kolli upperi

cut and wash kolli , boil water with salt , add kolli, boil again, and cook in low flame, last boil in full flame for 2 seconds and switch off flame. remove water
heat oil in a hot pan, add onion, garlic,little salt, and saute well, add curry leaf, chilly flakes, turmeric powder as necessary, heat for 2 seconds add cooked kolli and stir well. and serve

Apple fritters

Wash and cut 1/2 kg apple in round slices

make a batter of besan 250 gm with 2 teaspoon salt , 1 pinch baking soda and little water for making thick paste. Dip apple slices in this batter and deep fry. 

Apple fritters are very juicy and tasty than I expected.

My children has cold and cough, so I ommited making banana fritter and tried the apple fritter, and it has really great taste.

Onion fritters

To the rest of the batter after making  apple fritters, I added 1/8 t chilly powder and little salt and long sliced onions and seperated the onion layers and mixed well with the batter. and deep fried the onion layers seperately with hand in heated oil,

The onion fritters are also great than I expected. Because I never taste a sweety onion fritter, but the little sweet and chilly onion fritters are really great for our taste buds.

Potato fritters

For Potatto fritters, peel and slice potato in round shape and cook in microwave for 3-4 minutes/means half cooked and dip slices in besan batter (with salt and chilly powder, and little soda powder can add mango powder or garam masala if like) and deep fry potatoes 

Egg plant fritter

Do the same as in potato fritter in place of potato

Any fritters

 You can try any of the vegetables and fruits this way. like ghobi fritters and cabbage fritters 

If vegetable is hard, half cook it in microwave or in water or in steam
Banana fritters
For banana fritters do as in apple fritters instead of apple use banana

Ribbed gourd curry

Remove skin of gourd and cut in square
cut 1 tomato , 1 onion , 3 greenchilly, 3 garlic
heat oil in a pan add mustard , onion, chilly, garlic and saute
add 2t chilli powder, little turmeric , curry leaves and saute add tomato and gourd and cook well.
now tasty gourd curry is ready


Cut the skin of ribbed gourd thin and dry in shade and keep in coconut oil for blackening of hair

Padavalanga curry

Cut 1/4 kg padavalanga in small pieces. Add little turmeric, 1t chilly powder, 1/4 t garam masala,3/4 t coriander powder and boil it with water
chop 1 tomato,1cm ginger, 2 green chilly, 2 small onion, 2 garlic, 1/2 c coconut all cook covered in a small pan or in microwave for 2 minutes. Cooked coconut is easy to grind (tip).
grind all these and add to padavalanga boil and cook till chilly is cooked
Temper it with mustard, jeera, curry leaf and little chilly powder for getting beautiful red colour to the curry.
The curry is tasty and little different

moong dal and urad dal curry

Urad dal white 1/2 cup moong dal 1/2 c wash 3 times, chop 1 tomato, add all this to cooker with water, 1/4 t turmeric cook the dal, till one whistle, not over cook
heat a pan add oil, temper with mustard onion, ginger, garlic slices, curry leaf, salt, asafoetida,chilly powder /flakes 1 t saute and add to curry and boil.


This curry tastes very good.

Potato curry

Potato 4, remove skin and cut into medium size pieces thickness should be 1cm, cut 1 tomato, cut 1 big onion into 4 pieces, add 1/4 t turmeric, salt and water and cook.
heat a pan with oil add 1/2 t methi, 1/2 t mustard, 2 sliced garlic, 1 small onion , 2stems of  1t chilly powder, 1t coriander powder, 1/4 t garam masala temper all
fine and tasty

Easy chicken biryani

Heat a pan add little oil and cow ghee fry brown one onion slices remove it, fry cashew 50 gm, not fry raisin 50 gm remove this, to this oil add cinnamon 1 piece, 3 clove, 3 elaichi, 2 bay leaves, 8 black pepper, 1 teaspoon jeera saute add 8 cups of water, salt and boil , add soaked rice for 30 minutes about 1kg/5cups, Boil and cook rice.
Mix 1 kg chicken with 1t salt, 1t chilly powder, 1t garam masala, 1t coriander powder , 1 lemon juice, 1/4t turmeric mix well, rest for 30 minutes. After that add 1t cornflour and mix and fry chicken or avoid cornflour, remove chicken, To this oil saute 5 onion, elaichi crush 3, 3 clove, 1cinnamon, 2 bay leaves crushed (green chilly 8, garlic 10, ginger 1 inch) saute , add 3 tomatos, 1 t chilly powder, 2t coriander powder, 1t garam masala, 1t meat masala special,add coriander leaves, pudina leaves 15 each add1cup curd if adding sour curd add 1/2cup and 1/2 cup milk ,add salt stir well add fried meat and cook for 10 minutes
In a big steel pot put some oil or ghee around the sides of the pot, drop some liquid from meat masala, layer rice and meat 2-3 layers top with 1/2 of browned onion, raisin, 1/2 of fried cashews, pour little ghee,1t garam masala  add some salt if necessary , add some sugar on top sprinkle all these on top and cover with a lid and place a  big stone. For baking place 2 tawa on stove and put the biryani pot with stone on the top heat full flame for 1 minute and then slow the flame for 10 minutes, check the sides of the pot and lid is heated well , then switch off the flame. After 30 minutes open and stir the rice from all sides check salt, if need sprinkle some and stir. Again bake for this slow flame for 10 minutes and leave it for 30 minutes. And serve with onion raita and pickle Can serve for 10 people.

Egg curry

Hard boiled eggs remove skin  and cut into two



like normal fish curry add all items, use tomato instead of kudampully I used 3 tomatotes with long slices, ginger, onion, green chilly, red chilly powder , coriander powder, salt, boil all these with water and cook well , add half cut eggs to this  , and temper with onion

note -before adding egg add little tamarind juice and boil . it gives a taste of  fish curry

Egg curry

Hard boiled eggs remove skin  and cut into two



like normal fish curry add all items, use tomato instead of kudampully I used 3 tomatotes with long slices, ginger, onion, green chilly, red chilly powder , coriander powder, salt, boil all these with water and cook well , add half cut eggs to this  , and temper with onion

note -before adding egg add little tamarind juice and boil . it gives a taste of  fish curry

2. 20 aug 2016 tomato curry
chop 2 onion and  2tomato , small piece of ginger and 1/4 of a coconut cover and cook . cool and grind
chop 1 tomato into 6 pieces , use 2 tomatoes, chop 3 onion, each into 4 pieces add turmeric and water and cook
slice small onion and little ginger and saute add chilly powder 2 t 1.5 t coriander powder and saute add onion paste and saute add water and cook , add this to onion tomato  cooked, Add salt and water as necessary. add little tamarind paste or 1 kudampulli piece with water  boil and cook in slow flame, till oil seperated. cut hard boiled eggs and add to this and boil in slow flame and switch off flame

Break fast Recipes

1. Puttu
2. Idli
3. Dosa
4. Vellayappam
5. Pizza
6. Ullivada
7. Urad vada
8. Parippu vada
9. Uppumavu
10. Pazham Pori
11. Bread Pakuvada
12. Sandwich
13. Egg roll
14. Roti

Venda theeyal

Clean vendaka/ladies finger la500gm   cut each into 3 pieces.

Roast pearl onion 3, garlic 3,  green chilly 4, jeera 1/4 t, methi 1/4 t, coconut grate 1/2 of 1, switch off flame and add 3t chilly powder, 3t coriander powder, 1/4 t turmeric and stir well till roasted. Cool and grind add little water to make a paste.
Heat 3 tb oil add mustard, methi, add vendaka and stir fry, add water and ground paste and cook covered. Add tamarind juice of 1/2 lemon size pulp and cook well.

Ulli vada/Onion vada

Clean and slice 500 gm onion, add salt, chilly, besan 250gm and mix well. Add water little by little and stir well and make vada batter, add pinch of soda and mix well. Deep fry onion vadas, drop by fork or spoon.

Soda make the batter little spongy

Pazham pori/Banana fritters

In a bowl take 250 gm besan, pinch salt, pinch soda, 1tb sugar, Mix well, Add water slowly to get a thick paste.
Take good ripe banana slit in the centre and cut into 3 or 2 as desired, each long slit of banana
Dip in besan batter and deep fry.

Ice cream

Take 4 tb corn flour, mix in little milk  and make a paste. Boil the remaining, 1 litre milk. Add 250 gm sugar, pinch salt, corn flour mix , stir well and cook. Take little warm water add 1t gelatine and dissolve, add this to milk mix and stir well. Cool well in room temp and then put in fridge. Take Amul fresh cream add sugar powder and beat well till whip, not make butter, cool in fridge. After freezing the milk mix, blend in mixer add whipped cream to this and mix with spoon, stir well. And freeze in fridge, At this time can pour this mix to kulfi molds,(or ice cream cups) and freeze, if half set, put sticks in kulfi molds and freeze till set.

Moru curry

Chop cucumber 1 cm cubes . Add turmeric, salt, little water and cook covered.  Grind 1/4 of coconut, green chilly, pearl onion, little methi, garlic, little jeerakam.  Add this paste to cooked veg and boil. Add beaten curd for little sour taste as necessary. Add salt. Temper with mustard, methi, dry chilly, curry leaf, pearl onion, chilly powder if need more chilly taste for family members.

Simple milk ice cream

Boil milk add sugar little more, Cool and pour in kulfi molds , freeze, after half done , put sticks in mold and freeze well and serve

Simple juicy ice creams

Stick ice

Mango ice cream

Take mango squash add water and sugar powder mix well. Fill in kulfi molds, and freeze , After half freeze put sticks in it . and freeze well


Orange ice cream

For this take orange squash and do as above
Make juice of your favorite squash, fill in molds and do as above

Take your favorite fruit , take its juice, add sugar as necessary , fill in molds and freeze

Take your favorite fruit pulp like mango, blend in a mixer add sugar and fill in molds and freeze

Kulfi

Take little cold milk and mix 3 tb corn flour
 Boil 1 litre full cream milk, add corn flour mix to this and stir well , add sugar 6 tb or more for taste add a pinch of salt, and cook it little creamy texture, add 2 drop yellow color, 1 tb nut slices of cashew, pista, badam and cook well. Cool and keep in fridge and drop into kulfi moulds and keep in freezer till set, if half set put kulfi stick and freeze well.  And serve as necessary.

Variations
I litre milk, 2 tb cornflour white, 2 tb cornflour yellow roasted, 1tb a mix of cashew, pista, badam crushed or thinly sliced, elaichi 4 crushed, Sugar 250gm to 300gm or 11/2 cup
Boil milk, add paste of flour and nuts, elaichi in little water or cold milk, add sugar, pinch salt, cook little thick, cool and pour to kufi molds and freeze. After 30 minutes or after half freeze insert kulfi sticks and freeze well.

Dosa/Masala Dosa

1/2 cup urad dal, 1t methi/uluva, 1cup rice, 1/2c chana dal,2 cup rice flour
Soak rice, urad, chana and methi and grind well. Mix rice flour with this. Add salt and mix .
Ferment for 8 hours or overnight, stir and make dosa in dosa pan.These dosas are very crispy and tasty. Serve this with potato masala in the centre of dosa and turn the sides up from 2 ends of dosa
or serve with chutney and sambar

For filling Dosa
Potato masala
Heat oil in a pan add jeera , mustard, then onion ginger garlic saute add chilly, turmeric, salt tomato and cooked and mashed potato mix well. Add little water and cook well , and dry the masala .
Use more onions for more taste.
Masala dosas serve with coconut chutney and sambar

Idli with rice flour

Urad dal 1cup, raw rice 1cup, uluva/methi 1 t soak 4 hour and grind , mix 1 cup rice flour and mix well. Add salt, ferment for 8 hours/overnight , stir lightly , make idli in idli maker.
Remaining batter keep in fridge , make idli with this cold batter, The idli will be more spongy and thick than the 1st
Serve with coconut chutney and sambar

Idli variations
 3 cup rice 1cup urad, 1 t methi, 1/2 cup aval soak and ferment and make idli.
Soft idli
raw rice 1.5 cup, boiled rice 1 cup, urad 1 cup, aval/ poha 1/2 cup, methi 1 t
soak grind add salt and ferment and stir and make soft idlis