Brown Payaru Sundal

Sprouts are very good for health. This sundal is very familiar for every one. It is rich in proteins. We will prepare this dish in the evening time as a snack. Usually sundal varieties are prepared in the time of “Navarathri”. We can prepare this sprout for kuzhmabu varieties too.

Ingredients:

Karamani - 2Cups
Red Chilli - 2
Shredded Coconut - 1Cup
Oil - 2tbsp
Mustard Seeds - 1tbsp
Urad - 1tbsp
Hing - 1tbsp
Curry Leaves - 10
Salt - As you want


Method of Preparation:


- First soak karamani overnight or in the early morning. This needs to be soaked atleast for 8 hours.

- Keep  karamani in a pressure cooker for 15minutes. Take it in a bowl.

- Keep pan in the gas stove, add oil,  mustard seeds, urad dal, hing, red chilli and curry leaves.

- Fry this well until it becomes golden brownish color.

- Now add  boiled karamani and salt, fry for a minute.

- Atlast spread the grated coconut and fry well for 5minutes.

- Karamani is ready to eat.

Personal Suggestion:

- Add sugar to boiled sundal. Mix well. It will give delicious taste to eat.

- If you want spicer then left out the sugar.

Coconut Rice

Coconut rice is a south Indian dish. It’s very tasty to eat with applam and pappad. It’s easy too prepare and good for health. We will finish this within 20minutes including the time of rice cooking. Try this once in a week.

Here is my recipe.

Ingredients:

Shredded Coconut - 1 Full Coconut Cap
Red Chilli - 2
Urad dal - 1tbsp
Curry Leaves - 10
Bengal Gram - 1tbsp
Salt - As you want
Hing - 1tbsp
Oil - 3tbsp
Raw Rice - 2Cups
Mustard Seeds - 1tbsp

Method of Preparation:

- Cook rice and take it in a bowl.

- Keep kadai in the gas stove. Add oil, shredded coconut and fry well until it becomes golden brownish color. Take this to the bowl.

- Now pour oil in the pan and add mustard seeds, urad dal, bengal gram, chilli, hing and curry leaves. Fry well for a minute.

- Now put  fried coconut and fry well for few minute.

- Add cooked rice and salt to the fried items. Mix well.

- Coconut rice is ready to serve.

Mixed Veggies Paneer Chapathi Roll

Today I have an idea to prepare some different variety as a side dish for chapathi. Usually we will prepare potato kuruma or vegetable kuruma. We felt bored of eating these items. So I have an idea to prepare with paneer.

It’s easy to prepare not very tough cooking. But we should have some patience to cut the veggies. Try this once in a month or 2months once.

Cooking time is 45minutes including the preparation of chapathi.

Shall we move on to the preparation..?

Ingredients:

Shredded Paneer - 1Cup
Big Onion - 1
Carrot - 1
Beans - 5
Green Peas - Few
Potato - 1
Coriander Leaves - Few
Onion Leaf - Few
Ginger, Garlic Paste - 1tbsp
Sauce - 1tbsp (Tomato, Chilli)
Soya Sauce - 1tbsp
Garam Masala - 1tbsp
Fresh Cream - 1tbsp (Optional)
Chapathi - 6
Oil - 5tbsp
Salt - As you want
Hing - 1tbsp
Turmeric - A Pinch
Chilli Powder - 2tbsp
Dhaniya Powder - 1tbsp

Method of Preparation:

- Cut veggies in small cubes and wash well with clean water and it in a bowl.

- Cut onion and take it in a bowl.

- Grate paneer and take it in a plate

- Cook the veggies and green peas in 2cups of water. After cooking take it in a bowl.

- Keep  pan in the gas stove, pour the oil and put the grated panner fry well until it becomes golden brownish color.

- Fry carefully.

- Take it in a bowl.

- Pour oil and add onion, hing, turmeric, chilli powder, dhaniya powder, ginger garlic paste, garam masala and salt.

- Fry well until the raw smell vanish.

- Now put the fried paneer and onion leaf. Fry well.

- Humm, put veggies, peas and sauce.

- Fry well for 10 to 15 minutes. Until the raw smell vanishes.

- Decorate with coriander leaves.

- Take this in a bowl and keep it aside.

- Now the preparation of veg paneer part is over.

- Let us come to the Chapathi part.

- Roll chapathi in a big shape. So that there is some space to keep the prepared veggie paneer.

- Roast this chapathi with ghee and keep it in a plate.

- Now place the prepared veggie paneer in chapathi and make a roll.

- Mixed veggie paneer chapathi roll is ready to eat.

Note:

- Instead of chapathi you can use bread. Then it will be a "Bread Paneer Roll".

Paneer Butter Masala

There are different varieties of doing with paneer. Try this paneer butter masala. Sure you all love to eat paneer as a side dish for chapathi, paratha, naan and puri.

Here is my recipe.

Ingredients:

Paneer – 10 Blocks
Big Onion - 1
Tomato - 1
Green Peas - 1Cup
Garam masala - 1tbsp
Ginger Garlic Paste - 1tbsp
Cashew Paste - 2tbsp
Red chilli - 4
Dhaniya Powder - 1tbp
Kasthuri Methi - Few
Fresh Cream - 2tbsp
Chilli Powder - 2tbsp
Ginger, Garlic Paste - 1tbsp
Butter - 2tbsp
Tomato Sauce - 1tbsp
Soya Sauce - 1tbsp
Jeera - 1tbsp
Salt - As you want

Method of Preparation:

- Cut the paneer in small cubes and take it in a bowl.

- Keep the pan in the gas stove, pour the butter or oil and fry the paneer until it becomes golden brownish color.

- Take it in abowl.

- Boil the peas and take it in abowl.

- Fry the chopped onion, tomato and red chilli with 2tbsp of oil in the kadai. After it become cool. Grind these items.

- Now pour the butter and put the jeera, turmeric powder, prepared ginded items (onion, tomato, chilli), dhaniya powder, chilli powder, ginger, garlic paste, cashew paste, fresh cream, tomato sauce, soya sauce, kasthuri methi and salt.

- Fry this well until the raw smell vanishes. Add 1cup of water.

- Now put the fried paneer .Let it boil for 5 to 10 minutes until it becomes like thick paste.

- Paneer butter masala is ready to serve.

Mixed Veggie Foodles

Foodles contains wheat, ragi, corn and rice. It’s good for health. Here the ingredients part is wheat not maida. So it will be healthy for our health. Take twice in a month. Usually we will take idli, dosa for a change try this foodles. I will use the green foodles packet.

I have added veggies for more taste and also for extra health. I had prepared this for one person.You can have this for breakfast or evening tiffan.

Here is my recipe.

Ingredients:

Foodles Packet - 1
Beans - 5
Carrot -1
Green Peas - Few
Capsicum - Half
Tomato - 1
Pepper - 1tbsp
Garam Masala (optional)

Method of Preparation:

- Cut the veggies and clean well with water.

- Keep pan in the gas stove, Pour the oil and put  beans, carrot, green peas, tomato and capsicum.

- Put masala which they given in foodles packet.

- Fry well until the raw smell vanishes.

- Pour 2cups of water.

- Let the veggies have to be cooked well.

- Now add  noodles and close the pan for 5minutes.

- Fry well until water goes off.

- Spread pepper and have the foodles.

- Foodles is ready to eat.

Thayir Vadai

Hi everyone I tried this for a first time so I didn’t get the exact round shape of vadai, but the taste of vadai came out in an awesome way.

So you don’t need to hesitate to try while seeing the shape of vadai.

Sure you will also get it in a great way.

Here is my preparation of dahi vadai.

Ingredients:

Urad Dal - 1Cup
Raw Rice - 2tbsp
Pepper - 1tbsp
Hing - 1tbsp
Onion - 1
Green Chilli - 2
Curry Leaves - 10
Ginger - Few
Shredded Carrot - Few
Coriander Leaves - Few
Bhoondhi or Mixture - Few
Curd - 2Cups
Cashews - Few
Oil - 5Cups
Salt - As you want

Preparation of Vadai:

- Soak  urad dal for 6 hours.

- Grind urad dal well until it becomes very soft. Don’t add water. If you want add a drop.

- Take it in a bowl.

- Batter should be very soft.

- Now mix the chopped onion, ginger, pepper, curry leaves hing, salt and mix the raw rice powder.

- By adding raw rice the vadai should be very crispy to eat.

- Heat  kadai in the gas stove. Pour the oil.

- Take banana leaf (valai ellai) or polythene cover.

- Put prepared batter and make a hole in the centre.

- Drop this to the oil and fry well until it becomes golden brownish color.

- Now vadai is ready for the next step of preparation.

Preparation of Curd:

- First beat the curd without any lumps by adding little bit of salt.

- Add a pinch of hing together.

- If the curd is too thick then add little bit of water.

- Now curd is ready for the next step of preparation.

Preparation of Garnishing:

- For garnishing you just need coriander leaves, carrot, cashews and mixture.

- Grate the carrots. Chop the Coriander leaves.

- Add bhoondhi or mixture. I like mixture for the curd vadai to eat.

Preparation of Thayir Vadai:

- Take a plate and place the vadai, pour the curd evenly.

- Spread the carrot, coriander leaves, mixture and cashews.

- Keep it for 10 to 15 minutes so that the curd will go inside to the vadai and gives lot of taste to eat.

- Now the yummy thayir vadai is ready to eat.

Note:

- For 1 cup urad dal you will get 10 to 12 vadai.

- Don’t forget to add raw rice. It will give crispyness to eat.

- Don’t pour the curd immediately to vadai while it is hot.