Friday, August 8, 2008

Cabbage Vada

Cabbage Vada
 
Ingredients

Besan............................1cup
Rice flour......................1/2 cup
Ghee ..............................2 tsp
Chopped Cabbage........1cup
Red Chili Powder.........1tsp
Green Chili.Chopped)...1tsp
Asafoetida (hing).........1 pinch
Salt to taste

Method

Mix all ingredients . Add 1 cup of water to the mixed ingredients to make up the batter.
Heat up the oil till it is time to fry. Make small balls of the batter and deep fry. 
Place the vadas in a paper towel so as to remove excess oil.Serve with chutney.  
Vadas should be crisp.
Additional to the cabbage, you can also add diced carrots/green pepper/onions/spinach/cauliflower to this tasty recipe.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Peanut Chutney

Peanut chutney

Pea Chutney

Ingredients

Roasted Peanuts.......2cups
Red Chilies...................4
Green Chili..................1
Tamarind paste..........1tsp
Onion............................1
Mustard Seeds............2tsp
Curry leaves................few

Salt to Taste



Method

Heat a pan and fry the chopped onion, red chili and green chili.
Grind the peanuts, tamarind salt and onions into a paste. 
Heat a pan with oil add mustard seeds curry leaves and 1 red chili. 
When it crackles add to the chutney.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Carrot Halwa

Carrot Halwa 

Ingredients

 
Carrot................................. 1 kg
Milk.....................................1/2 cup
Sugar...................................2cups
Cardamom powder..............1/2 tsp
Almonds and cashew nuts..... 3tbsp
Ghee.....................................3tbsp

Method

Peel the carrots and grate them. Fry them with ghee. 
When it fried add milk, sugar and cook for 15 minutes . 
Fry the nuts in ghee and garnish the halwa
Sprinkle cardamom powder. Serve hot or cold