Tomato Thokku

Tomato Thokku

Ingredients:

1. Tomatoes - 1 kilo
2. Tamarind - Big gooseberry size
3. Methi seeds - 1tsp
4. Dry chillies - 7-8 nos
5. Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
6. Ginger (grated) - 1tsp
7. Asafoetida - 1tsp
8. Curry leaves - little
9. Salt & Oil

How to prepare:

Pressure cook the tomatoes along with tamarind. When cooled down, grind it to a smooth paste. Keep it aside. Add a little oil in a kadai and add dry chillies and methi seeds. When its fried, take it out and grind it to a fine paste. Heat oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds, when it splutters add the grated ginger and fry well. Add the dry chillies and methi seeds paste and saute well. Add the grinded tomato and mix well. Add the asafoedia and salt and some curry leaves. Make the stove on sim because as it thickens, it will spit. Cook well until it thickens and the oil separates and leaves the sides. Store in a sir tight container. It goes very well with idli, dosa and even with rice.

Pictorial:

 Pressure cook the tomatoes & tamarind                     Grind it to a smooth paste

Add oil and roast the methi seeds & dry chillies. Grind it to a smooth paste. Heat oil and add mustard seeds.

 

Add the ginger paste                                                   Add the dry chilly - methi paste

Add the grinded tomato paste                                     Add asafoetida

 Add curry leaves                                                    When it becomes a thick paste, switch off the stove

 

Tomato Thokku will go very well with idli, dosa, chapathi and even you can mix with the rice and have it

Ribbon Pakoda

Ribbon Pakoda

Ingredients:

1. Rice flour - 1 cup
2. Besan flour - 1/2 cup
3. Butter - 1 tbsp
4. Black sesame seeds - 1 tbsp
5. Asafoetida -  1 tsp
6. Chilly Powder - 1 tsp
7. Salt & water
8. Oil for deep fry

How to prepare:

In a bowl take all the ingredients mentioned above and mix well and make a dough. Heat oil in a kadai. Put a pinch of dough to the oil, it should rise immediately. This is done to see the correct form of oil . Take a little dough and put in the ribbon pakoda mould and press direcly to the oil. Fry it well. Serve it with hot tea as an evening snack.

Pictorial:

Mix all the ingredients                                                Make a dough

 

Press the mould containing dough directly to the oil. Once fried take it out

 

  Serve it with hot tea as an evening snack!!!!

Puttu

Puttu

Ingredients:

1. Rice Flour - 1 cup ( I used Chemba puttu podi)

2. Grated Coconut - 1/2 cup

3. Cardamom Powder - 1 tbsp

How to Prepare:

Wet the rice flour with little water and add cardamom powder and mix well. Take a puttu maker and add coconut grating at the bottom and add little  rice flour and then again add coconut gratings and rice flour. Fill again the top with the coconut grating. Steam it for 10 minutes. Serve hot with papad, banana and kadala curry.

Pictorial:

Wet the rice flour and add cardamom powder. Take a puttu maker and add coconut grating and add little  riceflour and then again add coconut gratings and rice flour.

Steam it for 10 minutes

Serve with Banana, Papad and Kadala Curry

Ela Ada

Ela Ada

 

Ingredients:

1. Rice flour  - 1 cup
2. Jaggery - 3/4 cup
3. Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
4. Cardamom Powder - 1 tbsp
5. Salt - little
6. Banana leaves - cut into small pieces

How to Prepare:

Take the rice flour in a bowl and add hot water and make a dough. Keep it aside. In a pan add 1 tbsp of water and add the jaggery pieces and melt it down and lastly add the grated coconut and mix it well. Take a banana leaf and spread the rice dough evenly over the leaf and spread the jaggery-coconut filling on the top of the dough. Fold the banana leaf and steam it for 10-15 minutes. Ela Ada will be liked by all the kids and it is best evening snack to have it with tea.

 Pictorial:

Make a rice flour dough                                             Spread the dough in the banana leaf

 

 

Mix jaggery, cardomom powder and grated coconut. Spread it evenly above the dough                                 

Fold the banana leaf                                                    Steam it for 10-15 minutes

 Steamer                                                                    Ela Ada

Ela Ada is ready!!!!

Rava Dosa

Rava Dosa

Ingredients:

1. Rice flour - 2 cups

2. Rava - 3/4 cup

3. Maida - 3 tbsps

4. Green Chilly - 1

5. Black Pepper - 1 tbsp

6. Jeera - 1 tbsp

7. Buttermilk - 1 cup

8. Water & Salt

How to Prepare:

Take a bowl and mix all the above said ingredients and make a thin dosa batter. Heat a dosa pan and spread a little oil and pour a little batter from the corner of the pan to the middle and then fill in the gaps. Make it crispier both the sides. Serve hot with chutney and sambar.

Pictorial:

Mix all the ingredients                                                Make it a dosa batter

Pour the batter from the corner to the center.             Make a crispy dosa

 Rava dosa is ready. Serve with chutney.

Achari Paneer

Achari Paneer

Ingredients:

1. Paneer - 1 cup

2. Onion - 1

3. Capsicum - 1

4. Tomato - 1

5. Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tbsp

6. Dry chillies - 5

7. Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

8. Methi seeds - 1 tsp

9. Jeera - 1.5 tsp

10. Coriander seeds - 1tbsp

How to Prepare:

Add oil in the kadai and add the dry red chillies. Add mustard seeds, methi seeds, jeera and coriander seeds and fry them and keep it aside. Chop the tomato and capsicum. When it cools, grind it to a smooth paste along with the tomato and capsicum. Chop the onion.  Heat oil and add the chopped onions and saute. Add the ginger garlic paste and saute well. Add the grinded paste and cook for 3 minutes. Add the paneer and cover it and cook for another 5-6 minutes. When the gravy thickens, switch off the flame. Achari paneer goes well with roti annd rice.

Pictorial:

Add oil in a kadai and add dry red chillies.     Add mustard seeds, methi seeds, jeera, coriander seeds 

 Chop the tomatoes & capsicum. Grind it along with the masala.Heat oil and add the onions

Add the ginger-garlic paste                                          Add the grinded masala paste

 Add the paneer                                                           Add water and cook till the gravy thickens

 Serve hot with rice or rotis!!!!