Tomato Omlet - 2

 

Preparation time : 10 mins

Serves : 3 to 4

Ingredients :

Besan (or) gram flour : 1 cup

Semolina : 1/2 cup

Tomatoes : 6 small or medium (depending on the sourness of tomatoes)

(Tomato puree : 1/2 cup)

Green chili's :  3

Salt :to taste

Onions : 1 finely chopped

Method :

Take a bowl, add besan, semolina , salt. Mix it once.

Grind tomatoes and green chilis into paste.

Add this to the bowl.

Make the batter like masala dosa batter.

 Heat tawa , pour ladle full of batter in center and spread it on tawa in circular motion outwards.

Top it with finely chopped onion.

Turn and let it cook for 1 or 2 mins

Serve hot with yogurt (curd) or any chutney.

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Drum stick leaves sambar

We call drumstick leaves as munaga aaku.
Here is the recipe for sambar with those leaves ... This taste excellent especially if you like different tastes or i can say if you are a foodie

Preparation time : 30 mins
Serves : 2

Ingredients :

Toor dal : 1/4 cup
Drum stick leaves : 1/4 cup
Green chili : 2
Coriander seeds : 1/2 tsp
Pepper cons : 3 to 5
Chana dal : 1 tsp (1 + 1)
Onion : 2
Tomato : 1 (optional)
Salt : to taste
Sambar powder : 1/2 tsp
Tamarind paste : 2 tbsp
Coriander leaves : few

For seasoning :
Urad dal : 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds : 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds : 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves : 6

Method :

Pressure cook dal and leaves seperately.
Mash the dal , grind the leaves , keep them aside.
Take a pan, heat it , add a tsp of oil , add green chili, coriander seeds, pepper cons, chana dal and onion fry them till they are golden brown.(If you are using tomato fry it a bit)
Let them cool down, grind it into a paste with coriander leaves. Keep it aside.
Take a pan, heat it , add a tsp of oil, add seasoning ingredients one by one and saute them.
Add chopped onion , fry it till translucent.
Add the paste that we made.Fry it a bit.
Add tamarind pulp and some water, let it boil.
Once it boils add drum stick leaves paste, salt , turmeric.
Add mashed dal and sambar powder.
Sambar is ready to serve.
Enjoy your dish :)
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Lady finger curry - 3

Preparation time : 20 mins
Serves : 3

Ingredients :

Lady finger : 250 grms
Onion : 1
Chana dal : 2tsp
Urad dal :2tsp
Sesame seeds : 2tsp
Red chili :  to taste
Tamarind pulp : 3tbsp (or) to taste
Turmeric : pinch
Jaggary :  2 pinches
Salt : to taste

For seasoning :
Urad dal : 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds : 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds : 1/4 tsp

Curry leaves : 6

Method :

Cut lady finger into 2 inch pieces, keep them aside.
Take a pan add oil, add urad dal, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, let the crackle , take out and keep them aside.
Take a pan add oil, then add chana dal, urad dal, sesame seeds, red chili, fry them.
Take them out and in the same pan add oil, onion and fry them till they are golden brown.
Take grinder and add these, grind them into a paste using little water.
Keep it aside.
Now take a pan, add water when it boils add tamarind pulp , salt, turmeric and jaggary.
Add cut lady finger.
Let it lady finger to cook, once cooked add the paste that we prepared earlier.
Cook it once.
Add seasoning, mix it once.
Take off the flame.
Tasty lady finger curry is ready .
Enjoy your dish :)
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Kakkaraalu and Mundapeta

This is an Orissa sweet , which is made with semolina and coconut ... Cloves and Pepper cons in this sweet gives a really nice taste to the dish.

Preparation time : 45 mins
Makes : 25 approx

Ingredients :

Semolina (or) Sooji : 1 cup
Water : 1 1/2 cup
Sugar : 1/2 cup
Salt : pinch
Ghee : 1tsp

Coconut : 2
Sugar : 1
Pepper cons : 4
Cloves : 2
Cardamom : 2
Salt : pinch

Method :

Take a pan, heat it.
Add Coconut, sugar, crushed peepers,crushed cloves and crushed cardamom.
Let sugar melt and wait till the water ( that came from sugar) evoperates.
Turn off the flame .
Keep this aside.

Take a pan, heat it, add water, sugar, salt and ghee.
Let water to boil and when sugar melts add semolina while stirring water.
Switch off the flame.
Let it cool down.

Knead it and make a dough out of it.
Take hand full of dough and  make balls from it.
Flatten the ball (make little hallow shape), keep prepared coconut stuffing.
(Don't over fill with stuffing , if you over fill while frying that may come out)

Close it  and make a ball.

Flatten it and deep fry it in oil (Keep the flame of oil in low) till done.
Take them out, press them between paper towels.

These deep fired things are called kakkara.
The same rounds instead of flattening and frying if you steam them then they are called mundapeta.
Tasty sweets are ready to serve.
Enjoy your dish :)
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Raw banana curd chutney (or) Aratikaaya perugu pachadi

Preparation time : 20 mins
Serves : 3

Ingredients :

Raw banana (or) Arati kaaya : 2
Green chili : 4
Garlic clove : 2
Curd : 1 cup
Coriander leaves : 1 tbsp
Salt : to taste

For seasoning :
Urad dal : 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds : 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds : 1/4 tsp
Red chili : 2
Curry leaves : 6

Method :

Cook banana and green chili in pressure cooker.
Let it cool down and remove the skin of cooked banana.
In a mortar pestle add garlic , cooked green chili, salt and crush them.
Add this cooked , peeled banana pieces to it and then crush them once again.
( kacha pacha ga danchali, you should have small pieces of banana after crushing them)
Take a bowl add curd, add crushed mixture , freshly chopped coriander leaves.
Take a pan , heat it, add a tsp of oil, add ingredients listed for seasoning , saute them a bit.
Add this seasoning to the bowl which contains chutney and mix it thoroughly .
Serve with white rice and dal.
Enjoy your dish :)
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Raw tamarind chutney

 Preparation time : 15 mins
Serves : 6 to 8

Ingredients :

Raw tamarind : 125 grms
Red chili : 8 (or) to taste
Coconut : 50 grms or 1/3 cup (Fresh/ dessicated/ frozen)
Hing : 1/8 tsp
Curry leaves : few
Turmeric : pinch
Salt : To taste
Mustard seeds : 1/2 tsp
 
Method :

Remove the skin and seeds of tamarind using mortor and pastle.

Dry roast red chili's.

Take a grinder and add raw tamarind, red chili, grated coconut, salt, turmeric,curry leaves and grind it into a paste by using little water.(Take coconut - qty which is half of tamarind.)
Take this into a bowl and keep it aside.
Take a pan, heat it, add 2 tbps of oil , add mustard seeds , and hing.
Add this to the prepared chutney and mix well.
Enjoy your dish with hot rice or roti.
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Chalividi (or) Rice flour dumplings

Chalividi - It is generally offered to god in prayers ...
It is made with either rice flour or wheat flour ... there are so many ways to make this and here i am giving one of them , which is soooo yummy...
This is the authentic way of making it ...

Preparation time : 15 mins
Makes : 2cups

Ingredients :

Rice : One heaped cup (Which gives 2 heaped cups of rice flour)
Sugar :1/2 heaped cup
Water : 1/2 cup
Ghee : 4 tsp
Cashew nuts : 8
Coconut pieces : 1/4 cup
Cardamom powder : 1/2 tsp

Method :

Soak rice for 6 to 8 hours and drain it.

When all water drained out make it into powder.
Give it to mill to get fine powder (or) you can use grinder to make fine powder.
(We call it as tadi biyyam pindi)
Sieve the flour.
Keep it aside.

Take a pan, add a tsp of ghee, add coconut pieces and fry them till they are golden brown in color.
In the same pan roast cashew nuts with a tsp of ghee.
Keep them aside.
Take a pan, add sugar and water.
Let sugar melt and wait till you can make a ball ( mudara vunda paakam) .

Add rice flour.
Soon you added flour Switch off the flame.
Mix it good.
Add ghee , fried nuts, coconut and cardamom powder.
Mix it once again.
Yummy yummy chalividi is ready :)
Believe me this tastes really really awesome.
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