Summer
has stated and its kid’s time. There will be never ending demand for snacks and
drinks from kids. Strawberry Banana Smoothie is a good quick but healthy recipe
to have. The good part is you can do it in minutes.
Ingredients:
Boiled cold milk
1 cup
Banana (medium size)
1
Strawberry
2-3
Strawberry jam or sugar
1 tesp
Ice cubes (optional)
As required
Procedure:
1.
Blend all the ingredients together in a blender or juicer into a smooth paste.
2.
Have it as it is, add ice cubes or refrigerate and serve it.
Want
a all season juice? The gooseberry juice is one such juice which you can use
without adding ice. So you can serve it for children and old people. If you use
it regularly health benefits are high.
Ingredients:
Gooseberry
2
Mint / Puthina Leaves
5
Coriander Leaves
1 tbsp
Curry Leaves
½ spring
Cumin Seeds
½ tesp
Pepper Corns
¼ tesp
Coriander Seeds
½ tesp
Ginger
¼ inch
Palm Sugar Candy / Panagarkandu
2 tbsp
Procedure:
1.
Wash and remove the seeds from the gooseberries.
2.
Wash all the leaves and keep it aside.
3.
Now grind all the ingredients with little water into fine paste.
4.
Strain the juice with juice strainer and serve it either chill or as it is.
People
get fed up with bread toast after eating just one or two. The challenge is how
to make them eat more. The best way is give a pleasant surprise taste in the
ingredients. Banana French toast is one such a idea for surprise taste.
Ingredients:
Bread Slices
2
Banana
1
Mixed fruit jam
2 tesp
Egg
1
Luke warm Milk
3 tbsp
Sugar
1 tsbp
Oil or butter
1 tesp
Powdered Sugar
1 tesp
Procedure:
1.
Take the milk in a wide bowl. Add sugar and mix them well till sugar dissolves
completely.
2.
Break the egg and pour it into the milk mixture. Mix them gently till egg
dissolves. Keep it aside
3.
Cut the banana into thin round pieces.
4.
Take the bread slices and spread jam on one side of the slice.
5.
Arrange banana as per your wish on another bread slice.
6.
Keep the jam spread side of the bread slice on the banana bread slice. Press
them well with your palm.
7.
Now take them carefully and dip both sides of the sandwich in the egg mixture.
8.
Heat the tawa and pour oil on the tawa, place the sandwich on the tawa and
toast the sandwich on both sides.
9.
Transfer into the plate and sprinkle powdered sugar on the top of the sandwich and
serve.
White santhagai is just like rice. You
can create many flavor like lemon, tomato etc..Lemon santhagai is the one of
the all time favourite of my husband. This is an ideal dish for traveling.
Punugulu is a very famous Andhra snack.
But it is made with idli batter and maida. Since maida is not that much healthy
I tried this wheat flour. It is one our favourite snack of my Sithi who
prepares it every now and then.
2. Then add cumin seeds, finely chopped
onion, chopped green chillies, chopped coriander and curry leaves.
3. Mix them well. If the batter is too thick you can add little
amount of water or if the batter is not thick you can add wheat flour to bring
the batter into a thick consistency. The batter should be thicker than idli
batter (the batter should fall as a ball).
4. Heat the oil in a pan, wet the hands
with water and drop a gooseberry size balls from the batter.
5. Fry them well on all sides till they
becomes golden in color and crisp.
6. Take it out from the oil and drain
the oil completely. Then keep it on the kitchen tissue paper to absorb the
excess oil.
Have this instant and crispy bonda with tea.
Note:
1.Instead of wheat flour you can try
with maid, millet flours etc..
Want to prepare a chutney which would
surprise everyone? I give this chutney to my visitors and asked them to guess
the ingredients of the chutney. When they give up, I tell that the chutney
ingredients is Guava. Everybody gets a pleasure surprise. Why don’t you try it
yourself?
Ingredients:
Red Guava Fruit
½
Split Gram dal / Kadali Paruppu
1 tbsp
Cumin Seeds
1 tesp
Pepper
1 tesp
Tomato
1
Red Chilly
2
Coconut
¼ cup
Oil
2 tesp
Salt
As required
Procedure:
1. Heat oil in pan, add split gram dal
and red chillies. Saute for a min.
2. Then add cumin seeds and pepper
corns. Fry till nice aroma comes out.
3. Now add the chopped tomato and fry
till the tomato becomes mushy.
4. At this stage, add the chopped guava
fruit and fry till it becomes mushy.
5. Switch off the flame and add coconut
and salt. Allow it to cool down and grind with little water.
Really aromatic and yummy Guava fruit chutney is ready to serve. This
goes well with all varieties of Dosai and especially with Ragi Dosai, MixedMillets Idli and multigrain dosai.
What is aappam? According to my Hubby’s
research(because he is a P.hd and always researches something or other), aappam is idli in dosa shape. The best way to have appam is first two
have with coconut milk and next with coconut chutney with more chillies added.
Ingredients:
Raw Idli Rice
1 cup
Barboiled Idli Rice
1 cup
Urad Dal
½ cup
Fenugreek Seeds
1 tbsp
Salt
As required
Cooking Soda
A pinch
Procedure:
1. Wash and soak both the rice together
for 2-4 hours.
2. Wash and soak urad and fenugreek
seeds together for 3-4 hours.
3. Grind the rice into a fine paste with enough
water.
4. Grind the urad dal till the urad
batter comes soft and flyffy.
5. Mix both off the batter together
with salt and keep it 6-8 hours or overnight for fermentation.
6. After fermentation, the batter would
have become fluffy.
7. Add enough water to make the batter
into a running consistency. At this stage add cooking soda and keep it aside
for 5- 10 mins.
8. Now the aappam batter is ready to
use.
9. Heat the aappam pan and pour few
drops of oil. Then pour 2 ladle full of batter into the pan. Now rotate the pan
in a circular motion, so that the batter spreads all over the pan.
10. Now pour few drops of oil and close
the lid of the pan. Cook for 2-3 mins.
11. Then take it out from the pan and
serve it hot with coconut milk or chutney.
Note:
1. You should not turn over the aappam.
2. Raw rice helps to makes the appam
soft.
I didn’t take stepwise photo. I upload
it later.
For the first i am including a video in my recipe. Please see it below.