Pappadam thoran!!!

Recipe...
Ingredients...

• Pappadam 5-6
• Oil 1/2 cup
• Mustard seeds 1/4 tspoon
• Cumin seeds 1/8 tspoon
• Halved green chillies 1-2 
• Sliced shallots 6-7
• Dried red chillies 1-2
• Curry leaves 2 sprigs
• Grated coconut 3/4 cup
• Red chilly powder 1/4 tspoon
• Turmeric powder a pinch
• Salt to taste

Procedure...

• Initially heat up oil in a sause pan and fry all papads
• Heat up another pan and add 2-3 tablespoons of oil
• Once it's hot crackle mustard seeds and cumin seeds
• Add in green chillies,shallots,curry leaves, dry red chillies and saute well
• Finally add grated coconut,red chilly powder,turmeric powder ,salt to taste and fry well for 4-5 minutes
• At this stage scramble the fried papads into the pan and saute for 5-6 minutes on low flame....

Now delicious papadam tthoran is ready to be served with rice. .!!!!

Sooji toast/rava toast!!!

Recipe..

Ingredients...

• Bread slices 2
• Rava/sooji 4 tablespoons
• Yoghurt 4 tablespoons
• Finely chopped onion 1/2
• Finely chopped tomatoes 1/2
• Finely chopped green chillies 1
• Chopped cilantro 2 sprigs
• Chopped curry leaves 1 sprig
• Turmeric powder a pinch
• Salt to taste
• Ghee for toasting

Procedure...

• Initially take a bowl ,add sooji and yoghurt into it 
• Mix it well and then add onions,tomatoes, green chillies, curry leaves, cilantro, turmeric powder and salt to taste
• Again mix it well and keep for atleast five minutes
• Half the bread slices diagonally
• Spread the mix onto one side of the bread slices

• Now heat up a pan and add 1 tspoon ghee
• Place the bread slices with the rava mix side touching the hot surface

• Cook it for almost 4 minutes or until it turns golden brown
• Drop ghee on the other side of the bread slice and flip it
• Once it gets crisp and golden brown from both sides...serve hot with tomato ketchup or green chutney....!!!!

Instant rice flour dosa

Recipe

Ingredients..

• Rice flour 1 cup
• Finely chopped onions 2 medium
• Finely chopped green chillies 1-2
• Finely chopped cilantro 1/4 cup
• Finely chopped curry leaves 1 sprig
• Cumin seeds 1/2 tspoon
• Water 2-3 cups
• Salt to taste
• Oil to make dosa

Procedure..

• Initially take a bowl and add all the ingredients mentioned above except oil 
• Mix it well and add water accordingly to get a pouring consistency batter
• Now keep the batter for atleast 10 minutes
• Heat up a nonstick tawa on medium flame
• Once it's hot enough add 1-2 tspoons of oil and pour 1/4 cup batter and move the tawa to spread the batter enough resulting in thin dosas
• Cover it with a lid and cook for 2-3 minutes until one side gets done
• Now flip it and drop in 1-2 tspoons of oil again and cook until the other side as well is done
• Remove from the pan and serve hot with chutney...

rava dosa...

Recipe..
Ingredients...

• Roasted rava/semolina 1 cup
• Rice flour 1/4 cup
• Water 3  -3 1/2 cups
• Chopped cilantro 2-3 tablespoons
• Chopped green chilly 2
• Finely chopped onion 2 medium
• Turmeric powder 1/4 tspoon
• Oil for making dosas
• Salt to taste

Procedure..

• Take a bowl and add all the ingredients into it except oil and chopped onion
• Now mix it well to get watery consistent batter(add water accordingly)
• Now heat up a pan on medium flame and as it become hot drop 1-2 tspoons of oil onto the tawa
• Pour in batter on to the hot tawa and spread it over
• Spread some chopped onion over it and wait until the dosa gets cooked and crisp on one side 
• Now drop some oil over the dosa and flip it and cook the other side as well until it too turns crisp and golden brown 
• Remove dosas on to a plate and Serve them hot with spicy onion chutney...

I bet u r gonna love this....do try this recipe my friends.....

spicy brinjal fry..

Recipe...

Ingredients..

• Brinjal 2 cut into thin slices
• Chilly powder 1/2 tspoon
• Coriander powder 1/2 tspoon
• Turmeric powder 1/4 tspoon
• Garam masala 1/4 tspoon
• Pepper powder 1/4 tspoon
• Lime juice 1-2 tspoon
• Oil 3-4 tablespoons
• Salt to taste

Procedure..

• Take brinjal slices in a bowl and add all the rest of the ingredients except oil into it
• Mix well together and keep it closed aside for at least 10-15 minutes
• Now heat up a pan on medium flame and add oil into it
• As oil becomes hot, place the brinjal slices into it and cook on both sides until it turns crisp enough
• Once done,serve them hot as a starter with roti or as a side dish with rice

urad dal vada/uzhunnu vada...!!!!

Recipe...

Ingredients....

• Urad dal 100 grams (soaked for at least 4-5 hours or the whole night)
• Finely Chopped onion 1 
• Chopped green chillys 2
• Chopped ginger 1 small piece
• Cracked pepper corns 1 tspoon
• Oil for frying
• Salt to taste

Procedure...

• Initially grind the soaked urad dal into a smooth thick paste (add 1-2 tspoons of water only if necessary ,grinding urad dal without water is the best option)
• After that add onions,green chillys,ginger, pepper corns and salt to taste
• Mix well and heat up oil in a pan for frying
• Apply water on ur palms and take little of the mix and give shape to vada with a hole in center and dip it into the hot oil
• Flip and cook until both sides get golden color
• Serve hot with coconut chutney....!!!!yummm!!!!!!!!

ripe guava juice..

Recipe..
Ingredients...

• Ripe guavas 2 medium sized
• Cold water 2 cups
• Sugar 2-4 tablespoons
• Guava slices 2 for decoration

Procedure..

• Add guava pieces,water and sugar into a blender and blend well
• Serve it cool garnished with guava slices
• Yummy delicious juice s ready to be served

salad recipes

• egg potato salad
• yogurt chickpea salad

egg potato salad..

Recipe...
Ingredients..

• Hard boiled eggs 1(cut into 4 pieces)
• Boiled and diced potato 1
• Cooked chickpeas 1/2 cup

For dressing

• Lemon juice 1 tablespoon
• Chopped cilantro 1-2 tablespoons
• Salt and pepper for seasoning
• Olive oil 2 tablespoons

Procedure...

• Take a bowl and add all ingredients mentioned under "for dressing" into it
• Mix well to form a smooth dressing
• Take another bowl and add potatoes and chickpeas
• Place egg slices as shown 
• Just before serving, pour dressing into it and mix well,pour over the egg pieces as well
• Healthy egg potato salad is ready yo be enjoyed!!!!!

jeera rice/cumin rice

Recipe..
Ingredients..

• Basmati rice 1 cup
• Cumin seeds 2 tablespoons
• Chopped green chilly 1
• Chopped cilantro and mint leaves 2 tablespoons (optional)
• Oil 2 tablespoons
• Lemon juice 1 tspoon
• Water 2 cups
• Salt to taste

Procedure...

• Heat up a deep pan on medium flame and add oil into it
• As oil becomes hot add cumin seeds
• As it splutters,add green chilly,cilantro and mint leaves
• Mix it well and add washed and soaked(at least for 30 minutes)rice
• Saute for 4-5 minutes and add measured water,salt and lemon juice
• Cover the lid and cook until the rice is nicely done
• Serve hot with curry,raita,pickle and papad!!!!

rava laddoos

Recipe..
Ingredients...

• Rava/semolina/suji 1 cup
• Sugar 1 cup
• Ghee 1/4 cup
• Golden/black raisins 8-10
• Cashews 8-10
• Milk 1/2 cup
• Pistachios for garnishing laddoos

Procedure...

• Initially heat up a pan on medium flame and add ghee into it
• Once the ghee becomes hot add in cashews and roast until golden brown
• Now add raisins and as they puff up ,switch off the flame
• Meanwhile heat up another nonstick pan on medium flame and add rava into it
• Roast it until it leaves nice aroma,and gets golden in color
• At this stage add sugar and mix until the sugar dissolves
• add milk and cook for 4-5 minutes on low flame until all the moisture gets evaporated
• Finally add the fried cashews and raisins along with the ghee and switch off the flame
• Mix everything well together and as it cools a little bit,form laddoos with ur hands of desired size
• Garnish them with pistachios and Rava laddoos are ready to be served!!!!

Note..

• In this recipe,u can use water instead of milk to increase the self life of laddoos,but milk gives better taste and softness

aloo ka bharta/mashed potatoes..

Recipe..
Ingredients...

• Boiled,peeled and mashed potatoes 5
• Yogurt 1/2 cup
• Oil 2-3 tablespoons
• Finely chopped green chilly 2
• Ginger paste 1 tspoon
• Cumin seeds 1/2 tspoon
• Coriander powder 1 tspoon
• Turmeric powder 1/4 tspoon
• Red chilly powder 1/4 tspoon
• Garam masala 1/4 tspoon
• Finely chopped fresh cilantro 2-3 tablespoons
• Salt to taste

Procedure...

• Initially heat up a pan on medium flame and add oil into it
• As oil becomes hot,add in cumin seeds
• Add ginger paste and chopped chillys
• Saute them well and add all dry ground spices
• Saute and add yogurt. Mix well and allow the gravy to become thick and ooze out oil
• At this stage add mashed potatoes and salt to taste
• Mix well and continue cooking for another 2-3 minutes
• Finally add in cilantro, mix it well and switch off the flame
• Serve it hot with roti/rice!!!!!!!

chicken seekh kabab..

Recipe..
Ingredients...

• Finely minced chicken 2 cups
• Finely chopped onion 1 
• Finely chopped green chilly 2
• Grated garlic 2-3 cloves
• Grated ginger 1 inch piece
• Lemon juice 1 tablespoon
• Green cardamom powder 1 tspoon
• Chaat masala 2 tspoons
• Garam masala 1 tspoon
• Crushed black pepper 1/4 tspoon
• Butter 2-3 tablespoons
• Oil 2-3 tablespoons
• Egg 1
• Bread crumbs 3-4 tablespoons (adjust accordingly to get right consistency)
• Finely chopped Cilantro 4 tablespoons
• Salt to taste

Procedure

• Take a large mixing bowl and add all the ingredients mentioned above
• Mix them very well using hands until all the flavors are incorporated into the chicken
• Now take a soaked bamboo skewer (soaked at least for 30 minutes)and roll some of the above chicken mix onto it to get the shape shown in the pic above
• Prepare similar kababs with rest of the chicken mix as well
• Now heat up a non stick grill pan on medium flame and grease it with 1 tablespoon oil
• As it becomes hot place each of the kababs and cook on low to medium flame until all sides turn golden brown and chicken gets cooked as well
• Serve hot with lime,onions and  green chutney

Notes

• For preparing kababs ,if grill pan is not available, regular non stick pan can also be used
• While serving,u can either serve with skewers or without
• This recipe could be prepared without skewers as well..in that case give the cylindrical shape with ur hands it self

microwave apple sponge cake..

Recipe..
Ingredients..

• Maida 1 cup
• Apple 1,peeled and grated
• Melted butter 1/2 cup(Room temperature)
• Sugar 1/2 cup
• Cashews 2 tablespoons
• Almonds 2 tablespoons
• Baking powder 1 tspoon
• Baking soda 1/4 tspoon
• Milk 1/2 cup(room temperature)
• Hershey's drops for garnishing (optional)

Procedure..

• Firstly to prepare apple sauce,heat up a nonstick pan on medium flame and add grated apple and sugar into it
• Mix it well and cook on medium flame until all the sugar dissolves and apple becomes soft
• Now in a bowl add maida,baking powder and baking soda
• Strain it through the sieve twice for proper mixing
• Take a large mixing bowl and add melted butter and apple sauce(room temperature) into it
• Beat them really well and then add milk and maida mix alternately into it,to form a smooth cake batter
• Finally add in the dry fruits and mix well
• Grease a microwave safe bowl with butter and place a greased butter paper into it
• Pour in the cake mix and microwave on max temperature for 4-5 minutes/until the cake is completely baked
• Garnish with Hershey's dtops,if u love chocolate flavor. Or else top it with apple slices and serve!!!!!!

egg biryani...

Recipe...
Ingredients..

• Eggs 2
• ghee rice 1 1/2cups

For frying  egg

• Oil 2-3 tablespoons
• Red chilly powder 1/4 tspoon
• Turmeric powder 1/4 tspoon
• Black pepper crushed 1/4 tspoon
• Garam masala 1/4 tspoon
• Salt to taste

For egg masala

• Oil 1 tablespoon
• Chopped onions 2-3
• Chopped tomatoes 2
• Chilly ginger garlic paste 2 tspoons
• Coriander powder 2 tspoons
• Red chilly powder 1 tspoon
• Turmeric powder 1/4 tspoon
• Garam masala 1/2 tspoon
• Biryani masala 1 tspoon
• Yogurt 2 tablespoons
• Chopped cilantro 1/2 cup
• Lemon juice 1 tablespoon
• Salt to taste

For dum

• Fried onions 1
• Fried cashews 2-3 tablespoons
• Fried raisins 2-3 tablespoons
• Chopped cilantro 3/4 cup
• Lemon juice 2 tablespoons
• Ghee 2 tablespoons
• Biryani masala 1 tspoon

Procedure...

• Hardboil the eggs,peel them and slice each into 3 as shown

• For frying eggs,heat up a pan on medium flame and add oil into it
• As oil becomes slightly hot add all the dry ground spices mentioned under "for frying egg"along with salt to taste

• Place egg slices and flip and cook until both sides turn golden brown

• Remove eggs into a bowl and add chopped onions into the same hot oil(add 1 tablespoon of extra oil if required)
• Season it with salt and saute until the onions turn soft and brown

• Now add chilly ginger garlic paste

• As its raw smell is gone ,add tomatoes and cook until they becomes tender and mushy and ooze out oil

• Now add dry ground spices mentioned under "for egg masala"and saute well
• Now add yogurt,lemon juice and cilantro 

• Mix well and add fried egg pieces
• Slowly coat them in the masala and cook for another 3-4 minutes and switch off the flame

• Now for dum ,take a deep nonstick pot and apply ghee at the bottom
• Add half of the egg masala and spread half of the ghee rice above it
• Top it with all the ingredients mentioned under "for dum"(use only half the amount mentioned)
• Now repeat the same again by layering rest of the egg masala,ghee rice and all other items
• Cover the lid tightly and seal the edges with aluminum foil
• Cook on low to medium flame for 10-15 minutes
• Serve hot with raita,pickle and papad!!!!