cabbage,

Stuffed Cabbage Roll

4:59 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:
  • Cabbage leaves - 10
  • Tooth picks - 10
  • Maida/All purpose flour - 5 tbsp
  • Salt as required
  • Oil for frying
For stuffing:
  • Paneer - 100gm
  • Big potato - 1
  • Onion- 1
  • Green chilli - 2
  • Salt as required
Method:
Stuffing:
  • Boil potatoes, peel off skin,mash it nicely. Chop onion and saute it in oil for few minutes until it becomes transparent.
  • Scramble paneer and mix it with potato in a bowl, then add sauted onion, chopped chilli, and salt. Mix everything nicely. Stuffing is ready.
Cabbage Roll:
  • Clean cabbage leaves and immerse it in large pan of boiling water, cook this for 5 minutes in medium flame.
  • Drain water from cabbage, place 1/3rd of stuffing in the cabbage leaves and roll it upwards and secure it with toothpicks.
  • Mix maida with water (running consistency) and salt. Dip the rolled cabbage in this maida mix and fry it in hot oil.
  • Serve this cabbage roll with tomato sauce.

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raba laddu,

Instant Payasam - Rava Laddu Payasam

7:16 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:
  • Rava laddu - 4
  • Milk - 1 cup
  • Coconut milk - 1/2 cup
  • Sugar - 2 tsp
  • Cardamon powder - pinch
Method:
  • Powder rava laddu, boil milk and add scrambled laddu pieces, and cardamon powder. 
  • Cook it for 2 minutes, check sugar before adding because already laddu is very sweet. Add sugar only if required.
  • Finally add coconut milk and switch off, serve hot or cold.
  • If the payasam is very thick add little milk while serving. 

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Beetroot,

Beetroot Rasam/ Carrot Rasam

2:18 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments


Here i have used beetroot.
Ingredients:
  • Grated beetroot - 1 cup
  • Tamarind - lemon size
  • Pepper - 1 tsp
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
  • Coriander seeds - 1 tsp
  • Red chilli - 1
  • Garlic pods - 2
  • Tomato - 1
  • Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
  • Salt as required
  • Coriander leaves for garnishing
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
  • Curry leaves - little
Method:
  • Boil beetroot in 1 tumbler water for 5 minutes or less. Keep this aside.
  • Extract juice from tamarind. Grind pepper, tomato, cumin seeds, red chilli, coriander seeds, and garlic pods Coarsely.
  • In a pan, add oil and mustard seeds, when it start spluttering add curry leaves, then tamarind juice, now add ground paste, boiled beetroot along with cooked water, turmeric powder and salt.
  • When the rasam start boiling, garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with rice and curry of your choice.

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chick pea,

Thaniya Kurma

10:52 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Here i have used only few grains, you can also add other grains of your choice.
Ingredients:
  • Red kidney beans, peas, chickpea, peanut  - 1 cup
  • Onion - 1
  • Tomato - 1
  • Cinnamon - 1
  • Bay leaf - 1
  • Star anise - 1
  • Salt as required
To grind:
  • Grated coconut - 1/4 cup
  • Green chilli - 4
  • Ginger - small piece 
  • Shallot onion - 5
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
  • Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
Method:
  • Soak grains(Thaniyam) in water for 6 hours or more. Pressure cook grains, take care not to mash it.
  • Heat oil in a pan, add cinnamon, bay leaf, star anise, chopped onion and chopped tomato, saute this for few minutes. Meanwhile grind everything under "To Grind" section into paste. Add this paste to the onion-tomato mixture. Saute it nicely and add 1 cup water.
  • When the water reduces to half, add salt and pressure-cooked grains, mix it nicely, and cook until you get gravy consistency.

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double beans

Double Beans Masala

10:43 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:

  • Double beans- 100 gm
  • Onion - 1
  • Tomato - 1
  • Salt as required

To Grind:

  • Bay leaf -1
  • Star anise - 1
  • Cardamon - 1
  • Ginger - small piece
  • Cinnamon - 1
  • Coconut - 2 tsp
  • Green chilli - 3
  • Garlic pod - 1 (optional)
  • Fennel seeds - 1tsp
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Method:

  • Soak double beans overnight. Grind all the substance listed under "To Grind". Pressure cook double beans (don't overcook it).
  • Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan, add finely chopped onion and tomato, saute this for few minutes, add ground masala and salt, mix it nicely, then add one cup of water.
  • When the water starts boiling add double beans and mix nicely with the masala, when the gravy thickens switch off the stove.
  • Serve this with roti, naan, or fried rice.

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cucumber,

Cucumber Raita

8:55 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:
  • Plain yogurt - 1 cup
  • Grated cucumber - 1/2 cup
  • Pepper - 1/4 tsp
  • Cumin powder- 1/8 tsp
  • Salt as required
  • Coriander leaves - little
  • Chilli powder - 1/8 tsp
  • Saffron strands - little
Method:
  • Beat yogurt nicely and add grated cucumber, pepper, salt, coriander leaves, and chilli powder.
  • Mix everything nicely. Garnish with saffron strands and serve with biryani or any mixed rice varieties.

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Beetroot,

Carrot Vadai/Beetroot Vadai

4:28 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Here i have used carrot.
Ingredients:
  • Grated carrot - 1/2 cup
  • Channa dal - 1 cup
  • Green chilli - 2
  • Ginger - small piece
  • Hing - little
  • Salt as required
  • Oil for frying
Method:
  • Soak channa dal for 2 hours. Grind it coarsely along with salt and hing.
  • Add carrot, finely chopped ginger and chilli to the ground channa dal. Mix this vadai batter nicely.
  • Heat oil in a wide pan, take golf size vadai batter and flat it in your palm, fry this vadai in oil until it turns light brown.
  • Serve hot with tea or coffee.

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cabbage,

Cabbage Thoran/Beans Thoran/Carrot Thoran

12:08 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Here i have used cabbage.
Ingredients:

  • Finely cut cabbage - 1 cup
  • Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
  • Green chilli - 1
  • Red chilli - 1
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
  • Salt as required
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
  • Oil - 1 tsp
  • Curry leaves

Method:

  • Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, when it start spluttering add curry leaves and then cabbage pieces.
  • Meanwhile grind coconut, green chilli, red chilli, cumin seeds, turmeric powder into fine paste.
  • Add this ground paste to cabbage, then add salt, drizzle water over the cabbage mixture and close the pan with a lid.
  • Cook this thoran in medium flame.
  • Serve this thoran with rice and sambar.

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rasam,

Sambar with Left-over Rasam

11:13 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:
  • Left-over rasam - 1 cup
  • Cooked toor dal - 1 cup
  • Tomato - 1
  • Hing - little
  • Pearl onion - 15
  • Sambar powder - 1 tsp
  • Salt as required
  • Coriander leaves - few
For Tempering
  • Oil - 1 tsp
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
  • Curry leaves - few
Method:
  • In a pan, add chopped pearl onion and tomato, saute this for few minutes, then add cooked toor dal, hing, salt, sambar powder, and one tumbler water. 
  • When it start boiling add rasam, cook this in medium flame for 5 minutes, finally add coriander leaves and switch off the stove.
  • Now season this sambar with the items in the "tempering" section.
  • Serve sambar with rice and curry of your choice.
  • Note: Here i have not used any vegetables, you can even include any vegetables along with onion and tomato.

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chappati,

Chappati Noodles

10:38 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:
  • Chappati or roti - 3
  • Capsicum - 1
  • Carrot - 1
  • Cabbage - 50 gms
  • Green chilli - 1
  • Garlic pods - 2
  • Cubed paneer - 1/4 cup
  • Olive oil - 1 tsp
  • Tomato/ tomato-chilli sauce - 1 tsp
  • Salt as required
Method:
  • Bend  a chappati into half(look like semicircle). Cut it along the bend side, now you will have two semi-circle looking chappati pieces. Again bend the two pieces, you will have triangle shape, cut along the bend side. Finally you will have four triangle pieces.
  • Similarly cut all other chappatis, now cut the pieces lengthwise. Cut capsicum, carrot, and cabbage lengthwise. Chop garlic pods into pieces.
  • Heat a pan, add olive oil, chopped green chilli, garlic pods, vegetables, saute this for few minutes, now add paneer, saute it for two minutes, then add sauce and salt, mix it nicely with all the ingredients. Finally add the chappati pieces, toss it nicely so that it mix with all the ingredients.
  • Serve hot.

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banana,

Banana Dosa

10:23 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:
  • Dosa batter- 2 cups
  • Mashed banana - 1 cup
  • Sugar or Jaggery - 2 tsp
  • Oil or ghee - for making dosa
Method:
  • In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients except oil. Keep this aside for 10 minutes.
  • Heat dosa pan, drizzle oil, take a ladleful of dosa batter and pour it over pan. Spread batter into 1cm thick circle. Sprinkle oil over the edges. Flip dosa and cook both sides.
  • Serve this hot banana dosa with your favorite chutney.

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Drumstick leaves

Murungai Keerai Soup/Drumstick Leaves Soup

1:01 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:
  • Drumstick leaves - 1 cup
  • Onion - 1 
  • Garlic - 2
  • Tomato - 1
  • Salt as required
  • Pepper powder - 1 tsp
  • Water - 5 cups
Method:
  • In a pan add drumstick leaves, chopped onion, chopped garlic, chopped tomato and let it boil for 15 minutes in medium flame.
  • Now add salt and pepper, boil this for 2 more minutes.
  • Strain soup and serve hot with bread sticks.

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Orange,

Sunset

3:03 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:

  • Orange juice - 1 cup
  • Pomegranate juice - 1 cup
  • Lemon juice - 1/4 cup
  • Sugar - 10 tbsp
  • Ice cubes as required
Method:

  • Mix all the ingredients and grind it in the juicer,
  • Serve this sunset immediately.

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Drumstick leaves

Murungai Keerai/Drumstick leaves Sambar

10:22 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:
  • Murungai keerai/Drumstick leaves - 1 cup
  • Toor dal - 50 gms
  • Shallot onion - 10 
  • Tomato - 1
  • Tamarind - lemon size
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
  • Asafoetida/Hing- little
  • Sambar powder - 1 tsp
  • Salt as required
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
  • Curry leaves - few
Method:
  • Soak tamarind in 1 cup of water in 10 minutes and extract tamarind juice, keep this aside.
  • Cook toor dal along with cumin seeds and hing till dal is well-cooked(mashed).
  • Now add chopped onion, chopped tomato, drumstick leaves, salt, and sambar powder. 
  • Cook this under medium flame for 10 minutes. 
  • Now in a small pan, heat oil and add mustard seeds, when it start spluttering, add curry leaves.
  • Finally add this tempered items to the sambar.
  • Serve this with rice and curry.

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Paneer,

Simply Spaghetti

10:51 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:
  • Spaghetti - 200 gms
  • Paneer - 100 gms
  • Salt as required
  • Butter - 1 tsp
  • Onion - 1
  • Garlic pods - 2
  • Olive oil - 1 tsp
  • Oregano and chilli flakes - little
Method:
  • Boil 6 cups of water in a pan and add spaghetti, salt and olive oil. Cook spaghetti for 15 minutes(It actually took 15 minutes to cook, don't mash it). Sieve spaghetti and keep this aside.
  • Chop onion vertically and chop garlic pods into very small pieces. Cut paneer into 1 cm cubes. 
  • Heat butter in a pan and add onion and garlic, saute this for 2 minutes and add paneer, saute it again for 2 more minutes, finally add spaghetti, toss it well so that it mix with all other ingredients.
  • Sprinkle chilli flakes and oregano mix. Serve hot. 

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pista

Pista Burfi

11:29 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:

  • Pista - 1 cup
  • Sugar - 1 cup
  • Cardamon powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Saffron strands- few
  • Ghee - 1 tsp

Method:

  • Powder pista, keep this aside.
  • Add sugar in a pan and enough water to cover it. Boil until you get one-string consistency.
  • Now add cardamon powder and saffron, reduce the flame to low, now add pista powder, mix it nicely until it thickens.
  • Grease a plate with ghee and pour this mixture. Let it cool for 10 minutes and cut it into desired shape. Let it rest for one hour. Your pista burfi is ready to eat.

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homemade pizza,

Homemade Pizza without Oven

11:25 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:
For Dough:
  • Maida/All purpose flour - 1 cup
  • Dry Yeast - 1 tsp
  • Sugar - 1 tsp
  • Salt - 1 tsp
  • Milk - 1/4 cup
  • Olive oil - 1 tbsp
For Toppings:
  • Any kind of cheese - 1 cup
  • Cubed paneer- 15
  • Chopped babycorn- 1/2 cup
  • Capsicum - 1/2
  • Pizza sauce/pasta sauce/Tomato sauce - 2 tsp
  • Oregano and chilli flakes - 1/2 tsp
Method:
Dough Preparation:
  • Take warm water in small cup and add salt, sugar, and yeast. Keep this aside for ten minutes, you will notice frost in warm water.
  • In a separate bowl, add maida, olive oil, milk, and finally yeast water. Knead it into smooth dough. Cover the dough with wet cloth and keep it aside for 2 to 3 hours.
  • After 3 hours your dough will be double the size.
  • Now roll the dough into 1 cm thick circle, heat tawa and add olive oil, then cook this pizza base in low-medium flame for 7 minutes. (Cover tawa with lid while cooking, take care not to burn the pizza base).
Pizza:
  • Now our pizza base is ready. Cook chopped baby corn for 2 minutes in hot water. Chop capsicum into big pieces and shallow fry it in oil.
  • Apply tomato sauce or any other pizza sauce all over the pizza on one side, then add some grated cheese all over, arrange baby corn, paneer, and capsicum all over the pizza. Finally top it with lots of cheese. (You can even add olives and any other toppings). Sprinkle oregano and chilli flakes.
  • Now heat tawa and add olive oil and cook this pizza in medium flame for 7 minutes with lids covered. 
  • Your pizza is ready to serve.

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Bread

Bread Jamun

6:31 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

This is the easiest sweet recipe, you can make in no time. Surprise your guests with this sweet.
Ingredients:
  • Bread slices - 4 
  • Sugar - 1 cup
  • Water as required
  • Cardamon powder - a pinch
  • Ghee - 1 tbsp
Method:
  • Take sugar in a pan and add cardamon powder and enough water  to cover sugar. Boil it until you get one-string consistency.
  • Cut bread slices into small pieces. Heat ghee in another pan and roast bread slices.
  • Take a small serving bowl, add 3 or 4 roasted bread pieces and required sugar syrup. Hurray! We are done.

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