Kerala Parota

Parota is a very famous road side tiffin item in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. It is served in many restaurants also. This is very soft and very tasty recipe and every one can easily prepare. This is made with maida, egg oil or ghee. If you are a pure vegetarian, you can avoid the egg. But if we add egg, the parota will be more soft and tasty. For preparing this yummy parota recipe, we need some extra oil. This is also very famous in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Parota with salna is the most favorite dish in my family. Let us prepare the tasty and softy Kerala Parota.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Soaking time	:	4-5 Hrs
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Maida	:	1 Bowl
Egg	:	1 No
Sugar	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	1 Tsp
Oil	:	5-8 Tsp

Method :
Mix 1 egg, sugar, salt and mix it with 1 bowl of maida.

Make it  smooth dough like chapathy dough. Cover the dough in a wet cloth and keep it for 4-5 Hours.

After 5 hours, kneed the dough and make lemon size balls ans again cover in a wet cloth for 10-15 minutes. After 15 minutes, spread the balls like using roller. Spread it very thin layer. With roller or we can spread with using our hand itself.

Make flits in the spread dough and make roll. Make all the balls like this and keep it for 10-15 minutes.

When the time of tiffin, heat a thava, spread the rolls with the roller and put it in heat thava, pour some oil and make parotas.

After baking in two sides, transfer to the  plate, make the parotas looser using hands and transfer to the serving plate and serve hot with salna.

Try this wonderful recipe and enjoy the taste...

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Cabbage koftha ball

My hubby doesn't like cabbage. But this is a very healthy vegetable. So i tried to make something different. Then, i tried koftha balls using cabbage. It came very well and my hubby liked very much. Without hesitation, he had more and i also felt happy. This is very simple and tasty recipe. It can be serve with tomato sauce or any chutney. It is very healthy, so you must try..

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Cooking time 5 Mins	:	5 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Cabbage	:	1 No
Corn flour	:	2 Tsp
Cumin powder	:	1 Tsp
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	1 Tsp
Oil	:	For fry

Method :

 Wash the cabbage and grate it nicely.

Marinate with all the ingredients. Do not soak, because, cabbage is a watery vegetable. Make lemon size balls in the cabbage mixing.

Dip the balls in maida flour.

Heat oil in a pan, fry the maida dipped balls well.

After the balls fried well, transfer to the serving platter and serve hot with tomato sauce.

Try this yummy and healthy recipe and please share your valuable comments..

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Vegetable Biriyani

Biriyani is one of the favorite dish in my home and almost all the families. I made biriyani this time with mixed vegetables. It is made with mixed veggies, spices and curd. This is very tasty single pot rice dish, with south Indian flavor. I am adding beans, carrots and potatoes. We can also add cauliflower, green peas, and other veggies. It is filled with vegetables, so this is a healthy rice recipe. It is goes with any raitha or any veg curries. I made this yummy rice recipe with Brinjal raitha. One of the easy, tasty and quick rice dish which will like all the people. Must try..

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Cooking time	:	20 Mins
Serve for	:	5 Persons

Ingredients :

Biriyani rice	:	1/4 Kg
Ghee and oil	:	4 Tsp
Cinnamon	:	2 Nos
Cloves	:	3 Nos
Cardamom	:	1 No
Bay leaves	:	1 No
Onion	:	1 No
Ginger garlic paste	:	1 Tsp
Tomato	:	1 No
Green chilly	:	1 No
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1/2 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
Curry leaves	:	Few
Coriander leaves	:	Few
Mint leaves	:	Few
Curd	:	1 Cup
French beans	:	50 Gm
Carrots	:	1 No
Potato	:	1 No

Method :

Heat oil and ghee in a pressure cooker, add cinnamon, cloves, bay leaves, cardamom.

Add onion slices, curry leaves, coriander leaves, mint leaves and saute well. Add ginger garlic paste. Add chopped tomato and saute well. Add chopped vegetables.

Add the masala powders, salt and rice. Add curd and water in 1:2 ratio.

Close the cooker and wait for 15-20 minutes. After 20 minutes, wait for 5 minutes to pressure release and open the cooker. Serve it hot with brinjal raitha..

Try this wonderful rice recipe and be happy and healthy.

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Methu Vada / Curd Vada / Dhahi vada

Methu vada or Ulunthu vada is one of the famous snack or breakfast item in South India. In Tamil Nadu, Idly, Vada, Pongal is a very common breakfast item. Methu vada is prepared with urad dal batter. It is given as prasadam in one of the Navrathri festival days. If we are not preparing in Navrathri time, we can use onion also. It is very tasty and simple recipe. In methu vada, i am making curd vada. This can get from most of the restaurants in South and North India. We can add spicy boondhi also. Let us see how to prepare the tasty and simple Methu vada and Curd vada. 

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	15 Mins
Cooking time	:	10 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Urad dal	:	100 Gm
Grated ginger	:	2 Tsp
Black pepper	:	2 Tsp
Salt	:	1 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	Few
Oil	:	For fry
For curd vada	:
Curd	:	1/2 Lr
Salt	:	1/2 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	2 Pinch
Chat masala	:	2 Pinch
Coriander leaves	:	Few

Method :

Rinse the urad dal and soak for minimum 30 minutes.

Grind the soaked urad dal nicely in grinder. (We can add ginger while grinding time itself). Add grated ginger, black pepper, chopped curry leaves and salt.

Mix well and take a small size ball and put it in oil greased paper and make hole in center. We can made it with using our hands also.

Heat oil in a pan, fry the vada in well heated oil in both sides.

After fried well, transfer to the serving plate and serve hot..

Making curd vada :

Take a bowl of water and add the fried vada and soak for 1 minute.

Mix curd well, add salt and soaked vada.

When we serving, in a bowl, take 2or3 pieces of curd vada with curd, add chopped coriander leaves, pinch of chilly powder, chat masala powder and serve..

Try this yummy recipe and enjoy the good taste.. Please share your valuable commands... 

  

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Brinjal fry / Egg plant fry

Brinjal or egg plant is a unusual vegetable in my home. Then one day I tried brinjal fry. I am preparing this tasty brinjal fry with big brinjal or egg plant. We can use small one also. I already made with small brinjal fry and i used for brinjal raitha. It was very tasty. This brinjal fry is very tasty and healthy. Brinjal is having a lot of good health benefits. It is having Vitamins, minerals, calcium and potassium. We can have this yummy fry recipe with all types of rice items. let we see, how to prepare the tasty Brinjal fry.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	5 Mins
Cooking time	:	5 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

Brinjal	:	1/2 Kg
Chilly powder	:	2 Tsp
Cumin powder	:	1 Tsp
Fennel powder	:	1 Tsp
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Corn flour	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	1 Tsp
Oil	:	For fry

Method :
Mix all the powder ingredients well.

Wash the brinjal and cut it like round slices. Marinate the brinjal slices with mixed masala powders.

Heat oil for fry, fry the marinated brinjal in low flame. Make it fry in both the sides.

After the brinjal fried well, transfer to the serving plate and serve hot.

Try this simple and tasty fry recipe and please share your valuable comments..

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Sabudana and vermicelli kheer - Festive sweet recipe

In this festive season, sabudana is placing the most important role. Today, I am going to prepare a sweet dish using sabudana. I am using sabudana with vermicelli and i make kheer. It is a very tasty recipe. We can make sabudana puttu using sabudana. This is also a sweet recipe. This is mostly preparing in almost all the festivals. My husband's favorite sweet recipe. I used to prepare for his birthday, every year.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	20 Mins
Serve for	:	5 Persons

Ingredients :

Sabudana	:	50 Gm
Vermicelli	:	50 Gm
Milk	:	1/2 Lr
Cashews	:	50 Gm
Ghee	:	3 Tsp
Sugar	:	To Taste

Method :
Soak the sabudana for minimum 10_15 minutes.

Heat ghee in a pan, add cashews and fry. Keep it aside.

In same ghee, add vermicelli and fry till it turns golden brown.

Heat water in a pot add fried vermicelli and soaked sabudana.

After the vermicelli and sabudana cooked well, add thick milk sugar, cardamom powder and mix it well.

After mixed well, add fried cashew nuts and transfer to serving bowl and serve hot..

Try this yummy sweet recipe and enjoy the festive season.

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Sweet boli / Parupu boli

Boli is one of the traditional dish in India. Mostly we will prepare as prasadham for pooja in festival times. In Navrathri festival, this recipe is served as prasadham. Boli is prepared with maida in chana dal stuffing. It is very tasty and good for health also. We can make with coconut also for sweet boli. We can prepare spicy boli also. That we can see in later posting. Now we can see, how to prepare the tasty Sweet parupu boli.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	15 Mins
Cooking time	:	5 Mns
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

For batter	:
Maida flour	:	1 Bowl
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Salt	:	1 Tsp
Oil	:	3 Tsp
For filling	:
Chana dal	:	100 Gm
Sugar	:	5 Tsp
Cardamon powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Ghee	:	For cook

Method :
Making dough :
Mix maida or all purpose flour, turmeric powder (we can use yellow food color also), salt and oil. Knead all these and make as smooth dough. Add some more oil over the dough.
Making filling :

Rinse the channa dal well and cook well. After cooked well, smash the dal.

Heat 1/2 teaspoon of ghee add cooked and smashed dal and mix sugar. Mix it well till it thickens. Add cardamon powder and mix it well. Make lemon sized balls in the dal mix after getting cool.

Making boil :

Knead the dough well and medium size balls. spread the balls in a oil greesed polythene paper by pressing by hand or roller.

Fill the dal filling. Cover the filling by the dough and press it again and make boli.

Heat a dosa thava, cook the pressed boli and round some ghee over the boli.

Cook in two sides well. After the boli cooked well, transfer to the serving plate and serve hot.

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