February 23, 2015

Strawberry Banana Smoothie | Summer Recipes

    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.

February 16, 2015

Gooseberry Green Juice / Nellikkai Juice

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.

February 13, 2015

Banana French Toast

    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.

February 11, 2015

Lemon Santhagai / Lemon Idiyappam /Lemon Sevai

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.


Ingredients:

1 cup
Lemon (medium size)
1
Turmeric Powder
½ tesp
Salt
As required
To Temper

Oil
1 tbsp
Mustard Seeds
 ¼ tesp
Urad Dal
¼ tesp
Channa Dal
1 tbsp
Curry Leaves
1 Spring
Chopped onion
¼ cup
To Garnish

Coriander Leaves
1 tbsp
Grated Coconut
2 tbsp

Procedure:
1. Squeeze the lemon juice from the lemon. Add salt and turmeric and mix them well.
2. Pour this mixture into the santhagai. Roll over the santhagai so that the juice gets mixed properly.
3. Heat the oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, urad dal and channa dal. Wait for popping.
4. Then add curry leaves and chopped onion. Fry till the onion becomes translucent.
5. Now add the lemon coated santhagai and mix them well and fry for 3-4 mins.
6. Switch off the flame and garnish with coriander leaves and coconut.

February 9, 2015

Idli Batter Bonda

     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.



Ingredients:
1 cup
Wheat Flour
¼ cup
Finely Chopped Onion
¼ cup
Chopped Green Chilly
2
Curry leaves
 1 spring
Coriander Leaves
 Handful
Cumin Seeds
1 tbsp
Salt
As required
Oil
For deep fry

Procedure:
1. Mix idly batter and wheat flour with salt.
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..

February 6, 2015

Guava / Koyyapazha Chutney

     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.




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