Paruppu Thogayel -Urdh Dal Chutney

You can call this as "Dal Chutney " too.This is very simple and easy to prepare.There are many ways to prepare thogayel but this one is very easy and simple . Just a couple of ingredients and its done .So here it goes.

Raw Materials

Urdh Dal -1 cup

Red Chilli -4-5

Coconut -1/2 cup

Hing 2 pinches

Salt as per desire

Preparation Style

Dry fry the dal ,red chilli and hing together until they are golden brown.Off the gas and allow it to cool.Later on mix the coconut and dal together in the blender by adding just little water. Add salt and mix them well.

You can roll them with chapati or have them with rice .It taste great ...Enjoy!!!

Cranberry Orange Bread Mix

I always wanted to bake .I love baking .But never tried it.My minds just gets around when i see the baking contest held at Food Network Channel.Can i ever bake cake or bread.This time i tried baking a Bread Mix .....I bought Cranberry Orange Bread Mix from the store.The outcome was great and excellent .I loved the combination of cranberry and orange together.

I bought "Betty Cranberry Orange -Bread Mix" and prepared it as per the instruction stated in the packet. It just took me to 40 mts to bake it and it tasted great. I prepared the icing .But it did not turn that great, of course for the first time try it was better. I prepared cream cheese icing .I browsed through the net for the recipe and prepared it .

Next time when i prepare bread or cake from scratch i will share the recipe with you all .Since it is a store bought one i did not mention the recipe .....

Belated Karthika Deepam .......

I think i would be the only girl who posted the recipe exactly one week late ...Too bad on me ..But sorry friends for the delay from my side in posting my recipes ....I was little bit held up with few household activities ...I hope all my friends have a great karthika deepam.I really enjoyed it .I made quite simple 4 recipes . Adai ,Avial, Nai Appam and Pori Urandai.I really wanted to make a couple of more desserts but did not have time.I started late and had to finish it by sharp 6.So need to hurry ...But everything came out really well and tasty ....So here it goes ....

Avaial and Adai

Avaial

Raw Materials Required

Beans -1/2 cup

Carrot-1/2 cup

Green Peas-1/2 cup

Drumstick-1/2 cup (frozen)

Yam (Frozen)-1/2 cup

Butternut Squash-1/2 cup

Raw Banana-2 nos

Curd -2 Cups (beat the curd well.Do not add too much water )

Curry Leaves -few

Green Chilies-4-5

Coconut -1 1/2 cups

Coconut Oil -3 tsp

Haldi-1/2 tsp

Salt as per desired

Preparation Style

Cut all the vegetable and cook them all in the pressure cooker.On the other side grind coconut, greenchilli together .After the vegetables are cooked transfer them in a big kadai .Add haldi to it ,salt and also curd.Then heat the kadai and add the grinded mixture of coconut and greenchilli.Add coconut oil and allow the vegetable to come to one boil.Off the gas and few curry leaves to it .Serve it hot with adai.

Now comes Adaia...

Raw Materials Required
Rice -1 cup

Toor Dhal-1 cup

Urdh Dhal - 1/2 cup

Channa Dal -1 cup

Red chillies -4-5 nos

Haldi -1/2 tsp

Salt as desired

Preparation Style

Soak all ingredients for about 2-3 hrs before you grind them in mixer.Then make a semi liquid batter.Not too soft and semi grind it.Heat the tava, wipe with an oil dipped cloth, and spread a ladle full of batteron the tava like a dosa.Turn once it cooks .Then after you turn allow it to cook until it its little crispy . Cook till both the sides are golden brown and crispy.Serve it hot with avaial.

Nei Appam




I always made appam and never used to come the right way .Seema had made them once when she invited me over for lunch .It was just great.She gave me this simple recipe and believe me it came out to be awesome.

Raw Materials Required

Raw Rice - 1 cup

Jaggery -1 1.5 cup
Elachi -1 tsp
Coconut Pieces -few handful
Nut pieces (Kaju ,Badam)

Preparation Style

Soak the rice for 1 hour and grind it with jaggery in the grinder.Add water at times to make it a smooth and soft batter.Then after the batter is done add the elchi ,coconut pieces and also nut pieces and mix it well.Add little oil (ghee is a must but because its too fatty i added oil) to the Appam pan (AppaKaral) and after it becomes hot add the batter to it.Once they are cooked it starts to come out of the shape.Then turn it around with the help of the long thin stick.See to that both the sides are golden brown and then remove it from the pan.Serve it hot or cold it taste yummy!!!

Avial Pori

Raw Materials Required

Pori -3 cups
Jaggery -1 cup
Elachi-1 tsp

Take the jaggery and break them to small lumps (pieces), as much as possible, and mixing it with a little quantity of water, heat it till the jaggery is melted and there are no lumps on them.Once all the jaggery is melted then add the Pori,coconut pieces and thoroughly mix them.Add the elachi powder to it and turn off the gas.Allow the mixture to cool a bit , but see to that it is not too cold and should be relatively hot when you touch. Using both hands,take a small amount of pori shape a good quantity of Nel Pori-jaggery-coconut-mix in to balls. Don't let time pass.Dont allow it to rest.Make small balls and serve it .It taste great. If the jaggery hardens, then you will not be able to shape them into balls and will have to distribute as udhiri pori.

Will Be Back Soon!!!!

Loads of things happening around me .So could not post my dishes on tuesday .Will be back in a couple of days with my recipes and pics.

Hope to catch up with you guys soon!!!!!

Happy Karthika Deepam

Wish you all a very Happy Karthika Deepam....I will be back on tuesday with recipes of this festival.

Guessing Game Over ----M-A-M rice and Methi Paratha

Ohhhh !!!This time all my friends are almost right ....Yes i made M-A-M rice and Methi Paratha .....Very simple and very easy dishes ....So here how i made them ....

M-A-M Rice ....(Methi Aloo Matar Rice)

Raw Materials....

Basamathi Rice -1/2 cup

Methi -1 cup

Aloo-1 cup

Matar (Green Peas)-1 cup

Onion -1/2 cup (Chopped)

Dosai Mulaga podi -3 tsp

Oil-2 tsp

Jeera -1/2 tsp

Salt as per desired

Preparation Style

Pressure cook the rice separately.In a small kadia add little oil along with jeera.After a couple of minute add the onions and fry them until they turn golden brown.Then add the diced aloo 's on them and allow it to cook on low flame.Then after sometime add the methi leaves ,Mulaga podi and salt and allow it to cook well .Methi lets little bit water as it cooks..After few couple of minutes add the matar and mix them well .Cook it on sim unless you see the methi have cooked and you get the flavor out of it .After it is done mix the basamathi rice with the sabji and serve it hot .Yummy Yummy M-A-M rice is ready .....

Methi Paratha

Raw Materials Required

Wheat Flour -2cups

Methi Leaves -1 cup (fine chopped)

Red chilli Powder -1 tsp

Salt as per desire

Preparation style

I mixed all the ingredients in together by adding little water .After the dough is prepared then set it aside for 10-15 mts. Then make small dough balls and make a chapati and cook them on the hot tava by adding little oil or ghee as desired.See to that both the sides of the paratha are cooked well.Remove it from the stove and serve it hot with the mixed vegge sibji.

I prepared mixed vegetable sabji to go long with the paparatha.Just diced Cauliflower ,Carrot and Matar and cooked them on low flame by adding salt ,haldi and chilli powder.Simple sabji is ready.Ohh i forget i first fried the onions and then the vegetables and then the seasoning .....

Enjoy Maadi!!!!!!

Guessing Game Contd........

This is Methi leaves ( Fenugreek) .There are 2 dishes coming our of this ingredient.Can you name them ....Results will be out on Monday morning ..Keep guessing !!!!!

Game Over .....Aloo Cutlet with Paneer Stuffing

I think all my friends did hit the nail at the right spot.Yes the secret ingredient is " Paneer" ....We had a small ladies meet at our friends place.I had to make cutlets .I decided to make some additions to the old recipe.I added a touch of paneer to it.All my friends enjoyed it .So here is the recipe.....


Raw Materials


Potato (Aloo) -1 LB
Green Peas -2 cups
Paneer -2 cups (grated)
Red Chilli Powder -3 tsp
Gram Masala -2 tsp
Salt -As desired
Oil for shallow fry

Preparation Style

Pressure cook the potatoes.Smash them well in a small bowl.Then add peas ,chilli powder,gram masala and salt to it .Make small balls of potato and press them in your palm.It would almost be in the shape of tikki.Then add little paneer (grated) and close the tikki.Shallow fry the potato and serve it with tomato sauce.

Guessing Game Contd.........

These are Aloo Cutlets...But I have stuffed something inside each of these cutlets .Guess What is the stuffing (secret ingredient) ? .....

Results will be out by Wednesday

Happy Diwali

Wishing all a Very Happy Diwali!!!! Have a great, peaceful and happy year ahead.

I am not keeping well for the past few days .Will be back by next week with some posts.

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