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Bread Jamun

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.

Spicy Mushroom Masala

Ingredients:

  • Button mushroom - 10
  • Onion -1
  • Tomato - 1
  • Capsicum -1
  • Ginger-garlic paste - 1 tsp
  • Chilli powder/Sambar powder - 1 tsp
  • Coriander powder - 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder - pinch
  • Garam masala - 1/2 tsp
  • Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
  • Salt as required
  • Milk - 1/2 cup

Method:

  • Chop mushroom into big pieces. Grind tomato into fine paste. Cube onion and capsicum(big pieces).
  • In a pan, heat oil and add fennel seeds, then add onion and ginger-garlic paste. Saute this for 2 minutes and add capsicum and tomato paste. Saute this for 2 more minutes.
  • Now add sambar powder, turmeric powder, garam masala, coriander powder, and salt, saute this and add mushroom. Mix mushroom nicely with the masala and sprinkle some water.
  • Close the pan with a lid and let it cook for 7 to 10 minutes.
  • Finally switch off the stove and mix milk with the gravy.
  • Serve hot with naan, roti, or any fried rice.

Mutter Paneer

Ingredients:
  • Paneer - 250 gms
  • Peas - 100 gms
  • Onion - 1
  • Tomato - 1
  • Garlic-ginger paste - 1 tsp
  • Coriander powder - 1 tsp
  • Chilli powder/Sambar powder - 1 tsp
  • Garam masala - 1/2 tsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Water - 1 cup
  • Salt as required
  • Milk/Fresh cream - 2 tbsp
  • Chopped coriander leaves for garnish
Method
  • Chop and grind onion and tomato separately. Keep it aside.
  • Cube paneer and stir fry it in hot oil. Keep it aside. Cook peas in cooker for one whistle
  • Heat 2 tsp of oil in pan and add onion paste, saute until it becomes light brown, then add tomato paste, ginger-garlic paste, saute this for 2 minutes.
  • Then add turmeric powder, coriander powder, garam masala, chilli powder, saute this for few minutes until oil separates. Now peas, water, and salt. Cook this for 2 more minutes. Finally add paneer and cook till the gravy thickens.
  • Switch off the stove and add milk and coriander leaves.
  • Serve hot with naan, roti, or fried rice.

Murungai Keerai Rasam/ Drumstick leaves rasam

Ingredients:
  • Drumstick leaves - 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 drumstick leaves in 1 cup water for 10 minutes. 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, drumstick leaves 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.

Puliyotharai/Tamarind rice

Ingredients:
  • Tamarind - 150gm
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
  • Sesame oil - 1/2 cup
  • Channa dal - 5 tsp
  • Red chilli - 5
  • Curry leaves - 3 tsp
  • Asafoetida - 1 tsp
  • Groundnuts - 1 cup
  • Salt as required
  • Cooked rice - 2 cups (cook rice with required salt)
Dry roast and Grind
  • Red chilli - 20
  • Channa dal - 5 tsp
  • Curry leaves - 3 tsp
  • Fenugreek seeds- 2 tsp

Method:
  • Soak tamarind in 2 cups of water for 2 hours. Grind this tamarind along with soaked water into thick paste. Filter this paste to remove any tamarind seeds.
  • Grind the dry roasted item and keep it aside.
  • In a pan, add the tamarind water, when it starts boiling add the ground paste. Cook this in medium flame for 20 to 25 minutes until the tamarind paste thicken.
  • Now in another pan, add oil, then mustard seeds, when it starts spluttering, add curry leaves, channa dal, red chilli, groundnuts, and asafoetida.
  • Add this seasoning to the thick tamarind paste and store this puliyotharai in airtight container.
  • Take required tamarind paste and mix it with cooked rice.
  • Serve this rice with appalam or vathal.

Cheese Pakoda

Ingredients:
  • Grated cheese - 1/2 cup
  • Maida - 1/2 cup
  • Gram flour - 1/2 cup
  • Rice flour/ Rava - 2 tsp
  • Salt as required
  • Onion - 1
  • Green chilli - 2
  • Chopped ginger - 1/2 tsp
  • Oil for frying
Method:
  • In a bowl, mix cheese, maida, gram flour, rice flour, chopped onion and chilli, ginger, and salt. 
  • Knead it with water in vada consistency.
  • Pinch it little and fry it in hot oil.
  • Serve hot with tea or coffee.

Oats Sweet Pongal

Ingredients:
  • Oats - 1 cup
  • Moong dal - 1/2 cup
  • Jaggery - 1 cup
  • Cardamon powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Cashew - 10
  • Raisins - 10
  • Ghee - 1 tsp
Method:
  • In a pan, add jaggery and 1.5 cup water, let it boil. Switch off stove and filter jaggery. Keep this aside.
  • Roast cashew and raisins in ghee. Keep this aside.
  • Dry roast moong dal and cook it along with water in cooker for 3 whistles. Now add oats and cardamon powder to cooked moong dal and add jaggery water, cook this for one whistle. 
  • Finally add  cashews and raisins.

Ragi Pakoda

Ingredients:
  • Ragi flour/Millets - 1 cup
  • Finely chopped onion - 1/2 cup
  • Chopped green chilli - 1 tsp
  • Chopped ginger - 1/2 tsp
  • Hing - a pinch
  • Salt as required
  • Water for kneading
  • Oil for frying
Method:
  • In a bowl, mix ragi, onion, chilli, ginger, hing, and salt. Now add water slowly and make a little loose dough.
  • Heat oil in a pan, pinch little dough and fry it in the oil.
  • Serve hot.