Adai dosa

Ingredients: To Soak: Raw rice - 1 cup Idly rice - 1 cup Toor Dal - 1/2cup Chana dal - 1/2 cup Moong dal - 1/4 cup While grinding: Red chillies - 10 Pepper - 1tsp Hing - one and half tsp While preparing dosa: Chopped shallots - 1/2 cup  Soak all the above ingredients under soak overnight. Next day grind along with ingredients "while grinding". Grind coarsely like rava such that dosa...

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Nel pori urundai

Nel pori - 6 cups Powdered jaggery - 1 and a half cups Clean the pori by removing husk from it. Add water to jaggery until immersing level and boil it. When all jaggery melted filter the impurities. Now again boil jaggery until it thickens.  Take a bowl of water, drop jaggery in it. we should be able to make ball out of it. Switch off and add pori to it. Mix evenly and make balls before...

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Banyard Millet[kuthiraivali] Idiyappam

Dry roast banyard millet[kuthiraivali rice] until aroma comes. Grind it nicely.[I have grinded in flour mill] Take one cup of flour and prepare dough by adding water little by little. Dough has to be loose and then it has to be pressed in idiyappam press. Cook it in steam for 4 minutes.  Healthy idiyappam is ready. Serve with grated coconut and sugar. Or else any sevai can be prepared....

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Homemade Muesli

Corn Flakes - 3 cups [I used kellogs] Instant oats - 2 cups Honey - 1/3 cup + 1/3 cup Salt - 1/2 tsp Badam - 4 tbsp, finely sliced Walnut - 3 tbsp, finely chopped Dry fruits - 5 tbsp [I used dates, prunes and dry grapes] Dry roast corn flakes, oats, nuts and dry fruits together until nice aroma comes. Keep aside. Now in the same pan, add 1/3 cup homey and salt. Let it boil for few minutes until...

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Carrot cake

Maida - 1 cup Egg - 2 Butter - 1/4 cup Sugar - 3/4 cup Curd - 2 tbsp Baking powder - 1 tsp salt - pinch Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp Milk - 2 tbsp Grated carrot - 1/2 cup Whisk eggs until bubbles comes. Then add butter and whisk it. Add sugar and mix until sugar dissolves completely. Then add maida, curd, baking powder, salt, essence, milk and grated carrot. whisk all together without any lumps. Transfer...

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Thinai dosa

Thinai rice[Foxtail millet] - 1 cup Urad dal - 1/4 cup Raw rice -1 tsp Fenugreek seeds - 1tsp salt - as required Soak urad dal, fenugreek seeds and rice separately overnight. Grind urad dal and fenugreek seeds first, then add rice to the urad dal and grind. Add salt and ferment for 6 hours like regular dosa. Prepare thin dosas as they will be crispy. ...

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Garlic Roll

I made this roll using homemade multigrain atta, it has come out good but not as soft as maida roll. But when we see for healthy one, this is the best. Followed the recipe from sharmispassions.com  For Bread: Multigrain atta - one and a half cup Plain Flour - 1/2 cup Warm water - 3/4 cup Milk - 2 tbsp Active Dry yeast - 1/2 tbsp Salt - 1tsp Sugar - 1/2 tbsp Butter - 1/2 tbsp Sesame...

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Birthday Party

Today is my litttle jyo's birthday. First time i thought i will give a try for making balloon arch using two colors. But it came out well.... :-) ...

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Healthy Modak

I have named this as healthy modak because of the stuffing with roasted green gram flour inside... :-) For the dough: Rice flour - 1 cup Salt - as required Warm water - to knead the dough For the filling: Roasted green gram flour - 5 tbsp Roasted channa dal powder - 2 tbsp Jaggery powder - 4 tbsp Coconut - 2 tbsp, grated Prepare the dough by adding warm water to rice flour little by little. Dough...

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Natural Food colored Play Dough

I have few plants [table rose] , which are nice pink color. Thought of taking color from it and prepare play dough... Pluck only the petals from flower and boil with little water. see the first picture.  Prepared play dough. ...

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Sweet Appam

Wheat flour - 1 cup Palm Jaggery -1 piece Banyard millet rice flour - 3 tbsp cardamom - 1, powder only by taking seeds Baking soda -1/4 tsp salt - pinch banana - 1 big, mashed well grated coconut - 2tbsp Powder palm Jaggery and boil in water until it gets diluted. Add wheat flour to bowl and add water and then add filtered palm jaggery water. Now add rice flour, cardamom powder, soda,...

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Pottukadalai Murukku

Rice flour - 1 cup Pottukadalai  - 1/4 cup minus 1 tbsp sesame seeds - 1 tsp ghee - 1 tbsp salt - as needed Recipe source : sharmispassions Grind pottukadalai and mix with rice flour, sieve it. Mix flour , salt, sesame seeds, ghee. Knead dough by adding warm water little by little. This is the first time am preparing murukku, thanks to sharmilee for this recipe. ...

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Paneer Bread Roll

Saw the recipe in cookingandme blog and changed it a bit. Bread slices - 10 Paneer - 200 gms Onion - 1 [Big] Tomato sauce - 1 tbsp Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp Coriander leaves - to garnish Method: Heat oil in kadai and add onion, wait until it turns color and then add ginger garlic paste. After it gets cooked, add all spice powders and saute...

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How to make playdough - no cream of tartar, no cooking

All purpose flour - 3/8 cups Table Salt - 1/8 cup Water -1/8 cup Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp Food colors  Method:  Add salt, food color, water to bowl and mix well until salt dissolves completely. Then add oil followed by flour. Knead into dough. Sprinkle some flour/ water if needed. Knead it for atleast ten minutes. This measurement is for one color, repeat the same for others...

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Gobi 65

Recipe source : Vahchef Cauliflower - 1 [Medium sized] Curry leaves - few, chopped finely Coriander leaves - 1/2 Bunch, chopped finely Salt Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp Ginger Garlic paste -1/2 tsp Maida - 3 tbsp Corn flour - 4 tbsp Method: Put cauliflower in boiled water for ten minutes to remove worms. Mix all the above ingredients. Deep fry once and keep aside. While...

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Oats Idli

Here is the healthy and tasty recipe. When i was searching for oats recipes, i found this in sharmispassions website and tried. Instant Oats - 1 cup Wheat Rava - 1/2 cup Fresh Curd - 1/2 cup Carrot -1 (grated) Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Green Chilli - 1 tsp, finely chopped Hing - 1/4 tsp Coriander leaves - 2 tsp finely chopped Soda - 1/2 tsp Dry roast oats and powder it. Keep aside. Heat oil in kadai...

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Yam Varuval

Senaikilangu - 2 cups Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp Roast & Grind: Red chillies - 2 Coriander seeds - 1 tsp Jeera - 1 tsp Seasoning: Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Curry leaves - few Boil water in a pan, when it starts boiling add turmeric powder and yam and cook for 10 minutes.[It should be crunchy] Now filter yam, add the grounded powder and salt. Keep aside for 10 minutes. Heat...

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Gongura Pulihora

This is the first time i tried puliyodarai with gongura, it has come very well. Every time i will be thinking of making healthy and tasty recipes, this too added into my list.. :-) Photographs clicked by my husband..:-) Recipe Source : sailusfood.com For preparing rice : Rice - 1 cup Water - 2 cups  salt Oil Gongura Paste : Gongura leaves - 1 cup,washed Mustard seeds - 1/2...

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Mint Paratha

Recipe source : vahchef Dried mint leaves powder - 2tbsp Cumin powder - 1/4 tsp White pepper powder - 1/2 tsp whole wheat atta - 2 cups Salt Oil Mix atta,salt and few tsp of oil and prepare soft dough. keep aside for minimum of half an hour. Mix all powders with little salt. When preparing parathas, roll like chapathi, apply flour on top and spread the powder and fold like parathas....

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Simple Pasta

Macaroni - 2 cups Carrot - 2 [ chopped lengthwise] Beans - 4 [chopped lengthwise] Green Peas  - handful capsicum -  1/2 cup Spring Onions - handful Egg - 3 White pepper - 1 tsp Mustard seeds powder - 1 tsp Tomato sauce - optional  Heat oil in kadai, cook egg and keep aside. In the same pan, add capsicum and fry for 3 minutes.  All vegetables should not be overcooked, it...

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pori urundai

Recipe source : Padhuskitchen Puff rice - 2 and 1/4  cup Powdered Jaggery -1/2 cup Water - 1/4 cup   Boil water and add jaggery, after it gets dissolved filter it to remove impurities. Again boil jaggery until you get thick. In this stage if u drop jaggery in water it should not dissolve and also you should be able to make balls out of it. Now add jaggery to puff rice, grease your...

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