Kara Kadalai

It's a simple evening snack.

Ingredients :

Groundnuts - 1Cup

Oil - 1 tbsp

Salt - To Taste

Chilli Powder - 1 tbsp

Curry Leaves - Few (Optional)

Method Of Preparation:

- Keep pan in the gas stove.

- Pour oil, add groundnuts and fry well until it becomes golden brownish color.

- Sure it will take 10 to 15minutes. If you want to add curry leaves, add it here.After it becomes fully fried switch off the gas.

- At last add salt and chilli powder mix it well.

- Kara Kadalai is ready now for evening snacks.

Vegetable Cutlet

Cutlet goes very well with tomato jam.  We can have this as evening snack. Easy to prepare.

Here is my recipe.

Ingredients:

Beans - 3
Carrot - 1
Green Peas - Few
Potato - 1/2 (Optional)
Beetroot - 1/2 (Optional)
Big Onion - 1/2 (Optional)
Turmeric - Apinch (Optional)
Salt - To Taste
Vegit Instant Mix Pack 30Gram - 1pkt
Coriander Leaves - Few

Method Of Preparation:

STEP 1:

- Chop the veggies and wash well. Boil the veggies with salt, (if you want to add turmeric powder add it now)and keep it in a bowl.

- Take a bowl and put the cutlet mix pack.

- Add 150ml (3/4th cup) water to the cutlet mix. Donot add more water. Add as per the instruction, so that cutlet will come in a proper way.

- Now you can add the boiled veggies and mix it well.

- Leave it for 5minutes.

- Step 1 is over now.


STEP 2:

- Take a bowl and put the batter mix pack. Add 1/4th of water to the mix,stir well and keep aside.

STEP 3:

- Now make small cutlet balls from cutlet mix and flatten them or place it in the moulds, so that you can get the perfect shape. Moulds should be given in that pack.

- Dip the shaped cutlet in liquid batter mix.

STEP 4:

- Roll the dipped cutlets in bread crumb provided with the pack.

- Bread Crumb powder should be given in this pack.

STEP 5:

-  Now fry the dipped cutlets in oil and place it in a plate.

- Serve hot with tomato jam.

Sweet Kuzhi Paniyaram

Paniyaram is a famous South Indian recipe. You can have this as Snack or Breakfast. We can prepare both Sweet and Sour.

Here i goes with Sweet Paniyaram.

You should have Paniyaran Pan to prepare this recipe.


Ingredients:


Raw Rice - 2 Cup
Boiled Rice - 1Spoon
Urad - 4tbsp
Jaggery - 1 1/2 Cup
Elaichi - 1tbsp
Fenugreek Seeds - 1tbsp
Salt - A Pinch ( To enhance the sweetness)

Method Of Preparation:

- Soak rice, urad and fenugreek for 3 to 4 hours.

- Put it in a grinder.

- Now you can leave for 1 hour.

- Make jaggery into fine powder.

- Keep Kadai in the gas stove. Pour small amount of water and put the jaggery allow this to boil for 5 minutes. Add elachi .

- Now you can pour this to the prepared batter.

- Add a pinch of salt. Mix it well.

- Now the batter is ready.

- Drop oil in each hole one by one and pour the batter. Turn it on both sides to cook well.

- Sweet Paniyaram is ready to eat with Coconut chutney.

- Yummy to Eat.

Kara Kuzhi Paniyaram

Paniyaram is a famous South Indian recipe. We can have this as Snack or Breakfast. Coconut chutney goes very well as a side dish for this paniyaram.

You  should have Kuzhi Paniyaram Pan for the preparation.

Here i goes with "Kara Paniyaram".


Ingredients:


Raw Rice - 2Cup
Boiled Rice - 1spoon
Urad - 4tbsp
Fenugreek Seeds - 1tbsp
Big Onion - 2
Green Chilli - 2
Curry Leaves -10
Hing -1tbp
Mustard seeds - 1tbsp
Bengal Gram - 1tbsp
Urad - 1tbsp
Salt - To taste

Method Of Preparation:

- Soak  rice, urad and fenugreek seeds for 3 to 4 hours.

- Put it in a grinder.

- Now you can leave for 1 hour.

- Keep kadai in the pan, pour the oil and add mustard seeds, urad, hing, curry leaves, Bengal gram, Chilli and onion. Fry well until it becomes golden brownish color.

- Put these to the prepared batter. Add salt and mix it well.

- Now the batter is ready.

- Pour oil to the each hole and drop the prepared batter one by one for each hole. Allow this to cook.

- You should turn on both sides to cook well.

- Now Kara Paniyaram is ready. You can keep it in hot box, so that it will be hot.

- Paniyaram goes very very well with coconut chutney. yummy to eat.

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.

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.