Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Idli made of Oats Recipe

Ingredients:

1cup Parboiled rice
3/4cup Urad dal
1cup Rolled oats
1tsp Fenugreek seed
1inch Ginger
2nos Green chilies
Salt

Procedure:

Marinate Urad dal with fenugreek seeds n rice individually for at least 5 hours r overnight...grind the urad dal with finely chopped ginger n finely chopped green chilies until they turns soft. while grinding the urad dal, soak the rolled oats with 1 cup of water n keep aside, once the urad dal r well grinded, take off from the grinder in a large bowl, now add the soaked parboiled rice to the grinder n grind them coarsely. Before taking them out add the soaked oats n grind them coarsely too, take off from the grinder n mix them with already grinded urad dal.add salt as per taste n keep aside for fermentation’s may see the batter would have raised n doubled their initial amount..


Get the Idli plates, heat the pressure cooker r idli cooker, grease the idli plates n fill with the oats idly batter n cook them for about 10 minutes. Get out the plate’s n remove the idlis with spoon carefully n serve them hot with any spicy sides...

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Delicious Cream of Cabbage Soup Recipe

Ingredients:

2 Cups of White cabbage chopped
1no of carrot
2 nos of potatoes
1no of onion
1 no of tomato
2 nos of vegetable stock
1cup of milk
2 cups of water
1tsp of butter r olive oil
1tsp of parsley leaves
1/4 tsp of pepper powder
Salt

Procedure:

Slice the carrot, onion, tomato n potatoes into small pieces...


heat up a tsp of butter in a pressure cooker, add the chopped onions n stir them until they turns translucent, add the potatoes pieces, tomato pieces n carrot pieces to the onion with vegetable stock cubes n stir them well until they get a little cooked, add the chopped cabbage pieces to the already cooked veggies n cook them for a while, add 2 cups of water to the veggies, check for the salt n close the pressure cooker with the lid n cook them until 3 whistles..

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Delicious Chocolate Sandwich Recipe


Ingredients:

1cup All purpose flour
1cup Whole wheat pastry flour
1/2cup Grounded Oats or Oats flour
3tbsp Dark chocolate powder
2tbsp Butter
2tbsp Canola oil
3/4cup Sugar
3tbsp Apple sauce
1tsp Baking powder
1/2tsp Baking soda

Procedure:


Preheat the oven to 350F. get the all purpose flour, whole wheat pastry flour, dark chocolate powder, grounded oats along with baking powder, baking soda in a bowl, in the meantime take the sugar,oil,butter,apple sauce together, mix everything until the sugar gets dissolved, slowly add this wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and turn them as a dough..

Line up a baking sheet over a baking tray, make small balls from the dough, bake those 15-20minutes in medium rack, and let them cool completely.

Fill up the mocha butter cream in a pastry bag, squeeze out over a cookie and top them with a cookie to turn them as a sandwich, enjoy with a cup of milk or coffee for snack.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Delicious Macaroni Fritters


Ingredients:

Any small shaped pasta: 1 cup

Medium sized Potatoes: 2

Green chilies: 4 to 5 (finely chopped)

Onions: 1/2 (Chopped)

Breadcrumbs:1/2cup
Grated cheese: 4 tbsp

Chopped Coriander: 2 tbsp

Salt: as required

Coriander powder: 1 tsp

Oil: for deep frying

Procedure:

  • Cook pasta in water until soft. Drain in a colander and run under cold water.
  • Boil the potatoes, peel off the skin when cooled and mash them.
  • Combine both pasta and mashed potatoes in a bowl. Add chopped green chilies, chopped onions, chopped coriander, coriander powder and salt. When preparing for kids just add grated cheese. Mix thoroughly until all the ingredients are combined properly.
  • Take bread crumbs in a bowl and keep prepared.
  • On a medium blaze heat oil in a kadai. Take a lemon sized mixture and using your palms make patties, roll them in the bread crumbs and drop one by one in the oil when it is sizzling hot. At a time, you could fry about 5 to 7 fritters, depending on the size of the kadai used.
  • Fry till they are curved golden brown color on the lower side then flip over the fritters to fry on the other sides.
  • Best when served hot. For a healthier version, try shallow frying like cutlets instead of deep frying.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Delicious Samiya Payasam with Kaju Recipe

Ingredients:

Milk: 1 1/4 cup
Unsalted Cashews: 1/2 cup
Sugar: 1/3 cup
Non fat milk powder: 3 tbs
Water: 1 to 2 tbs
Sliced almonds: few
Ghee: 1 tsp

Procedure:

  • Immerse cashews in water for an hour or more. Deplete and grind them into smooth paste.
  • Join cashew paste and milk in a saucepan and bring it to boil stirring in between.
  • Make a paste by dissolve milk powder in 1 or 2 tbs of water. Add sugar and milk powder paste to the boiling milk and cook until all the sugar is melted and it comes to a boil stirring constantly.
  • You can totally avoid milk powder and add 1 or 2 more tablespoons of sugar for the sweetness which it gives but the milk has to be boiled for quite a long time to thicken.
  • Switch off the stove and transfer to the serving dish.
  • In a pan heat a little ghee and toss the almond slices in it for a while.
  • Sprinkle these almond slices on to the payasam.
  • Serve up as a dessert.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Delicious Fish Cake Recipe


Ingredients:

· 1 1/2 lbs (650gms) hammour or Cha-naad,

· 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley,

· 3 eggs beaten,

· 1 cup bread crumbs,

· 6 cloves garlic,

· 3 tablespoons loom (lemon juice),

· 2 onions chopped and browned in a little oil,

· Salt to taste

· 1 teaspoon vinegar

· 1 teaspoon turmeric

· 2 teaspoons bear

· 1 teaspoon baking powder

· 1/2 teaspoon cumin

· Extra breadcrumbs for coating

· Corn oil for frying

· Lime slices, for garnish

· Cucumber slices, for garnish

Procedure:

1. Put fish, parsley, onion, eggs, salt, vinegar, spices and breadcrumbs in a bowl and mix well with hands.

2. Squash the garlic and pound with loom in a mortar and pestle until the paste is formed: put in to fish mixture and mix well again.

3. If too wet, add little flour, if too dry, add little cold water.

4. Shape the mix into small cakes approximately 3" (7.5cm) diameter and roll in the breadcrumbs.

5. Deep fry until they turn golden brown. Serve up them hot!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Delicious Jalebi Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 250g Maida flour
  • 25g gram flour
  • 1 tbsp oil
  • 1 cup yogurt
  • 2 1/2 cups water
  • 350g sugar
  • 2-3 pinches yellow color
  • 500g ghee or butter
  • 4-6 threads saffron, soaked in 2 tbsp hot milk

Procedure:

1. Mix together the flours, oil, yogurt and water to make a medium thick paste. Cover and keep overnight for fermentation.

2. Get ready two string syrup with the sugar and water. Add yellow color and saffron to the syrup. Keep aside.

3. Strike the flour mixture well and fill in a plastic bag with a hole at the bottom.

4. Squeeze out the batter by pressing the bag into the hot ghee.

5. Drop middle sized whirls in a constituently flow start from outer circle and ending in the center. This will give better shape to the jalebies.

6. Fry them until crisp and golden color on both sides carefully.

7. Drain and drop in the syrup. In 5 minutes, the jalebies will be systematically soaked.

8. Deplete and serve hot.