Coconut Halwa

Ingredients:

Coconut - 90 g (Grated)
Sugar - 50 g
Milk powder - 30 g
Milk - 200 ml
Rice flour - 2 tbsp
Elaichi powder  - a pinch
Nuts, Ghee - As reqd
Food Color - Little or Saffron strands - Little

Method:

• Boil Milk and add saffron strands and set aside.
• Heat ghee in pan and add in nuts.
• Roast them and transfer to plate.
• Now to the same pan add in grated coconut and saute in medium flame for 2 mins.
• To this add in rice flour and saute for 2 more mins.
• Now add in milk slowly and mix well.
• Cook in low flame for 2-3 mins.
• It will thicken fast.
• Now add in sugar and milk powder and mix well.
• Add little ghee and cook till the mixture leaves the edges of pan.
• Add in elaichi powder and roasted nuts and ,mix well.
• Serve hot.

Note:

• You can skip milk powder and add extra sugar.
• For natural color, you can used brown sugar too.
• If using food color add in while adding milk.

Pudhina Dosai

Ingredients:

Dosa Batter - 1/2 cup
Mint leaves - Handful or small bunch
Coriander leaves - Little
Green chilly - 2
Garlic - 3
Ginger - small piece
Salt, Water, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• In a blender add in washed mint leaves and coriander leaves.
• Add in chilly, garlic and ginger.
• Add in little salt and little water and blend it.
• Add this to a bowl.
• To this add in 1/2 cup or more as per your taste.
• Heat dosa tawa and pour in a laddle of batter.
• Spread it thin and drizzle oil.
• Cover and cook in medium flame.
• Serve hot with chutney of your choice.

Masala Kaara Kozhukattai - Leftover Rice

                                   

Ingredients:

Leftover Rice - 1 1/2 cup

Rice flour - 1 cup

Onion - 1

Tomato - 1

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Coriander powder - 2 tsp

Red chilly powder - 2 tsp

Curry leaves - a sprig

Coriander leaves - Little

Salt, Water, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• To the blender add in rice and blend it to fine paste.
• Don't add any water 
• Transfer this to bowl.
• Add in salt, rice flour little by little.
• Make a soft dough.
• Now grease your hands and make small balls.
• Place this in greased plate.
• Steam for 10 mins.
• Heat oil in pan and add in mustard seeds.
• Add in fine chopped curry leaves.
• Add in onion puree and saute in medium flame.
• Add in tomato puree and little water.
• Cook in medium flame.
• Add in required salt, spice powders and mix well 
• Once oil oozes, add in steamed balls.
• Toss well.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

 

Naanizza/ Wheat Naan Pizza - Panner Naan Pizza

                                       

Ingredients:

For Dough:

All purpose flour - 125 g
Wheat flour - 125 g
Salt - 3.4 tsp
Curd - 1 cup or 225 g (app)

Garlic Butter:

Unsalted butter  - 2 tbsp
Garlic crushed or paste - 1/4 tsp 
Coriander leaves - Little (fine chop)

Paneer Masala:

Paneer -  250 g
Onion - 1 (thin slices)
Tomato - 1 (roughly chop)
Curd - 2 tbsp (thick curd)
Ginger garlic paste -  1 tsp
Red Chilly powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam Masala - 1/4 tsp
Salt, Oil - As reqd

Topping:

Onion - 1 (Slice/ Dice)
Green Capsicum - 1 (Slice/Dice)
Pizza sauce - 3 tbsp
Italian seasoning - As reqd
Grated Cheese - 1/4 cup

Method:

• Lets make the dough first.
• In a bowl add in flour, salt and mix well.
• Add curd little by little and make a soft dough.
• Use thick curd.
• Now in other bowl lets prepare paneer marination.
• Add in Curd, ginger garlic paste, chilly powder and garam masala.
• Mix this well.
• Add in paneer cubes and mix well.
• Heat oil in pan and add in onion and saute for a while.
• Add in tomato and saute for a while.
• Add in marinated paneer and mix well.
• Cook in low flame for 3-4 mins.
• Transfer this to plate.
• Now divide the dough into  equal parts and roll it to oblong .
• Now heat a tawa and prepare naan as we do regularly.
• That is apply little water to one side of naan.
• Place this side to tawa and flip the tawa and cook.
• Prepare the naan and set aside.
• Prepare garlic butter and set aside.
• Now apply this in naan.
• Spread in pizza sauce and sprinkle seasoning.
• Add in paneer masala and then top it with onions and capsicum.
• Sprinkle cheese and seasoning.
• Arrange them in lined baking tray.
• Bake this in a preheated oven at 200°C for 6-8 mins or till cheese melts.
• Serve hot.
• Yields 6 naanizza.

Note:

• You can do the same in stove top too.
• Place a tawa and inside it place a small bowl or stand.
• Cover  the tawa it with a lid.
• Preheat the same for 10 mins.
• Now reduce the flame to medium.
• Place the naan and cover with lid.
• Cook till cheese melts.
• It will take app 10 mins.

Corn Masala Poori

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 2 cups
Sweet Corn - 1/2 cup
Green Chilly - 2 
Ginger - Small piece
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Red Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Black pepper powder -
Salt, Water, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• In a blender add in sweet corn(add it raw), chilly and ginger.
• Blend it to fine paste and set aside.
• In a bowl add in flour, salt, cumin seeds.
• Add in turmeric powder, chilly powder and mix well.
• Now add the blended puree and mix well.
• If needed add little water and make a tight dough.
• Grease the dough with oil and set aside.
• Now dust the surface and make small balls out of dough.
• Take a ball, sprinkle little flour and roll it.
• Don't roll it thin.
• Heat oil in pan and fry these pooris.
• Serve hot with poori masala or gravy of your choice.