Ingredients:
Banana Stem - 1/2 cup
Lime Juice - 1 limes juice
Sugar, Water - As reqd
Method:
- Blend all the above ingredients.
- You can also add fresh mint leaves.
Variation #1:
- You can cut the banana stem into pieces
- Add this to buttermilk and store it in refrigerator.
- You can take few pieces and add fine chop it.
- Add sugar to it and eat it raw.
Variation #2:
- You can finely chop the banana stem.
- And add add buttermilk to it and add a pinch of a sugar and blend it.
Ingredients:
Dried Fig - 2
Dates - 2-3 (seedless)
Badam - 2
Milk - 1 cup
Honey - 1 tbsp or Sugar - 1 tbsp
Ice Cubes - As reqd.
Method:
- Soak dried fig, dates and badam in 3 tbsp of milk.
- After a while blend them.
- Add ice cubes, sugar and milk.
- Healthy milkshake is ready.
Ingredients:
Condensed milk - A tin
Curd - 2-3 tbsp (optional)
Ghee - 1 tsp
Nuts - Fried (cashews, badam or any other nuts of your choice)
Method:
- Add the condensed milk to microwave safe bowl.
- Add Curd to this and mix well and microwave for 2 mins.
- Now take it from microwave and mix well and add ghee.
- Mix nicely and mivrowave for 2 mins.
- If it is thick then it is done, if not just microwave for 2 more mins.
- Delicious paal kova is ready.
- Add the fried nuts and serve.
Ingredients:
Egg - 1 -2
Maida - 1 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Butter - 5 tbsp
Baking soda - pinch
Salt - pinch
Method:
- Beat the eggs and add all ingredients.
- Set this aside for 1/2 hr.
- If batter is too thick, add milk accordingly.
- Heat the pan and add a spoon of butter to it,
- Then add this batter and toast both sides.
- While serving sprinkle powdered sugar and serve.
Recipe #1 - Omelette:
- Beat the egg and add turmeric powder.
- Add pepper powder and salt.
- Heat pan and add this mixture.
- Simple omelet ready.
Recipe #2 - Veg Omelette:
- Same as recipe #1.
- Add finely chopped onion, grated carrot and curry leaves.
- Make Veg omelette.
Recipe #3 - French Toast:
- Beat the eggs and add sugar to it.
- Dip the bread pieces and toast it.
Recipe #4 - Pepper Egg:
- Take boiled eggs and slit it.
- Heat oil in pan and add pepper powder and salt.
- Saute for a min and then add eggs and mix well.
Recipe #5 - Scrambled Egg:
- Heat a pan and directly crack eggs to pan.
- Keep stirring for few mins.
Recipe # 6 - Egg dosa:
- Take a spoon of dosa batter.
- Add beaten egg to it.
- Then add veggies, salt, pepper powder.
- Heat tawa and make dosa.
Ingredients:
Apple - 1/2
Carrot - 1/2
Beetroot - 1/4
Sugar - optional
Water - as reqd
Method:
- Peel the skin and make into small pieces.
- Add required water and blend it.
- If you like to have sugar, then add sugar while blending.
- Healthy juice.
Ingredients:
Chicken - 1/4 kg
Onion - 1 (diced)
Tomato - 1/2 (diced)
Garlic pods - 6
Ginger - small piece
Curry leaves - 3/4 cup
Turmeric powder - 1 tbsp
Chilly powder - 2 tsp
Pepper powder - 1 tbsp
Salt, Oil - As Reqd
Method:
- Grind onion, tomato, ginger, garlic and curry leaves to a paste.
- Add this to chicken.
- Then add turmeric, chilly, pepper powder and salt and mix well.
- Let this marination for 15-20 mins.
- Heat oil in a pan and add few curry leaves.
- Once it splutters add the marinated chicken.
- Cook this in medium range for 10 mins.
Ingredients:
Hung Curd - 1 cup
Basin Flour - 3/4 cup
Chilly powder - 1 tbsp
Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp
Cashew - 6-7 (finely chopped)
Badam - 6-7 (finely chopped)
Rice Flour - 4 tbsp
Coriander leaves - Handful(finely chopped)
Salt - to taste
Oil - as reqd.
Method:
- Put the curd in muslin cloth and hand it for 2-3 hrs and collect the hung curd.
- Dry roast basin flour for 2-3 minutes and transfer to bowl.
- Add hung curd and mix this to a paste.
- Then add chilly powder, garam masala, salt and ginger garlic paste.
- Then add the nuts and mix well and make to kebab shapes.
- Dust this in rice flour and shallow fry.
Ingredients:
Avacoda - 1
Sugar - 1/4 cups
Raisins - 5-6
Milk - 1 1/2 cups
Ice cubes - 2-3
Method:
- Cut the avacoda and remove the seed.
- Scoop the fruit.
- Add sugar, milk and ice cubes and blend it.
- Serve with raisins topping.
Note: Increase or decrease sugar content to your taste.
Ingredients:
Carrots - 8
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Method:
- Boil the carrot for one whistle and strain the water.(peel skin and cut it)
- Now heat a pan and add this carrot paste and cook in low range.
- Now add sugar and mix well and let it cook for 5 mins.
- Let it cool.
- You can store this in refrigerator and mix in milk when needed.
- You can mix this in cold milk or hot milk.
Ingredients:
Green gram (pachai payaru) - 1 cup
Raw Rice - 1/4 cup
Onion - 1 (diced)
Green Chilly - 5
Ginger - 1/4 inch
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Salt - As reqd
Method:
- Soak green gram and rice for 6-8 hrs.
- Take a jar add onion,chilly, ginger,cumin seeds and salt and grind.
- Then drain water and add green gram and rice and grind.
- Add water accordingly.
- Batter should be of dosa maav consistency.
- Heat the oil and make dosas.
- Serve it Allam Chutney or podi.
Note: You can immediately grind and use or you can let it ferment and then use.
Variation #1:
- Heat oil in pan.
- Add mustard, cumin seeds and curry leaves.
- Then add finely chopped onion and saute.
- Add this to batter and then make dosas.
Variation #2:
- Make rava upma or arisi upma and take a cup of it and place inside dosa.
- This is pesarupma.
Ingredients:
Dry Red chilly - 5
Urad dhal - 2 tsp
Ginger - 1 1/2 tbsp (finely chopped)
Coconut - 1 1/2 tbsp
Jaggery - Little
Tamrind - Lemon size
Temper - Mustard, cumin, red chilly.
Salt, water, oil - As reqd
Method:
- Heat oil in pan.
- Add chilly, urad dhal, ginger and saute.
- Transfer this to jar.
- Then add coconut, jaggery, tamrind and salt.
- Grind it to a paste.
- Heat oil and add tempering items and add to chutney.
- Allam chutney goes good with pesarattu.
Variation #1:
- I added 1 1/2 tbsp of channa dal and 1/4 tsp of fenugreeek seeds.
- Also added little mustard seeds.
- Sauted all this and added while blending.
Ingredients:
Maravalli kaelangu - 1 (big size, peel skin and grate it).
Urad dhal - 1 1/2 cups
Channa Dhal - 2 tbsp
Raw rice - 1 tbsp
Red Chilly - 5
Fennel Seeds - 1 tbsp Salt,Oil - As reqd
Onion - 1 (finely chopped)
Curry Leaves - Handful (finely chopped)
Method:- Soak urad dhal and raw rice for 2 hours.
- First grind salt, chilly and fennel seeds.
- Then drain water and add the soaked content and grind it for a while.
- Add in grated kaelangu and grind batter to vada batter consistency.
- Transfer this to a bowl.
- Add in fine chopped onions and curry leaves and mix well.
- Heat oil in pan and make vadas and fry it.
Ingredients:
Tomato - 8
Red Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tbsp
Salt, water - As reqd
Oil - 1 tbsp
Method:
- Boil water in a pan and add tomatoes.
- Let it boil. After a while peel the skin and mash tomatoes.
- Heat the pan and add mashed tomatoes.
- Cook in low range till raw smell goes.
- Now add chilly powder, coriander powder and salt.
- Mix well. Add oil and mix well.
- Cook for few mins.
Ingredients:
Tomato - 4 (finely chopped)
Garlic pods - 10-12 (finely chopped
Red Chilly powder - 1 - 1 1/2 tbsp
Temper - mustard and cumin seeds
Salt, oil and water - as reqd.
Method:
- Heat oil in pan and add tempering items.
- Then add tomato and garlic and saute for a while.
- Close the pan and cook in low range.
- All the water should dry off.
- Now add salt and chilly powder and mix well.
- Cook for few mins.
- Goes good with idly,dosa and upma.
Ingredients:
Baby potatoes - 6
Paneer - 1/4 cup (grated)
Nuts - cashew, badam (finely chopped)
Garlic pods - 8 (finely chopped)
Green chilly - 2 -3 (finely chopped)
Cashew paste - 1-2 tbsp
Fresh Cream - 1 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander and curry leaves - to garnish
Salt, Water, oil - as reqd
Method:
- Add turmeric powder and boil potatoes.
- Scoop on top(potato) and stuff paneer and nuts.
- Fry it and keep aside.
- In a pan add oil, then add garlic, curry leaves and green chilly.
- Saute for a while and then add salt and turmeric powder and mix well.
- Now add cashew paste and fresh cream and mix well.
- Let it boil for few mins.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.
Ingredients:
Paneer - 150 gms
Mushroom - 150 gms
Green Capsicum - 150 gms
Onion - 2 (finely chopped)
Tomato - 2 (finely chopped)
Green chilly - 2
Fennel seeds - 1 tbsp
Brinji leaf - 1
Cloves and Lavangam - 2 each
Coriander powder - 3 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tbsp
Pepper powder - 3 tbsp
Salt, Oil - As reqd.
Curry Leaves - Little
Method:
- Heat oil and add brinji leaf, cloves, lavangam and fennel seeds.
- Then add onion and tomato and saute for a while.
- Add diced paneer, mushroom and capsicum and saute.
- Add green chilly and then let it boil for few minutes.
- Now add the pepper, coriander and turmeric powder and mix well.
- Add salt and curry leaves and mix well and serve hot.
Ingredients:
Onion - 2 (finely chopped)
Tomato - 4 (finely chopped)
Ginger garlic paste - 1 1/2 tbsp
Green chilly - 4 (finely chopped) or Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
Pav Bhaji Masala - 1 1/2 tbsp
Green capsicum - 1 (finely chopped)
Green peas - 1/4 cup
Cauliflower - 1/4 cup
Potato - 1/4 cup
Tomato puree - 1/4 cup
Butter - 2 tbsp
Lime - squeeze a quarter and keep
Coriander leaves - to garnish
Pav buns - As reqd (apply butter and toast it)
Oil, Water, Salt - As reqd.
Method:
- Boil the veggies(other than capsicum) and mash it,
- Heat oil in pan and add onion and saute.
- Then add gingergarlic paste and other ingredients one by one.
- Add the boiled veggies to the gravy and then capsicum.
- Let it boil.
- Finally add lime juice and turn off the range.
Ingredients:
Cinamon Stick - Small piece
Cloves - 3
Elaichi - 2
Fennel seeds - 1/4 tbsp
Marati Mokku - 1
Amchur Powder - 1/2 tbsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tbsp
Dry Red Chilly - 3 - 4
Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
Hing - a pinch
Turmeric Powder - a pinch
Method:
- Dry roast all the ingredients other than amchur powder and hing.
- After roasting add amchur powder and hing.
- Let it cool.
- Grind and store it.
Ingredients:
Onion - 1
Tomato - 1
Green chilly - 2 - 3
Temper - Mustard, cumin seeds, curry leaves and coriander leaves.
Salt, Oil, water - As reqd.
Method:
- Heat oil in pan and add tempering items.
- Then add onion and saute.
- Then add chilly and tomato and saute till raw smell goes.
- Then add little water and required salt.
- Goes good with chapati.
Note: You can add boiled egg to this gravy or directly add beaten egg to this gravy.
