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Poori
Ingredients:

• Wheat flour - 1 cup
• Salt as required
• Water to knead dough
• Rava - 1 tbsp(for crispness)
• Oil for frying

Method:

• Mix wheat flour, rava, salt with required water into a soft dough.
• Make small balls from the dough and spread it using rolling pin.
• Heat oil and deep fry poori.

Potato Masala
Ingredients:

• Potato - 3
• Onion - 1
• Green chillies - 1 or 2
• Urud dal - 1 tbsp
• Channa dal - 1 tbsp
• Turmeric powder - a pinch
• Curry leaves and Coriander leaves - few
• Salt as required

Method:

• Boil potatoes, peel off skin, and mash it nicely.
• Cut onion and cook it in water until it becomes transparent and soft.
• In a kadai, add oil, mustard seeds, channa dal, urud dal, chopped green chillies, and curry leaves.
• Saute it for two minutes, then add cooked onion, finally mashed potatoes along with turmeric powder and salt.
• Add little water to get the gravy consistency.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.
• Cook for 3 to 4 minutes and serve it with hot pooris.

Ingredients:

• Channa dal - 1 cup
• Green chilli - 3 
• Chopped ginger - 1/2 tbsp
• Chopped garlic  - 1 tbsp (optional)
• Shallot onion - 10
• Curry leaves
• Salt
• Oil for frying

Method:

• Soak channa dal for one hour and grind it without adding water. (Don't grind it into a paste, grind it coarsely).
• Then add chopped green chilli, ginger, garlic, chopped onions, salt, and curry leaves to the channa dal mixture.
• Make small patties from dal and deep fry it in oil.
• Serve with coconut chutney.

Ingredients:

• Chick peas - 1 cup
• Red chillies - 3
• Mustard seeds - 1 tbsp
• Channa dal - 1 tbsp
• Curry leaves - few
• Asafoetida or hing - 1/4 tbsp

Methods:

• Soak chick peas for four hours and boil it along with salt. (don't overcook it as it will become smashed).
• Now in a pan, add oil, mustard seeds, channa dal, curry leaves, red chillies, hing, and saute for one minute. 
• Then add boiled chick peas and mix it until all the ingredients are well mixed.

Cooking Time: 15 minutes.
This is  the best evening snacks and mostly this recipe is prepared for Ganesh Chathurthi, Saraswathi Pooja, and other festivals.

Ingredients:

• Ragi flour - 2 cups
• Urud dal - 1/2 cup
• Raw rice - 1/2 cup
• Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Water for mixing

Method:

• Soak Urud dal and raw rice along with fenugreek seeds for about one or two hours.
• Grind this above mixture and transfer it to the bowl.
• Now add ragi flour and salt to the same bowl and mix it nicely.
• Add water to the batter to form consistency of dosa.
• Leave this batter to ferment overnight. Now the batter is ready
• Heat dosa tawa, pour ladleful of batter to it, and spread it in the round shape.
• Add oil along the edges and flip the dosa to cook properly.
• Serve this dosa with chutney or sambhar.

Cooking Time: 5 minutes.

Ingredients:

Ingredients:

• Eggs - 5
• Onion - 2
• Tomato -2
• Cumin seeds - 1/2 tbsp
• Mustard seeds - 1/2 tbsp
• Curry leaves - few
• Garam masala powder - 1/2 tbsp
• Chilli powder or sambhar powder - 1 1/2 tbsp
• Coriander powder - 1 tbsp
• Turmeric powder - 1
• Garlic pods - 2
• Chopped ginger - 1 tbsp
• Green chillies - 1 or 2
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Hard boil eggs for 8 to 10 minutes, de-shell it, make slits from the top of the eggs without breaking it.
• In a kadai, add oil, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, and then onion.
• Saute onion until it becomes transparent, then add tomatoes until the skin starts peeling.
• Now add turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder, and salt.
• Prepare a paste with green chillies, one onion, garlic pods, and ginger. Add this paste to the above mixture.
• When the kulambu starts boiling, add eggs and simmer stove, boil for 2 or 3 minutes. 
• Garnish it with coriander leaves and serve with boiled rice.

Cooking Time: 30 minutes.

Ingredients:

• Banana - 2
• Maida or All-purpose flour - 1 cup
• Rava - 1 tbsp
• Jaggery syrup - 1/2 cup
• Cardamom powder - a pinch
• Oil to fry

Method:

• Mash banana nicely
• Mix flour, rava, jaggery syrup, and cardamom powder nicely, then add mashed banana to it.
• Heat oil in a pan, make small balls from the mixture, dip it in the oil, fry until it turns golden brown.
• This is the perfect, sweet evening snack, especially during rainy season.

Cooking Time: 15 minutes.

Ingredients:

• Chicken - 1/2 kg
• Onion - 1 or 2
• Tomato - 1
• Ginger-garlic paste - 2 tbsp
• Bay leaves - 1
• Cardamom - 1
• Cinnamon - 1
• Coriander powder - 2 tbsp
• Red chilli powder - 1 tbsp
• Turmeric powder - 1 tbsp
• Star anise - 1
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Wash chicken and keep it aside
• Chop onion and tomato finely.
• In a kadai or pan or skillet, add oil and then add bay leaves, cinnamon, cardamom, star anise, saute it for few minutes.
• Now add chopped onion, ginger-garlic paste and tomato, saute this for few minutes.
• Then add coriander powder, turmeric powder, and red chilli powder, saute it for one minute.
• Now add chicken and salt (no need to add water, if you want add one small tumber of water because chicken itself contain some water).
• Cook this in medium flame and close the pan with a lid while cooking.
• Serve this chicken curry with boiled rice