Potato bonda

Ingredients:

Potato - 3
Onion - 1/2 cup
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
cumin seeds
Besan powder - 1 cup
Salt to taste
Oil ti fry

Direction:

• Mix besan powder,chilli powder and salt in a bowl.
• Add water little by little upto it becomes a batter consistency.
• Pressure cook the potatos and mash it well.
• Add cuminseeds,onion,chilli powder and salt.
• Form round balls of potato mix.
• Heat oil in a pan.
• Dip the potato balls in the batter one by one and fry it in oil.
• Awesome potato bonda is ready!

Easy cauliflower fry

Ingredients:

Cauliflower
Biriyani masala
Salt to taste
Oil 4 tsp

Direction:

• Put cauliflower in hot water for 10 minnutes.
• wash well and apply briyani masala and salt to it.Set aside for 10 minutes.
• Heat 4tsp oil in a pan.
• Put cauliflower to the pan and fry well.

White Pumpkin Halwa

Ingredients:

Grated pumpkin - 2 cups
Sugar - 1 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Sliced Almond(or cashews)
Ghee - 3 tsp

Direction:

• Roast the slice almond(or cashews) in ghee until it becomes golden brown.
• Add sugar to the milk and heat it until sugar melts.
• In a pan take 1 tsp ghee and add the grated pumpkin,stir well in low flame till the raw flavor is gone.
• It will take around 20 minutes.
• Add this pumpin to the milk and cook till pumpkin is tender.
• Add almond and mix well.
• Leave it for 5 minutes.
• Add 2 tsp ghee to it in low flame till the ghee floats...
• (If u want, add colour powder to it)

Potato & lima beans

Ingredients:

Cinnamon - 2
Cloves - 2
Potato - 3
Lima beans
Chopped Tomato - 1 cup
Chopped Onion - 1 cup
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Sambar powder - 1 tsp
Garam masala - a pinch
Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
curry leaves
Mustard seeds
Cumin seeds
Grated Cocunut - 1 cup
Salt to taste
Oil to fry

Direction:

• Boil the potatoes,cut into small pieces and keep it in a bowl.
• Heat oil in the pan.
• Add cinnamon,clove and other spicy items u have.
• Add mustard seeds,cumin seeds and curry leaves.
• Once seeds start spluttering,add chopped onion.
• After it turns to golden brown,add tomatoes.
• Saute well for few minutes.
• Now add the turmeric powder,corriander powder,sambar powder and garam masala.
• Blend the grated coconut in the blender and add into our spicy mixture.
• Add salt in this to your taste.
• Now add the potatoes and lima beans.
• Boil it for 15 minutes.
• Serve it with chapathi.

Tindora fry

Ingredients:

Tindora(kovakai) - 20 nos
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Sambar powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil - 2 tsp

Direction:

• Clean and cut the tindora.
• Heat oil in a pan.
• Add tindora in the pan and fry for 5 minutes.
• Now add turmeric powder,chilli powder,sambar powder and salt.
• Mix and fry them for 3 minutes.
• Sprinkle little bit water and fry for 10 minutes.

Lemon rice

Ingredients:

Cooked rice - 4 cups
Chana dal(kadalai paruppu)- 2 tsp
Urad dal(ulundhu) - 1 tsp
Red chillies - 2
curry leaves
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
turmeric powder - 1 tsp
salt to taste
Oil - 2 tsp
ghee- 1/2 tsp
Cashew nuts
Pea nuts

Direction:

• In a pan heat ghee.
• At first add peanuts and fry them until they turn into light brown.
• Add cashew nuts and fry them.
• Remove it and keep in a plate.
• Heat oil in the pan and add mustard,cumin seed,chilli and curry leaves.
• When seeds starts to sputter,add chana dal and urad dal.
• Now sprinkle the turmeric powder,mix and saute for another 5 minutes.
• After it become cool,add lemon juice.
• Add the sauted ingredients,peanuts and cashews into the cooked rice.Mix well.
• Serve it with vathal,pickle etc.

Potato bajji

Ingredients:
Potato - 2
Besan flour(kadalai mavu) - 1 cup
chilli powder - 1 tsp
clour powder(or turmeric powder)- 1/4
salt to taste

Direction:

• Mix besan flour,chilli powder and salt.
• Add colour powder.If u dont have it add turmeric powder.
• Add water to it and mix it well to avoid lumps.
• Cut the potatoes in the shape u want.
• Heat the oil in a pan.
• Dip each in batter and deep fry in oil.
• Now you get our lovely evening snacks.

Pidi kozhukattai

Ingredients:

Rice flour - 2 cups
Roasted Split chick peas (pottu kadalai)- 1 cup
Grated coconut - 1 cup
Jaggery - 1 cup
Cardamom - 1 tsp
Ghee - 2 tsp


Direction:

To make rice dough:

• Add salt in the hot water.
• Pour this water into the rice flour slowly until it becomes a dough(chapathi consistency).

To make poornam:

• In a pan, take ghee and add grated coconut,powdered Roasted Split chick peas (pottu kadalai) and jaggery.
• Allow jaggery to melt little bit.

To make kozhukattai:

• Form round balls of rice flour and poornam.
• Place rice flour on your palm and press to form flat or cup shape.
• Place the poornam into the rice flour and make it to the shape u want( like in the photo).
• Then steam it about 10 minutes.
• Now out pidi kozhulattai is ready...

Round rings

Ingredients:

Rice flour 1 cup
Maita 1 cup
Chilli powder 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil to fry

Direction:

• To make a dough mix all the above ingredients .
• Leave it for half an hour.
• Make round rings of the dough and deep fry in the oil till the color changes to golden brown.

paruppu urundai kulambu

Ingredients:

Tamarind - lemon size
Tomato - 1
Onion - 1
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves
Sambar powder - 1 tsp
chili powder - 1/2 tsp
salt to taste
Oil

Direction:

• Take oil in a pan and spread mustard seeds ,fenugreek seeds,cumin seeds and curry leaves.
• Saute well for few minutes.
• Pour tamarind pulp and add sambar powder,chili powder and salt.

Ingredients for paruppu urundai:

Channa dal - 1 cup
Onion - 1/4 cup
curry leaves
Coriander leaves
Red chilies - 2
Salt

Direction:

• Blend the dal,chlli,salt in a blender in which dal is already soaked for 2 hrs.
• Washed water from the jar should be added to the kuzhambu.
• Add curry leaves and coriander leaves to the above mixture.
• Then shape them into a round ball.
• Put this round ball into the kuzhambu.
• Boil them for 15 minutes.
• Now the kuzhambu is ready....

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Aloo palak

Ingredients

spinach - 2 cups
garlic - 2 nos
ginger - little bit
onions - 1
green chilies - 2
potatoes - 2
turmeric - 1 tsp
cumin seed - 1/2 tsp
garam masala - 1/2 tsp
coriander powder - 1 tsp
cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
salt to taste

Directions

• In a pan cook the spinach with garlic, ginger, onions and the green chilies for about 5-10 minutes.
• In the meantime boil the potatoes with salt  and set aside when done.
• Add the cooked potatoes, garam masala, corriander and cumin powder and a little water if needed.
• Simmer for 10 minutes.
• Eat this with chapathi..
  

Paruppu

Ingredients:

Toor dal - Thuvaram Paruppu - 1/2 cup
2tsp Urad dal
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Hing - a pinch
2 Red chillies
Curry leaves
Oil for seasoning
Salt to taste

Direction:

• Wash and keep toor dal and urad dal in a pressure cooker with turmeric powder and hing.. Add 1 cup of water and pressure cook them.
• Add salt to taste.
• Keep it for 15 minutes and then mash it.
• Heat the oil in a pan and the mustard seeds, curry leaves and red chilies.
• After the mustard seeds splutter,add to the dal paste...
• Serve it with rice in addition with ghee..

Bitterguard fry

Ingredients:

4 fresh bitter gourd/ pavakai
2 tsp rice flour
2 tsp red chili powder
salt to taste
oil for deep frying

Direction:

• Cut bitter gourd into small round pieces.
• Take them in bowl and add chili powder and salt.
• Leave them for 30 mins to 1 hr.
• Heat oil for deep frying. Add bitter gourd pieces one by one. Fry till golden brown.
• Remove from heat and strain oil with tissue paper. Rice flour makes it crispy and yummy...Serve it with rice,sambar or any other curry...

Onion pakoda

Ingredients:

6 Onions
1 tsp Chili powder
4 Green chilies,curry leaves
2 Cups besan flour
1/2 Cup rice flour
A pinch baking soda
Salt to taste
Oil to fry



Direction:


• Thinly slice the onions.
• Rub the onions with salt.
• Add the chili powder, besan flour and rice flour in the onion.
• Mix well and do not add excess water.
• Take a small portion of the mix at a time and drop it in hot oil.
• Fry till golden brown.

Meen kuzhambu 1

Ingredients:


1 kg Fish, cut into smaller pieces
Tamarind, size of a table tennis ball
1 tsp Fennel
1 tsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Vegetable oil
1 Large onion
1 Big tomato
1/2 Cup fresh coriander leaves, chopped
3 tsp Masala powder
Salt to taste
Methi seeds
Few curry leaves
Direction:

• Apply turmeric powder and salt on fish, keep aside.
• Wash it properly after 5 minutes.
• Soak the tamarind in water and remove thick pulp.
• Pour vegetable oil in a pan and season it using methi seeds and mustard seeds..
• Now add the curry leaves and chopped onions.
• Cook it until the onion turns brown.Add tomato and saute well.
• Add the tamarind pulp mixture and boil it, cover the pan tightly.
• Add the fish after 10 minutes of boiling. Cook it properly.
• Remove from the fire when done and garnish it with coriander leaves.
• Meen kulambu is ready to serve.

Fish Fry

Ingredients
 Fish - 1/2 kg
Fish fry masala - 2 tsp
lemon juice - 1 tsp
Curd - 1 tsp
Salt to taste

Oil to fry

Direction:

• Marinate the fish pieces with fish fry masala, lemon juice and curd.Keep them for 1/2 an half.
• Now heat the oil in a pan and  fry the fish for 15 minutes on both sides.
• Serve the fish with rice.

Rasagulla

Ingredients:

Milk - 4 cups
Lemon juice - 3 tbsp
Sugar - 1 1/2 cup
water - 3 cups

Direction:

• Boil the milk for 10 minutes and pour the lemon juice in it.
• Now paneer will be separated from the milk.
• Separate this paneer from the water by pouring this in a  cheese cloth.
• Boil water in pressurecooker and add sugar in that.
• Then make round balls using the paneer and cook them in the above water for 15 minutes.
• After 15 minutes take them out.
• Refregirate them and serve.