Potato

Aloo Rasedar (Vrat)

8:34 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

This recipe can be taken during your Vrat.
Ingredients:
  • Boiled and peeled potatoes - 4
  • Ghee - 2 tsp
  • Yogurt/Curd - 1/2 curd
  • Salt as required
  • Sambar/Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Finely chopped ginger - 1/2 tsp
  • Carom seeds - 1/2 tsp
Method:
  • Chop potatoes into small pieces.
  • Heat ghee in a pan, add ginger and carom seeds, then add sambar powder and salt, finally add potatoes, curd, and 1/2 cup of water.
  • Simmer the heat and cook it for 10 minutes, until the gravy thickens.
  • Serve this with poori.

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mushroom

Oyster Mushroom Kulambu

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Ingredients:
  • Oyster mushroom - 250 gm
  • Pearl onion - 10
  • Tomato - 1
  • Sambar powder/Chilli powder - 1 tsp
  • Coriander powder - 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Salt as required
  • Coconut milk- 1 cup
  • Garam masala - 1/2 tsp
  • Bay leaf - 1
  • Cinnamon - 1
  • Cardamon - 1
  • Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp
  • Ginger-garlic- green chilli paste - 1 tsp
Method:
  • Clean and cut oyster mushroom. Cut pearl onion and tomato, keep this aside.
  • Heat oil in a pan, add fennel seeds, cardamon, cinnamon, and bay leaf, saute this for few minutes and add pearl onion, tomato, and ginger-garlic-green chilli paste, saute this for few minutes.
  • Add sambar powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, garam masala, and salt. Add one cup of water and let it boil. 
  • When it starts boiling, add coconut milk and boil it for few more minutes.
  • Serve this kulambu with rice.

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karthigai deepam recipes

Karthigal Recipes/ Karthigai Deepam Recipes

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Karthigai deepam is all about wonderful earthen lamps, sweets, new clothes, and firecrackers. Here are a collection of recipes to celebrate deepam with taste.
Nei appam
Kadalai Urundai
Pori Urundai
Adai
Pidi Kozhukattai
Paruppu Payasam
Vella Seedai

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kadalai urundai,

kadalai urundai/ Peanut Balls/ Verkadalai Urundai

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Ingredients:
  • Peanuts - 1 cup
  • Jaggery - 1/2 cup
  • Rice flour - 2 tsp
Method:
  • Dry roast peanuts, remove the skin, and slightly crush it into small pieces.
  • Heat jaggery with enough water. Test the consistency of jaggery syrup by simply adding a drop of syrup in water, if it rotates into ball, then your syrup is ready.
  • Filter and add the jaggery syrup to peanuts and mix it well.
  • Dust your hands with rice flour and make small peanuts balls. 

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Raw Rice

Nei Appam

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Ingredients:
  • Raw rice - 1 cup
  • Jaggery - 3/4 cup
  • Banana - 1
  • Grated coconut - 1/4 cup
  • Ghee as required
Method:
  • Soak raw rice for at least 3 hours. Grind it along with jaggery.
  • To the batter add mashed banana and coconut. Mix this nicely and let it ferment for 2 to 3 hours.
  • Add ghee in paniyaram pan, and add batter in each hole.
  • Flip and cook on both sides. Serve hot.

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besan flour,

Mohan Dal

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Ingredients:
  • Besan flour- 1 cup
  • Milk powder - 1 cup
  • Ghee - 1 cup
  • Sugar - 1 1/2 cup
  • Vanilla essence - little
  • Chopped nuts(Almonds, pista, walnuts, cashew) - 1/4 cup
Method:
  • Heat ghee in a pan and roast besan flour until nice smell comes out. Then mix milk powder with the roasted besan flour without any lumps.
  • In another pan add sugar and water(enough water to cover sugar) and heat it until you get one-string consistency.Finally add vanilla essence  to it. 
  • Immediately add besan-milk powder mix to the sugar syrup and mix it well in low heat. 
  • Coat a plate with ghee and pour the above mixture, top it with nuts. Cut the mohan dal into your desired shape after 5 minutes. Let it cool further. After an hour separate the sweet pieces, store it in airtight container. 

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deepavali recipes,

Deepavali Recipes / Diwali Recipes

11:09 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

                      தீபாவளி நல்வாà®´்த்துக்கள்

 Deepavali or diwali is the festival of lights. Exchanging sweets among neighbors and relations increase happiness. Here i have listed few sweets and savories to make your diwali day even brighter.
Murukku 
Rava Laddu
Carrot/Beetroot Vadai
Rava Kesari
Javvarisi Semiya Payasam
Oma Podi
Thattai
Pista Burfi
Check out other sweet and savories recipes from "Desserts & Snacks" Section in "Other Delicacies".

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deepavali recipes,

Murukku

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Ingredients:
  • Rice flour - 2 cups
  • Urad dal flour - 1/4 cup (used store bought flour)
  • Sesame seeds - 1 tsp (i have used white seeds)
  • Oil - 3 tbsp
  • Hing - 1/2 tsp
  • Salt as required
  • Oil for frying
Method: 
  • Knead rice flour, urad dal flour, sesame seeds, oil, and hing with water into soft dough without cracks.
  • Heat oil in a pan, fill dough in murukku maker with murukku hole plate.
  • Make murukku in greased laddle and then drop it in hot oil. 
  • Turn heat to medium flame, cook murukku till it turns golden color.
  • Store this murukku in airtight container and it taste wonderful for weeks.

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appalam,

Appala Kulambu

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Ingredients:
  • Appalams -6
  • Onion -1 
  • Tomato - 1
  • Garlic - 4 pods
  • Ginger - small piece
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
  • Urad dal - 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Sambar powder - 1 tsp
  • Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
  • Curry leaves - few
  • Salt as required
Method:
  • Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan and roast chopped onion, tomato, ginger, garlic, cumin seeds, and turmeric powder. Grind all the roasted items into paste.
  • Heat oil in a pan and add urad dal, mustard seeds, and curry leaves, then add ground paste, saute this for few minutes, add sambar powder, salt, and coriander powder along with 1 cup of water.
  • Break appalams into 4 pieces and add this to gravy, cook this in medium flame for 3 to 4 minutes. 
  • Switch off the stove and serve this kulambu with cooked rice.

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