Puttu

Ingredients:

Rice flour- 1 cup
Grated coconut- 1/2 cup
Cardamom- 2
Sugar- 4 to 6 spoons
Ghee-1 to 3 spoons
Salt- a pinch

Method:

Mix Salt ,little Water to Rice flour and make the flour like shreds.
Steam cook the Rice flour mix in a idy cooker.
Finally add Grated coconut, Cardamom, Sugar, Ghee and mix well.

Note:

You can try this with Ragi flour

Its good for health.

Naan

Ingredients:
3 cups self-raising flour (maida)
1 tbsp oil
2 tbsp butter
1/2 cup curds fresh
salt to taste
1/2 tsp baking soda (soda - bicarb)warm milk for kneading.

Method:
Sieve together dry ingredients into a large rimmed plate.
Add butter curds, oil and crumblewith fingers.
When does is like course crumbs, add milk a little at a time, till a soft pliabledough is formed.
Cover with wet muslin cloth. Cover with another plate and keep aside for 5 - 6 hours.
Knead dough lightly.
Break of piece, the size of a medium potato and roll into a thicktriangle, using dry dough if required.Place on a pre-warmed griddle (tawa).
Apply water on the top part with hands invert naanand stick to griddle.Invert griddle and roast over the gas flame direct (or nothing like toasting over bar-b-quecoals).
Serve hot with a blob of butter on it.

Chappathi

Ingredients:

Wheat Flour (200 grams)
Water (150 ml)
Salt
Oil or Butter

Method:

Put the wheat flour on a Clean and flat surface
Add 1.5 spoons of salt to the flour
Make the flour like a crater and add water and mix them
Knead the dough till it becomes smooth(nearly gets to this shape in 10 to 12 mins)
Make the dough into small lemon sized balls
Roll out the wheat balls and stretch tho even thickness
Sprinkle wheat flour when rolling to avoid sticking to the surface or roller
Stretched chappathi base preety much looks like this

On a non-stick heated pan add very little oil or butter and put the chappathi base
It slowly starts bulging and ends become browner, now flip to the other side and do the same
Now pick the chappathi and put it on direct flame so it puffs
Your chappathis are ready

Vazhakai Bajji

Ingredients:
Gram flour – 1 cup
Bajji flour 1.5 cup
Baking soda a pinch
Chilly powder 1 tsp
Salt
Raw banana - 2( thin slices )
Oil – for deep frying

Method:
Mix the gram flour, bajji flour, chilly powder, salt and baking soda with little amount of water.
It shouldn’t be too thick nor too Watery
Heat oil in a pan.
Cut the banana into slices.
Dip the slice in batter.
Leave slice slowly and fry .
Fry till the bajji turn into golden brown color.
Serve hot.

Hot Mushroom Chettinadu

Ingredients :

3 cups mixed wild mushrooms (I used baby bella mushrooms), cleaned and quartered
1/2 tsp tamarind paste
salt to taste
cilantro, minced, for garnish
For tempering
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
5-6 fresh curry leaves
For spice mixture
1 tbsp split yellow peas (chana dal)
5-6 black peppercorns
2 dried red chillies

Method :

Roast all the ingredients for the spice mixture. Cool and grind in a spice/coffee grinder to a fine powder. Set aside.
Heat oil in a skillet. Add the mustard seeds and curry leaves and stir around for a few seconds till the seeds pop.
Saute the mushrooms in the tempered oil. Season with salt.
When the mushrooms start sweating, add the spice mixture and saute for a couple of minutes on low-medium heat.
Add the tamarind paste (and a few tablespoons of water if the mixture starts sticking to the pan). Stir for a minute.
Garnish with cilantro.

Mushroom Chettinadu

Ingredients:

12-14 Mushrooms, roughly chopped (I used Button Mushrooms)
¾-1 tsp Tamarind Paste
2 tbsp Coriander Leaves, finely chopped
Salt to taste
1 tbsp Channa Dal (Split Yellow Peas)
3-4 Dry Red Chillies, halved (Adjust acc to taste)
1 tsp Black Pepper Corns (Adjust acc to taste)
1 tsp Mustard Seeds
Few Curry Leaves
1 tsp Oil

Method:

Wash, pat dry and chop mushrooms into bite sized pieces and keep them aside.
Dry roast channa dal, dry red chillies and peppercorns in a skillet on a low-medium flame till dal turns golden brown (Approx 2 mins).
Cool and grind them to smooth powder and keep aside.
Meanwhile, heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds.
When they start to pop and splutter, add curry leaves and sauté for few seconds.
Now mix in chopped mushrooms and sauté on medium heat.
When they start to sweat add salt to taste, ground spice powder and mix well.
Sauté gently on a medium flame for 1-2 minutes making sure that spice mixture doesn’t stick to bottom of the pan.
Add tamarind paste and sprinkle little water if necessary and mix well. Cook for another minute or so on medium flame sautéing in between.
Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot with Chapatti

Mushroom Sandwich

Ingredients:

• 4 Toasted buns

• 4 Portobello mushroom

• 2 Garlic flakes

• 4 Leaf lettuces

• 1/2 Cup vinegar

• Mozzarella cheese

• 1 tsp Pepper

• Salt to taste

Method:

•Chop the garlic flakes.
•Mix olive oil, chopped garlic, vinegar,pepper and salt.
•Marinate Mushrooms in this mixture for 2 hours.
•Grill the marinated mushrooms till they turn soft.
•Spread chesse slice on buns.
•Top with a mushroom and lettuce leaf.
•Top with another bun.
•Grilled Mushroom Sandwich is ready.

Mushroom Chilli

Ingredients:

• 400 gm Button Mushrooms

• 200 gm Capsicum

• 2 medium Onions

• 2 cm Ginger

• 6 flakes Garlic

• 4 tbsp Oil

• 1 tsp Chili Powder

• 2 tsp Dark Soya Sauce

• 2 tsp Vinegar

• 1 tbsp Corn Flour

• 1 cup Water

• Salt to taste

Method:

•Cut mushrooms into halves.
•Cut capsicums into halves, remove the seeds and cut into thin strips.
•Grind onion, ginger and garlic to a paste.
•Heat 4 tbsp of oil. Fry the ground paste.
•Add chili powder and ¼ cup water. Simmer till almost dry.
•Add capsicums, mushrooms and salt. Cover and cook on low flame till vegetables turn tender crisp.
•Add Soya sauce and vinegar. Mix corn flour with water and add.
•Bring to a boil, simmer for 1 minute.
•Serve Chili Mushroom hot with noodles or fried rice.

Egg Fried Rice

Ingredients:

Basmati rice 500gms

Eggs 3

Onions 1

Green chillies 2

Ginger 1"piece

Cinnamon 1

Clove 2

Bay leaf 1

Pepper powder 1 tbsp

Salt as per taste

Oil 4 tbsp

Method:

1. Beat egg and add pepper.Make a big omelet and cut it into small pieces.
2. Heat oil,add all the masala.Saute till they are fried.
3. Add onions,ginger and green chillies.Saute till they are pink in colour.
4. Now add rice to the above mixture and mix thoroughly.

Carrot Cake-2

Ingredients:

2 cups All Purpose flour

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon

3/4 teaspoon fine grain sea salt

3/4 cup finely chopped walnuts

4 ounces unsalted butter, heated until just melted

1/2 cup dried dates, seeded and finely chopped into a paste

3 ripe bananas (1 1/4 cups), mashed well

1 1/2 cups grated carrots (about 3 medium)

1/2 cup plain Curd

2 eggs, lightly whisked
6 ounces cream cheese, room temperature

3 tablespoons maple syrup (optional)

Method:

Preheat oven to 350F. Butter a 9x5x3 / 8-cup loaf pan (or 8x8 cake pan) and line it with parchment paper.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Stir in the walnuts and set aside.
Stir the dates into the melted butter, breaking up the dates a bit.
In a separate bowl combine the bananas and carrots. Stir in the date-butter mixture, breaking up any date clumps as you go. Whisk in the Curd and the eggs.

Add the flour mixture and stir until everything just comes together. Spoon into the prepared pan. Bake for about 50 - 60 minutes or until a toothpick tests clean in the center of the cake - it'll be less if you are using a standard cake pan. Remove from oven and let cool.
While the cake is baking whip the cream cheese . Taste. If you like your frosting sweeter adjust to your liking. When the cake has completely cooled frost the top of the cake with an offset spatula.
Makes one carrot cake.

COCONUT RICE RECIPE

This is a South Indian recipe for coconut rice. Fried coconut and cashewnuts are added to boiled rice and garnished with ghee and coriander leaves.

Ingredients:

400 gms biryani rice
120 gms coconut
40 ml ghee
25 gms black gram dhal
25 gms broken pieces of nuts
6 gms dry chillies
2 gms curry leaves
2.5 gms asafoetida powder
20 gms (minced) coriander leaves
Salt to taste

How to make coconut rice:

• Boil rice and keep aside.
• Fry coconut evenly to a golden colour on a slow fire.
• Heat 3 dessertspoon of ghee. Fry the cashewnuts and remove.
• Fry the broken pieces of dry chillies, black gram dhal, and curry leaves well.
• Mix rice, coconut, nuts, 1 teaspoon of ghee and salt.
• Serve hot garnished with coriander leaves.

BRINJAL RICE RECIPE

This is a spicy rice recipe made by tempering the brinjals or eggplants with mustard seeds and curry leaves and then mixing with boiled rice. It is very tasty as well as complete meal in itself.

Ingredients:

3 cups plain rice
1 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
a few curry leaves
3 tsp. vegetable oil
3 cups eggplant (brinjals)
3 tsp. finely sliced green chillies
Salt to taste
1 tsp turmeric powder
3 tsp lemon juice

How to make brinjal rice:

• Boil rice and keep aside.
• In a large pan fry the mustard seeds, curry leaves, add the eggplant (brinjal) and green chillies. Stir on low flame, cover and cook for 10 minutes.
• Add salt and turmeric powder cook for another 5 minutes. Remove from fire and add lemon juice stir well and mix with the rice. Stir gently allowing each grain to coat.

MATAR MUSHROOM RECIPE

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup green peas (matar) shelled 200 gms mushrooms (goochi) fresh 2 tblsp oil 4 green cardamoms 1" cinnamon 2 large onions 1 tblsp ginger (adrak) paste 1 tblsp garlic (lasan) paste 1/2 cup tomato (tamatar) puree 1 tblsp red chilli (lal mirch) powder 1 tblsp coriander powder 1 tsp turmeric (haldi) powder 1 tsp garam masala powder salt (namak) to taste 1/2 cup cashewnut (kaju) paste

How to make matar mushroom:

Clean, wash and cut mushrooms in quarters. Cut onions finely. Heat up oil in a kadhai. mix in green cardamom, cinnamon stick and cut onions and stir fry until light golden brown. Mix in ginger paste, garlic paste and stir fry for half a minute. Mix in tomato puree, red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, garam masala powder and salt and stir fry till oil leaves the masala. Mix in cashew nut paste dissolved in one cup of water, stir well. Add a cup of water, bring it to a boil and then mix in green peas and mushrooms. Adjust seasoning. Stir fry on low heat up for five minutes. Serve hot with naan and roti

SHAHI TUKDE RECIPE

Ingredients:

1/4 cup fresh cream
4 tblsp sugar
1 tsp green cardamom (chhoti elaichi) powder
100 gms khoya
1 tblsp sunflower seeds (chironji)
2 cup milk
2 strands saffron
pure ghee for frying
few drops of kewra and rose (gulab) essence
1 handful cashewnut (kaju) chopped
6 slices bread
for garnish:
3 silver foil
few rose (gulab) petals

How to make shahi tukde:

• Cut each bread slice into two.
• Fry the bread pieces in ghee till golden brown.
• Assemble the fried breads on a plate.
• Heat up milk, add the sugar and saffron and a few drops of essence.
• Pour over the bread slices.
• Allow the bread to soak up the milk, then assemble the bread pieces on a decorative plate.
• Heat up two teaspoon of ghee and lightly fry the crushed mawa, cardamom powder and two teaspoons of sugar.
• Spread the mawa layer over the soaked bread pieces.
• Mix in essence to the cream.
• Cover the mawa with a cream layer and decorate with silver foil, cut cashewnut, chironji and rose petals.
• Serve warm or cold as you like.

PEANUT PAKODI RECIPE

Ingredients:

1 cup Peanut (Moong Phali)
1/4 cup Bengal Gram Flour (besan)
2 tblsp Rice Flour (Chawal ka Atta)
1 1/2 tsp Red Chilli Powder
1/4 tsp Cumin Seeds crushed
1 tblsp Oil
1 pinch Citric Acid
Salt to taste
1/4 cup Water
Oil to deep fry

How to make peanut pakodi:

• Mix all ingredients well except peanuts.
• Add to peanuts, cover them evenly with mixture.
• Heat up oil in a frying pan.
• Drop a lumpful of the coated nuts in hot oil.
• Fry on medium heat, till light brown.
• Drain and put on an absorbent paper to soak excess oil.
• Seperate any nuts stuck together.
• When cool, store in airtight containers.
• Serve hot.

PANEER BAGH-E-BAHAR RECIPE

Ingredients:

1/4 cup cashewnut paste
1 tsp sugar (cheeni)
1 cup yellow capsicum (shimla mirch) chopped
1 cup Tomato (Tamatar) chopped
1 tsp garlic (lasan) finely chopped
1/2 cup fresh cream (malai)
1 tsp pepper
1 cup pineapple chopped
2 tblsp Tomato (Tamatar) sauce
2 green chillies vertically cut
2 tblsp refined oil (tel)
1 tsp salt (namak)
200 gms paneer cubes

How to make paneer bagh-e-bahar:

• Cut paneer, capsicum, pineapple and tomato separately in 1 inch pieces.
• Make a paste of cashewnuts along with fresh cream
• Heat up oil in a kadai and mix in cut garlic and green chillies and fry till brown.
• Mix in cashew paste.
• Stir fry capsicum in cashew mixture in high flame flame.
• Mix in pineapple and tomatoess and stir till cooked.
• Mix in paneer, tomato sauce, salt and pepper.
• Stir fry it for 5 minutes and mix in sugar.
• Stir fry for a minute and transfer to a round dish and sprinkle 2 tbsp of cream
• Serve hot with tandoori roti.

POTATO DAHIWADA RECIPE

Ingredients:

green chillies chopped as per taste
3 tbsp chopped corriander leaves
6 potato
1 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
2 tsp jeera powder
salt to taste
4 bread slices
1/2 tsp black salt
1 tsp chat masala powder
1/2 kg curd
2 tsp red chilli powder
oil to fry

How to make potato dahiwada:

• Boil and mash the potatoes.
• Spice up with salt,1 tsp red chilli, 1tsp jeera powder,1tsp garam masla,1 tsp chaat masala powder, 2 tblsp green corriander leaves, green chilles and mix well.
• Take the bread slices and cut them in a round shape, with a help of a mould.
• Apply little water on the round bread slices, just enough water to let the potato mixture to stick to the bread slices.
• Take approximately 2 tblsp potato mixture and spread on the round slices evenly.
• Make it smooth.
• Heat up up the oil for frying and fry the rounds till golden brown.
• Take off on a paper towel to get off excess oil.
• Let them cool.
• Mean while cream the curds and spice up it with common salt and black salt.
• When the rounds are cool assemble them in a dish and pour out the curd on it.
• Spice up it with red chilli, jeera powder, garam masala ,corriander leaves and green chillies.
• Serve with sweet tarmarind chutney

TOMATO GARLIC CHUTNEY RECIPE

Ingredients:

1 kg Tomatoes (Tamatar)
1 teaspoon Red chili pepper (Lal Mirchi)
30 grams fresh Ginger (Adrak) (2 tsps long strips)
2 cloves Garlic (Lasun), chopped
60 grams Raisins (Kishmish) (4 tsps)
2 teaspoons Salt (Namak)
1 Onion (Pyaj)
240 grams Sugar (Cheeni) (1 1/22 cup)
3/4 teaspoon crushed big Cardamoms (Elaichi Moti)
1 1/2 cups Vinegar (Sirka)
10 blanched Almond (Badam)

How to make tomato chutney:

• Put the tomatoes in boiling water for 5 minutes.
• Take out from the water, wipe and remove their skins and cut into small pieces.
• Cut ginger into long, thin slices.
• Put tomatoes, Red chili pepper , chopped garlic and ginger into a degchi and cook till tender.
• Stir constantly until thick.
• Add vinegar, sugar, cleaned raisins and crushed cardamoms and cook for 10 minutes.
• Remove from the fire, cool and keep in air tight jar.

TOMATO CHUTNEY RECIPE (Tamatar Ki Chutney)

Ingredients:

6 to 8 large cloves garlic finely chopped
1/4 cup spring onion whites chopped
1 tbsp finely chopped spring onion greens
2 dry red chilies, soaked
1 cup tomatoes, finely chopped
1 tbsp finely chopped coriander
1 tsp oil
Salt To Taste

Preparation:

• Drain the soaked chillies and chop them finely.
• Heat the oil, add the onions and garlic and sauté over a slow flame for 4 to 5 minutes till they are lightly brown.
• Add the chillies and salt and sauté again.
• Add the tomatoes and cook for 10 to 12 minutes over a slow flame till the tomatoes are soft and can be mashed lightly.
• Cool completely and add the coriander and spring onion greens and mix well.
• Serve tomato chutney chilled or at room temperature.