Tuesday, December 22, 2009

CORN TRIANGLES


The name maize is derived from an Arawak-Carib word. 'mahiz'. The early American civilization were based on this crop, which. made settled life possible in Mexico and Central America. Within a comparatively short time of the discovery of America, maize spread widely throughout the World and became an important source of carbohydrate food for the poorer countries.


1 cup Maize flour

1 cup Plain flour

1 table spoon Ajwain/ Carom seeds

1 table spoon Pepper flakes

Salt to taste

Oil for deep frying


Mix maize flour, plain flour, pepper flakes, ajwian and salt. Add water and make a dough.

Divide the dough into equal sized balls and roll out the dough. Take a knife ,cut into triangle shapes. Repeat this for the rest of the dough.

Heat oil on a deep pan on medium heat. Then fry them till they turn golden brown in color. Remove from the oil , allow to cool completely. Store tightly sealed to retain crispness.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Video Recipe of Peanut Toffee


Today I am going to bring in my childhood favorite sweet peanut toffee or chikki.

Usually we make these chikkies at home but those tastes are not like store bought one. But here I will show you exact taste of store bought chikki.

For all your convenience this time I am posting video.




Ingredients:

1 cup Peanuts

1 cup Jaggery

¾ cup Sugar

4 Cardamom pods (crushed or powder)

½ tsp Ghee/Oil



Preparation for peanut:


Dry roast the raw peanuts in a pan on low flame till lightly brown or until crunchy.

Let it cool down some time, after that remove the skin from peanuts.



For Candy Syrup:


Take two kadais

In one kadai add little bit of water and add jagery, stir this very often.

At the same time we have to prepare sugar syrup to make this take another kadai fry the sugar without any water, stir thoroughly until it turns into candy syrup. When sugar syrup comes one string consistency remove the kadai from the stove.

When jaggery syrup close to come candy stage add cardamom powder and stir continuously.

After jaggery syrup get two string consistency add the prepare sugar syrup and then remove from the stove. Then add peanuts and mix well until the peanuts are well coated with the syrup.

Now spread this mixture on aluminum foil and cut your desired shape. Wait for toffee to cool and then your mouth watering peanut toffee ready to eat.




Tuesday, November 17, 2009

White Zucchini

This original recipe demands Nethi Beerakaya, which comes from ridge gourd family. Because of that buttery texture and taste we are calling as ghee ridge gourd. These ridge gourds are very difficult find here. So I made this recipe with white zucchini, it’s worked very well every time.


Follow the recipe:

6 baby zucchini (or) 3 big White Zucchini

2 medium size Onions

2 medium size Tomatoes

1 tsp Ginger Garlic paste

5 Green Chilies

1 sp Coriander powder

¼ sp Turmeric powder

2 tbs Chopped Coriander leaves

10 Cashew nuts (make it paste)

¼ cup Milk

1/3 cup Water

2 tbs Oil

Salt to taste.

Wash and peel the zucchini and slit into plus shape.

If you have big size zucchini peel and chop into one-inch peaces.

Finely chop the onions, tomatoes and green chillies.

Heat the oil in a kadai, fry the chopped onions and green chilies until onions become transparent.

Add ginger garlic paste and fry till raw smell goes off.


Add the chopped tomatoes, fry till soft.

Add turmeric and coriander powder and mix well.

Add cashew nut paste and fry for a while.

Add zucchini, chopped coriander mix it well carefully.


Pour 1/3 cup of water and salt, close the lid,(don’t add more water because

zucchini takes only few minutes to cook) cook until all water get evaporate.

Then add the milk and simmer for 3 minutes, remove from the stove.

Serve with the rice.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Watermelon Juice


Watermelon is an ideal health food because it doesn't contain any fat or cholesterol, and it is an excellent source of vitamins A, B6 and C.
No need to add any water to this juice because watermelon has 92% water itself. We can prepare this delicious juice within one minute.

Ingredients:

Watermelon (seedless one or seeds out of the watermelon)
Salt 1/2 tsp( or less then 1/2 tsp, its depends on your taste)
Pepper powder less then 1/4 tsp
Lemon juice- 1 spoon
Mint leaves - 3

Use a large sauce spoon and scoop out the one cup of red part from the
watermelon.
Put this watermelon,salt,lemon juice,pepper powder,mint leaves in
the blender. Blend well until smooth ( it will take less then a minute).
Serve into juice glasses.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

EASY VERMICELLI BIRIYANI


These days really I am getting bore with noodles and pasta. So this time I try to make my old fashioned recipes. In my college days, we are calling this as "Bambino Biriyani, there is a secret behind this name that we found this recipe on bambino vermicelli packs. Its remained me my college days. Later on its modified by us as easy version.


1 cup Vermicelli
1 cup Water
1 Onion(cut into slices)
3 Green Chillies(chopped)
2 tbsp Green Peas(I used frozen one)
1 sp Ginger Garlic past
1 Star Anise
5 Cloves
2 Cardamom pods
1/2" Cinnamon
1tsp Masala powder
1tbsp Cooking Oil

In a skillet add the oil and cardamom, cloves, Cinnamon, star anise and fry the spices until the nice aroma will come out from them.
Add the chilly, onion slices and peas, fry them till cooked well. Add ginger garlic past and fry again for few minutes.
Now add the vermicelli to this, stir well and pour 1 cup of warm water, when the vermicelli is changing color. Add salt and masala powder, mix it well. Close the lid and cook in low flame till the water gets absorbed. Remove from flame.
Serve with curd chutney and lemon.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Mirchi Ka Salan

Today i am going to write the special recipe of Hyderabad, Mirchi ka Salan.

Step 1
1 tsp Cumin powder
1 tsp Coriander powder
2 tbsp Chilly powder
2 tbsp Yogurt
1 Lemon
Salt
Oil

Step 2
2 tbsp white Sesame seeds
2 tbsp Peanuts

Dry roast peanuts, sesame seeds and make it powder, set aside.

Step 3
4 tbsp fresh Coconut

Grind it to a paste. keep aside.

Step 4
1 cup chopped Banana chilly
1 cup Tamarind juice (from 1/2 lemon size tamarind)

In bowl soak the chopped banana chilly along with tamarind water.

Step 5
1 cup chopped Tomato
1/2 cup chopped Onion
1/2 " Ginger
3 big cloves of Garlic

Heat 1 Sp oil, first fry the chopped onions. And add the chopped ginger, garlic and tomato fry until they become soft. Grind all the fried ingredients into a smooth paste.

How to make:
Heat oil in a kadai and fry the onion, tomato past( From step 5) until raw smell will go.


Now add the sesame and ground nut powder(From step2), stir fry for a while.


Then add chilly, cumin, coriander powders and salt according to taste and saute for a minutes.
Add coconut paste(From step3) and simmer.


Add curd and mix well. (If you like, you can add 1/2 Sp sugar in this stage)


Pour the tamarind juice along with soaked chilly(From step4)


Cook over a low fire till the oil starts floating on top. Switch of the stove and mix the lemon juice.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

ALMOND BURFI


Really, its such a great sweet. My son love this , in his words sweet means almond or kaju burfi. Probably all the Indians like almond burfi. You can have it this any time in parties, travelling and picnics. And also a bunch of roses along with delicious badam burfi will surely become a great gift idea.

1 cup Almonds
1 cup Sugar
1/4 Milk powder
2tbs Milk
2tbs Ghee
1 tsp Cardamom powder
silver Leaf (optional)


Soak almonds in water for 2 hours . Remove the skin and blend
the almonds to a fine paste, Use as little milk as possible when blending.

In heavy bottomed pan mix sugar and ground almond, cook in a medium flame, stirring continuously until thick consistency. Over low flame, add milk powder and cardamom powder to this and again keep stirring until this mixture does not stick to the pan and starts to leave sides forming like a ball, as shown in the picture below. While stirring add ghee little by little.


Spread mixture on a greased work surface. Roll lightly with a rolling pin, to a desired thickness. Cut into diamond or square shape using a knife, when it is still lukewarm. Apply the silver leaf for decoration. Cool completely, and keep it in refrigerator for half an hour. Store in a container.


Thursday, March 26, 2009

UGADI WISHES

Monday, March 16, 2009

Healthier Version Of (Oven Baked) Kajjikayalu.

As far as healthy food is concerned, baked food comes first in this category because baked food items are low in fat. So I decided to experiment with my own recipe, transforming it into oven bake method. In fact my old version of kajjikayalu recipe is traditional but not healthy because its made with plain flour and deep fried.  So here I used wheat flour instead of plain flour( which is not good for health). It turned out just perfect. I hope everyone would try out this healthier version of kajjikayalu.

For Dough:

Wheat flour   2Cups
Semolina      1/4 Cup
Oil                 3 Tbsp
little bit of Salt

Mix well the wheat flour, semolina and salt together.
Once heat the oil and add this hot oil to the flour and mix it again with a spoon. Now add enough
 water to make  dough and cover the lid , keep it aside for 20 mints.















Meanwhile prepare the filling.

For Filling

1cup      Fresh coconut
1/4 cup Sugar/brown sugar(I used brown sugar)
1/2 tsp  Cardamom powder

Mix all the ingredients and heat on stove in a kadai.  stirring continuously until the sugar will melt (Its take 10 mints).
















Take small lemon size dough.
















And roll this like a chapathi.

                                                                                                Place the one spoon filling on this                                                                          

                                      
                                       











   and fold.





                                                                             






























                       













  Place all the kajjikayalu in oven baking tray and put in the oven



Bake until the light golden colour, turn other side and wait 2 more minutes and switch off the oven.
          








      

Saturday, March 14, 2009

HOW TO MAKE EDIBLE FLOWERS WITH CARROT

Peel off the Carrot with vebtable peeler.

Sharp the one side edge of the carrot like a cone.


And cut out the strait small thin from carrot.


Repeat, and do four more thins out arround the caarot.


Cut the flowers from sharp side carrot, as shown in the picture below.

And again cut the next flower.




Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Carrot Juice


This carrot juice for people who hate carrots because we don't get any carrot smell or taste from this. I learnt this  from my beloved hubby.
I think drinking carrot is healthiest choice, which gives the vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin E.
The Raw Food diet is always rated on top . Raw carrot contains alpha carotene, beta carotene and many vitamins so don't neglect those carrot flowers and hearts. Have a bite.

1 Carrot
1/2 cup boiled and cold milk
1 Ice cube
1 sp sugar(it depends on your taste)
2 cardamom pods

1. Peal off the carrot and boil it until tender. Pressure cooker is better for this.
2. Now once blend the boiled carrot, sugar and cardamom.  And add the milk and ice cube to this,blend it again. 

This carrot flowers are good choice for parties as salad. If anybady want this flowers making video I can upload for you.



Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Entries for the Events

                               


Iam sending this AVOCADO SANDWICH to BAYLEAF'S BREAD MANIA EVENT click for the recipe here




 
This Beetroot curry is my contribution to "Lentils Mela". You can find the recipe here.



This Dinner plate goes to Recipes for rest of Us: Dinner edition event.    click, for bottlegourd curry and coconut chutney recipes .



Honey puffed rice balls are my entry to tasty bites for toddlers event. Have a look for this healthy recipe



 
Iam sending this Mango Lassi to Eating with the Seasons event. click for the recipe here