Mirchi bhajjia

 Mirchi Bhajji

A popular Indian street food snack, perfect for a rainy day!

Ingredients:

• Long Green Chillies: 6
• Besan (Gram Flour): 3 cups
• Rice Flour: 1/4 cup
• Red Chilli Powder: 2 tsp
• Turmeric Powder: 1/4 tsp
• Salt: to taste
• Oil: for deep frying

Method:

1. Prepare the Batter: In a large bowl, combine the besan, rice flour, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, and salt. Gradually add water while mixing continuously to form a smooth, thick batter with a consistency similar to dosa batter. Ensure there are no lumps.
2. Prepare the Chillies: Carefully slit the green chillies lengthwise. You can cut each chilli into two or three smaller pieces if you prefer.
3. Heat the Oil: Place a pan or kadai on medium-high heat and add enough oil for deep frying.
4. Fry the Bhajjis:
• Once the oil is hot, dip a prepared green chilli piece into the batter, ensuring it is evenly coated.
• Gently drop the coated chilli into the hot oil.
• Repeat with the remaining chilli pieces, frying a few at a time to avoid overcrowding the pan.
• Fry until the bhajjis are golden brown and crispy on all sides.
5. Serve: Remove the bhajjis from the oil using a slotted spoon and place them on a plate lined with paper towels to absorb excess oil.

Serving Suggestion:

Enjoy these delicious and spicy Mirchi Bhajji with coconut chutney and a hot cup of tea, especially during the rainy season.

Different dishes. dhal,MeduvadaPaniyaram,Rasam ,usli, kozhakattai etc

 

Healthy Ladu.

 Healthy Ladu

This ladu is very health with nuts, brown sugar

Ingredients

Badam                           1cup

Cashew nut                      1cup

Pumpkin seeds                  1cup

Flax seeds                           1cup

Walnuts                              1cup

Black til                              1/2 cup 

Pistachio                             1cup

Brown sugar                        1cup

Cardamom powder                1tsp

Method

Dry roast all ingredients separately for 5 minutes.

Powder all into fine

Heat 1/2 cup water with brown sugar.

When it becomes I string consistency add to the powder with cardamom powder.

Mix well and if needed add 1 tsp ghee. ( optional).

Make small ladus and keep them in fridge to become little hard.

Very tasty. Eat one  or two everyday.

     

Idli and Chutney

 Idli is favorite morning breakfast in South India.

Idli

Boiled Rice                                    3cups

Urad Dhal                                     1cup

Method

Wash nicely and soak them for 5 hours.

Grind them separately in wet grinder.

#0 minutes for urad dhal and 20 minutes  for rice.

Remove the batter add  and keep for fermenting

Next day prepare idli in idli moulid. Steam them.

remove when they are cooled down.

Coconut Chutney

Grated coconut                    1cup

Green Chili                          6/7

Tamarind                         small piece

Ginger                             small piece

Curry leaves                   few

Salt to taste 

Mustard seeds                    1 tsp

Method 

Grind all together into a paste.

Heat a tawa with little oil add mustard seeds. when it splutters add to the chutney.

Arachuvitta Sambar

This recipe is from Kerala Brahmin's home. very tasty and serve with rice, chapati and dosa/idli.

Prepare time           15 minutes
Cook Time              30 minutes
Serve                       5

Arachuvitta sambar

Ingredients
Dhal (Cooked)                     2 cups
Okra                                    3
Drum Stick                          1             
Pumpkin                              100 gm
Green Pepper                      1
Tamarind paste                   1 tsp
Asafetida                          1/2 tsp
Mustard Seeds                  1 tsp           
Turmeric Powder              1/2 tsp
Curry Leaves                     few
Coriander leaves              few
Salt to Taste

To Fry

Red Chili                            6
Coriander leaves              3 tsp
Chana Dhal                       2 tsp
Methi seeds                      1/2 tsp
Grated Coconut                 1/2 cup

Method

First fry the above ingredients and grind them into a paste and keep.
Wash and cut the vegetable into cubes.
Cut the drumstick into 2 ' pieces.
Boil the vegetables in 3 cups of water.
Add turmeric, tamarind asafetida and salt.
When the vegetables are cooked add the cooked dhal and ground paste.
Mix well and boil and remove from the flame..
Heat a pan with oil add mustard seeds ad half tsp methi seeds.
When it splutters add to the sambar. 
Add chopped curry leaves and coriander leaves.