas .
Garnish with coriander leaves serve hot with Chappathies.

திங்கள், 15 பிப்ரவரி, 2010

BEETROOT HALVA

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 Ingredients:

Beetroot - 1 kg (finely grated)

Sugar --  3/4kg

Milk  --  2 cups

Water  -- 1/2 cup
 
Ghee  --1/2 cup

Nuts  -- To garnish

Cardamom  powder  --  1/2 tsp

Method :
Cook beetroot along with milk and water for 15 minutes.

Now add  sugar and stir well until the halva becomes thick.

Add ghee little by little while stirring.

Stop the fire and transfer it into a plate.

Garnish with nuts and serve hot.

சனி, 13 பிப்ரவரி, 2010

Nuts Paniyaram

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Ingredients :
Fried rava -- 2 cups

Sugar  --  2 cups

Water  -- 1 cup

Chopped Cashew  --  1 tsp

Sliced  Almond  -- 1 tsp

Chopped dates   -- 1 tsp

Sliced Pistachios -- 1 tsp

Oil -- 3 tsp

Cardamom powder -- 1/2 tsp

Method :

Soak  rava  in water for half an hour.

Then grind to a fine paste.

Add sugar and again grind well.

Transfer it to a bowl.

Mix all nuts and cardamom powder.

Place paniyaram pan on fire and make paniyarams.

Serve hot.


A simple and healthy evening dish along with hot tea.