KAMAL KAKKADI CHIPS, LOTUS STEM CHIPS

Lotus stem chips is very easy to make.  This chips is slightly sweet and i had it as it is.  If you wish you can add little bit of chaat masala, chilli powder, black pepper powder, black salt or normal salt.  can be served with rice varieties or just can be had it with over a cup of hot tea/coffee.

Lotus stem chips

Guava Cheese, Amrud cheese, Perakka cheese, Koyapazham cheese

Guavas are rich in fibre, vitamin A,B, C & E.  The vitamin C content is more in Guava than oranges.  It helps in regulating high blood pressure, cholesterol and good for diabetic people also. The leaves are boiled in water and strained and consumed for cough and cold.

KULITH RASAM, MUTHIRA RASAM, HORSEGRAM RASAM, KOLLU RASAM

Rasam is a watery dish served after having sambar rice in Southern States.  It is a good appetiser too.  Various types of rasams are made viz. tomato rasam, mysore rasam, milagu rasam etc.  recently one of my cousin visited our house.  she is also equally interested in cooking like me so she shared the recipe.


Rasam is one of the  dish we really enjoy. myself and my elder brother is very fond of it.  my mami used to make goddu rasam or kottu rasam.  we love to eat rice with this rasam and nothing else is required.

muthira rasam, kulith rasam, horsegram rasam

HORSE GRAM CURRY, MUTHIRA KOOTU

Horsegram is or kulith or muthira it is called, is  rich in B-complex vitamins,  proteine and  highly nutritious. 

It is  commonly prescribed in ayurvedic medicine for conditions like difficult breathing, cough, gastric problems, ulcers, worm infections and excessive perspiration. Some alternative medicine experts even consider horse gram as a good remedy to control joints pain. It can be also used as a natural health tonic.    It tones up the digestive system and prevents acidity and flatulence. 

People suffering from spleen enlargement, colic and weak liver can also benefit from this plants medicinal properties. People with kidney stones, hypertension, gall stones also benefit from its intake.   
Let us have a look at the recipe now

Various dishes are made out with Kulith or horsegram or muthira.  One of the dish is presented here for you.

horsegram curry

RIBBON PAKODA, PAKODA, NADA,

Normally, ribbon pakodas are made with rice flour and gram flour.  But my friend Jayashree shared some pakodas made by her and it was very crispy.  when i checked with her how she made it, she shared the recipe with me which i am sharing with you all.

BANANA FLOWER THORAN, BANANA BLOSSOM THORAN, VAZHAPOO THORAN, BANANA FLOWER STIR FRY

Banana flower thoran is made of banana flowers finely chopped, cooked and garnished with grated coconut or crushed coconut with green chilli and cumin seeds.  It is a nice side dish for sambar rice, rasam rice, dal rice, chapti etc.

banana flower subzi thoran

BANANA FLOWER SAMBAR, VAZHAPOO SAMBAR, KHEL PHOOLCHI SAMBAR

Banana flower sambar is made like the normal sambar you make.  either you can use the ground masala or sambar powder instead.  

Banana flower sambar

Banana flower  preparation  is liked by me very much be it a thoran, sambar, pachadi, raita, vada or usli.  It is quite healthy, tasty and easy to make any thing out of it.   Here i am presenting the Banana flower sambar.  Normally I make the sambar without tamarind.  Yes, you must be wondering how to make sambar without tamarind..  Instead of tamarind, we can add amchur powder, tomato, kokum etc.  but i do not use anything of this frankly speaking but still it is tasty. 
banana flower sambar      banana flower sambar

KASHMIRI PULAO

Kashmiri pulao i tasted when we went to Srinagar around three years back.  Mr. Abdul who was our driver was kind enough to make us eat kashmiri pulao and  drink the famous Kava (a kind of tea they drink),  we liked very much and brought some tea packets which i still  have and enjoy once in a while. shall post the recipe soon.

This pulao is slightly sweet with mild spices, can be prepared easily.  The fried onions and nuts and fruits  adds more taste and flavour to this pulao.  It can be served with  onion, tomato, cucumber raita or lauki yakhni.  Lauki is called Al in Kashmiri and  Yakhni is a curd based sauce.  The lauki roundels are shallow fried and added to the  curd sauce which goes well with this pulao.  No garnish is made in this but for the photo, I have added coriander leaves as I like the same with the raita very much.

HEALTHY SALAD

Salad is part of every Indian meal.  Salads are made wth raw vegetables like cucumber, radish, beetroot, onions etc.  This salad i am presenting is slightly different.  You can make it within 5 minutes if you are fast in cutting veggies. It is slightly sauted and only salt and black pepper powder is added.  You can eat it just like that or can serve with roti, pulao etc.

Healthy salad

RAVA DOSA, SUJIDOSA, SEMOLINA DOSA

Rava dosa is instantly made without much hassles.  What you need is rice flour, suji/rava/semolina and little bit of maida mixed with green chilli, ginger, coriander leaves, cumin seeds, curry leaves if you wish.  While preparing this dosa, you have to be very patient as it take some time to cook properly unlike the normal dosa.   My mother used to temper with mustard seeds too in this. It can be served with chutney/sambar/pickle/curd/gunpowder and oil etc.  I love to eat the same with curd and lime pickle.

Rava dosa