Rava Halwa - Sooji Halwa

Ingredients :

• Rawa - 1 cup
• Grated dark brown jaggery - 1 cup
• Whole milk - 2 1 / 2 cup
• Ghee - 1 / 4  cup
• Cardamom powder - 1 sp
• Cashewnuts and raisins - little 

Method :
Pour just enough water to cover the jaggery and heat it in a kadai till it melts completely. Strain through a fine sieve to remove dirt. Fry rawa with one spoon of ghee in medium flame till pleasant aroma comes from the mixture. Add milk, jaggery water and mix well without forming lumps. Cook stirring constantly along with cardamom powder till halwa consistency comes.Add remaining ghee when it sticks to the kadai. Fry cashewnuts, raisins and mix with halwa.Your tasty jaggery halwa is ready to eat.

Ribbon pakoda recipe

Ingredients :

• Raw rice flour - 1 1 / 2 glass
• Bengal gram flour [ besan ] - 1 glass
• Salt - as required
• Red chillie powder - 2 tsp
• Asafoetida - 1 / 4 sp
• Butter or hot oil - 2 teaspoon
• Oil - 1 / 2 litre [ for deep frying ]

Method :
Sieve rice flour, and  besan through a fine siever. Then mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl. Just add enough water  to make a thick dough. [ do not keep the dough for a long time make pakkodas immediately. ] Then heat oil in kadai, keep portions of the dough in a pakkodam container and press it down straight in the hot oil [ keep the gas in medium flame ] in a rotatory motion. When it is slightly crisp [ the sound and bubbles subside ] turn the other side over. When crisp and golden on both sides, remove pakkodas with a perforated spoon and keep over a jali vessel, to drain excess oil. store in a air - tight box. 

Sevai [ noodles ] vegetable adai

Ingredients :

• Concord sevai - 1 cup [ soaked in hot boiled water and drain ]
• Fresh idli or dosa batter - 2 cup
• Green chillie and dry red chilli - 4 to 6
• Grated carrot - 1 / 4 cup
• Grated onion - 1 / 4 cup
• Asafoetida - a pinch
• Salt - as required
• Ghee - 1 / 4 cup [ for  frying ]
• Seasame oil - 1 / 4 cup [ for frying ]
• Curry leaves - little
• Coriander leaves - little

Method :
First take one big bowl. Mix the ready sevai  and idli  batter  well. Then grind green chilli, red chilli, curry leaves, asafoetida, 1/2 sp salt together and mix in the batter. Add grated onion, carrot, coriander leaves in the adai batter. The batter should be thicker than dosa batter. Grease a tawa and heat. Pour one ladle of the ada batter in the centre of the tawa and spread in a roating manner with the same ladle to give the right thickness and a proper round shape.Pour one teaspoon til oil around the edges, and one spoon ghee in and around. When the adai is crisp and golden in colour remove from the tawa. Serve hot with milakai podi, jaggery. 

Easy dudhi subji [ suraikai kuutu ]

Ingredients:

• Dudhi - 1 [ 1 / 2 k. g. cut in to dices ]
• Red tomatoes - 2 [ cut in to pieces ]
• Big onions - 2  [ cut in to pieces ]
• Masoor dal - 1 cup
• Garlic flakes - 2 [ optional ]
• Green chillies - 2
• Potato - 1 big [ cut in to pieces ]
• Basen [ bengal gram flour - 1 tbl. sp [ disoled in water ]
• Coriander leaves - little
• Curry leaves - little
• Salt - as required
  
• Turmeric powder - 1 / 2sp
• Lemon juice - 1 tbl. sp

Method :

Take one small pressure cooker put all ingredients together and  add some water. Then close the cooker and wait for 3 whistle to come. After the pressure goes open  the  lid and add basen water. Then keep it on the gas for 5 mints in lower flame. When the subji becomes thick remove from the gas.Mix the lemon juice and garnish with coriander leaves. Goes well with roti and rice.This recipe i learnt from my sis ramaya rajagopalan.

Kathirikai Rice [ vangi bath ]

Ingredients :

• Small brinjals - 1 / 4 k. g.[cut in to 1 / 2 inch lenth pieces ]
• Big onions - 2 [ cut in to small pieces ]
• Tamarind paste - 1 / 2 sp
• Salt - as required
• Jaggery - little
• Corriander leaves - little
• Normal rice - 1 glass [ washed and soaked in water ]
• Turmeric powder - 1 / 2 sp
• Sambhar powder - 1 1 / 2 sp
• Oil - 2 sp
• Ghee - 1 1 / 2 sp

For seasoning :

• Cinnamon - 1 / 2 inch piece
• Cloves - 1
• Cardamom - 2
• Cummin seeds - 1 / 2 sp
• Bay leaf - 1

Method :
First take one pressure cooker. Heat oil, ghee together, add seasoning ingredients, wait for a second till it change in colour. Then add onions fry for 3 mints. When it becomes soft, add brinjal, salt, turmeric, sambhar powder and  fry for 5 mints in lower flame, till brinjal change in to light brown in colour. At this stage add tamarind paste, turmeric, sambhar powder, little jaggery and mix well. Pour enough water and close the cooker. Wait for 3 whistle to come. Then open  the  cooker, and mix well Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. Your yummy brinjal rice  is ready to serve.

New cauliflower curry

Ingredients :

• Cauli flower - 1 medium
• Big onion - 2 [ slice into 1 inch pieces ]
• Lemon - 1 small
• Oil - for frying

Pound together :

• Grated fresh coconut - 3 tbl. sps.
• Garlic - 3 flakes
• Green chillies - 4 to 5
• Salt - as required
• Turmeric powder - 1 / 2 sp

Method :

Cut cauliflower in to small flowerettes and keep in warm water adding salt and turmeric powder, for 15 minutes. Then wash well and put it  in hot boiling water for 5 mints. Then drain well. Heat butter or oil in a frying pan and fry onions for 3 mints, then add cauliflower and fry till it turns golden. This time add pound ingredients and mix for 2 mints and remove from the gas.Squeeze lemon and garnish with chopped coriander leaves. It goes well with roti and rice.

Mixed vegetables saag

Ingredients :

• Onions - 2
• Carrots - 2 
• Beans- 100 gms
• Potatoes - 2
• Green peas - 1 / 2 cup
• Cauli flower - 1 / 2
• Paneer - 1 / 2 cup [ cut into small pieces ]
• Salt - to taste
• Oil - 2 to 3 tbl. sp.
• Garam masala powder - 1 / 2 sp
• Fresh curd - 1 1 / 2 cup

To grind :

• Poppy seeds - 2 tsps
• Green chillies - 5
• Fresh grated coconut - 1 / 4 cup
• Cashew nuts - 8

Method :

Cut onions in to small pieces. Dice other vegetables in to one inch square pieces and cook in pressure cooker along with paneer using just enough water to cover it. Do not over cook. Grind the other ingredients using required water and form a paste. Then heat oil and fry onions till it become light  pink  in colour, add ground masala, cooked vegetables without water and beaten curd to it. Add salt and boil it in a low flame. Don't add water to it. Mix garam masala powder just before removing from the fire. Serve hot with puris and roti.