Moong dal Kichdi

Dal Khichdi :
 
Ingredients :

1/2 bowl long grain Rice
1/4 bowl Moong Dal without Husks
1 Small onion chopped
Paste of 2 green chillies & 1" ginger piece ( Paste is optional.Instead use chilli and ginger cut into small pieces )
1 Tbls Oil
1tsp cumin seeds
1/4 tsp Turmeric
1 1/2 tsp salt

Tempering:

Oil- 1 tblspn
urad dal - 1 spn
chanadal- - 1 spn
 jeera- 1 spn
redchilli - 2 to 3
kaju - 5-6
kadipattha/ karivepaaku - fistful

 
Method :     
1.Wash and Soak the rice and Dals seperately. Leave for 10min.
2.In a broad pan, heat the oil and add cumin seeds.
3.Add the chopped onion and chiili and ginger paste. Stir and saute for 1min.
4.Add the rice and moong Dal.
5.Add the salt and turmeric
6.Make sure not to put too much water .The water should just covers the rice and Dals.
7.Cover the lid and turn the heat downaa no problem
8.Check after 5 min to see if the rice and Dals are cooked and most of the water absorbed.If need be a little water can be sprinkled. 

Once the Rice is done, put a small kadai on stove , add oil and let it heat.
Roast kaju till they are roasted well and take them out.
Now in the same kadai add all the ingredients under tempering.Fry nicely until a wonderful aroma hits ur kitchen.Add this to the cooked kichdi and
My god !!! You cant resist it.

Seve it with  Raita .

Pesarattu/Green moong dal dosa

Hi,

from today let me introduce you few foods good for health,especially for women with problems like thyroid and pcos.

It is better for us to close our eyes and shut our mouth when we see rice.

So I will keep postin g few recipies which helps us to control diet with out high carbs.



Pesarattu :

Ingredients

Green moongdal : 1 glass
rice : fistfull ( uncooked)
( Rice to be used if u r not having pcos )

Soak the green moong dal , rice for 24 hours or alteast 10 hrs .
Now grind them to a mixture adding water if necessary.

Thats it. The batter is ready.

Now heat the tawa, put two spoons of oil, spread allover evenly and allow it to heat.

Now pour the batter using a laddle and make it into circular shape spreading from center.

Once the dosa leaves the edges, take it out of tawa using a flat spoon.

and U r there !!!

Have it with yummy fried chanadal chutney.

Home made Chocolate

Yummy Homemade Chocolate:


We are planning to go to hyderabad,where my sisterin law stays with her family.Their lovely kids will be waiting for us.Henc ethought of preparing this choco for them.


It worked quiet well that we finished the entire chokie before it reached them :D




hahahhh




Ingredients:


Milk Powder : 2 cups
Sugar : 1/1/2 cup
Cocoa powder -1/2 cup
Butter 100 gms
Water 1 cup
Milk maid - 1 cup ( optional)




 Now we will start making our delicacy :) hmmm


Start making sugar syrup using sugar and water .Let it come to string consistency, the string which stands between our fingers.
Then turn it off.


Now add butter to it, until its blended well
Then add cocoapowder and milk podwer.Now blend in milkmaid if its handy ...This makes the chocolate yummmmyyyyy :D


You can add crunchy nuts at this point of time.


Now place this mixture in any greased plate and refrigerate.


Cut it into desirable shapes and enjoyyyy !

Tomato Dal / Tomato Pappu

Andhra Style Tomato Pappu :


Ingredients :
 



Tomatoes : 4 - 5
Green Chillies : 3-4
Turdal/kandhipappu - 2 cups
Onion - 1 -Grated finely
tamarind - lemon sized
Salt : acc to taste
chilli powder: acc to taste


Tadka :


mustard seeds - 1spn
urad dal- 1spn
chana dal- 1spn
jeera- 1spn
kadi pattha/karivepaaku - fist ful
red chilli slits
garlic ( Very Imp) - 5 to 6 pods




Before starting to cook, I suggest to just soak turdal with a pich of haldi and one spoon of oil.It makes the dal soft and allows it to get cooked faster when we start cooking.


Take a cooker.just add the soaked dal,onion,tomatoes,slit green chillies and add.
Now add tamarind.


Dont add salt at this moment as it stops dal from getting soft.Add haldi, chillipowder and close the cooker lid and allow it to get cooked till its consistency is mushy.


Now mash the dal, add salt and keep aside.


Take a small kadai, add 2 spoons of oil and add all the tadka ingredients.
Add this tadka to the dal above and ur home will be touched with the essence of heaven !!!


Now have it with hot steamed rice with vadiyams or papads as side dish.


My god !!! You will be lost :)

Dalchini tea

Hi,

My father in law, one of the most inspiring in my life, I respect and love him a lot...He suffers from diabetis and Even my Mom ( Ofcourse they are brother and sister with diabetis as heriditory )

Hence I started searching for options I can keep their diabetis in control. And this is one of my easiest yet very powerful attempts.

Just add an inch of cinnamon while cooking rice or in our chaii ( tea) daily and see the change by yourself.

Hence this is the recipie of the tea - Diabetic tea yet tastes like heaven

Cinnamon Tea , very good for diabetics

Ingredients :

 Milk - 2 cups
tea powder - 2 spoons
cinnamon- 1inch
 elaichi - 2
ginger ( optional )

Sugar ( for diabetic free people)

Preparation :

Just boil milk, add tea powder, cinnamon, elaichi,grated ginger and let it boil nicely until it reaches a tempting colour.

Add sugar if u like :)

just filter the tea and take in a cup.serve with a slice of wheat bread...and see what an evening u have got !!!

Fruit Cake ( Veg/egg )

Yummy Fruit cake [ veg/non veg] :


I am interested in cakes even though I know they are not sooo healthy !!!
So just thought of just adding some health to my cake ;) carrots and apple,which I feel lazy to go to my fridge and cut and thennnn eat !!!


3- 4 carrots ( grated finely)
1 apple ( cut into small tiny pieces
1/3 tspn orange juice
3 eggs / 1 cup milk + 1/2 tin condensed milk
sugar powder
1 1/2 maida
1 tspn baking powder
11/2 tspn cinnamon powder


1) Sieve the dry ingredients
2) Now mix milk and condensed milk / egg to the above sieved mixture, orange juice
3) Mix the mixture well.add cherries,grated carrot and apple.Now put in a greased baking tray.
4) Bake it for 10 minutes under 200degree Celsius and on 180 degree for another 10 minutes.
5) Insert a toothpick and if nothing sticks to it means cake is done. Let it cool for sometime.
Then turn over and tap from back to remove.


Note : I used Electric cooker. I nicely greased the container with butter and then dusted with maida.
Dusting is important here.Then added the cake batter into it.
The cooker button comes up every five minutes and it is a bit work consuming to get it down every ten minutes.But the final cake makes you forget ur hardwork...trust me !!!

Podi Pappu / Pappu fry / Dry dal fry

Hi ,
This is my husband's favourite recipie,it needs less time but more consciousness.Tasty and fast curry to prepare.I learnt it from my mother in law, as she always does it for her son and now its my turn ;) to do it for her son. isnt it ? ;)


Welcome to the Recipie preparation :


Dry Dal Fry

  Ingredients :


Toordal/kandhipappu : 1cup
onion :1 small
green mirchi :3
salt: acc to taste
turmeric: 1 spoon
mirchipowder : acc to taste
Oil : 1 spoon

Ingrdients for tadka/popu :


minappappu / urad dal : 1 spoon
chandal/ pachi senagapappu : 1 spoon
aavalu / mustard seeds : 1 spoon
jeera/ jeelakarra : 1 spn
red mirchi : 2 #s


Now lets start the preparation :


First , soak the toordal with 1 cup of water, pinch of turmeric and two drops of oil, just for few mins b4 cooking.


Now pressure cook the dal with water in a cooker and stop it when it is stiff enough as in the pic ( not mushy ).
Take care that it shud not be too mushy or too stiff. Now once it is cooked enough, turn off and drain the excess water if any and let the dal kept ready for preparation.


1. Take a kadai, heat nicely
2.put a tspn of oil, let it heat
3. put all the tadka ingredients,let them splutter
4.Add finely chopped onions, green mirchi,allow them to fry nicely
 5.Now add the dal which is kept aside in the beginning and keep stirring
5.Add salt,turmeric,chillipowder and keep stirring.
6.Note : stir with skillet closed if they are a bit stiff and stirr only open if they are abt to be mushy.


Thats it here you are !!! Garnish with coriander and server hot with steamed rice...


Variations : You can add dry coconut powder and stirr, cook at the end keeping lid closed for 5 mins.