Andhra Lemon Rice

Lemon Rice:

The quick and delicious recipie which makes our tastebuds stand up and fight for it ...have a glance.

Ingredients:
cooked rice : 1 cup
Lemon : 1/2
salt : according to taste
turmeric powder: 1 tsp
seasoning :

chana dal : 2 tspns
urad dal : 2 tspns
yendumirchi/lal mirchi : 6
curry leaves /kadipatta : handful leaves
sarson : 1 tspn
Roasted groundnuts : 2 tblspns ( optional)
Oil : 4 tspns

1.Take a pan, add oil and let it heat enough
2. Add all the ingredients under seasoning and let them splutter
3. Now, add salt and turmeric powder and turn of after a minute
4. Now add this,groundnuts to our cooked rice and mix
5.Finally squeeze the lemon juice and its readyy

Note: Taste it and add more salt according to your requirement anytime.
      You can add kaju/cashew to make it rich

Ava pettina aratikaya koora / Plantain- Mustard curry / kela sarson ki khel :

Ingredients:

2 raw plantains, skinned and cubed

turmeric pwd: 1 tspn

1 tsp oil

salt to taste

For seasoning/poppu/tadka:

1/2 tsp mustard seeds

1 green chillis, slit

10-12 curry leaves

garlic - 3 pods ( crushed)

Paste Ingredients:

2 teaspoons mustard seeds and 1 tablespoon of raw rice
(soaked in warm water for 10 minutes - to soften, so that they can grind well)
6 tblps of fresh grated coconut
8 green chillies - small, Indian variety
1 inch piece of ginger - peeled and cut to tiny pieces
1/2 cup of fresh cilantro leaves and pinch of salt
grind them to smooth paste

Prepare the paste with out adding water

Procedure:

1 Add a cup of water to the cubed plantains along with turmeric and salt and cook till soft but not mushy. While the plaintains cook, prepare the paste and keep aside.
2 Heat oil in a vessel, add the mustard seeds and let them pop.Then add the curry leaves, green chilli and garlic
3 Immediately, add the cooked plantain pieces and mix. Adjust salt.
4 Add the ground mustard paste and mix. Cook for 5 mts before turning off the heat.
5 Serve with hot rice and rasam

Thats it...You will almost reach heaven ;) Taste it

Andhra Rasam

Hello...

I am back after a month;s gap.Went to home town just to chill out.
Back with one of my favourite recipie Rasam .Its a simple yet tasty one which sets comfortably with tiffins like idli,dosa ,upma and also in hot steamed rice ...

Lets have a look !!!

Ingredients:

1. Water -3 cups
2. Tamarind - lemon sized ( soak tamarind in water before 5 mins and squeeze the pulp and keep it aside)
3. kothimeera / coriander - handful of leaves

4. garlic/vellulli - 5 pods
5. Salt - acc to taste
6. turmeric powder - acc to taste
7.chilli powder - acc to taste

Seasoning :

1.Mustard seeds – 2tsp
2.Hing – pinch
3.Curry leaves- few
4.Chana dal – 1tsp
5.Urad dal – 1tsp
6.Cumin seeds – 1tsp
7.Mustard seeds – 1tsp
8.Red chillies – 4
9.Oil – 1tspn
10. crushed garlic pods- 3

Procedure:

1. Add water, salt, turmeric powder,chillipowder,crushed garlic pods,tamarind pulp and
   let it boil until it reaches boiling point and nice arome stikes your kitchen
2. Now take a small kadai
3. add oil , allow it to heat
4. Now add all the ingredients under seasoning and allow them to get cooked for 2 mins
5. Now add this seasoning content into our rasam prepared in step 1.

Mouth watering and tempting Rasam is ready.We can serve it with rice,idli,dosa etc..
Note: We can add boiled and blanched tomatoes ,which makes it tomato rasam
      and adding more of ginger while cooking makes it ginger rasam -good for cough and cold.