Potato Red Pepper Fry

Potato Red Pepper Fry ( potato pepper curry)

Potato Red Pepper Fry

Ingredients

• Potato............................6
• Red Pepper....................1
• Red Chili Powder...........1tsp
• Turmeric Powder............1/4 tsp  
• Mustard Seeds...............1tsp
• Jeera( Cumin Seeds).......2tsp
• Salt to taste

Method

• Wash and cut the potato into big pieces. chop the pepper in long pieces. 
• Heat a pan with 1 tsp oil, add mustard seeds and cumin seed and when the mustard splutters add the potato and pepper.(you can keep on microwave for 5 minutes and then fry) 
• Add salt and turmeric powder. 
• When the potatoes are cooked add chili powder. 
• Very tasty, this curry goes with chapathi or sambar rice.

Dhudhi Soup (gourd soup)

Dhuthi soup

It is healthy soup with low calorie

Ingredients

Chopped dhudhi................................ 1cup
Celery...................................................1/4 cup
White onion.........................................1
Cooked chick peas.............................1cup
Pepper................................................1tsp
Garlic....................................................1tsp
Tomato.................................................1
Scallion.................................................1
 

Method 

Chop the vegetables
.Heat a pan with oil add onion, dhudhi, celery garlic, chick peas tomato fry them for 5 minutes.
Add pepper and salt add water and cook for 5 more minutes 
Decorate with chopped scallion Serve hot.

Vegetable Hot Garlic

Vegetable Hot garlic

Ingredients

Chopped Cabbage, Carrot and Palak.........2cups

Maida.......................................................2tbsp

Corn Flour.................................................1tbsp

Ginger Garlic Chopped ............................1tsp

Boiled Potato.............................................2 slices

Chopped Onion..........................................1tbsp

Salt to Taste

Chili paste.................................................1/2 tsp

Tomato Ketch up........................................1cup

Sugar one Pinch

Method

Mix maida and corn flour with cabbage, carrot, palak and potato.

Knead them together adding water into thick paste.

Make small balls and deep fry them in hot oil.

Heat a pan with oil ginger garlic,onion and fry them

Add chili paste, salt tomato ketch up and water.

Boil them adding pepper powder sugar and make a desired gravy. 

Add the fried balls into the gravy and boil 2 minutes. 

Vegetable hot garlic ready.

Serve with rice or chapathi.

Broccoli Soup

Broccoli Soup

Ingredients

Broccoli Florets.........1cup

Chopped Onion.........1/4 cup

Chopped.Potato....... 1/4 cup

Garlic.........................3pearls

Salt and Pepper

Vegetable Stock..........3cups

Red Pepper Chopped....1/4 cup

Method

Heat a pan with two tsp olive oil add garlic and onion and fry them . 

Add potato and fry two more minutes. 

Then pour vegetable stock. 

Let it boil, add broccoli, salt and pepper.

After three minutes puree this. 

Take a bowl add this green colour broccoli soup and keep red pepper on the center and serve. 

Very healthy soup.

Chow-Chow Kootu (Chayote. Curry)

Chow Chow koottu

Chow Chow Koottu

Ingredients

• Chow Chow(Bangalore Kathrikai)…..2
• Grated Coconut………………………1cup
• Red Chili……………………………….3
• Cumin Seeds(jeera)…………………..1tsp
• Mustard Seeds………………………..1tsp
• Urad Dhal…………………………….1tsp
• Chana Dhal…………………………..3tbsp
• Salt to tatse

Method

• Cut the chow chow into small pieces.
• Heat a pan with 2 cups of water add the cut pieces, turmeric powder and chana dhal.
• When the vegetable is cooked, add salt..
• Grind coconut, jeera and chili into fine paste and add to the vegetable.
• See that it should be thick. Mix well.
• Heat a pan with 1tsp oil, ,add mustard seeds, urad dhal.
• When the mustard splutters add to the curry.
• This kootu is a tasty dish, eat with sambar/rasam rice or chapathis

Ellu Saadam( Sesame Rice)

Ellu Saadam( Sesame Rice)

Ingredients 

• Sesame seeds……1/4 cup
• Rice…………...... 2cups
• Urad dhal…….......1tsp
• Chana dhal…….....2tsp
• Red chili……….....3
• Salt to taste
• Curry leaves… few
• Til oil(sesame oil)..2tsp
• Jaggery……………..1tsp

Method

• Cook the rice in a pressure cooker. 
• Fry the chilli, dhals and,sesame seeds with little oil
• and cool them then grind them with jaggery. 
• Add oil to the rice and mix the ground powder and mix well . 
• Add curry leaves.

Vegetable Aval Vadai( puffed rice vadai)

Vegetable Aval Vadai

 
Ingredients

• Aval (Ppuffed Rice)………….............1cup
• Besan(Chickpea Flour)…….............1/2 cup
• Chopped,Carrot,beetroot,onion
• Cabbage,Peas…….........................1cup
• Green Chili (Chopped)……………2
• Chopped .Ginger…………………1tsp
• Boiled Potato……………………1

Method

• Mix all together(don’t add water) and make small balls and deep fry them. 
• Serve with chutney.

Palak Paneer

Palak Paneer

Ingredients

• Palak........................2bunches
• Cut Onions.................1/2 cup
• Chili Powder............1tsp
• Dhania Powder...........1tsp
• Green Chilies............3
• Panner or Firm Soya......
• Tomatoes..................2
• Garlic.......................4 pearls
• Garam Masala......1/2 tsp
• Salt to Taste
• Oil

Method

• Wash ,chop the palak and cook the palak. 
• Heat a tawa with oil and add garlic,
• onion and tomatoes.Fry them. 
• Grind the cooked palak and fried ingredients.
• Heat a tawa with oil add cumin seeds, cut onions and green chilies.
• Fry them for a minute.
• Add chilies, dhania, salt,onions and ground mixture.Boil for a minute.
• Mix panner cubes and mix well. 
• Sprinkle garam masala.

Palak Dhal

Palak Dhal

Palak Dhal

Ingredients

• Palak........ ......................1bunch
• Moong Dhal.....................1/2 cup
• Onion................................1
• Tomato.............................1
• Ginger Green Chili Paste.... 1tsp
• Mustard Seeds.................1tsp
• Jeera................................1tsp
• Curry Leaves....................few
• Asafoetida......................1/2 tsp
• Salt to taste

Method

• Wash and cut the palak. 
• Cook the dhal adding 1/2 tsp turmeric powder.
• Cut the onion and tomato.Heat a pan with oil add mustard seeds and jeera. 
• When the mustard splutter add onion ginger chili paste for a minute.
• Mix tomato, cooked dhal and palak turmeric powder.
• Pour enough water. Boil them.
• Sprinkle curry leaves and hing.

Dosa, Idli,Chutney and Mulakai Podi

Dosa,

Ingredients

Boiled rice..........3cups

Urad dhal.............1cup

Salt to taste

Method.

Soak rice and dal separately for 4 hours.

Grind and keep overnight to ferment. 

Next day make dosas in a dosa tawa or dosakal. 

Apply oil on the dosakal take a big spoon of batter spread evenly into big round and add oil all the sides. 

When one side is cooked turn the other side. 

When it becomes crispy remove from the dosakal. 

Serve hot with chutney or mulakaipodi.

Coconut chutney

Ingredients

Grated coconuts............1cup

Tamarind ......................1/2 tsp

Green chilli.....................4

Dalia(porikadalai )..........2tsp

Salt to taste

Curry leaves....................few

Ginger.................................small piece

Mustard seeds...............1tsp

Urad dhal...........................2tsp

Red chili..........................1

Method

Grind coconut, green chili, tamarind ,salt and dalia into a coarse paste. Heat a tawa with 1 tsp oil add dhal chilli curry leaves and mustard seeds. when it splutters add to the chutney.

 










Mulakai podi

Ingredients

Red chili................. ...........................1cup

Urad dhal...................,.........................1/2 cup

Chana dhal...........................................1/4 cup

Black til.(sesame seeds)...................3tbsp

Salt to taste

Hing..............................................1tsp

Method

Fry all ingredients with 2tsp oil till the dhals become red. 

When it becomes cold, grind them adding salt into powder.
Fry the sesame seeds(til) with out oil. 

Add this til and grind into coarse powder.

This is a good combination for dosa and idli. 

Add little oil with this powder when you eat dosa or idli.

Idli
Idli

 
Idli and chutney is the favourite breakfast of south Indians.

Ingredients

Idli rice.........3cups
Urad dhal...........1cup
Salt to taste

Method

Soak both rice and dhal separately for 4 hours and grind separately into fine paste. Mix both add salt and keep it overnight.. Next day make idlis with the help of a idli vessal,Serve with coconut chutney.

For kids, we make kunju idlis(small idlis) They love the idlis and eat them.