Beetroot Pachadi (Without coconut)

Beetroot Pachadi

Ingredients:

1. Beetroot - 3 

2. Onion - 1

3. Green chillies - 2

4. Jeera - 1 tsp

5. Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp

6. Dry chilly - 1

7. Curd - 1 small cup

How to Prepare:

Grate the beetroot and keep it aside. Heat oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds. Add jeera and add the chopped onions and green chillies and saute well. Once the onion becomes translucent, add the grated beetroot and saute well. Add little water and cover it with a lid and cook for 10 minutes in a medium flame. Once it becomes cooked and little dry, switch off the stove. Once cooled down, beat the curd and add to the beetroot mixture and mix well. Garnish it with tempered dry chillies. Goes very well with plain rice.

Pictorial:

Grate the beetroot                                                        Heat oil and add mustard seeds

Add Jeera                                                                     Add chopped onion and green chillies

 Add the grated beetroot                                             Saute well. Cover and cook for 10 min

 Once cooled down add curd                                        Mix well

Beetroot Pachadi is ready!!!

Murukku (Chakli)

Murukku (Chakli)

 Ingredients:

1. Rice powder - 1 cup
2. Roasted gram (Pottu kadalai) - 1/4 cup
3. Ajwain (Carom Seeds/Omam) - 1 tbsp
4. Salt
5. Oil for deep fry

How to prepare:

Mix the rice powder, roasted gram, ajwain and salt. Add the hot water to it and mix well and make a dough. Make murukku out of muruku maker and deep fry it in a medium flame. Once it becomes light brown take it out and spread it on a plate with tissue paper, so that any excess oil in the murukku will be absorbed. Crisy chaklis are ready to eat.

 Pictorial:

Mix all the ingredients                                                  Add hot water and make a dough

Deep fry the murukkus                                                 Muruku ready to eat

Enjoy the Chaklis !!!!

Palak Chutney

Palak Chutney

Ingredients:

1. Palak - 2 bunches

2. Onion - 1

3. Tomato - 1

4. Urad dhal - 1 tbsp

5. Chana dhal - 1 tbsp

6. Dry Chillies - 3

7. Green Chillies - 2

8. Grated Coconut -  2 tbsps

9. Tamarind - a small piece

10. Asafoetida - 1 tsp

11. Oil and salt

How to prepare:

Wash and clean the palak leaves. Chop the onion and tomatoes to small pieces. Heat oil in a kadai and add the chana dhal followed by urad dhal. Add the dry chillies and onion and saute well. Add the chopped tomatoes and green chillies and saute well. Add asafoetida. Add the palak leaves. Add the grated coconut and the tamarind and salt and saute well. Cook for 5 more minutes and off it and let it cool down. Once cooled down, grind it to a smooth paste. Serve it with rotis, idlis and dosas. It goes very well with rice also as a side dish.

Pictorial:

Heat oil and add chana dal                                          Add Urad dal 

 Add dry chillies                                                         Add Onions

 Add tomatoes and green chillies                               Add salt

 Add palak leaves                                                        Add grated coconut and tamarind

Once cooled down grind it to a paste

Strawberry Icecream

Strawberry Icecream

Ingredients:

1. Strawberry - 1 cup

2.  Sugar  - 3/4 cup

3. Fresh Cream - 1 tin

4. Chilled Milk - 1 cup

How to prepare:

Clean and wash the strawberries. Powder the sugar. Grind it coarsely. Take 2 tbsps of strawberry paste and keep it aside in the refrigerator. In the remaining strawberry paste add the powdered sugar and mix well. Add the fresh cream and mix well. Add the chilled milk. Mix well and pour it in the aluminium tray  and cover it with the aluminium foil and freeze it for 5-6 hours. Take the tray from the freezer and grind it again and add the remaining 2 tbsps of strawberry paste and mix well. Pour it in the plastic container and freeze it again. Serve chilled.

Pictorial:

Clean and wash the strawberries                                Grind coarsely and add sugar

 Add fresh cream                                                        Add the chilled milk

  

Pour the mixture in the aluminium tray                      Freeze it for 5-6 hours and enjoy

Strawberry ice cream is ready!!!!

Strawberry Mousse

Strawberry Mousse

Ingredients:

1. Strawberry - 1 cup

2. Jelly Powder - 1 packet

3. Sugar - 1/4 cup

4. Whipped Cream - 1 tin

How to prepare:

Clean and wash the strawberries. Grind it to a coarse paste. Filter the water from the strawberry paste as much as you can.  Take a pan and add the filtered clear strawberry water and add 1 cup of water and bring it to boil. Keep the strawberry paste aside. Add jelly powder and the strawberry paste to the boiled strawberry water and mix well.  Refrigerate the mixture for about an hour. In the mean time, whip the cream nicely and add sugar and mix well. Add the strawberry mixture to the whipped cream. Pour it in the glass containers and refrigerate it for 3 to 4 hours. After 3 hours when you take the glass and invert it, the mixture will not fall down, this is the correct form. Decorate with cream and strawberry fruit. Serve chilled.

 Pictorial:

Clean and wash the strawberries                                Grind it to a coarse paste

Filter it as much as you can                                        Add 1 cup of water to the filtered juice and boil. 

Add the jelly powder to the boiled water                    Mix well. Refrigerate for an hour

After a hour, add the crushed strawberry paste                 Whip nicely the whipping cream

After whipped                                                             Add sugar and mix well

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Add the whipped cream to the jelly, strawberry mix and gently fold well.

 Pour the mixture to the glass and refrigerate it for 3 hours. After refrigerating when you take and invert the glass, the mixture should not fall down. 

Add some whipped cream and strawberry on the top and serve chilled!!!!