ONE POT SAMBHAR II QUICK SAMBHAR II INSTANT SAMBHAR

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Sambhar is a South Indian Cusine, served along with Idli, Dosa, Upma, Dumplings and Rice.

This one pot sambhar is very easy and quick to make.  Soak the dal, Tamarind for two hours.  Extract the pulp of the tamarind, add sambhar powder in it along with jaggery.  Follow the steps given below.  Your quick sambahr is ready to serve with Idli, Dosa, Upma, Dumplings.

 

PUMPKIN ADAI II ADAI MADE OUT OF RED PUMPKIN II KADDU DOSA II MATHAN ADAI

 Pumpkin Adai is a tasty item for Breakfast.  Preparation is very simple and healthy too.  Let us see the Ingredients:

 

 

 

 1 1/2 cup Rice, 1/2 kg Red Pumpkin, 3/4 Cup Chana dal, 1/4 cup Tuvar Dal or Masoor 1 Sprig Curry Leaves, 2 Red Chilli or you can use Green Chilli also. 1/4 Tsp Black Pepper, 1/2 Tsp Cumin Seeds, Salt, Hing Powder, 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder, Oil for making Adai. Preferably Sesame oil. 1/2 cup Shallots chopped or onion chopped.
Method:

Wash and Soak the Rice, Dal, Red Chilli for 2-3 hours.  Grind the Rice, Dal, Curry leaves, Red chilli, then add black pepper, cumin seeds, hing powder, turmeric powder and grind coarsely.  If you are making dosa, the batter should be smooth.  For Adai, the batter should be coarse.  In the adai batter, you can add veggies according to your choice, but in dosa no veggies.

We can make use of Dudhi, Carrot, Cabbage, Beetroot also while preparing this Adai. Adai batter is coarsely ground and for dosa, it is very fine batter.

Heat a tava and drizzle oil and wipe with wet cloth. Pour laddleful of batter and spread. Drizzle oil and cook both the sides till done.

Serve with White butter, Jaggery, any kind of chutney.

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DAL PALAK PARATHA

 

 If you have left over Dal Palak or Dal, you can make paratha out of it.   Add masalas as per your taste and wish,  make dough out of it, roll out paratha and enjoy.

Ingredients:

Bachi hui dal Palak (left over dal palak) 3/4 cup Wheat Flour, Green Chilli paste

Chopped Coriander leaves, 

Ginger garlic paste (Optional), 

White sesame seeds (optional), 

and any other masala as per your taste and wish, 

Oil

SUNDAKKAI URUGAI, CHUNDAKAI ACHAR, TURKEY BERRY PICKLE, THAI BERRY PICKLE, MAARANG PICKLE, BHURAT PICKLE

 Chundakkai, Sundakkai, Turkey berry, Thai Berry, Maarang in Marthi, Bhurat in Hindi, has got many medicinal values specially stomach related issues.  You can google search for the benefits of this Berry.

I have made various dishes with this, the link shall share in this post.

How to make this pickle.  I had a very limited quantity of this, so I prepared a Chutney and Pickle using 50 gms for each recipe.

OATS PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Oats Peanut Butter Cookies is very easy to make. You can have as it is or can serve with Ice cream.

 

 

AJWAIN PATHA SHARBAT II PANIKOORKA ELAI SARBAT II KANNIKOORKA ELAI SARBAT

This leaves are having several health benefits. From childhood, we have seen mother using this leaves for making Kadha, putting it on the head of the children slightly warming it with oil. I make bhajia out of this leaves which is awesome. There are other several dishes made out of this leaves which can be seen in my blog itself. 

 

Let us look at the recipe 

 

 

 

 

 

CHEMBARATHI POOVU SHARBAT II HIBISCUS FLOWER SHARBAT II JASWANTI PHOOL SHARBAT II SHOE FLOWER SHARBAT

 CHEMBARATHI POOVU  II HIBISCUS FLOWER  II JASWANTI PHOOL  II SHOE FLOWER is available everywhere and used for Pooja.  Mostly, people know the use for Pooja as well as show plant in the garden.  

The Sharbat or tea  is known by many names around the world and is served both hot and cold. The beverage is known for its red colour, tart flavour, and vitamin C content. 

But this flower has got many health benefits.  But it affects if you are having certain ailments hence google search the DOs and DONTs before consuming it.

This is an age old recipe and is very tasty.  

Let us look at the recipe now:

 

Colacasia I Arbi I Chembu subzi is very tasty to serve along with Chapati. Like Potato subzi I have made this dish today. In case you want to add other masalas and prepare you can do so. But today, this is like potato subzi style.

Let us look at the recipe :

Video:

ALLAM PACHADI II GINGER CHUTNEY II ANDHRA SPECIAL

 Allam means ginger/adrak.  A spicy pickle made out of this goes well with idly, dosa, adai and even with rice, ghee or sesame oil.  This is an Andhra delicacy.  Since for quite some time, I wanted to try this and could do it only yesterday.

 It is made with peeling and crushing ginger and mixing with the tamarind pulp and fried Urid dal, Red chilli, Curry leaves etc.

Link from youtube channel is here:

Let us look at the recipe now:

 

 

THAKKALI DOSA II TOMATO OMLETTE

Thakkali Dosa or Tomato Omlette is made with gram flour.  If you have unexpected guests, you can make this instantly if you have the ingredients mentioned below at home.  Normally, everyone will have the basic ingredients suggested in this recipe, however, if you do not have, can skip that.

This can be served as Breakfast, Snack with sauce or green chutney.

 

 

 Video link:

Ingredients:

1 Cup gram flour/besan/kadala mavu

2 Medium size tomatoes

1 onion

1 Tbsp rice flour

Green chilli or past as per your requirement

Garam Masala as required

Pinch of Hing powder

Roasted cumin powder

Salt

Pinch of Turmeric Powder

Chopped coriander leaves.

Oil

Method:

Step 1

 

Chop the Tomatoes, Onion, Coriander finely.

Step 2

Mix the Gram flour, rice flour, dry masalas, salt.  Add one cup water and keep aside for 5 minutes.  Then mix well without any lumps.  Add chopped vegetables in it and mix.

Step 3

Heat tava grease with oil.  Spread laddleful of batter on the tava.  Let it cook,when the top side becomes dry,drizzle some oil.  Flip and cook other side also till brown spots appear on it.

How to serve:

Serve along with sauce or green chutney.  

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BITTER GOURD CHUTNEY POWDER II KARELA CHUTNEY POWDER II KAIPAKKA CHUTNEY POWDER

I am very fond of Bitter gourd and made various dishes with it.  Here is another dish which is a chutney powder which goes well with dal rice, curd rice, dosa, idli etc. I personally like it.  If you are bitter gourd lover, you can try this definitely. 

Easy to make and healthy to eat.

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AMLYACHA KHARDA II AMLA CHUTNEY II GOOSEBERRY CHUTNEY (DIFFERENT METHOD)

Amla or  Avla or  Gooseberry or  Nellikka it is known as is available now and we make various kinds of pickle, thokku, put in salt water etc.  

I have made various dishes out of it. Apart from pickle, I made rasam out of it and was quite tasty and healthy too.

 It is a different kind of chutney which was shared by my friend Trupti from Bangalore.

Video link is here

BITTER GOURD CURD CURRY ll PAVAKKA THAYIR CURRY ll KARELA CURD CURRY

 

Bitter gourd is good for health especially for those who are suffering from diabetes. Various dishes can be made with this. Today, I tried it with curd which was quite tasty with rice.

 I finely chop them and put in curd with little salt which is my husband's favourite.

 I have made few dishes with bitter gourd and posted in the channel.

 Link: 1) Bitter gourd chutney powder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHY8GYDYkNo&t=8s&pbjreload=101

2) Bitter gourd potato Subzi : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xibE2UeryRQ

3) Bitter gourd vathal : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poKvOBLWpfI

4) Bitter gourd in tamarind sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqj4P1iCObc

5) Bitter gourd fry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFp6sdpSc8c

 

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SPICY WHEAT FLOUR BALLS II HOW TO MAKE SPICY WHEAT FLOUR BALLS.

Spicy wheat balls are made with wheat flour and some veggies. You can make without veggies also. Add some spices viz. chilli powder, bback pepper powder, green chilli, chopped coriander etc. to make it bit tasty as the wheat flour does not have a taste without these items except for chapati and puri. This is a wholesome meal as it has dal, wheat flour, veggies and spices and can be served for breakafast, lunch, snack or dinner.

Let us look at the recipe now:

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ALOO JHOL ll HOW TO MAKE ALOO JHOL ll POTATO JHOL ll POTATO SUBZI

Aloo johol is a dish from Uttar Pradesh.  Jhol  means a thin gravy.  This subzi is served with Rice, Luchi, Puri, Paratha etc.  It is quite easy to make and tasty dish too.  Everyone like aloo subzi so let us not wait and go to the kitchen for preparing the same.

In this lock down period, it is an easy subzi to make with much lesser ingredients.

Let us look at the recipe now:  Video

RASWALA KHAMAN DHOKLA ll RASWALA DHOKLA ll RASWALA HOW TO PREPARE RASWALA DHOKLA ll HOW TO PREPARE RASWALA KHAMAN DHOKLA ll RASAVINSUVAI

Dhokla is a vegetarian food item that is found mainly in the Indian state of Gujarat and parts of adjacent states. It is made with a fermented batter derived from rice and split chickpeas. Dhokla can be eaten for breakfast, as a main course, as a side dish, or as a snack with  Green and Sweet Chutney.

I happened to taste the Raswala Khaman which I liked very much and tried at home.  The result is YUMMY.

Let us look at the recipe now:

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PURPLE YAM CURRY ll GARADU CURRY ll KAVATHU CURRY ll KAND CURRY ll RASAVINSUVAI

Dioscorea alata, also known as purple yam, ube, or greater yam, among many other names viz  Kavathu / Kand / Garadu, is a species of yam. The tubers are usually a vivid violet-purple to bright lavender in color, but some range in color from cream to plain white. 

They have a sweet, nutty flavor and are used in a variety of dishes ranging from sweet to savory.  They are loaded with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, all of which may benefit your health.

Purple yams are an incredibly nutritious starchy root vegetable. Their powerful antioxidants may help reduce your blood pressure and blood sugar levels.  They are tasty and versatile with a vibrant color, making them an exciting ingredient that can be used in a variety of sweet and savory dishes.

Let us look at the recipe now:

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SEVAI POHA UPMA ll BREAKFAST RECIPES ll RASAVINSUVAI

Everyday morning a question arises in our mind what to prepare for breakfast, lunch, dinner etc.  Bored of Upma, Idli, Dosa, Kanda poha, Adai, Puttu etc Some changes are always required.

So tried this recipe as I was having half cup of sevai left in the packet.  Added half cup poha and prepared this upma which was quite tasty.

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DAL BAFLA II HOW TO MAKE DAL BAFLA

Bafla is made out of Wheat Flour dough and served with hot Dal. This is an Indore special Dish which I happened to taste when I visited Ujjain recently. Infact we used to make the Bafla, cut them into small pieces and put in tempering with little spices and used to have it as an evening Snacks. Since I liked it very much, I thought of sharing the same with you all. Hope you will also prepare and enjoy this delicious dish.

If you have coal and the chula, it is best idea to cook the bafla in it. Otherwise can bake it in oven. Even if we do not have access to these two methods, the method I have shown in the video is good enough for you to enjoy this dish. I have made it very simple and according to your imagination, you can modify it.

WILD LIME LEAVES CHUTNEY II NARTHANGA ELAI CHUTNEY II HOW TO MAKE WILD LIME LEAVES CHUTNEY II HOW TO MAKE NARTHANGA ELAI CHUTNEY

Wild lime leaves are part of Thai dishes. In South India, we use it for making Veppila Katti. Apart from this, we use the leaves in buttermilk also. I used the same to make chutney and it was awesome. 

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