Ingredients:

• green moong beans
• salt
• jaggery
• grated coconut
• cardamom powder
• maida
• rice flour
• baking powder

Preparation:

1. soak green moong beans in water for three hours.
2. cook it using pressure cooker adding half a tsp of salt.(one whistle)
3. prepare jaggery syrup and once ready add grated coconut
4. open the cooker and add the jaggery syrup+grated coconut and cardamom powder and let the water completely evaporate.
5. prepare the maida batter adding little rice powder and 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
6. make the mixture of step 4 into small balls, coat it in the batter in step 5 and deep fry in oil until light golden brown.
7. Yummy sukhiyan is ready to be served hot hot....:-)

11:24 PM

 

Ingredients

1. Kadala pparippu
2. thuvar dal
3. basen powder
4. ginger
5. shallots
6. red chilli
7. salt
8. asafoetida powder
9. curry leaves
10. green chilli
11. oil

Preparation

Soak both the dals for 3 hours and grind to paste.(divide into three portions. first portion grind to smooth paste,next medium and the third leave it as it is.) Grind ginger, green chilli and shallots and add it to the paste. Mix salt, red chilli, curry leaves and asafoetida powder.Take half a cup of basen powder and make a paste and mix it to the above mix.
Make into small thin patties and deep fry until it turn brown.

11:21 PM

Ingredients:

• cauliflower 1 medium
• 3/4 cup of plain flour
• 1 table spoon corn flour
• salt
• green chilli -chopped -1
• ginger garlic paste -3 table spoon
• finely chopped onion-1 cup
• finely chopped coriander leaves
• soya sause (5 table spoon - light or 2 table spoon -dark)
• 2 table spoon of tomato ketchup
• oil
• edible red colour(optional)(which obviously was not used for my preparation this time).
• spring onion
• shimla mirch -1-chopeed to small 2cm squares.

Preparation

1. Make a batter of maida, corn flour , salt and one tsp of ginger garlic paste and edible red colour.
2. Dip cauli florets in the paste and deep fry till properly cooked and keep aside.
3. Heat oil in another pan and saute ginger and garlic paste, chopped onios, shimla mirch and green chilli to it.
4. Mix soya sause and tomato ketchup.
5. Add fried cauliflower and mix well. Garnish with coriander leaves and spring onion.

11:14 PM

 

1. Make a batter of Maida and add a pinch of salt.

2. Mix grated coconut, sugar and jeera and keep aside.

3. Make thin pancakes of Maida batter and when its cooked on both sides, keep the second mix inside and make rolls or fold from both sides.

4. Yummy, easy to prepare, love -letter is ready.

11:10 PM

11:08 PM

Ingredients

1.Irumban puli -3 cups

2.red chilli powder-3tsp

3.garlic-one (depends on the size of the garlic)

4.mustard seeds

5.turmeric powder-1/2 tsp

6.asafoetida powder

7.sesame oil

8.vinegar-one Tbspoon

9.curry leaves

10salt to taste

11.pickle powder-3 Tbspoon (if available and optional. the achar comes out well without this also)

Preparation

1. cut each irumban puli into 4 vertical(horizontal) slices.

2. heat sesame oil and sputter mustard seeds.

3. Add garlic and saute well. When it becomes pale brown, add curry leaves and saute for a while.

4. Reduce flame and add chilli powder (and pickle powder) asafoetida powder, salt and turmeric powder.

5. Add vinegar and mix well.
6. Add the cut irumban puli to this and mix for a minute.
Yummy Achar is ready to be served and can be kept refridgerated for long.

PS: Its better not to cook the irumban puli for more than a minute as it gets cooked in low heat.

PS: it would be great if the irumban puli is marinated with salt and pickle powder one hour before preparation

1:48 AM



 

Ingredients
Besan powder 1kg
peanuts 150 gram
gram dal 500gm
curry leaves
salt
chilli powder
oil

Preparation

 

soak gram dal overnight

mix besan powder in cold water, salt and chilli powder and knead to a paste (similar to chappathi's dough)

make into noodle shape using idiappam maker.

fry it in oil.

fry peanuts, gram dal and curry leaves.

break the fried bhujia into small pieces and mix with fried peanuts, gram dal and curry leaves.

let it cool down . keep it in an air-tight container.

1:20 AM

Ingredients:.

4 cups Besan

3 cups sugar

2 cups ghee

2 tsp cashew nuts (chopped)

few cardamom seeds.

Preparation

1. Heat ghee to liquid form, add besan powder and mix over a low heat.

2.Keep stirring and remove from the heat when it releases a nice aroma and allow it to cool down(very important).

3.Add sugar and nuts and mix thoroughly.

4.Make into desired sized balls.

5.Its all yours now...

1:09 AM

Onam 2010 was complete with this successful Cherupayar payasam. That was the first time we made it and it came out well:-)

Ingredients
1. 1 Cup cherupayar
2. ghee
3. Jaggery (according to your sweetness needs)
4. Coconut milk(1 Packet)
5. Cashew nuts
6. Raisins
7. coconut cut into thin square shapes
8. cardamom

1. heat one table spoon of ghee in a pan and roast cherupayar to golden brown.
2. add three cups of water and cook the cherupayar in cooker for few mins until it can be mashed properly.
3. melt jaggery in water and heat it until its dissolved completely and strain it to form one cup of jaggery syrup.
4. Add the jaggery syrup to the cooked cherupayar and cook it for few mins and add powdered or whole cardamom.
6. divide the coconut milk into two portions. Add one cup of water to one portion.
7. Add the coconut milk+water to the cherupayar in jaggery and boil it by continuously stirring.
8. once its done add the second half of coconut milk and bring it to boil.
9. Heat one table spoon of ghee in a pan and fry raisin , cashew nut and the coconut pieces.
10. Add it to the payasam .
11. Yummy cherupayar payasam is ready to be served :-)

7:11 PM

Successful Fruit cake recipe: Mother's Day Speical; Yes we made it :)

• Caramel ingredients and preparation
  

1. 1/4 cup sugar
2. 1 tbsp water
3. 1/4 cup warm water
4. 1tsp vanilla extract

 Heat 1/4 cup of sugar with 1 tbsp of water in medium heat stirring until the colour changes to dark brown. Once the colour becomes dark remove the pan and pour 1/4 cup of warm water and to this add 1tsp of vannila extract. Be careful while adding warm water to the hot sugar syrup, it could sputter.

• First Mixing: ingredients and preparation

1. 1 cup sugar
2. 115 grams of butter, room temperature
3. 3 eggs

Blend sugar and butter by adding the eggs one by one.

• Second Mixing: ingredients and preparation

1. 1 cup cake flour (can use all purpose flour too, I came across cake flour in cold storage so went for it)
2. 2tsp baking powder
3. 1/2 tsp salt
4. 1 tsp spice powder (contains cinnamon, spices and nut mug)

Mix flour, baking powder, spice powder together. To this, add caramel water and blend well. Add sugar, butter and egg mixture and blend then all together.

• Adding nuts and dried fruits.

To the above blended mixture, add 1 cup of dried fruits (raisins, cerries, dates etc.) and 1/2 cup of nuts. I added almonds and cashew nuts cut into small pieces of about 5 mm.  

• Final step.

Pour the mixture into a greased baking pan, and bake at 176 degree

celcius for an hour. Once done we can remove the cake . Insert a toothpick in the middle to check whether it

s cooked properly. If baking is proper, the toothpick comes out neat and

clean. Allow it to cool down and store it in a tight container. 

Our cake came out perfect and yummy!!

8:07 PM