Moong Dal Halwa - An Easy Mehod

Ingredients:

• Nestle milk maid - 1 tin
• Milk - 3 cups
• Moong Dal - 1 cup
• Ghee - 3/4 cup
• Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
• Grated mixed nuts - 3 tbsp

Method:

Clean & soak the moong dal for about half an hour. Drain the water & grind in a mixer to a coarse paste. Fry the dal paste in the ghee till it turns into golden brown colour. At this time, add the milk to that & cook in a low flame. When the milk reduces into half, add the nestle milk maid & cook continuously till desired consistency level is reached. Then transfer to the bowl. Garnish with grated nuts.  

Tomato Kurma

Ingredients :

• Ripe tomatoes - 5 to 6
• Onion - 2 [ peeled and finely chopped ]
• Green chillie - 2 [ slit ]
• Grated coconut - 1/4 cup
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Coriander powder - 1 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 11/2 tsp
• Salt - as required

For seasoning :

• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Cinnamon - 1 small piece
• Cloves - 2
• Fennel seeds - 3/4 tsp [ sombu ]
• Curry leaves - little

Method :

Chop onions finely  and slit green  chillies. Then grind raw tomatoes and keep aside.[ 2 cups of tomato purie. Grind coconut with adding  little water to a smooth paste. Keep all the things ready. Then heat oil in a  kadai,  add cinnamon, cloves and fennel seeds. When fennel seeds sizzle, add chopped onions, green  chillies  and  curry leaves. Saute till onions turn golden brown. Then add tomato  purie, and other  dry masala   powder and salt. Cook till raw smell goes. At this stage add coconut paste and required water. Cook for further 5 to 8 minutes more. Then remove from the gas. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. It 's goes well with chapati, all parathas, idli, dosa, idiyappam and upma. 

Raw mango chutney

Ingredients:

• Raw mango - 1 [ peeled and grated ]
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Sea same seeds - 1/2 cup 
•  [ dry roast in low flame for 5 minutes make it cool and grind to a powder ]
• Mustard seeds  - 1/2 tsp [ crushed to a fine powder ]
• Methi seeds - [ dry roast till red and crushed to a fine powder ]
• Salt - as required

For seasoning :

• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Dry red chillies - 2 to 3 [ broken ]
• Asafoetida - a pinch
• Curry leaves - little

Method :

Heat oil in heavy bottom  kadai, when the oil becomes hot add the seasonings one by one.  When its splutter immediately add grated mango and turmeric and mix well. Cook for 10 minutes with out lid till oil separates. Add the sea same  powder mix and continue cook on low flame. Then add mustard and methi  seeds  powder  to  that. Add required salt and stir nicely and then  remove from the gas. Serve with steamed rice and fresh ghee. You can make this and store it in the fridge for 2 weeks.

Tip :

Use slightly sweet tart mangoes. It's tastes good.

Achari Paneer Capsicum Rice

 

Ingredients :

• Lemon pickle - 2 tbsp [ make it paste ]
• Paneer - 200 gms [ cut in to small pieces ]
• Left over rice - 3 cups
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Bay leaf - 2
• Black pepper - 4 to 5
• Salt - very little  [ already salt is there in pickle ]
• Green capsicum - 1/2 [ finely chopped ]
• Red capsicum  - 1/2 [ finely chopped ]
• Yellow capsicum - 1/2 [ finely chopped ]

Method :

First take one kadai, add oil to that. When the oil  becomes hot, add cumin seeds. When its crackle add bay leaf along with pickle. Mix well then add chopped  capsicum one by one. stir well and add cut paneer pieces. Mix well and  add required salt  along with  rice. Mix well, close with lid for 5 minutes in low flame. Then remove from the fire. Serve with wafer and curd.

Ripe mango pachadi [ andra dish ]

Ingredients :

• Curd - 11/2 cup
• Ripe mango - 1 [ peeled and chopped finely ]
• Salt - as required

For seasoning :

• Oil - 1 tsp
• Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Asafoetida - a pinch
• Dry red chilli - 1 [ broken ]
• Curry leaves - little

Method :

First take one bowl beat the curd till it becomes smooth. Add 1/4 cup of water and mix well. Then add chopped mangoes, salt and mix well. Then heat oil in a small pan, when the oil becomes hot add the mustard seeds and allow to splutter.Add the red chilli and asafoetida  saute for few seconds and remove from the gas and add to the mango mixture and mix well. Keep it in the fridge and serve chill.

Malvani Masala Rice

Ingredients :

• Basmathi rice - - 1 cup [ soaked in water for 20 minutes ]
• Mix chopped vegetables  - 1/2 cup
•  [ green peas, brinjal, french beans ]
• Sambhar small onion - 10 to 12
• Tomato - 1 [ chopped ]
• Salt - as required
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 11/2 tsp
• Malvani masala - 1 tsp
•  [ it's avilable in the shop ]
• Sugar - 1/2 tsp
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Ghee - 1 tbsp

 For seasoning :

• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

Method :

First cook the rice in a cooker separately and allow to cool. Then take a big deep bottom kadai, add oil and ghee together. When its becomes hot add seasoning to that. Wait a second and add cut onions to that, fry for 2 minutes till it change in colour. Then add tomatoes and chopped vegetables and mix well. If required add little water to that. Then add all dry masalas one by one. mix well.  Close with a lid and cook in low flame. When it completely done remove from the gas. Wait for 5 minutes, and add the cooked rice to that and mix well. Your  malvani  masala  rice ready to serve. Serve with raitha and roasted papad.

Mangai Sambanthi [ kerala dish ]

Ingredients :

• Raw mango - 1 [ make sure not to be more sour ]
• Gren chillies - 2 to 3
• Ginger - small piece
• Fresh grated coconut - 1/2 cup
• Fresh coriander leaves - little
• Salt as required
• Coconut oil - 1 tbsp

Method :

Grind all ingredients together in a mixer to a smooth paste. Transfer to a bowl
and mix the coconut oil to that. Its goes well with idli, dosa and melaguttal.