Monday, July 19, 2010

CHICKPEAS SALSA


Ingredients:
  • Cooked chick peas - 1 cup
  • Raw mango - 1/4 cup
  • tomatoes - 1 medium
  • Onion - 1/2 medium
  • Cilantro - 4 strings
  • Salt - for taste
  • Black pepper - for taste
  • Vinegar - 1 tea spoon
Preparation:
  1. First chop all the vegetables.
  2. Its good if u mash a bit, half of the cooked chick peas.
  3. Take a bowl add all the Ingredients to that.
  4. Mix them well.
  5. Garnish with a seasoning with cumin & mustard seeds.
  6. Serve with tortilla chips.

KADALA HULLI



Ingredients:
  • Garbanzo beans - 1 tin
  • Dosakai - 1small
  • Onion - 1/2 medium
  • Tamarind pulp - 1 tea spoon
  • Turmeric powder - 1/4 tea spoon
  • Salt - 1 tea spoon
  • Sugar - 1/2 tea spoon
  • Dry red chili - 3 to 4 (acc to taste)
  • Coriander seeds - 1/2 tea spoon
  • Shredded coconut - 1 table spoon
  • oil, mustard seeds, urad dal & dry red chili for seasoning.


Preparation:
  1. Wash and cut dosakai & onion into small cubes
  2. Cook the cut pieces with enough water.
  3. When its cooked add the garanzo beans and mix them off.
  4. Then add tamarind pulp,turmeric powder,salt& suger and bring it to boil.
  5. On the other hand grind red chilli, corriander seeds&shredded coconut with fews spoons of water in a mixer.
  6. Then add the grined paste to the cooked one.
  7. At last again bring it to boil so that grined paste is cooked.(do not over boil as coconut may ooze of oil)
  8. Garnish with seasoning on top.
  9. Goes well with Rice,Idli & dosa.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

MUNDAKI USULI



Ingrendients:
  • Mundaki - 3 cup
  • Tomato - 1 small size
  • onion - 1 small size
  • Grated carrot - 1/2 cup
  • green chili - 2 small size
  • garlic - 2
  • curry leaves - 4 to 5
  • cilantro - 2 string
  • oil - 2 tea spoon
  • hing - a pinch
  • turmeric powder - 1/8 tea spoon
  • coriander powder - 1/2 tea spoon

Preparation:
  1. Finely chop all the vegetables.
  2. Take oil a pan add cumin& mustaed seeds.
  3. When it splitters add hing,curry leaves &chopped garlic &onion.
  4. Fry till they are light golden.
  5. Add tomato and half of grated carrot and cook them.
  6. Wash mundaki in waterand mix them well.
  7. Then add salt,turmeric&corriander powder.
  8. Switch off flame and garnish with left over carrot and cilantro,Serve hot.


KESARIBATH


Ingredients:
  • Sooji - 1 cup
  • Sugar - 1.5 cup
  • Pineapple - 1/2 cup (cut very small)
  • Water - 3 cup
  • Ghee - 4 to 5 tea spoon
  • Food color - a pinch
  • Cardamom powder - 1/8 tea spoon
  • Cashew nuts and Rasins for garnishing.

Preparation:
  1. Fry sooji with ghee in heavy bottom pan till light golden brown.
  2. Then add water,pineapple& reduce heat so that it gets cooked well.
  3. Add suger, food colour &cardamun powder and mix it well.
  4. When it leave the bottom of the pan or desired conistancy is optained switch off.
  5. Garish with fried cashew and rasins.


RAGGI MUDDE


Ingredients:
  • Ragi flour - 2 cups
  • Cooked rice - 1 table spoon
  • Oil - 2 tea spoon
  • Salt - 1 tea spoon
  • Water - 4 cups.

Preparation:
  1. Boil water along with salt &oil in heavy bottom pan.
  2. Then add cooked rice when water is getting warm.
  3. Mix a spoon of ragi flour in 2to3 spoons of water and keep aside.
  4. Add this mix to boiling water as it prevents lumps.
  5. Then add remaing flour after 1or 2 mintes.
  6. Mix it well with a wooden ladle.
  7. Switch off the flameand cover it with a lid till it cools off.
  8. Wet your hands and make balls out of it.
  9. Serve it with methi /spinach dal samber.

DAL RASAM



Ingredients:
  • Cooked toor dal - 1/2 cup
  • Tomato - 1 small size
  • Tamarind - 1 tea spoon thick pulp
  • Rasum powder - 1 tea spoon
  • Water - 2 cup
  • turmeric - a pinch
  • Salt - 3/4 spoon
  • Cilantro - 2 strings
  • Hing - a pinch

Preparation:
  1. Place dal,tomato,turmeric & water in a vessel.
  2. Switch on the flame.
  3. Add tamarind pulp and leave it to boil.
  4. When it starts to boil add rasum powder & salt.
  5. Switch off the flame after is boils completely.
  6. Garnish with hing & cilantro.

TOMATO RASAM

Ingredients:
  • Tomato --4 medium size
  • Green chili - 2 to 3small
  • Salt - 1/2 tea spoon
  • Sugar - 2 tea spoon
  • Water - 2 cups
  • Hing - a pinch
  • Cilantro - 2 strings
  • Red chilli,mustard seeds for seasoning.
Preparation:
  1. Make puree of the tomatoes.
  2. Add green chilli, salt , water& puree to a steel bowl.
  3. Place on a mediun flame.
  4. When it comes to boil add sugar.
  5. Boil it for few more minutes and off the flame.
  6. Garnish with cilantro & seaoning made of ghee.