Independence day special - Cauliflower / Malaai Gobi

For Independence day, i thought to prepare special flag color dish. Then i thought to prepare with gobi. For Saffron color, i made chilly gobi fry. For green color, i made Mint gobi. Then, for white color, i tried gobi malai and decorated. My husband said, all the three items are very nice and colorful to see also. In this gobi malai recipe, i am adding lime juice for tangibleness. If you want gravy, we can add yogurt or curd instead of lime juice. It will be very tasty. For dry version, i use lemon juice. If we prepare colorful like this everybody in our family will get the feel of "Proud to be an Indian". Jaihind.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	20 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

For grind	:
Coconut	:	3 Pcs
Fennel seeds	:	1 Tsp
Garlic	:	4 Pcs
Green chilly	:	3 Nos
For saute	:
Oil	:	2 Tsp
Cinnamon	:	2 Pcs
Cardamon	:	2 Nos
Cloves	:	4 Nos
Onion	:	1 No
Grated ginger	:	2 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	Few
Coriander leaves	:	Few
Lemon juice	:	2 Tsp
Salt	:	To Taste
Cauliflower	:	1/4 No
Potato	:	1 No
		Method :

Grind the ingredients as paste which is under for grind heading.

Clean the gobi pieces well in hot water with adding turmeric powder and salt. Boil potato, peel off and cut into cube. Heat oil in a pan, add cinnamon, cardamon, cloves. Add onion slices, grated ginger, curry leaves, coriander leaves and saute well.

Add ground paste, lemon juice and saute.

Add gobi and potato pieces, salt. Add little water and keep it in medium flame till the raw smell goes.

After the raw smell goes and gravy became dry, transfer to the serving dish and serve hot. We can decorate with Mint gobi and Chilly gobi as Independence day special.

       

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Ragi sweet dosa

Ragi dosa is different from normal dosa. Instead of making plain ragi dosa, i have tried sweet ragi dosa. When we are adding sweet, it gives more taste and children also likes to have. 

Health benefits :

Ragi millet is having a lot of health benefits. First of all, it is the best for lactating mothers which helps to improve the quantity of milk for their babies and good for kids also. It is rich in calcium  and high fiber content. It is gluten free and this is recommended for diabetic patents. Having Vitamin C content, it's battle anemia and it is having low fat, that helps to reduce weight. It helps to reduce high blood pressure and risk of stroke.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

Ragi flour	:	1 Cup
Jaggery	:	1/4 Kg
Salt	:	1 Pinch
Cardamon powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Oil	:	For dosa
Grated coconut	:	For garnish

Method :

Mix jaggery in 1/2 cup if water and keep it in medium  flame. When it's dissolves in water, takeout fromthe flame, drain it and add cardamon powder.

Mix the jaggery water into the ragi flour slowly with 1 pinch of salt.

Mix well without any lumps.

Heat a dosa thava, pour the batter as dosa and add 1 teaspoon of oil.

After 2 minutes, turn back.

After cooked well, transfer to the serving plate and garnish with grated coconut. Adding sweet in it, we need not  any side dish. We can have without side dish.

Try this delicious recipe and please share your valuable comments .....

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Athirasam - Festival sweet

Athirasam is one of the very famous festive sweet item in South India, specially in Tamil Nadu. It will be prepared mostly for Diwali. Most of us are thinking, making of athirasam is very difficult task. But, when i tried first time itself, it came very soft and nice taste. It is very easy to prepare also. Only we have to take care of the vellam paagu (jaggery milk). The paagu have to be in correct consistency. We have to use only raw rice which is soak and grind. If we preparing our self for the festival, we can feel great. Let us prepare the tasty sweet athirasam.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
preserve for	:	3 Days
Become	:	15-18 Nos

Ingredients :

Raw rice	:	1 Cup
Jaggery	:	1/2 Kg
Cardamon powder	:	1 Tsp
oil	:	For fry

Method :
Soak the raw rice for minimum 30 minutes. After that, drain the water well.

After well-drained, grind it as powder.

We can add white seasome seeds or kuskus(poppy seeds) also.

Mix jaggery in 1/2 cup of water and let it dissolve. After the dissolves in water, drain it to takeout the dust and keep it in medium flame and boil it to make the paagu. 

The paggu should be in correct consistency. We can check with 1/2 cup of water. It should not dissolve in water.

After the paggu came the correct consistency, mix it with the rice flour well to make the batter. We can keep the batter for 3-4 days in room temperature. The batter should not tight or very loose. The consistency of the batter is to make balls with it.

After the batter came good consistency, make balls and keep it in the oil greased polythene paper or banana leaf. Press it like disc. We can grease oil on our fingers also.

Make round in the center. It is optional. If we do this, it will cook quickly.

Heat oil in a pan, slowly put the batter into the heat oil and deep fry both the sides.

After fried well, takeout the athirasam and drain the oil by pressing it with the ladle and serve hot.

Try this wonderful sweet recipe and enjoy the festivals. please share your valuable comments...


     

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Spinach Egg fry / Palak egg fry

Palak or Spinach are very healthy green leafy vegetable. If we add green leafy vegetables in our daily diet, we can get more vitamins and minerals. If we give only palak means, all the kids will run out from the dining room. I thought to prepare something different with using palak. Then i remembered, my mother will prepare palak with egg. It will be like Egg porridge. But she will add palak in that. Then i also tried the same trick. It works.. All are in my family liked very much this fry. 

Health benefits :

There are many health benefits in palak. Few are : There are bunch of Vitamins are in this green leaf. Vitamins are:  A, B2, B6, C, E, and K. Including these all vitamins, it is also having  calcium, iron potassium, magnesium and omega 3- fatty acids. Important benefits for girls is, it is Cholesterol free, fat free and having less calories. It keep away the old age problems. It helps to reduce BP problems and gastric problems.  

If we cook with egg, we can get the vitamins and calcium  double.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

Chopped palak	:	1 Bowl
Onion	:	1 No
Red chilly	:	4 Nos
Oil	:	2 Tsp
Mustard	:	1/4 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
Pepper powder	:	Optional
Egg	:	2 Nos

Method :
Separate the palak leaves from the stem, wash and chop nicely. Heat oil in a a pan, add mustard seeds. After the seeds splutter, add chopped onion, red chilly and saute well. Add chopped palak, salt and saute. No need to add water. Keep the flame simmer and close the pan with lid.

After palak cooked, add eggs and fry well.

Fry well till the egg cooked well and finally, if we want, we can add pepper power and transfer to the serving plate and serve hot.

Try this healthy recipe and please  share your wonderful comments...

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Kovakkai poriyal / Ivy gourd or little gourd fry

Kovakkai is referred as various names like ivy gourd, little gourd, tinly, coccinia grandis. Using this vegetable, we can make fry and curry. Today i am going to make kovakkai fry which will be very tasty.

Health benefits :

Kovakkai is having a lot of health benefits. It is having lot of Vitamins like Vitamin C, A, B1 and B2 are high content in this vegetable Which is good for our bones. This vegetable helps to cure many diseases like, Asthma, leprosy, Jaundices etc..  It is regulates the blood pressure level and normalize our body's sugar level. We can strongly recommend for Diabetic patients.

Let we can see how to prepare the healthy and tasty "Kovakkai fry".

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	5 Mins
Cooking time	:	30 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Ivy gourd	:	1/4 Kg
Oil	:	3 Tsp
Mustard	:	1/4 Tsp
Onion	:	1 No
Curry leaves	:	Few
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste

Method :
Wash the vegetable and slice it nicely.

Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. After the seeds splutter, add onion slices, curry leaves and saute a little. No need to saute till the onion turn transparent.

Add kovakkai slices, tumeric powder, salt and saute well. No need to add water. We can close the pan and have to stir occasionally. 

                                     

When the vegetable became half-cooked, add chilly powder. If we add in the beginning, the chilly powder will be burnt.

Fry well the kovakkai. We have to keep in low flame only. Otherwise it will burn. In low flame, we can cook for 20 minutes for good taste. After cooked well, transfer to the serving dish and serve hot.

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Tomato biriyani

My mother and my mother-in-law are used to prepare Tomato rice very often. But i like biriyani very much. So i tired to make biriyani with more tomatoes. It is very tasty and gives different biriyani taste. I am preparing this rice in biriyani rice. (Jeeraha samba rice). We can make it in basmathy rice also. When we are having with  brinjal raitha or onion pachadi, it will be more delicious. My husband and my daughter also liked very much. I am not adding puthina in this. If we like, we can add puthina(mint leave) along with coriander leaves. let us see how to prepare yummy Tomato biriyani.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	15 Mins
Cooking time	:	20 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

For grind	:
Onion	:	1 No
Ginger	:	Small log
Garlic	:	4 Pcs
Cinnamon	:	2 Pcs
Cardamon	:	2 Nos
Cloves	:	3 Nos
For saute	:
biriyani rice	:	1 Cup
Tomato puree	:	In 5 Pcs
Oil or ghee	:	2 Tsp
Fennel	:	1/2 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	Few
Green chilly	:	4 Nos
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 Tsp
Garam masala	:	1/2 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
Coriander leaves	:	Few

Method :
Wash the rice and keep it aside. Grind the ingredients which is under the for grind heading.

Heat oil or ghee in a pressure pan, add fennel seeds. Add curry leaves.  Add ground onion paste and saute well. Add tomato puree and saute well.

 Add all the masala powders and salt, saute.

After the masala well cooked, add washed rice and fry a little.

Add water in 1:2 ratio. Add chopped coriander leaves and close the cooker.

After the pressure came, put weight on the cooker and low the flame. Wait for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes of cooking, switch off the flame and wait 5 minutes for pressure release. After that,  open the cooker lid mix well and transfer to the serving dish and serve hot.

Try this yummy rice recipe and share your valuable comments....

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