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Dec 27, 2010

Banana Milkshake



Ingredients:
Ripe Bananas - 2
Oats - 1/3 cup
Milk
Vanilla extract- few drops
Sugar (as per taste)

Method:
Boil the milk and pour required milk in the oats. Cover and keep aside to cool.
Allow the remaining milk to cool.
Peel and chop the bananas. Blend them. Add required milk, few drops of vanilla extract, oats and sugar. Blend well. Pour in glasses and enjoy the healthy milk shake.

Sent off to "Veggie/Fruit a Month - Banana" event hosted by aipi and started by Priya.

Today's weather in the morning (8:00 am).

Dec 22, 2010

Chocolate Muffins (My 500th Post)

I'm very excited to announce that my blog has reached the 500th post. Also, two of my recipes got selected in Chacko's 'Best 30 Recipes of 2010' list. To celebrate the occasions, I'm sharing chocolate muffins today.



Dry Ingredients:
APF/Maida - 1 cup
Cocoa powder (Cadbury's) - 1 tbsp.
Granulated sugar - 1/2 cup
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp.
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp.
Cooking Chocolate  - 1 cup



Wet Ingredients:
Milk - 1/2 cup
Egg - 1
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp.
Oil - 3 tbsp.



Method:
Sift APF, baking powder and baking soda. In a bowl, combine all the dry ingredients.
In another bowl combine all wet ingredients.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Mix. Don't overbeat.
Pour in muffin cups and bake in a pre-heated oven at 180°C for 20 to 25 minutes or until the tester comes out clean.
Enjoy warm.

Paruppu Thuvaiyal

This is my mom's recipe which she usually grinds with an ammi.



Ingredients:
Toor Dal/Arhar dal/Split pigeon pea - 1 small cup
Red chillies (dry) - 4
Garlic - 3 cloves (big)
Salt (to taste)
Tamarind - 1 tsp.



Method:
Dry roast the dal till golden color. Add 1/2 tsp. of oil in the pan and fry the chillies till crisp.
In a blender grind toor dal, red chilli, tamarind and salt by adding water little by little. During the mid-way, add the garlic and grind them. The thuvaiyal should be thick.
Enjoy with kanji or rasam rice.

Raw Plantain Kofta Curry


Ingredients:
For Kofta:
Raw plantain - 3
Onion - 1 (finely chopped)
Green chilli - 1 (big, deseeded and chopped)
Oats - 1/3 cup
Salt (to taste)
Ginger - 1 tsp. (grated)
Oil

Method:
Pressure cook the plantains till 3 to 4 whistles. Cool and remove the skin. Mash the white part of plantain.
Dry roast the oats for 4 minutes. Cool and powder them.
In a mixing bowl, combine oats flour, mashed plantains, salt, ginger, green chilli, and onion. Knead them into a dough. From the dough, divide them into equal-sized balls.
Heat the paniyaram vessel. Pour a drop of oil in each hole. Now place the balls and cook them by turning now and then. Add a few drops of oil in each kofta whenever required. Cook till all the sides are crisp and golden color without burning. Remove from heat and keep aside.


For Gravy:
I wasn't satisified with the taste of this gravy that I prepared. You can prepare your version of the gravy according to your taste.

Ingredients:
Onions - 2 (chopped)
Garlic - 1 tsp. (grated)
Ginger - 1 tsp. (grated)
Tomatoes - 2 (pureed)
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp.
Fennel seeds/Saunf - 1 tsp.
Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp.
Amchur powder - 1/4 tsp.
Garam masala - 1/2 tsp.
Kashmiri red chilli powder - 3/4 tsp. (or according to taste)
Coriander powder - 1 tsp.
Cream - 1 tbsp.
Oil
Salt (to taste)
Coriander leaves - few (chopped)

Method:
Heat the oil in a kadai. Add the cumin seeds, saunf and allow them to sizzle. Add onion pieces and saute till they are translucent. Add ginger, garlic and saute till the raw smell fades away. Add the tomato puree and saute till the oil releases. Reduce the heat and add the red chilli powder, coriander powder and salt and mix well.
Add 1/2 cup of water or required water. Bring it to a boil. Now add the cumin powder, amchur powder and stir.
Now add the koftas and simmer for a few minutes. Finally add the garam masala, cream and coriander leaves. Remove from heat and enjoy with roti.

Moong Dal Dosai/Dosa

Ingredients:
Moong dal - 2 cup
Raw rice - 1 cup
Coriander leaves - a medium bunch
Ginger - 3/4 ""
Onion - 1 (sliced)
Green chilli - 2 to 4 or (according to your taste)
Salt (to taste)
Oil

Method:
Soak the rice for 3 hours. Soak the moong dal for 1 hour.
Chop the coriander leaves with tender stalks.
Grind all except oil into a smooth dosa batter.
Heat the dosa tawa and spread one ladleful of batter in a circle. Sprinkle little oil.
Cook on both the sides in medium-low flame.
Continue with remaining dosa batter.
Enjoy with a favourite chutney.

Note:
You can keep in the refrigerator and use next day. Don't keep it more than one day in the refrigerator.

Dec 21, 2010

Ridge Gourd Peel Chutney


Ingredients:
Ridge gourd peels of 2 long ridge gourds
Curry leaves - 1/4 cup
Coconut - 2 tbsp. (grated)
Chana dal - 2 tbsp.
Garlic - 2 cloves
Tamarind - a pinch
Red chillies (dry) - 2
Salt (to taste)
Oil

To temper:
Mustards seeds, cumin seeds, urad dal - 1/2 tsp. (each)
Oil

Method:
Heat the oil in a pan and add the peels. Saute them till they are tender. Add the curry leaves, garlic, red chillies, tamarind and saute for 2 to 4 minutes. Cool them.
Girnd them with coconut and salt  in blender by adding required water.
Temper the given ingredients and pour it on the top of the chutney.