CORNFLAKES COOKIES l Cakes/bakes

Cookies are any time snacks.  It is useful for fillling the tiffin box of children too.  various kinds of cookies can be made, here I am presenting plain as well as corn flakes cookies which will be definitely liked by the children especially.

GUAVA SOUP (KHATTA MEETHA GUAVA SOUP)

Winter has started and are craving for some hot soup.  Guava is also available plenty and I love to eat guavas even though it does not suit me.  I wanted to have some soup and thought of trying with guava as I was tired of the regular tomato, vegetable, corn soups etc.

THIRUVATHIRA KALI

Thiruvathira Kali is made out of rice, moongdal  and jaggery as main ingredients by Tamils along with thalagam or kavathu puzhukku. In Kerala, Koova kali is made  along with puzhukku.   Koova means arrow root.  this kali is served along with a vegetable viz. thalagam or puzhukku which is made out of 5 or 7 vegetables like Potato, sweet potato, yam, raw banana, avarakka (broad beans, papdi), carrot, pumpkin, colacasia, & Asiatic yam in English and Perumvalli Kizhangu in Tamil.

Thiruvathira is cleberated on full moon day in the month of Dhanu Masam as per Malayalam calendar and also as the birthday of Lord Shiva on the day of star Thiruvathira.  This festival is celeberated in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Ladies get up early morning, take bath, prepare the kali and kootu or thalagam and offer this as Neivedyam to the Lord. They visit the temple for ardra darshanam.  Girls and ladies enjoy the swings, a dance known as "Kai kotti Kali" is also  performed by ladies by certain  community in Kerala.

THALAGAM (mix veg curry)

Thalakam, mix veg curry is made with various vegetables in coconut and white seasame seed paste gravy.  This is served along with roti, rice and also with Thiruvathira kali a sweet dish made out of rice powder with jaggery during Thiruvathira.

KAVATHU PUZHUKU (ASIAN YAM SUBZI), KAVATHU KOOTU

Kavathu puzhuku, kootu  or asian yam subzi is very simple and easy to make.  My mother used to make this during Thiruvathira festival along with thiruvathira-kali.  Normal days also, she used to make to have it with rice.  During thirvathira, along with kavathu, we also put some other vegetables and it goes well with rice, chapati too.

JOWAR METHI THEPLA, SORGHUM METHI THEPLA

Winter season has started and it is the time to serve anything hot specially, soup, paratha, thepla etc.  Here I have made the methi thepla with jowar  and wheat flour as main ingredient.   It is quite healthy as we are incorporating jowar flour, wheat flour and methi leaves. 

As compared to rice and wheat, Sorghum or Jowar has a higher content of calcium.  Besides calcium,  it is also packed with iron, protein and fibre.  It also helps in lowering cholesterol. 

Methi leaves helps in reduce the cholesterol, diabets.  It is an excellent source of potassium and controls heart rate and blood pressure.  .   

Jwari or Jowar or Sorghum methi thepla

Ingredients:

¼ cup jowar flour (Sorgum)

¼ cup wheat flour

¼ tup chopped methi leaves

2 tbsp gram flour (besan, chickpea flour)

½ tsp chaat masala

½ tsp chilli powder

½ tsp coriander powder

¼ tsp cumin powder

¼ tsp turmeric powder

Salt

Oil for cooking

Method:

In a wide vessel or parat, mix the flours, methi leaves.  Now add all the masalas, salt and mix well again. Add water little by little and knead a pliable dough.  Divide the same into three equal parts.  Roll out the same carefully as it is likely to break if you put pressure. You cannot make it thin like the normal methi thepla, it will be slighly on thicker side.   

  Heat a non stick tava and cook the same till brown spots appear on it or till it is cooked.  Serve hot with green chutney, tomato ketchup.

 

Variation:  You can also make thalipeeth out of this by adding onion in it.  Thalipeeth is made little thicker in size like burger.

MOONG DAL VADA

Yet another post of Rajasthani (Marwari) cusine made out of Moongdal as main ingredient with onion, coriander leaves.  A tasty evening tea time snack.  You can make kadhi /sambar out of this.  I have already posted some kadhi and sambar recipes.  Thanks to Manjuala and linking this recipe to her site.  desifiesta.blogspot.com

MISSI ROTI

Missi Roti, part of Rajasthani Thali was given by Manjula Kanted for IFC#3.  I am preparing one by one out of the same and posting it and linking the same to Manjulas blog. Missi roti is made up of wheat flour and besan with some onion and green chillies and very tasty item if served hot.

Missi roti with dal

ROTI SEV PURI

I have already posted sev puri.  Now I am presenting the roti sev puri.  this is made with left over roti, tasty and healthy too. what you need is the left over rotis, chutneys, chopped tomatoes, onion and nylon sev. your roti sev puri is ready.  I have also posted masala roti.  You can view the videos in You Tube of these.

SEV PURI. DAHI PURI

I have already posted the mouth watering Bhel puri.  Now is the time to post Sev Puri.  Sev puri can be made as dahi sev puri. you have to add only dahi in the sev puri.  chaat item, any one will enjoy any time especially when you can make it at home why not taste it whenever you want provided you keep all the ingredients in your store room.