CHEEDAI SUBZI

Cheedai is prepared during Janmashtami, Gokulashtami.  there are two varieties one is vella cheedai (jaggery - sweet version) & uppu cheedai (savoury version).

After the gokulashtami, few cheedais were lying in the container which had lost the crispiness.  Since I do not want to throw them away, I prepared subzi out of it.

BEETROOT RAITA

Beet root raita is very easy to make.  Either you can cut into small cubes or grate it.  If grating the job is done easily. You can serve it with plain rice, (I love to eat ) or with pulao, biryani, roti with subzi.

SAMBARA PODI

Sambara podi is a spicy coconut powder which can be served with oil like milagai podi (gun powder) for idli, dosa and with  dal rice, curd rice too.  You can use fresh coconut as well as after extracting the coconut milk, that coconut can be used.   after extracting the coconut milk, the coconut is spread on a plate for drying out little bit.  Then it is fried till brown and ground with roasted coriander, tamarind etc.

AJWAIN PATTA PURI

I have already posted ajwain patta paratha.  Now I am sharing with the puri.  Ingredients are the same of paratha.  Only you have to make small puris and deep fry the same.  I just had the same as it is.  You can serve it with potato subzi, shrikhand, etc.

PLAIN RICEMODAK

Plain rice modak is made with the rice flour, tempered with mustard seeds and urid dal, few curry leaves, green chilli etc.  It is very easy to make and serve as snacks too.  Since Ganesh festival is only a week away, I thought of sharing this simple recipe.

TOMATO OMLETTE

Tomato omlette is basically made out of gram flour or besan it is known as with onion, tomato, coriander  leaves etc.  It is a very tasty breakfast as it is or you can make it with bread as sandwich.  Since all the ingredients are available at home any time, this can be made so easily.

BILIMBI ACHAR, IRUMBAN PULI PICKLE, TREE SORREL PICKLE

Irumban puli  in English is known as  tree sorrel or cucumber tree.  In India, it is known as bilimbi, irumban puli, chemmeen puli, bimbul, orakkaapuli, bimblin etc.

The tree bears quite a lot of fruits.  It is very sour in taste.  It can be eaten raw with salt and chilli powder.  Since it is very tangy in nature, it is  added to some dishes substituting for tamarind or tomato.   It is used in sambar or fish curry or made into pickles.

Mostly, we used to make pickle out of it.  One of my colleague has got the tree in her building and she shared me with this fresh fruit.  I also made subzi out of this and was quite tasty.  irumban-puli-subzi

AJWAIN PATTA PARATHA

Parathas are altime favourite of our family members.  We love to eat paratha any time with curd and pickle is my choice and with tomato ketchup of our children.

Ajwain patta it is also known as pani koorka elai, kanni koorka, karpooravalli elai has got lot of medicinal value and I have planted the same in the balcony.  Hence, it is always available with me.  Whenever my children gets cough and cold, I make kada or kashayam in which I always used to put this.

Coming back to paratha, I have made several times, bhajia out of the leaves but never tried the paratha. Two days back I was bored of making subzi so thought of making paratha out of it as the Gardener came to trim the plants in the balcony, he had removed the leaves.  I had kept some in fridge which I used to make the paratha and was too good.  we can make puri also out of this dough

POHA COCONUT PAK

Poha coconut pak is a  simple and easy sweet dish for the neivedyam.  This can be prepared so quickly for your unexpected guests too as the ingredients are always available at home.  If you get the  naadan aval " brown colour one which is very tasty and healthy too, tastes heavenly.  You can make Poha  modak also out of this.

POHA MODAK

Ganesh Festival starts this year on 29th August.  I am pretty sure, everyone will be busy breaking their head to make some different kind of modak for welcoming the Lord Ganesha, the remover of all obstacles.  Here I am presenting for you a simple and easy modak recipe made out of poha and coconut which can be used for making poha coconut pak too.