Aval Idly | Avalakki Idly

Aval Idli (Avalakki)

Posted by Subhashini Jayanathan

Posted on 19/03/2017

Recipe 

Soak 1 cup aval in curd for 10-15 min.

After that mash with karandi or hand.

Add 1.5 cups idli rava ( idli rice broken like rava available in shops) and keep aside 15 min. Adjust water and curd ( totally u may require 1 to 1.5 cup curd based on its sourness) for idli batter consistency.

Add salt and eno or baking soda and immediately make idlis.

Urud Dal Chutney

Urad dal chutney
Posted by Krithiga Sathya Narayanan
Posted on 21/03/2017

Urad dal-1/4th cup
Onion-1
Redchilly-5 
Tamarind-little
Hing
Curry leaves-little
Garlic-1( optional)
Mustard-1/2spoon
1. In a little oil, add urad dal, red chilly. Fry till golden brown in color. Keep aside.
2.same pan add chopped onion, sauté well.
3. Add tamarind and curry leaves. Cool down. 
4. Grind well. Season with mustard and hing. 
Serve with idly, Dosa, and paniyaram.

Rava Dosa

Rava Dosa
Posted by Krithiga Sathya Narayanan
Posted on 21/03/2017

Rava-1/2cup
Rice flour-1and half cup
Maida-2 table spoon
Jeera-1spoon
Pepper-1spoon
Green chili-1 finely chopped 
Thick buttermilk-1/2cup
Water-1and 1/2cup or more
Ginger-Finely chopped.
Coriander leaves -few
Salt
Hing

1.Mix all dry items. 
2.Then add buttermilk, water and salt. Whisk well with no lumps. 
3.Consistency should be watery. Wait for 30 minutes. Keep the griddle nice and hot. Start to pour from outside to inside. Add oil generously. 
4.Keep medium to high flame. Cook one side till it reach to golden color. Yummy Rava Dosa is ready..!

Goli Bajje

Gole Bajje

Posted by Swaminatha Sharma

Posted on 21/03/2017

Take 1 cup of All purpose flour / Maida, add a handful of cut pieces of coconut, finely chopped greenchilly and finely chopped curry leaves, 1/2 cup of sour curd mix well and make it like dough and keep aside for minimum 2 hours.  After 2 or 3 hours, add a pinch of Baking soda (if you wish), mix well and adjust the consistancy of the batter to Vada batter.  Take in hand and drop in oil and deep fry.  Deep fry in medium flame and serve hot with Spicy / Coconut / Green chutney of your choice.  Your Goli Bajje is ready... !!!!

Idly Chilly

Idly Chilly

Posted by Swaminatha Sharma

Posted on 20/03/2017

Cut remaining idlies into 1 inch cubes and keep aside. Chop pyaaz into lenghty one. Slit green chillies and keep aside. Take a cup of milk, add Organic colour and mix well and keep ready. Julienne cut ginger and keep ready along with curry leaves.

In a kadai, add coconut oil, temper mustard seed, urud dal, channa dal, curry leaves, add ginger, chilly and onion one by one and saute n high flame. Add the cut idlies, salt and stir again. Now pour the milk and mix well. Adjust salt to taste and saute in high flame for 1 minute until all are mixed together. Serve hot. No side dish required. A nice dish for kids who hates to take Idly as it is.

Theraliappam

Theraliappam

Posted by Usha Ramachandran

Posted on 20/03/2017

A typical Kerala dish prepared using vayana ela(bay leaves)and the flavour of this when cooked is awesome.This is prepared in my home town Trivandrum during famous Attukal Pongala.

Recipe for Theraliappam

Ingredients:-

1cup rice flour(roasted)

1 cup jaggery powder

1 banana

Little ghee and cardomom powder

3/4-1cup grated coconut

Method :  Mix all the ingredients and make a dough. No need to add water.The moisture of the banana and jaggery is enough to make the dough.Fill this dough in the leaf and roll it and steam it in a steamer and cook for about 10-15 mins.The appam will have the nice aroma of this leaf.

Plantain Koftha

Vaazhakkai Koftas  (Raw Banana Koftas)

Posted by : Anuradha Srinivasan

Posted on : 16/03/2017

Ingredients  (around 8-10 pakodas can be made)

Vaazhakkai  One (Grated)

Kadalai Maavu (Besan) .. 2-3 Tables Spoon 

Red Chilli Powder Little.. (say half teaspoon)

Salt to taste

Asafoetida as required

For Gravy

Tomatoes .. Medium size .. 4 nos..

Ginger .. grated..

Red Chillies (Milagi Vathal) .. 5-6

Coriander seeds .. 1 teaspoon ..

For Tempering ..

Refined Oil/Olive Oil (whichever suits)

Jeera

Method  : Take grated Vaazhakkai, Salt, Besan, Red chilli powder & heeng .. mix all to make pakodas. Heat Oil .. put the pakodas.. fry till its golden brown and remove and put it in a tissue paper so that the oil is soaked.

For Gravy ... Cut the tomatoes, add ginger, red chillies, coriander seeds and grind them to a fine paste.

In a kadai .. add 2 teaspoon oil, jeera and saute it. Once jeera becomes brown, add the grinded tomato paste and fry for some time, add some salt to it. Once the oil starts leaving in the sides of the kadai, add some water and let it boil. The liquid consistency should not be thin. After it starts to boil, in 5 mins, add the pakodas and leave it for about 10 more minutes. Switch off the gas. Top it with coriander leaves. In the given picture, I added little cream to give a nice look.. (its optional)

PS.. In case if the pakodas become hard.. put them in hot water for some time and remove them. It will become soft.

Panner Butter Masala

Recipe : Panneer Butter Masala

By Student Chef Varshini

Posted on 15/03/2017

This cuisine is one of the items being served in almost all the hotels. Once you go with family, the first item being ordered by any of the family member would be this cuisine only due to the richness. Let us see today how this being made.

Take 200gms of panner, wash in water, dip in hot water for few minutes, remove and cut into 1/2 inch pieces and keep aside.

In a kadai, add 4 to 5 tsp of pure Unsalted Butter and saute finely chopped onion until its golden brown. Add GG paste, tomato one by one and cover with a lid for 3 mins, until it is cooked. Mash it with the potato masher until its fully mashed and forms in meshy form. Add Turmeric, Kashmiri Red Chilly, Coriander and Jeera powder to the required quanity of spicyness, and a 1/2 tsp of garam masala and mix well. Add the chopped panner and mix well. Check for consistency, and if required add little water and cover it with a lid, until oil ooze out on the sides. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and 1 tsp of fresh cream and serve hot with Roti / Naan.

Karela Gojji

Recipe : Karela (Bittergourd/Pagarkkai) Gojju

Authentic Karnataka Style

Posted by Krithiga Sathya Narayanan

Posted on 05/03/2017

Bitter gourd -4( finely chopped)

Dry roast 

White Sesame seeds-2to 3 table spoon

Dry coconut powder-2table spoon

Roast with little oil

Chenna dal-2spoon

Urad dal-3/4th spoon

Jeera-1tea spoon

Peppe corns- few

Red chilly -4

Byadgi chilly -2

Methi seeds-1/2 tea spoon 

(Grind to a fine paste)

Jaggery-3table spoon or more as per your taste.

Tamarind water-1cup

Curry leaves-few 

Hing

Salt

Turmeric powder-1/2tea spoon 

Mustard seeds-1spoon 

Red chilly -3

Preparation method :

1. Dry roast sesame seeds and dry coconut separately. Powder them together.

2. In a kadai add oil, roast all the items. Cool and make a paste.

3. In the same kadai add 4 table spoon sesame oil. Season with mustard, hing, curry leaves and red chilly. then add thin sliced ( cut circle and divide them by 4) bitter gourd and fry well in the oil along with little turmeric. Once half cooked, add tamarind water, salt and jaggery. Let It boil for about 15 minutes. Then add the Chenna paste. Let it boil for 20 minutes. Then finally add sesame powder and coconut powder mix and boil for 10 minutes. It should come like a legiyum ( thick) consistency..! Enjoy this authentic recipe for Dosa, curd rice,and roti..! 

Note: self life will be for a week in the fridge. Use dry spoon.

Karadayaan Nonbu 2017

Wheat Flour Halwa

Wheat Flour Halwa
Posted by Krithiga Sathya Narayanan
Posted on 12/03/2017

Wheat flour-1cup
Sugar-1cup
Milk-1 to 1/4th cup
Ghee-1/4th cup
Cardamom-2 ( pounded) 
Cashew -as per your taste 
1. Add 1spoon ghee. Fry wheat flour well. It may take 10 minutes on medium flame. 
2. Once raw smell goes from the wheat flour, it lightly changes color. Add hot milk to it gradually. Keep stirring. Add little more hot water if you need. 
3. After it forms a thick paste, add sugar and mix well. Once you add sugar, your Halwa changes to brown color. Gradually add ghee. 4. Once it becomes like a mass and ghee comes out, add roasted cashew and cardamom.

Iru Puli Kuzhambu

Iru Puli Kuzhambu.

Posted by Swaminatha Sharma

Posted on 12/03/2017

A special recipe from the southern most part of Tamilnadu. The name itself identifies that 2 types of pulippu is available in this kuzhambu. Even the trambrahms of border of Kerala would have this recipe in their food often.

Preparation Method. 

In a kadai, add Red-chilly, urud dal, Methi seeds and saute well. Add to this grated coconut grind it to fine paste and mix with 1 cup of curd and keep aside. 

In a kadai, add chopped Pumpkin and drumstick with 2 tsp of oil and saute well. Add tamarind paste and bring to boil. Add salt, turmeric powder and asafotida and cook well. Once cooked, add the curd paste and allow to cook. Take care that once bubbles try to start on the borders, switch off the gas as once curd is added it should be totally boiled. Now garnished with tempered mustard seed and Curry leaves in Coconut oil only. This goes yummy with plain rice and kids would love to have once more time.

இதன் வாசனை ஊரை கூட்டும். 

Vangaara Dosai

Video recipe of making of Vangaara Dosai

Alur Dum

Today's 09/03/2017 Special for dinner
ALUR-DUM... West Bengal's 
No-Onion / No-Garlic Recipe
Preparation by Student Chef - Varshini.

Alur-Dum (No-Onion / No-Garlic Recipe)
Ingredients : Finely chopped tomatoes 4 to 5 nos, Fennel seed powder, turmeric, red-chilly, coriander, cumin, garam-masala powders each 1/2 tsp. Oil, salt, asafoetida as required, Boiled potatoes / Baby potatoes - 200 gms, Bayleaves, Cardamon and Cinnamon for sauting.

In a pan, add oil, saute bayleaves, cardamon, cinnamon and add chopped tomatoes, add all the powders and bring to gravy texture. Now add chopped / boiled potatoes and mix well. Add asafoetida and garam masala powder and simmer for 2 to 3 minutes until fine cooked.. Your special Alur-Dum is ready to serve with Phulkas / Roti / Chappathi / Naan, etc.... Specially can be made when we need non-onion / no-garlic recipe....

Okkarai Sweet

Traditional sweet ~ Okkarai
Posted by Usha Ramachandran
Posted on 03/03/2017
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This is made with Channa dal and mostly made during Diwali.

Roast 1cup Channa dal till a nice aroma comes.  Transfer it in a pressure cooker and cook it for 3-4 whistle. Drain the excess water with a strainer. When water is drained put it in a mixer and grind it into a nice powder.

Keep a kadai add 1 1/4 cup jaggery and half a cup of water and keep it in flame. Let the jaggery dissolve in water completely .Remove the vessel from the stove and strain the jaggery water to remove the dust and residues. Place the kadai on the stove and allow the syrup to boil.When the syrup starts to thicken,add the Channa dal powder and stir continuously.Slowly the Channa dal mixture starts to crumble and becomes soft like puttu. Add 1 tbsp ghee and simmer the flame and stir continuously.In another pan heat ghee and fry the cashew nuts.Finally add this to the okkarai along with some elachi powder and mix well. Okkari breaks to smaller pieces and should be soft.Pidicha pidi padanam uthutha uthiranam. That should be the consistency. In olden days gingelly oil was used to make this sweet. If you like the flavour of gingelly oil can add 1-2 tbsp of oil.Delicious okkarai is ready to serve.

Puli Pongal

Recipe : Puli Pongal
Posted by Anu Radha
Posted on 04/03/2017

Puli pongal or puli uppuma..
Made out of noi arisi...

1 cup noi arisi or 1 cup rice broken bigger size, Thick tamarind juice one tumbler
For seasoning u require mustard seeds, channa dhal, urad dhal, chillies broken half, curry leaves, ground nut, perungayam, Required salt

Method : Take a heavy bottomed kadai...or directly in cooker...pour 4 or 5 spoons oil...when hot do seasoning... Add noi arisi or broken arisi...fry a minute...add tamarind juice n 2 tumblers of water...add salt...( u can add one spoon sambar powder or rasam powder... It is only optional)...let it boil...once water thickens close cooker with lid and put whistle... Keep 5 minutes n switch off...enjoy puli pongal with pickle... Vadam.

Wheat Banana Cake

Wheat Banana Cake
Posted by Sangeetha Krishnamoorthy
Posted onn 06/03/2017

Ingredients
Atta 1.5 cup
3 large ripe robusta bananas
Baking powder 1 tsp
Baking soda 1/2 tsp
1/2 cup cane sugar
2/3 cup vegetable oil
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Some chopped walnuts

Method  :  Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius.  Blend bananas well.  Add sugar,oil and vanilla extract and mix well.  Add atta, baking powder and baking soda to the wet mixture after sieving.  Mix all the ingredients well without lumps.  Bake for 50 minutes in a greased pan.  Inserted toothpick should come out clean for the cake to be baked well.

Microwave Mysorepak

Microwave Mysorepak
Posted by Dhivya J Iyer
Posted on 06/03/2017

Got so much tempted with all Mysore pak post.. so prepared small amount in 3 mins in microwave oven

Receipe:
Besan - 1/2 cups, sugar - 1 cup, milk - 2 tbsp, ghee - 1 cup
Add 1 spoon of ghee to besan in a tray and keep in oven for 1 min...
Shift the besan to another vessel...
Pour ghee, add sugar n milk in tray, keep it in oven for 1 min...
Add the besan to the above mixture and keep in oven for 3 mins.., take it out and stir well after 1.30 minutes , u can add cardamom powder at this point of time if u wish .. Keep it again in oven for the remaining 1.30 mins..
Grace a tray / plate with ghee , pour the hot content taken out from oven
Cut into pieces after some while...
And the outcome will be so so yummy !!!

Special Garlic Chutney

Garlic Chutney
Posted by Annapoorani Ganesan
Posted on 05/03/2017

Ingredients
Garlic pods 1 fistfull
Red chilli 8
Red riped tomato 4
Big onion 1(sinned and cubed)
Tamarind 1 lemon size
Ginger 1 inch(washed and skinned)
Kashmiri chilli powder 1 tsp( for rich colour)
Oil
Mustard seeds

Method  : Take 6 garlic pods,cut into small pieces and keep aside.  In a bowl,add remaining garlic cloves,red chillies, ginger,tamarind,onion and tomatoes.  Keep it in a cooker and give 4 whistles.  After cooling grind into paste.  Heat 2 tab sp oil in a pan,add mustard seeds,let them crackle.  Add garlic pieces which kept aside and saute,then add ground paste to it and saute.  Add Kashmiri chilli powder, jaggery and salt and mix well. Cook until the oil separate.  Garlic chutney is ready. After cooling store in an airtight jar.  Serve with idli,dosa,chapathi,etc

Panner Peas Bell Pepper Gravy

Paneer Peas Bell Pepper Gravy
Posted by Krithiga Sathya Narayanan
Posted on 07/03/2017

Paneer-100gms
Red bell pepper-1/2
Green bell pepper -1/2
Cashew paste-1table spoon
Kasuri methi-1tea spoon
Peas-1cup
Onion-1( finely chopped)
Green chili paste-1tea spoon
Ginger garlic paste-1table spoon
Tomato purée-3 number ( grind well) or tinned one
Turmeric powder
Red chili powder
Coriander powder
Jeera powder
Garam masala ( as per your Taste add powders)
Milk-1/2cup
Preparation method :

1. In a pressure Cooker, add oil and ghee. Add jeera,finely chopped onion. Sauté till it turns light brown color. Add green chilly paste, ginger and garlic paste. Sauté till raw smell goes.
2. Add all powders, then salt, tomato purée, then wait for 5 mts. Once oil oozes out from tomato add peas, bell peppers, paneer, kasuri methi, cashew paste, milk, 1/2 cup water. Close the lid and pressure cook for 2 whistle. Garnish with coriander leaves. Enjoy with Roti, pulav or poori..!!