Moong Dal Kheer / Payasam

Moong dal is very good for health. We can prepare this for all functions. It is rich in proteins and good for health. My mom prepares this payasam in an awesome way.

Using moongdal we can prepare lot of varieties in sweets and also in sambar varieties.

I will prepare these items using moongdal in coming days. Sure you all like and you all love to prepare these varieties.


Ingredients:

Moong Dal - 1Cup
Jaggery - 2Cups
Milk - 1Cup
Coconut Piece - Few
Cardamom Powder - 2tbsp
Ghee - 3 Spoons
Cashews - 10
Raisins - 10

Method of Preparation:

- Wash the moong dal well and drain the water.

- Keep it in pressure cooker for 20minutes, so that it gets smashed.

- Again keep the vessel in gas stove for the next step of preparation.

- Then add the jaggery to the boiled moong dal. Don’t skip the water content it will help for the jaggery preparation and also for liquid content.

- Stir well for 5 minutes. After 5minutes add the milk and again stir well for 10 minutes.

- Now add the cardamom powder. Stir for a minute. Switch off the gas.

- Fry the cashews, raisins and chopped coconut well, until it comes golden brown color.

- Put the fried items to the ready payasam.

- Moong dal payasam is hot to serve.

Personal Suggestion:

- You can add bengal gram or javarisi or rice to the moongdal together, if you need.

- Today I made the payasam in a simple way without adding these items.

- Avoid pressure cooking, boil the moong dal in the kadai itself, like directly to the gas stove.

- But it will take lot of time for boiling.

- Don't avoid this.So that you will get the exact taste of moong dal payasam.

Chilli Chapathi / Kotthu Chapathi with Onion Raitha

Chilli Chapathi is one of my favorite dish. It’s very easy to prepare, because we don’t need to do a big variety of side dish for this. This dish is mildly spiced.

Most of the time we are doing ordinary chapatti,sometimes we feel very bored for preparing a side dish, but this chilli chapathi not required a separate side dish.

If you wish you can use onion raitha as a side dish for this, which is a good combination for chilli chapathi.

Take this item once in a month.

Shall we go on to the preparation now?

Ingredients:

Tomato - 2

Big Onion - 2

Green Capsicum - 1

Green Chilli -1

Green Peas - 10

Butter Beans - Few

Ginger, Garlic Paste - 1 Spoon

Garam Masala - 1 ½ Spoon

Sauce (Tomato, Chilli) - 1 spoon

Curry Leaves - 10

Ghee - 1 ½ Spoon
Turmeric - 1tbsp

Chapathi- 3

Cashew Nuts - 6 ( Optional)

Raisin -6  ( Optional)

Lemon - 1 tbsp

Hing - 1tbsp

Salt - As you want

Method of preparation:

- Cut the tomato, onion, capsicum, green chili in long pieces. Take it in a bowl.

- Now put chapathi in kadai and roast well with ghee. Take it in a plate.

- After the preparation of chapathi, cut chapathi in small cubes. Take it in a separate bowl.

- Take all the ingredients in a bowl and be ready now, to start the preparation.

- Hums keep pan in a stove, and add ghee or oil as your wish. Put the chopped onion and fry well for 2 minutes, then add capsicum, chilli, tomato, curry leaves, hing, green peas, butter beans and salt fry well.

- After finishing deep frying add garam masala, ginger, garlic paste and pours the sauce. Fry well until the raw smell vanish. Now add chapatti and fry well for 5 minutes. Then fry cashews, raisin in a separate stove and put this to this prepared dish.

- Garnish this with Coriander leaves. While eating, if you want pour lemon. You have to pour lemon while eating,  if you pour the extract before itself then the taste will be bitter.

- Chilli Chapathi is ready to eat.

Onion Raitha:

This is the very easiest one to prepare side dish for chilli chapathi.

Ingredients:

Big Onion - 1

Curd - As you want

Green chili -1

Coriander leaves - As you want

Salt - As you want

Method of Preparation:

- Cut the onion and chilli in small pieces. Pour the curd and mix well. Add the salt now.

- Garnish with coriander leaves.

- Here is an one more clip of chilli chapathi.

Yummy yummy!!! Tummy tummy!!!

Peanut / Groundnut - Coconut Chutney

Groundnut chutney suits for idli and dosa. It’s very easy to prepare and it is the good combination for idli and dosa. There are different varieties of doing groundnut chutney. I always prefer in this way. By mixing groundnut with coconut gives good taste for you.

Just try my groundnut chutney you will love it.

Ingredients:

Groundnut - ½ Cup
Shredded Coconut - 1 Cup

Red Chilli - 2

Oil - 2tbsp

Mustard Seeds -1tbsp

Urad Dal - 1tbsp
Hing -1tbsp
Curry Leaves - 10
Salt - As you want.

Method of Preparation:

- Roast the groundnut, until it becomes golden brownish color.

- Wait until it becomes cool and then keep it in a bowl.

- In a mixer, put the grated coconut, red chilli and groundnut.

- Grind it well and take it in a bowl.

- Keep the pan, pour the oil and put the mustard seeds, hing and curry leaves. Wait until it becomes golden brownish.

- Put these frying items to the grinded items.

- Groundnut chutney is ready for dosai!!

- Yummy to eat..

Lemon Rice

Lemon rice is a famous South Indian Recipe. It is very rich in Vitamin C. In your home if you don’t have any veggies. Don’t feel bad. We have lemon to prepare a simple and tasty dish and also we can prepare this dish when we are in hurry.

Lemon is good for summer time. Hum, in your home if you have left over rice, you can also make a preparation.

Lemon is also a travelling dish.

Ingredients:

Lemon - 1
Bengal Gram - 1tbsp
Green or red Chilli - 1
Ginger - Few
Turmeric - 2tbsp
Fenugreek - 1/2tbsp
Gingelly Oil - 4tbsp
Hing - 1tbsp

Curry Leaves - 10

Coriander Leaves - Few
Salt - As you want
Cooked Raw Rice - 2Cups

Method of Preparation:

- First squeeze the lemon and extract the juice in a bowl.

- Pour squeezed juice to the boiled rice and put the salt, mix well. Keep it aside.

- Now keep pan in the gas stove, add oil, mustard seeds, hing, bengal gram, fenugreek seeds, chilli, turmeric and curry leaves.

- Let it becomes golden brownish color.

- Now add the boiled rice to the above items.

- Fry well for a minute.

- Garnish with coriander leaves.

- Lemon rice is hot to serve.

Curd Rice

Curd rice is very easy to prepare and yummy to eat. It’s good for health. We have to take curd rice atleast once a day. Curd will purify our stomache and it will be helpful for the stomache problem.

Ingredients:

Curd - 2 Cups

Ginger - Few

Green Chilli - 1

Curry Leaves - 10

Coriander Leaves - Few

Hing - 1tbsp

Salt - As you want

Cooked Rice - 2Cups

Method of Preparation:

- In the cooked rice, add the curd and salt. Mix well. Keep it aside.

- Keep the pan in the gas stove, pour the oil and put the mustard seeds, hing, curry leaves, chilli and ginger.

- Fry well until it becomes golden brownish color.

- Now add these fried items to the prepared curd rice. Mix well.

- Atlast you can garnish with coriander leaves.

- Yummy curd rice is ready to eat.

Personal Suggestion:

- I have prepared curd rice in a simple way.

- If you want you can add pomegranate, tomato, grapes, mango etc, for more taste.

Puliyodhara / pulikaichal

Puilyodharai is my all time favorite dish. Good dish while on travelling.
Here I am going to present you the superb preparation of puliyodhara paste. For rich tastes add cashews.

If the preparation is proper with the correct ingredients sure it will be good for next 1 week. I have some remembrance about puliyodharai; I enjoyed eating puliyodhara in perummal temple.

Most of the people think that the preparation of puliyodhara is too tough; once you learn then you can easily do this dish. The best side dish for puliyodhara is applam with vadam.

Here is my recipe preparation

Ingredients:

Tamarind - Lemon Size
Turmeric - 2tbsp
Salt - As you want
Cooked raw rice

Grinded Items:

Fenugreek Seeds -1tbsp
Coriander Seeds -1tbsp
Curry Leaves -10
Red Chilli - 7
Urad Dal -1tbsp

For Seasoning:

Mustard Seeds - 1tbsp
Peanut - Few
Hing -1tbsp
Bengal Gram - 2tbsp
Gingelly Oil - 6tbsp




Method of Preparation:

- Soak tamarind for 30minutes, extract the juice and keep it in a bowl.

- Keep pan in the gas stove, add oil, urad dal, fenugreek seeds, bengal gram, curry leaves and red chilli. Fry well until it becomes golden brownish colour.

- Let it be cool. After it becomes cool grind these item in a mixer and keep it aside.

- In the mean time you can prepare the peanut. Fry peanut for 5minutes, and remove the skin for the peanut and the peanut should be in half pieced shape. Take it in a bowl.

- Now keep pan in the gas stove pour the gingelly oil and put the mustard seeds, hing, urad, bengal gram, curry leaves and peanut.

- Fry these items until it becomes golden brownish colour.

- Now pour the tamarind water and salt, boil until the raw smell of tamarind vanishes.

- Put the grinded items and allow this to boil until it comes like thick paste.



- Puliyodharai is ready to mix in the cooked rice.



- You can add the paste as a side dish for curd rice too. It will give more taste.

- Before mixing puliyodhara paste, if you want, add gingelly oil in the plain rice. Then mix the paste you can feel the real taste of puilyodhara rice.

Beans Parupu Usili

Thoor dal contains proteins. It is very tasty and good for health. At least we have to add thoor dal twice in a week. It is a traditional south Indian curry. Generally we can use beans, kothavarangai and avarakai for usili preparation. Today I have an idea to prepare with beans. Some people don’t like beans poriyal, we can make beans poriyal in a different way, like adding thoor dal with beans. Sure they will like this dish. Usili goes very well with morekuzhambu. I used to prepare this side dish for morekuzhambu.

I learnt this dish from my patti.

Let’s move into the preparation of Parupu Usili.



Ingredients:

Beans - 15.
Thoor Dal - 25g.
Red Chilli - 2(if u want spicier you can add 3 to 4).
Hing - 1 tbsp.
Ghee - 2 spoons.
Salt - As u want.

Podi preparation:

Coriander Seeds -1 tbsp.
Red Chilli -1/2.
Raw Rice - ½ tbsp.
Bengal Gram - 2 tbsp.

Method of preparation:

- First soak thoor dal for 1 hour. Then grind the dal, red chilli, hing and salt.

- Grind it like half pieced dal. Then heat the pan, add ghee and put the grinded items.

- Fry until it comes as separate pieces.



- Then take it in a separate bowl. This part is over now.

- Let see about the podi preparation, pour the gingili oil in the pan and put coriander seeds, redchilli, raw rice, bengal gram.

- Fry this well until it comes brownish. Grind the fried items after it becomes cool. Podi is ready now.

- Now come to the beans part.

- Boil beans and take it in a separate bowl.

- Add oil, put mustard seeds, hing, curry leaves then put the beans, podi and salt.



- Fry this well, then add prepared dal and fry for 4 to 5 mintues.




- Usili is ready to eat.

Red Apple Milkshake

Apple milkshake is the healthy beverage. We can have this during summer time. Making an apple milkshake is very easy.

It Contains Vitamin A and C. It is rich in proteins and potassium. Potassium helps in the functioning of brain actively. Humm, if you feel that your weight will increase by adding sugar with milk, you can avoid these two items. Then it will not be a milkshake, it is an apple juice. It's your choice.

Let’s go to the preparation.

Ingredients:

Apple - 1
Milk - 2 Cup
Sugar - 4tbsp or 2tbsp of honey
Ice Cubes - 3

Method of preparation:

- Wash the apple well, with clean water.

- Cut apple into small cubes.

- Don’t peel the outer layer. It has more strength.

- Put this to the mixer and grind well, now add the milk, ice cubes and sugar.

- Grind it well.

- Apple milkshake is ready to drink.

- Very coooooooooool to have..

- Yummy yummy!! Tummy tummy!!

Vendaikkai Pachadi

Are you bored of doing vendaikkai poriyal..? Try my Pachadi for the different taste. This pachadi is a combination of tamarind, coconut and with jeera.

These combinations will bring the excellent taste with ladies finger.

Try this out and don’t forget to leave your comments.



Ingredients:

Ladies Finger - 10
Shredded Coconut - 1Cup
Green Chilli - 2
Jeera - 2tbsp
Small Onion - 7
Tamarind - Amla Size
Turmeric - 1tbsp
Hing - 1tbsp
Mustard Seeds - 1tbsp
Curry Leaves - 10
Salt - As you want

Method of preparation:

- Soak tamarind for 15minutes, in the mean time cut the ladies finger and onion.

- Now grind the coconut, jeera and chilli. Keep it aside.

- Keep pan in the gas stove, drop the oil, and put the turmeric, ladies finger and chopped onion. Fry well for 10 to 15minutes.




- Now add tamarind water without any dust particles.

- Boil for 5 minutes.

- Add the grinded coconut, let the gas should be in low flame for 1minute.

- Switch off the gas.

- In the gas keep pan and add oil, put the mustard seeds, hing, onion and curry leaves.

- Vendaikkai pachadi is ready to serve.

Araithuvita Sambar

Most of the time shiva asks me to prepare sambar. Today also he asked me to prepare sambar. I learnt this dish from my mom. For araithuvita sambar, I will put beans, potato, brinjal, drumstick and tomato, these veggies will give more taste to eat and healthier too.

It is a traditional recipe too. This goes very well with rice, idly and dosa.


Ingredients:

Thoor Dal - 1cup
Beans - 2
Carrot - 1
Drumstick - 1
Potato - 1
Tomato - 1
Curry Leaves - 10
Coriander Leaves - Few
Jeera - 3 tbsp
Shredded Coconut - 1 cup
Fenugreek Seeds - 1tbsp
Turmeric - 1tbsp
Tamarind - Few
Salt - As u want

Method of Preparation:

- Soak Tamarind for 15 minutes, and extract the juice.

- Grind  coconut and jeera and take it aside.

- Boil  thoor dal with jeera in a pressure cooker for 15 mintues and keep it aside.

- Cut  veggies in lengthwise order. Clean it well.

- Take pan and keep it in gas stove, put the veggies in the kadai and pours the smashed tamarind water and put the Turmeric powder.

- Boil this for 10 minutes.

- With the half boiled veggies put sambar podi and boil well, until the raw smells vanish.

- Now add boiled thoor dal and grinded coconut.

- Cook this for 3 mintues. Take it aside.

- Keep pan in the gas stove, add oil, hing, mustard seeds, vendhayam and curry leaves until it comes golden brownish color.

- Put this to the prepared sambar.




- Garnish sambar with coriander leaves.

- Serve with plain rice and a spoon of ghee; it will give special taste to sambar rice.

- Here is an one more clip.