Sweet Potato Soup

Sweet Potato Soup

Sweet Potato.Finely Chopped.............2

Onion................................................1

Garlic................................................2

Baby Corn.........................................1cup

Carrots Finely Chopped........................2

Red Pepper Finely Chopped.................1

Vegetable Stock...................................2cups

Parsley...............................................2tsp

Oil.......................................................2tbsp

Salt and Pepper

Red Chili Powder............................1/2 tsp

Heavy Cream....................................1/2 cup

Thyme ..............................................1tsp

Method

Heat a pan with oil fry the onion,garlic.

Add all the vegetables ,vegetable stock red chilli powder, salt and pepper.and.cook for ten minutes.

When the vegetables are cooked add the heavy cream.

Heat them in simmer for about 25 minutes.Season with thyme and parsley.Serve hot.

Avocado Soup

Avocado soup

Ripe Avocado.........................2

Vegetable Stock.... .................2cups

Yogurt.....................................2cups

Lemon Juice.............................1tsp

Lemon Zest.............................1tsp

Garlic......................................1

Cucumber Finely Chopped.......2tbsp

Scallion..Finely Chopped............3tbsp

Olive Oil....................................2 tbsp

Parsley Chopped.........................1/4 cup

Method

Peel 1 avocado, remove the pit and puree in blender. 

Add yogurt vegetable stock lemon juice zest, garlic and parsley.blend it till you get a smooth paste.
Chill the soup and slice the other avocado, scallion and cucumber decorate on it.

Kurippu

Tips

If you have boiled spinach in excess water,do not throwaway.Add some salt and drink(full of vitamins)
powdered aval(puffed rice) may be used for coating cutlet

Hard gulab jamun will be soften by pressure cooking less than one whistle.

While making dosas rub the tawa well with oil.Pour oil inside ,outside, and border of dosas. Dosas will come out nicely.

Red Lentil Soup

Red lentil soup

Ingredients

Red lentil...................1cup
Onion.........................1
Vegetable Stock..........2cups
Olive Oil.......................2tbsp
Garlic..........................1
Cumin Seeds...............1tsp
Tomato Puree............1cup
Black Pepper.......... 1tsp
Coriander Leaves........few
Salt to Taste

Method

Heat a pan with olive oil add ,cumin seeds,chopped onion garlic and fry it till it becomes tender. 

Add red lentils and stir well. Pour the vegetable stock simmer for 15 minutes.

Last add salt and tomato puree. Let it boil for about 25 minutes

.Let it cool. Using blender puree the soup and garnish with coriander leaves.

Rava Ladu (Semolina Ladu)

Sweet 

Rava Ladu.This sweet is very easy to prepare with less ghee.

Rava Ladu

Ingredients

Rava.................... 2 cups
Sugar...................2 cups
Ghee....................1/2 cup
Grated Coconuts.....1/2 cup
Cardamom powder...1 tsp
Cashew nuts............7
 

Method 


Heat a tava with ghee and roast the rava(semolina),till it gives out aroma. 
Add the coconut and roast 10 more minutes. 
Mix sugar and 1 cup water and boil it, till it becomes one string consistency. 
Add the rava, coconut mixture into it and heat for 5 more minutes and turn the heat off. 
Stir it nicely. After 20 to 30 minutes it becomes thick and add cardamom powder and nuts, make the ladus.

Thirattipal (Palkova)

Thiratti pal(Palkova)

Palkova(Thirattipal) 

Ingredients 

Condensed Milk .......... 1 tin
Yogurt............................3tsp
Ghee................................1tsp 

Method 

Mix everything in a microwave bowl.
Keep this in microwave for five minutes.
Take it out, mix and again keep for three more minutes. 
Keep an eye on the mixture.
Remove, add the ghee and stir it. 
Keep three more minutes. When it becomes thick remove it.

Tip

Instead of yogurt use two tsp lemon juice

Measurements for making sweets

Measurements

Halwa.... ........................1cup flour.....3 cups sugar

Mysore Pak................. 1 cup besan..... two and half cups sugar

Burfi................................1 cup coconut.... 1 cup sugar

Maida cake.....................1 cup maida.....2 cups sugar

Laddu..............................1 cup besan....2 cups sugar

Palgova...........................1 litre milk...... 250gms sugar

When you make meduvada mix boiled potato withthe dal dough.Vada will be very crispy

Instant Halwa

Instant Halwa 

Ingredients 

Wheat flour...........1cup 

Sugar......................1 and 3/4 cup 

Badam(Soaked)....20 

Ghee.......................3/4 cup 

Cashew nuts and raisins few 

Method 

Grind the soaked badam with half cup of milk into fine paste.

Heat a pan with ghee,fry the flour till its raw smell goes away.

Heat another pan with little milk and sugar.

Add the badam paste Stir it nicely till it becomes a thick paste (the ghee slowly comes out of it). 

Lastly decorate with the roasted cashews and raisins.

Elai Adai with Chakkavaratti

 Elai Adai  with Chakkavaratti

 

This recipe is from Kerala. Jack fruit season we make the jack fruit jam (chakkavaratti) and keep for months..
When want to make adai, add coconut and make it. Very tasty food.

Ingredients

• Jack Fruit Jam (Chakkavaratti)...1cup
• Rice........................................1cup
• Banana Leaves.........................4 pieces.
• (one 8" by8" for one Adai)
• Grated Coconut.......................half cup
• Oil .........................................2tsp

Method

• Wash the rice and grind it with salt and water into spreading consistency.
• Steam slowly the banana leaves to make it tender to fold the adai.
• Heat a pan with jack fruit jam coconut to make it loose filling.
• This filling can be refrigerated for a month.
• Apply oil on the leaf and spread the rice dough as a thin layer and take 2 tsp of filling
• on the dough only half the portion.
• Then fold it into half, seal the edges and steam them for 20 to 25 minutes.
• Remove from the leaf.
• Enjoy the tasty elai adai.

Puran Poli(Sweet)

Ingredients

• Maida....................2 cups
• Chana Dhal...........1cup
• Sugar.....................1cup  
• Ghee......................2tbsp 
• Kesari Powder...... 1pinch
• Oil..........................half cup 
• Cardamom.............1/2 tsp
• Rice Flour............. 3tbsp

Method  

• Wash the chana dhal and boil it..
• When it is cooked remove the water then add the sugar , cardamom powder and .grind it in to a fine paste. 
• If it is liquid keep in microwave for 3 to 4 minutes and remove.  
• Mix maida, turmeric powder and salt make a smooth dough adding water. 
• Add the oil and keep for 2 hours.
• Divide the sweet dough into small balls to be stuffed into the dough. 
• Make a small chapathi with the dough keep the sweet filling in the center and seal the roll. 
• Make big thin chapathis with the help of rice flour
• Heat a griddle and cook the poli adding little ghee around the poli. 
• Turn the other side ,adding ghee when it is cooked.