Smashed Brinjal Gravy/Kathirikai Kadaiyal

Smashed Brinjal Gravy / Kathirikai Kadaiyal

Kathirikai Kadaiyal is a traditional recipes which suits with mostly Idly and Dosa.It makes mouth watery.whenyou do this the brinjal should be seedless.We say "Mull Kathirikai" that is very much suitable to prepare this Gravy.Enjoying doing this recipe and post your comments,Suggestions,FeedBack to

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Ingredients:

• Brinjal - 5
• Onion - 2
• Tomato - 2
• Garlic - 5 Pods
• GreenChilly - 5
• Tamarind - small ball
• Mustard Seeds - 1/4 Teaspoon
• Salt - To Taste
• Oil - 1 Teaspoon

Preparation:

• Cut Brinjal,Onion,Tomato into cubes.

• Take A Pressure Cooker and heat oil in it.

• Add Mustard Seeds,After splutters add Onions,GreenChilly,Garlic and saute for a minute.

• Add Brinjal to it and saute till the color changes and add tomato it and saute till the tomato smashed and add required salt and one Cup water and pressure cook for one whistle.

• After Pressure release,Make it cool and grind coarsely.In Traditional way we do this with "Kalchatti and Mathu".

• If you have that do with that or else grind in mixer itself.

• Serve Hot with Idly or Dosa.

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Groundnut Chutney

Groundnut Chutney

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Ingredients:

• Groundnut - 1 Cup
• Garlic - 4 Pods
• Green Chilly - 5
• Coriander Leaves - 2 Teaspoon
• Curry Leaves - 1 Teaspoon
• Tamarind - Pinch
• Salt - To Taste
• Oil - 1 Teaspoon
• Mustard Seeds - 1/2 Teaspoon
• Curry Leaves - Few

Preparation:

• Fry Groundnut in a Pan till It roast well.Make it Cool and remove the skin and keep it aside.

• Grind Fried Groundnut,Garlic,GreenChilly,Coriander Leaves,CurryLeaves,Tamarind and salt together.

• Temper Mustard Seeds and Curry leaves with little Asafoetida(Optional).For any Chutney if pinch of Asafoetida added makes the taste little more higher.

• Garnish the chutney with temper Mustard Seeds.

Idily Manchurian

IDLY MANCHURIAN

      Idly Manchurian is a spicy dish,made with left over idlies or freshly prepared idlies. Mostly this recipe is liked by children.Hope you all enjoy with this recipe..........:)

INGREDIENTS:

• Idly - 3
• Onion - 1
• Tomato - 1
• Mustard Seed - 1/4 Teaspoon
• Curry Leaves - Few
• Green Chilly - 1 (Optional)
• Besan flour - 1 Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder - 1 Teaspoon + 1/2 Teaspoon
• Tomato Ketchup - 1 Tablespoon
• Coriander Leaves - Few
• Salt - To Taste
• Oil - To Fry

PREPARATION:

• Cut the idilies into cubes.

• Take a bowl,add besan flour and Chilli powder together and marinate the idly cubes in dry.

• Finely chop onion and tomato.

• Heat oil and fry the marinated idlies till it become crispy and Golden Brown.

• Take a pan,heat one teaspoon oil and add mustard seeds,After splutters add curry leaves,onion and saute till onions raw smell goes off.

• Add tomato and saute it smash.

• Add required salt and chilli powder and mix well and add tomato ketchup and stir well till good aroma comes out.

• Add fried idlies into it and mix well till the masala blend with fried idly.

• Garnish with finely chopped Coriander leaves and Serve Hot.

IDLY MANCHURIAN

Vermicelli Upma

VERMICILLI UPMA

It is very simple breakfast to at rush within 5 to 10 minutes.You can make this healthy by adding Carrot,Peas,Beans to look good also.Enjoy with this recipe......Send your feedback as comment...

Ingredients:

• Vermicelli - 2 Cup
• Onion - 2 (Sliced Vertically thin)
• Green Chilly - 3(Cut into Halves)
• Urad Dhall - 1/2 Teaspoon
• Bengal Gram - 1/2 Teaspoon
• Mustard Seeds - 1/2 Teaspoon
• Curry Leaves - Few
• Oil - 2 Tablespoon
• Water - 4 Cup
• Salt - As Needed

Preparation:

• Heat oil in a pan,add mustard seeds after splutters,add urad dhall and bengal gram and fry till golden brown.

• Add Finely sliced onion and green chilly,saute till it become transparent.

• Add required salt and water.After it boils add vermicelli and mix well.

• Close it with lid and cook in low flame.

• Garnish with coriander leaves. 

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Sambar Idly

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Sambar Idly, it is different from normal sambar.This sambar idly is made with freshly coarsely grind spices with natural aroma.Everyone will surely love this sambar idly.mostly we eat this in hotels and now you can enjoy yummy sambar idly in your home itself.In Sambar,if you use little more fenugreek seeds,then sambar become bitter taste.so all please carefull of using using fenugreek seeds.All Enjoy with this sambar idly.....:)


Ingredients:

For Idly:

• Idly Batter - 2 Cups

For Sambar:

• Onion - 2
• Tomato -2
• Hing/Asafoetida - 1/4 Teaspoon
• Toor Dhall - 1 cup
• Garlic - 5 Pods
• Turmeric Powder - 1/4 Teaspoon
• Tamarind - small ball
• Salt - As Needed

To Temper:

• Mustard Seeds - 1/4 Teaspoon
• Urad Dhall - 1/4 Teaspoon
• Curry Leaves - Few
• Oil - As Needed

For Powder:

• Cumin Seeds - 1/4 Teaspoon
• Pepper - 10
• Fenugreek Seeds - 1/4 Teaspoon
• Bengal Gram - 1/4 Teaspoon
• Dry Coconut - 1 Teaspoon
• Curry Leaves - few
• Dry Red Chilli - 6

Preparation:

• Cook toor dhall,Garlic,Turmeric Powder for 2 Whistles with immerse amount of water.

• Finely Chop onion and tomato.

• Soak tamarind and get paste of it.

• Dry fry the items given under "For Powder" and grind it dry.

• Take a pan,heat oil and splutter mustard seed and urad dhall and add curry leaves and finely chopped onions and saute till it cook well.

• Add finely chopped tomato and required salt and mix well till tomatoes get smash.

• Now add tamarind paste and hing and boil for 2 minutes till raw smell goes off.

• Add cooked toor dhall and grind powder and mix well without lumps.

• Add required water and boil for 5 minutes.

• In Small Idly Plate,put idly batter and steam well.

• In a bowl,Put steamed idly and pour over the sambar and garnish with finely choped coriander leaves.

• Serve Hot.

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Rava Idly

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        After a little break,I am back to write my blog to give delicious recipes.This post gives you soft and yummy rava idly.I am eager to know how they prepare rava idly in hotels.After i used MTR RAVA IDILY mix.I love that rava idly both in plain version and masala version.Then i like to prepare as own in home.Then i tried this rava idly.It is really superb,very soft and yummy.I served it with onion chutney and coriander chutney.Enjoy with this Recipe.

Ingredients:

• Rava - 1 cup
• Curd - 1/2 cup
• Eno Fruit Salt - 1 Teaspoon
• Lemon Juice - 1/2 Teaspoon
• Ginger - 1 Teaspoon(Finely Chopped)
• Green Chilly - 4(Finely Chopped)
• Curry Leaves - 1 Teaspoon(Finely Chopped)
• Coriander Leaves - 1 Teaspoon(Finely Chopped)
• Salt - As Needed
• Water - As Needed

To Temper:

• Mustard Seeds - 1 Teaspoon
• Urad Dhall - 1/2 Teaspoon
• Channa Dhall - 1/2 Teaspoon
• Cashewnut - few
• Oil and Ghee - As Needed

Preparation:

• Soak rava with curd and required amount of water for half an hour.
• Add finely chopped ginger,green chilly,curry leaves and coriander leaves and lemon juice.
• Take a small pan,heat oil or ghee and temper the items till golden brown and add to batter.
• Add required salt to it and mix well.
• Add eno salt immediately when you put the batter in idly plate.
• Grease idily plate and put rava batter to it and cook well.
• Serve hot with any chutney. 

Rava Idly

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Multi Grain KuzhiPaniyaram

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Very Traditional Dish, Kuzhipaniyaram. Mostly we do this dish as sweet using Jaggery. For variation,we do as spicy.For healthy version,I did with Multi grain.Grind it smoothly and use.Enjoy this Multi Grain Kuzhipaniyaram.


Ingredients:

• GreenGram - 1 Cup
• Brown Channa Dhall - 1 Cup
• Bengal Gram - 1/2 Cup
• Toor Dhall - 1/4 Cup
• Green Chilly - 8
• Ginger - 1 Inch
• Garlic - 10 Pods
• Salt - As needed
• Coriander Leaves,Mint Leaves - 1/2 Cup (Finely Chopped)
• Oil - As Needed

Preparation:

• Soak Greengram,ChannaDhall,Bengal Gram,Toor Dhall for 8 Hours.

• Wash soaked gram and grind soaked gram with ginger,garlic,green chilly together with salt.

• Mix finely chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves with grind batter.

• Heat Kuzhipaniyara pan and put half teaspoon of oil to all holes.

• The Batter should be in dosa/Idly batter consistency.

• Pour batter into kuzhipaniyara hole in half amount in that and cover it with and cook.

• Cook in low flame.

• After two minutes remove lid and turn it and cook other side till golden brown.

• Cook till Golden Brown.

• Serve hot with coconut Chutney.

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Cucumber Bread Sandwich

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Bread sandwich,usually we prepare with potato or some veggies.I am impressed with my friend's mom preparation while in my college days.I love that sandwich.......:)While eating i found what are the things inside it somewhat.....Tried it.....tastes same like my friends mom  version.I loved it because of cucumber inside,crunch taste with tomato ketchup and pepper.It really good so hope you all really will enjoy it....
Try it and post your comments as feedback........


Ingredients:

• White Bread/Brown Bread - 4 Slices
• Tomato Ketchup - 1/4 Cup
• Green Chutney - 1/2 Cup(Grind Coriander leaves with salt)
• Cucumber - 1
• Pepper powder - 1/2 Teaspoon
• Butter

Preparation:

• Peel off the skin of cucumber and slice it as round.

• You can use sandwich toaster or tawa to prepare sandwich.Here i did with tawa.

• Take a bread piece and apply butter one side,place it on tawa and on the other side spread green chutney and place sliced cucumber over it,sprinkle pepper powder.

• On the other bread piece,apply one side butter and other side tomato ketchup and place over the cucumber bread piece,to place ketchup side inside

• Toast both side.

• Cut into diagonal and serve.

• It is really healthy with cucumber.

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Stuffed Chapathi

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Chapathi,everyone like this food.But my husband don't like chapathi,I like to have chapathi regularly for dinner.For him i tried this stuffed chapathi with some veggies and egg.He liked this stuffed chapathi and asked me to do again on another day.Also always chapathi need a spicy gravy or kurma or plain dhall!!!.Some times bored to prepare..,On that time i like to do this stuffed chapathi,No need of any side.I eat with little pickle!!!! Try it and feedback your views as comments.......

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour - 2 Cup
• Salt - As needed
• Water 
• Oil

For Stuffing:

• Carrot - 1
• Potato - 1
• Cauliflower - 2 Floret
• Onion - 1
• Green Chilly - 1
• Egg - 2
• Chicken Masala or Garam Masala - 1 Teaspoon
• Salt - As Needed
• Turmeric Powder - pinch
• Oil

Preparation:

• Prepare chapathi dough with wheat flour and salt.Knead tightly with warm water.keep it aside for one hours.

• To prepare stuffing,Grate onion,carrot,potato,cauliflower.

• Take a pan,Heat one tablespoon oil,put grated onion and saute till raw smell goes off.

• Add Grated vegetables and saute for 5 minutes.

• Add required salt,turmeric powder,chicken masala and stir well and cook with cover lid in low flame.No need to add water,with cover lid low flame itself it cook well.Then add egg and stir well till the egg cooks well.If you don't want to add egg do with only vegetable.

• Now stuffing is ready.

• Now take a lemon size chapathi dough and flatten using chapathi roller and fill some stuffing masala in center part and close the stuffing first horizontal to make rectangle shape,then close remaining chapathi spread to make a shape of rectangle.

• Now flatten that stuffed dough into flatten dough without the stuff comes out.

• Heat tawa and put one teaspoon,put flatten chapathi dough.Cook both till golden brown.

• Now Stuffed Chapathi is ready to serve.

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Stuffed Chapathi

Andhra Besarat

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Got bore with usual Dosa......Try this new Green gram dhall Dosa called "Besarat".Hope you all will enjoy with this Besarat....:)


Ingredients:

• Green Gram - 250 Grams
• Onion - 2
• Green Chilly - 2
• Ginger - 1 Inch
• Cumin Seeds - 1 Teaspoon
• Salt - To Taste

Preparation:

• Soak Green Gram for 10 Hours.

• Wash it.Grind Green gram with One Onion,Ginger,Green Chilly.

• When you Grind it will grind quickly,even then should grind for some more time.

• Take Grinded Batter in a Bowl and add salt for taste and mix well.

• Finely Chop the remaining Onion.

• Temper Cumin seeds in 1 Teaspoon Oil with Finely chopped onion and saute.Keep it aside.

• Take a tawa pan,Grease it with Oil and pour some grind batter and spread it as thick surface.

• Apply oil around the spreaded batter.

• Sprinkle the sauted onion over the besarat.

• If one side cooked then turn it and cook other side till golden brown.

• Now hot besarat is ready.

• Serve with any Chutney.

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Puffy Poori

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Everyone will definitely like to prepare poori puffy.....
But it can't most of the time.....
Here after you all can prepare puffy poori Happily with few tricks......:)

Ingredients:

• Wheat Flour - 1 cup
• Salt - As You Need
• Warm Water - As you need to make tight Batter
• Oil - to fry And one Teaspoon in Flour

Preparation:

• Take a Bowl and put the Wheat flour and Salt,Heat one teaspoon of Cooking oil and put into the Wheat flour. 

• Knead the flour with warm water tightly.It should not be loose,If so it absorb more oil.

• Apply little oil and keep it for half an hour.

• After half an Hour,take the dough and press fully and make the dough into small balls.

• Flatten the balls using the roll.It should not be so thin or so thick.

• Take a pan,Heat oil to deep fry.

• After the oil heated,put the flatten dough slowly into the oil.

• Using Spatula,lightly press over the Poori to immerse into the oil.

• Turn into other side and Strain oil and take it from oil.

• Now Puffy Poori is ready to Serve.

• It can be Serve with Potato Masala. Potato Masala will be in further post.

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Egg Sponge Dosai

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Bored with plain dosa!!!!

Now you can try this Egg sponge dosai....

Ingredients:

• Dosa Batter - 1 cup
• Egg - 1
• Shallots - 10(finely chopped)
• Tomato - small 1
• GreenChilly - 1
• Chilly Powder - 1/2 Teaspoon
• Salt - As needed
• TurmericPowder - one pinch
• Coriander leaves - Finely Chopped 1 Teaspoon

Preparation:

• Saute Shallots,Tomato,Green Chilly in a pan with one Teaspoon Oil.
• Beat Egg in  Bowl.
• Mix Sauted items,Egg,Salt,Turmeric Powder,Chilly Powder with Dosa Batter.
• Add Coriander Leaves and Mix well,Make consistency of Dosa Batter.
• Heat Tawa and Grease it with Oil.
• Put some batter to it and Spread like Dosa.
• Cook Well for both sides with Golden Brown.

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KARA DOSAI

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        Kara dosai, which is a spicy dosa made with rice variety of dhal.Being bored with normal white dosa you enjoy this dosa.

INGREDIENTS:

Tiffin Rice(Motta boiled rice) - 2 cup
Urad dhal - 1/4 cup
Toor dhal - 1/2 cup
Bengal gram - 1/2 cup
Fenugreek Seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
Salt - as needed
Oil
Mustard Seeds - 1/4 teaspoon
Curry Leaves - few
Dry Redchilly - 4
Garlic - 3 pods


PREPARATION:

• Soak Tiffin rice and all three dhals and fenugreek seeds together for 8 hours.

• Grind Soaked rice and dhal mixture with Dry red chilly and Garlic together as Dosa batter.

• Add Salt to this batter as you need.

• In pan put some oil and heat,add mustard seeds after splutter, add urad dhal  and curry leaves.

• Mix this mustard seeds,curry leaves to the batter.

• No need to ferment this batter like normal dosa.so you can use directly after grind.

• Heat tawa,Make thin dosa.

• Apply oil around the dosa to make crispy.

• Serve Hot with Coconut Chutney.

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OATS RAVA DOSA

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       Most people hate oats as breakfast but it is healthy and used  for weight loss.Mostly we take oats as porridge but oats can also be used for making some tasty dishes.One of the dish is oats rava dosa.Enjoy with this dosa.

INGREDIENTS:

Oats - 1 cup
Rava - 1 cup
Finely chopped green chilly - 1
Finely chopped coriander leaves - 1 teaspoon
Crushed pepper or Pepper powder - 1/4 teaspoon
Cumin seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
Salt
Oil

HOW TO PREPARE:

• Grind the oats as fine powder.
• Mix both the oats and rava together with salt.

• Add required water  to make fine dosa batter consistency.
• Add chopped green chilly,coriander leaves,crushed pepper,cumin seeds and mix well.

• Add one teaspoon of oil to this batter,so that the dosa doesn't stick into the tawa.

• Heat tawa pan and make a thin dosa with this batter.
• Use few oil around the dosa to get the dosa crispy.
• It is not like normal dosa so keep the flame medium and make it golden brown and turn it and cook both sides.
• Serve hot with mint chutney or onion chutney.  

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VATTAYAPPAM

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              Today we are going for a yummy sweet dish named Vattayappam.It is kerala dish.You can have this without any side dish.It is a simple dish and a oil free recipe.

             Now we go for a preparation of Vattayappam.

INGREDIENTS:

• Raw rice(pacharasi) - 2 cups
• Dry yeast - 1/2 teaspoon
• Cooked rice - 1/2 cup
• Grated coconut - 1 cup
• Sugar - 1/4 cup
• Cardamom - 2 pods
• Ghee - 1 teaspoon
• Salt
• Raisins and Cashewnut as u need.

HOW TO PREPARE:

• Wash and Soak the raw rice for four hours.
• Take grated coconut i.e half the amount of raw rice.
• Grind,washed and soaked raw rice,grated coconut,yeast,cooked rice,sugar,salt together.
• Keep that batter aside to ferment for 8 hours.
• Take a pan and put some ghee and fry both raisins and cashewnut and keep aside.
• Take a vessel and grease it with ghee.
• Then put the fried raisins and cashewnut in the bottom of the vessel then put the batter into it.
• Steam this batter till cook.Check using knife soaked in water and insert into it.If it is not sticky then it is cooked.
• Make a line around the vessel using knife and invert it into the plate and make it slice and Serve hot.

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HINT:

• If u do not want to make the full batter to steam then u can steam it by using idly plates.
• Instead of Sugar,you can also use Jaggery.This also gives you yummy taste.
• Instead of cardamom pods,you can also use cardamom powder.Grind cardamom with sugar to make powder.