Mango Kalakand

Recipe : Mango Kalakand
Posted by : Mahalakshmi Shankar
Posted on : 26/04/2017

Ingredients : paneer 250 gms, condensed milk 200 gms ( half tin), mango puree 2/3 cup, pista cut lengthwise 2 TSP, cardamom optional
Method: Add mango puree in a non stick kadai , keep flame in a medium, stir for two minutes now add grated paneer and condensed milk stir till it thickens, for ten to fifteen mins now pour in greased tin add cardamom powder and decorate with pistas and keep for 2 to 3 hours to cool. Now cut into pieces and serve

Carrot & Paneer Momos

Recipe : Carrot and Paneer Momos
Posted by : Veena Subramanyam
Posted on : 26/04/2017

Ingredients
For the stuffing :
Grated Paneer - 1/4 th cup
Chopped pistachios - 2 tbsp
Chopped garlic and ginger - 1 tsp
Chopped green chillies - 1
Boiled corns - 1 tbsp
Salt
Mix all the ingredients and keep aside.
Outer covering :
Carrot paste - 3 tbsp
Besan - 2 tbsp
Maida - 1/4 th cup
Salt
Butter
1. Mix all the ingredients to form a dough. I did not add any extra water as carrots have enough water.   2. Roll them into small rotis and stuff the Paneer mixture and shape them.
Assembly : 1. Steam the Momos for 15 minutes and serve with the sauce.

Paneer Kofta Curry

Recipe : Paneer Kofta Curry
Posted by : Gayathiri Balasubramanian
Posted on 26/04/2017

Kofta is a Middle Eastern and South Asian dumpling. The word kofta is derived from Persian kūfta: In Persian, کوفتن (kuftan) means “to beat” or “to grind” or dumpling.  Koftas in South Asian cuisine are normally cooked in a spicy curry . The vegetarian variety like lauki kofta, shahi aloo kofta, malaai kofta are popular in India.
Ingredients:
For the seasoning :
Oil : 2 tsp
Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
For the koftas:
Mixed veggies- 2 cups ( I used Carrots, beans, green peas and potato )
Paneer grated - 1 cup
Green chilli - 1
Cashew nut - 4
Coriander leaves- few finely chopped .
Coriander powder - 2 tsp
Red Chilli powder - 2 tsp
Cumin powder - 2tsp
Corn flour - 1 tsp
Salt - as needed
For frying kofta:
Oil
Corn flour for rolling the koftas and frying
For the Gravy :
Oil- 2 tsp
Onion - 1
Tomato - 3
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Cumin powder- 1 tsp
Coriander powder - 2 tsp
Red Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Salt - as per needed .
Optional for garnishing :
Cashew nuts - roughly grinded
Fresh cream - 2 tsp
Method of preparation:  For kofta:   Pressure cook the veggies.  In a mixing bowl take the cooked veggies, grated paneer, chopped cashew nuts, coriander leaves finely chopped , green chilli finely chopped, corn flour, salt, cumin powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder and make them small balls.  Dip them in corn flour and fry them in oil.   Koftas are ready.

For gravy :  Saute onion in pan with oil and after it turns golden add the ginger garlic paste and let the raw smell go.  Add the tomato and let it turn mushy.  Then add the Cumin powder, red chilli powder and coriander powder and Turmeric powder.  In a mixie , grind them to a good paste with salt.  In a kadai add oil , cumin seeds and the above grinded paste for few minutes
And add 1 cup of water, cream and roughly grinded cashew nut and bring to boil.  Add the koftas gently and turn off the gas.  If you are serving late then later add the koftas and bring it boil.  Add the koftas only at the time of serving. Else we find them breaking .

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Tori Tomato Sabji

Recipe : Tori (Peerkangai) Tamatar Sabji
Posted by : Anuradha Srinivasan
Posted on 28/04/2017

I took 4 Toris .. 2 Tomatoes ..cut into small pcs... 4-5 green chillies. (slit into half). For tampering .. Refined Oil .. Jeera - 1 spoon
Spices .. Red chilli Powder-Salt-Dhania Powder. (No turmeric powder used) ... its optional ..

In a Kadai -- add oil --Jeera -- when it becomes brown - add tomatoes & green chillies .. after frying for a while add Peerkankangai pieces .. fry it in less fire till it is done -- add spices .. keep it for 2 minutes and switch off the gas.

Kesari Panneer

Recipe : Kesari Panneer
Posted by : Kavitha Umesh
Posted on : 26/04/2017

Quantity for 2:
In half glass water, cook 1 large sliced onion, 2 large tomatoes, 2 kashmiri Chilli, 8 pieces kaju. Cook till mushy.
Puree the mixture and sieve it. U will get thick smooth gravy.
Put saffron strands in 1/2 cup warm milk and keep it.
Fry paneer small cubes/ medium cubes
In a pan, take oil+butter. Saute jeera, 2 cloves, 1 Bay leaf, 2 Elaichi, 1 stick cinnamon.
Add chopped onions (1large). Fry.
Add 1tsp* only ginger-garlic paste. Fry.
Add 1tsp each:: turmeric pwd, kashmiri chilli pwd, homemade roasted and powdered dhanajeera pwd.
Add the paneer. Coat it with these masalas. 2 mins.
Add the gravy, 1 tsp honey, saffron milk. Cook till all blends well
Add more milk for thinner consistency.
Last add salt . Mix. Kasuri methi and kothmir.
Tadaa!!!

Walnut Halwa

Recipe : Walnut Halwa..! 
Posted by : Krithiga Sathya Narayanan
Posted on : 27/04/2017

Came out super yummy. No one can guess whether it's made out of nuts. It's a very easy recipe.  Dedicated to our admins 😊was thinking what to do to share my happiness. Here I got a quick recipe for a visual treat..!!   Swaminatha Sharma Sowjanya Suraj Bharathwaj Sairam Raji Venkatesan Ravi Ramamoorthy and Meera Venkat ji..!

Walnut-1cup
Sugar-1/2cup
Milk-1cup
Saffron- few
Cardamom-3 pounded
Ghee-1/4th cup

1. Coarsely grind the walnut.
2. In a kadai add 2 spoon ghee. Fry the walnut till it changes light brown color.
3.In an another pan, add milk, saffron and cardamom. Let it comes to boil.
4. Once walnut changes its color, pour this hot milk. Keep medium flame. Once it cooks for 3 to 4 minutes, add sugar.
5. When it mixes well, add remaining ghee. It will take 6 to 10 minutes. Once ghee comes out from the pan, Switch off the stove.Yummy walnut halwa ready.
Note: coarsely grind the walnut. For healthier version, you may add jaggery instead of sugar.

Tomato Gojju

Recipe : Tomato gojju..! 
Posted by : Krithiga Sathya Narayanan
Posted on : 29/04/2017

One of my Karnataka friend taught me this recipe. Goes well with rice, idly,Dosa and roti.

Ripen tomatoes-4( finely chopped)
Tamarind paste -1 tea spoon or thick tamarind juice
Red chilly powder-2 table spoon
Turmeric powder-1/2 tea spoon
Sesame oil-3 table spoon
Mustard -1 tea spoon
Hing-few pinches
Curry leaves- few
Salt
Jaggery-1 tea spoon
Dry roast and grind well:
Mustard -1table spoon
Urad dal-1 tablespoon
Methi seeds-1 tea spoon
Kashmiri chilly -2
1. Dry roast mustard, urad dal, Methi seeds, and Kashmiri red chilly separately and grind together.
2. In a kadai, add sesame oil. Add mustard seeds, hing, curry leaves. Then add chopped tomatoes, red chilly powder, turmeric power and salt. Add Tamarind paste.
3. Let it cook for 10 to 15 minute. Once tomato cooks well and becomes like a mass, add this powder and let it cook for few minutes.
4. Lastly add some jaggery. Mix well.
Note: use ripen tomatoes. If you don't have Kashmiri chilly, you may add Kashmiri red chilly powder along with regular chilly powder. Consume within a week.

Eggless Rava Cake

Recipe : Eggless Rava Cake
Posted by : Sumitha Iyer
Posted on : 01/05/2017

Ingredients:
Fine semolina or chiroti rava 1 1/2 cups
Sugar powdered 1 cup
Salt 1/4 tsp
Cardamom powder 1/4 tsp
Baking powder 1/2 tsp
Baking soda 1/8 tsp
Tutti fruiti 1/3 cup(I didn't use)
Mixed nuts(cashew, almond) 1/4 cup
Raisins 1/4 cup
Oil/Ghee 1/2 cup
Milk 1/2 cup
Beaten curd 3/4 cup

Method :  Mix the rava,salt,sugar,cardamon powder with oil/ghee and curd and half the milk and keep.aside for 30-40 mins..  After 30-40 mins add the baking powder and soda and mix well..check the consistency...the batter should be like idli batter consistency...if thick add the reserved milk and mix...add 1/2 of the nuts and tutti fruiti..mix well.. Pour in a greased pan ... sprinkle the remaining nuts and tutti fruits and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 30-35 mins..

Note  :  This can be steamed in a pressure cooker or idli cooker too..  If you do.not have fine semolina ..just powder the normal Bombay rava in the mixie and use..

Khara Biscuit

Recipe : Khara biscuit 
Posted by : Balapriya Venkatakrishnan
Posted on 02/05/2017

1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour. One cup is 250 ml cup. 1 tbsp milk powder, 100 gms or 1/2 cup soft butter.(7 tbsp), 2 or 3 tbsp yoghurt, 1 tbsp sugar, finely chopped corainder curry leaves and green chillies, 1/2 tsp pepper powder, salt. Take butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, beat until fluffy. To this add wheat flour, milk powder, salt and mix well. Add chopped corainder curry leaves and green chillies, pepper. Mix well add yoghurt and knead to form a dough. Don't knead very hard. Cover the dough with cling film and keep in the fridge for 20 mins. After taking out roll the dough into thick circle. Cut out cookeis as cirle or square. Arrange them on the baking tray and bake them in the preheated oven for 12 to 15 mins.

Tamarind Dosa

Recipe : Tamarind Dosa 
(No fermentation needed)
Posted by : Krithiga Sathya Narayanan
Posted on : 02/05/2017

Idly rice-2cups
Toor dal-1cup
Grated Coconut-1/2cup
Tamarind-lemon size
Cumin seeds-1tea spoon
Whole pepper-1tea spoon
Curry leaves- few sprigs
Red chillies-10
Hing
Salt
1. Soak rice, dal, red chilly, and tamarind for 3 to 4 hours.
2. Grind them along with curry leaves to a smooth Dosa consistency. Add cumin and pepper lastly. It needs to be coarsely grounded.
3. Add hing,and salt. Do like Dosa. It comes nice and crispy.
Note: if you want a healthier version, can substitute with Saamai (Little millet) or Thinai (Foxtail millet) instead of rice.

Colourful Salad

Recipe : Colorful salad
Posted by Krithiga Sathya Narayanan
Posted on 03/05/2017

Purple cabbage-1/2 cup( cut in length wise)
Cabbage-1/2 cup
Green bell peppers-1/2
Carrot-1 (julienne cut)
Green chilly paste-1/4th tea spoon
Mustard-1/4th tea spoon
Hing- little
Lemon juice-1 spoon
Coriander leaves- few
Roasted peanuts- few
Olive oil-1 tea spoon
Salt
1. In a pan add olive oil, add mustard, hing. Add green chilly paste. Sauté for few secs.
2. Add all veggies. Sauté only for a minute in high flame. We must retain the crunchiness.
3. Lastly add coriander leaves and switch off. Mix lemon juice. Garnish with peanuts.
A very healthy and tasty salad. If you wish you can mix like a raw salad. But I like to sauté for few secs.

Ammalam's Vada Curry

அம்மாளம் : நீ இந்த மசாலா வடைய ஒரு நாலு வாங்கிண்டு.. நன்னா உதிர்த்து வச்சுக்கோ... ஒரு 2 வெங்காயம், தக்காளி நன்னா பொடிசா நறுக்கி... 1 கரண்டி நல்லெண்ணெய் விட்டு 2 பட்டை, 2 கிராம்பு, 1 ஏலக்காய் வதக்கிண்டு... இந்த வெங்காயம் தக்காளி போட்டு நன்னா வதக்கு... வெந்தவொடனே.... உதிர்த்து வச்ச அந்த வடைய போட்டு நன்னா வதக்கு... கொஞ்சம் உப்ப போட்டுக்கோ... 1/2 டீஸ்பூன் மஞ்சப்பொடி, மொளகாப்பொடி, ஜீரகப்பொடி எல்லாத்தையும் போட்டுண்டு... வத்துக்கு.... 1/2 டம்பளர் .. பசும்பாலை அதுல விட்டு... தேவையான ஜலம் வீட்டுக்கோ.... அப்படியே மீடியம் ஆ வச்சு.... நன்னா வெந்தப்பறம்... நறுக்கி வச்சு இருக்கிற கொத்தமல்லி தழைய போட்டு... சூடா செட் தோசையோட எடுத்துண்டு வா.... நன்னா சாப்பிட்டு ரொம்பநாளாச்சு........ போ போ.... சீக்கிரம் பண்ணு... நாழியாரது.... பசிக்கிறது வேற..

Spinach Biryani

Recipe : Spinach Briyani
Posted by Krithiga Sathya Narayanan
Posted on 04/05/2017

Spinach / paalak-2 cups
Basmati rice-2 cups
Coriander leaves-1 handful
Mint-1 Handful
Ginger-a small piece
Garlic-4
Green chilly-3
Cinnamon- 1
Cloves-2
Bay Leaf - 1
Cardamom-2
Star anise-1
Cumin seeds-1tea spoon
Lemon juice-1spoon
Briyani Masala powder-1/4th teaspoon
Onion-1 finely chopped
Salt
Ghee-1 spoon
Oil-1 spoon

1. Soak rice for 20 minutes.
2. Grind spinach, coriander leaves, mint, green chili, garlic and ginger to a fine paste.
3. In a cooker, add oil and ghee. Season with whole garam masala and cumin seeds.
4. Add onions, sauté well.add the paste. Sauté for few minutes till raw smell goes.
5. Add salt, ( 2 cups green paste+1 and half cup water) and lemon juice.
6.cook for 2 whistle and switch off. Yummy Briyani is ready.
Note: if you want you can add Peas, carrot. It's your wish. You can add fried bread in the finishing time. You can make No onion, no garlic too.just add ginger only in the grinding part. Avoid onions. Directly add the paste.

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Mango Onion Chutney

Mango Onion Chutney
Posted by Mrs. Rekha Iyer
Posted on 07/04/2017

Ingredients 
2 Raw Mango
1 periya vengayam (Onion)
1/4 sp red chilli powder
1 tsp vellam (Jaggery)
Salt to taste

Preparation Method : Peel 2 mangai nd grate.  Cut the onion. Grind the above in a mixie with red chilli powder jaggery nd salt.. Very tasty..goes well with roti, dosai etc..very quick to make..everything raw....

Green Smoothie

Green Smoothie

Posted by Sudha Anand

Posted on 03/04/2017

Ingredients

A handful of 

Paalak / Pasalai Keerai,

Pudina

Coriander

Curry leaves

Grated Cucumber, Ginger

Preparation method :  Grind above ingredients in a mixer jar. Add butter milk,salt and half lemon juice to this. Excellent drink for this summer... also helps in digestion and hair fall.

Chakka Varatti / Jack Fruit Halwa

Chakka Varatti / Jack-fruit Halwa
Posted by Krithiga Sathya Narayanan
Posted on 31/03/2017

Ingredients

Jack fruit ( pala pazam) -10 to 12 deseeded and finely chopped 
Karuppatti -1/2 cup
Water-1/4 th cup
Dry ginger powder -1/2 tea spoon
Cardamom powder -1/2 tea spoon
Ghee-1/4 th cup 
Cashew - few ( roast in ghee)

Preparation method :
1. In a kadai add little ghee. Fry the jack fruit for few secs. 
2. Add little water and cook well. Don't add too much water.once cooked, cool down and grind well.
3. Add jaggery and little water. Melt well. Strain and let it comes to a nice boil. 
4. Once nice boil comes, add the jack-fruit paste. Cook in medium flame. Gradually add ghee. It may take 12 to 15 minutes. Once you see ghee coming out from the halwa, add dry ginger powder and cardamom. Lastly garnish with cashews. Yummy chakka Varatti is ready.

Pepper & Curry Leaves Kuzhambu

Pepper & Curry Leaves Kuzhambu
Posted by Krithiga Sathya Narayanan
Posted on 04/04/2017

Ingredients

Toor dal-1 table spoon
Chenna dal-1 tea spoon
Urad dal-1 tea spoon
Pepper-1 table spoon
Methi seeds-1 tea spoon
Red chilly -1
Hing
Curry leaves -2 handful 
Ghee -1 tea spoon 
Tamarind water -1cup ( thick) 
Turmeric powder-1 tea spoon
Jaggery -1tea spoon
Sesame oil-1/4th cup 
Mustard seeds-1tea spoon 

Preparation Method :
1. Roast all the first 7 items in one tea spoon ghee. Lastly add fresh curry leaves. Cool and grind like a paste. 
2. In a kadai add sesame oil, season with mustard, hing, curry leaves, and add tamarind water and turmeric powder. Add salt. 
3. Let it boil well. Once raw smell goes, add the paste. Let it cook till it becomes thick. Add jaggery at the end.

Paasi-Paruppu Payasam

Paasiparuppu Payasam
Posted by Krithiga Sathya Narayanan
Posted on 05/04/2017

Ingredients.
Moong dal -1/4 th cup 
Jaggery -1/3 cup or more 
Cardamom -2
Cashew -few ( roasted )
Milk-1/2 tumbler 

Preparation method :
1. Cook dal till it becomes soft. Don't over cook.
2. Melt jaggery with little water. Filter. Once boil comes add cooked dal. Boil for a minute in low flame. 
3.Add pounded cardamom.Switch off. After it becomes warm add warm milk. Mix well. Garnish with cashew.