INSTANT CARROT PICKLE

Spicy pickle is always a part of Indian cuisine.  Basically, every Indian household have this in the store room viz. mango pickle, lime pickle, mix pickle, vegetable pickle, vadu mangai etc.  

If you have a visitor and wants to serve pickle along with the dish you made and do not have any pickle at home (never happens in Indian household), then you can make any kind of pickle immediately provided you have the vegetables at home viz. carrot, cucumber, tomato, onion etc.

Here I tried the carrot pickle which can be made within 10 minutes time.   Let us look at the recipe now:

instant carrot pickle  on you tube'

VEGETABLE PICKLE WITH SPICE

Another variety of vegetable pickle which I made recently stayed for 15 days without refrigerating.  I loved this vegetable pickle along with dal rice specially.

Sometimes, these variety of pickles are really good  to make.

As I always experiment the new variety of recipes and if it is okayed by all our family members, then only I post the same on the blog.   This pickle was really a hit at home and loved by the neighbours too

Let us look at the recipe now:

VEGETABLE PICKLE WITH OUT OIL AND SPICE

I am a big fan of pickle and love to eat with anything and everything.  I happened to eat the vegetable pickle in a friend's place, I thought will try it.  I added whatever was available at home and made it but was really tasty and enjoyed.  

Unlike other pickles we make for storing for years together, this has got very less shelf  like and have to consume it within a week's time.

Let us look at the recipe now:

RADISH PICKLE ( NO OIL NO SPICE PICKLE)

Radish also known as Mullangi in Tamil, Muli in Hindi and Mula in Marathi.  This vegetable has got lot of health benefits and is used in salads or pickles or making subzi.  The greens of this vegetable is also used for making dry subzi or gravy.

Recently I visited a friend of my husband and his mother had made this simple pickle which I could not resist asking for more of it.  It was a very simple pickle and yet tasty without oil and any spice.  Normally, when you make pickle, you end up adding lots of spices and oil to preserve them.  But this pickle is different from all those pickles which we make for keeping it years together.  This has got a very less shelf like and always better to make fresh and consume.

Let us look at the recipe now:

MILAGU VADAI, ANJANEYAR VADAI

Milagau vadai is prepared with urid dal and black pepper for the neivedyam of Anjaneyar.  It is very crispy crunchy and is also known as Anjaneyar vadai.

I happened to taste this a decade ago in one of the temples and that taste I really relish now also.  I want to post this recipe since so many days but could not do it as my children will not eat this because of flavour of the pepper.  But I made this on last Saturday for the purpose of posting the same on the blog as well as being Saturday can offer neivedyam to Anjaneya.

It is really awesome with the flavour of pepper in it and I really enjoy the same.

Let us look at the recipe now:

KAFIR LIME LEAVES MILAGAI PODI

We make veppilakkati with the narathanga elai.  I had plucked some leaves to prepare the veppilakkati but somehow I could not make it.   The leaves were left like that and dried up.  So thought of making milagai podi with it and turned out to be awesome for the idli, dosa.

I do not know whether anyone has tried this recipe.  I always look for a unique recipes with the ingredients available, I thought let me try with it and the end result is yummy.

Hope you will also make use of the same.  The leaves have to be dried up.  I had left it in a plate as it is and got dried up.  If you keep it for a week, it is enough to go ahead with the milagai podi recipe.

We use the leaves for making chaas, that is sambaram.  you have to crush the leaves with rock salt in your hand and then put in the butter milk and keep for sometime.  the flavour  in it is really appetising.  this leaf is part of Thai cuisine.

video on you tube:

Let us look at the recipe now:

 kafir lime  leaves in cullinary use link here

MOONG DAL BANANA FRITTERS

The Navratri festival is going on and I am bored of making the usual Sundals with brown chana, karamani etc.  Since I wanted to make something different, I tried sabudana sundal and moong and banana fritters.

The Moong and banana fritters can be served as an evening snack along with a cup of hot coffee or tea also.  As I was cutting the banana for making mezhukupuratti out of it, this idea struck me and immediately I soaked some moongdal  and tried this and it was awesome.

Let us look at the recipe now:

BREAD PIDI KOZHUKKATTAI

Though we are having varieties of breakfast recipes with us, still early in the morning all moms have a question what to make for breakfast.

I was making the normal pidi kozhukkatai or it is known as upma kozhukkattai, and few slices of left over bread was there with me.  The tuvar dal paste was bit excess with me so  I thought of trying this bread pidi kozhukkattai and it turned out very tasty and yummy.  I never expected that this will a hit.

  Since it is quite tasty, I am sharing the recipe with you all.

As usual, we can serve this with moru kootan, sambhar and any kind of chutney.

Let us look at the recipe now:

COOKED RICE DOSA

Sometimes  we are confused what to do with the left over rice. Though we can make phodni rice, pakoda, porichukotti sadam, tayir sadam etc. something new can be invented always.  Thus I tried this dosa along with some other flours which is healthy.

As I was making this dosa, back of my mind, wondering what to make for the accompaniment.  I tried an instant  sambhar which was quite tasty.  

This dosa can be made instantly as you do not have to wait for fermentation of the batter and can be served with chutney, sambhar, milgai podi etc.  You are not wasting the left over rice and can say that it is a best out of left over  items.  

Let us look at the recipe now:

INSTANT SAMBHAR

At times, we are  not prepared for making the dishes which we want and end up making something different which really tastes good.   Here is such a dish which I made today to serve along with the cooked rice dosa.  Till such time, I prepared the dosa, I was not sure whether to prepare a chutney or sambhar.  If I have to prepare sambhar, then I have to cook the dal etc. which is a lengthy process.  My daughter and son always prefer sambar along with dosa and idli.

As I was thinking what to do?  This idea came to my mind.  When you are in a hurry to make sambhar for dosa or idli and do not have time to cook dal and make the sambhar elaborately, here is an easy way to make sambhar instantly.   No need to cook dal separately.  This sambhar can be made within 10 minutes.

 It is not necessary that we should always prepare the sambhar with the dal, without that also we can make it.

Let us look at the recipe now: