Tahini Sauce

by 3:33 AM


Tahini Sauce
  • sesame seeds 1/2 cup 
  • lemon juice
  • Olive oil 2 tbsp
  • cumin seeds 1/2 tsp 
  • chopped parsley
  • chopped cilantro
  • green chili -1 
  • salt to taste
  • Water as needed


Method
  1. In a small frying pan dry roast the sesame seeds on medium heat for 2-3 minutes.
  2. mix all the ingredients and blend to make paste use water as required.


Onion Chutney

by 2:51 AM

Ingredients: 


Red Onions - 2 large
Musturd Seeds - 1tbsp
Urad dal (split black gram) 1/2 cup
Red chillies (as per taste) -  2-3 dried
Whole black pepper 2-3
Pinch of asafoetida / Hing
Tamarind Paste
Curry leaves - few
Salt to taste


Method: 


1 Heat the pan. In 1 tsp of oil, saute mustard seeds, Black gram dal, chilies, black pepper for 1-2 mints.
2 Now add onions, salt and hing.
3. Saute for few mints till the onion become translucent. Switch off the gas and add the curry leaves and tamarind paste and saute.
4. let it cool down and grind to coarse paste

Serve with Idils and Dosa

Batata Vada

by 2:29 AM

Ingredients :


  • Boiled potatoes peeled and  mashed  (4-5)
  • Oil for deep frying
  • Green chillies and ginger (crushed)
  • 1/2 tsp Garam masala
  • 2 tbsp Cashew nuts
  • 2 tbsp Raisins
  • 1 tbsp crushed whole Coriander Seeds,
  • Black pepper and
  • Fennel seeds
  • Lemon juice
  • Finely chopped coriander
  • 1 tsp mustard seeds
  • pinch of Hing ( aseafoetida) 
  • Salt to taste
 Batter :
 •200 g gram flour (Besan)
 •Salt to taste

Method:-


  • Add 1 tbsp oil in a pan and add mustard seeds and hing, when splutters, add crushed chillies and ginger.

  • Fry them for few seconds, and than add cashews and raisins. Add mashed potato, salt(according to your taste) and mix very well.
  • Turn off the heat, add lemon juice.
  • Mix well and let it cool.
  • Now divide potato mixture into a equal size balls.

  • Mix salt with the gram flour, add soda water (optional) and mix very well. Batter should be medium thick.Leave it aside for 5-6 minutes.
  • Heat oil in a frying pan for deep fry.
  • Dip potato balls into a batter and fry into hot oil till light golden brown.
  • Remove from the oil.
Serve hot with green chutney or Sauce .

Sabudana Khichdi

by 1:04 AM
Sabudana Khichdi




Ingredients:
• Sabudana (sago) -1 cup
• Potato (peeled & finely cut/)  - 1
• Onion - 1 (chopped) (optional) 
• Peanut 1/4 cup
• Peas (Matter) (optional)
• Coconut (grated)  
• Green chilies - 2/3 (or you can use RED whole Chilli
• Sugar   1/2 tsp
• Lemon -1
• Coriander leaves (finely chopped)  and curry leaves
• Cumin seeds 1/2 tsp 
• Ghee 
• Salt to taste


Method:

  • Wash Sabudana/Sago twice and soak it in water for 3-4 hours or overnight.




  • Heat pan and add ghee/oil. Add some cumin seed/ Musturd seeds and whole red chilli.
  • add slit green chillies and curry leaves. Fry them
  • add onion (optional) and little bit of salt. Saute them.



  • Add finely cut potatoes and Sugar. just saute them for some time
  • Add Peanuts, Lemon juice. Now add sabudana mixture and Salt to it and stir gently.
  • Cover and cook on low flame for 4-5 minutes

Remove from fire and serve hot garnished with corinder leaves and grated coconut



Oats and Rice Flour Pancake

by 7:57 AM

Oats and Rice Flour Pancake

Ingredients

  • Oats - 1 cup of dry roasted (quick cooking oats)
  • Rice flour - 3/4 cup
  • wheat - 1/4 cup ( I prefer to use Wheat flour, but you can also use Maida / all purpose flour)
  • Salt to taste
  • Green chilies - 2, finely chopped
  • Ginger - 1 tsp, grated
  • Curry leaves few 
  • Coriander leaves - 2 tbsps chopped
  • Onion - (optional)
  • capsicum - 1 (optional)
  • Buttermilk/ yogurt - 1/2 cup (sour preferably)
  • Water as required (3 cups approx)
  • Oil as required to cook


Method :


1. Mix all the above ingredients except oil and let the batter sit for 10-15 mints.
2. Pre-heat an nonstick tawa on high for a minute.
3. Drizzle some oil on tawa  and than pour a ladle full of batter. spread in circulat motions.
4. Drizzle 1-2 tsps of oil along the edge pancake. reduce the heat to medium high and let pancake cook for few mints..
5. Turnaround the pancake and cook other side also. Turn off the heat
Serve hot with chutney


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