Aval Upma (Poha / Riceflakes Upma)

Ingredients :

Aval / Poha / Rice flakes – 1 cup

Onion – 1

Greenchillies – 2

Curryleaves – few

Lemon juice – 2 tsp

Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp

Mustard – 1 tsp

Chana dhal – 1 tsp

Urad dhal – ½ tsp

Oil – 1 tblsp

Salt as required

Method :

         1. Wash poha in water for 1 to 2 times and drain. Poha should be wet and soft when you touch.                                                                                                                   

   2. Heat the fry pan and add oil. Add mustard and chana dhall/ urid dhall. After the mustard splutter add ginger and green chillies.

   3. Then add chopped onion and fry till it becomes brown. And also add curry leaves.

   4.  In this stage, add the poha and mix well. After few mins sprinkle salt and mix well.

    5. After 3 to 5 mins keep the flame and then switch off the stove. Atlast add the lemon juice and mix the upma. You can have this upma with sugar, pickle or any chutney.

Sev-Cucumber Raitha/ Sev-Cucumber Pachadi

Hi Friends !!! Today I prepared  Sev-Cucumber Raitha as a side dish for Pulao. It’s my first time I am adding sev. The combination was really good. Hope you all try this….

Ingredients :

Cucumber Chopped finely– 1

Haldirams Aloo Bhujia (sev) – ¼ cup

Beaten curd – 1 ½ cup

Red chilli powder – ¼ tsp (optional)

Coriander leaves – little bit

Salt – as required

Method :

Mix all the above ingredients very well. Before you eat add the sev. Otherwise it get wet and you lose the real taste.

This raitha goes very well with pulao, biriyani, variety rices and chapatti.

Green Peas Pulao/ Green Peas Biriyani

Hi Friends !!! From long time I am thinking to do pulao/biriyani and the day came now. I bought the tamiz women magazine “aval vikadan” and found this receipe. I didn’t change anything in that receipe. I followed , prepared and now presenting in front of you. Hope you all enjoy this. My malayalee friends loved it and learnt from me. Good know… Let’s see how to make this receipe…

Ingredients :

Boiled Basmathi Rice – 1 cup

Onion (chopped) – 2

Tomato (finely chopped) - 3

Green Peas – 1 cup

Turmeric Powder – 1/4 tsp (optional)

Bay leaf – 1

Cardamom – 2

Clove – 2

Cinnamon – 1 little

Cashew nut – 10 no.s

Salt – as required

Oil – 3 tsp

Ghee – 1 tsp

Coriander leaves - little bit

For Grinding :

Coconut ( grated ) – 4 tsp

Ginger – 1 inch

Garlic – 3 pods

Sounf/Fennel – ½ tsp

Green Chilli - 3

Method :

     1.     Heat the fry pan and add oil/Ghee. Add Bay leaf, Cardamom, clove and Cinnamon. Fry till cardamom becomes big and bay leaf becomes brown colour.

     2.    Then add chopped onion and fry till it becomes brown. Add little bit of turmeric powder.

     3.    Add chopped tomatos and fry very well. Then add the grinded mixture and fry well till the garlic smell goes.

     4.    At this stage add green peas. I used frozen green peas, so it doesn’t need water to boil. If you are using normal green peas add little bit water and boil the green peas. Add required salt and fry well.

     5.    Now add the boiled basmati rice and mix well with this mixture. And also add coriander leaves.

     6.    Serve Green peas pulao with Raitha. I did sev-cucumber raitha. It tasted awesome along with this sev raitha. Enjoy!!!

Vegetable Frankie

 Vegetable Frankie

Hi Friends. Hope you all are doing great. Today I don’t know suddenly I remembered about my golden days two years back, when I was working at office. Whenever I get hungry I go to the globus shop where the frankie shop is available. My friend ganesh is always a company for me to eat frankie. We love to eat frankie and then drink big pepsi. WOW!!!! Those days are always evergreen moments. Especially on rainy days with hot frankie. From past one year it’s in my to do list. But time comes now to do and I did it today. I referred 2 to 3 blogs and made it with my own experiment also. The result came very good. My friends loved it. Surprisingly my hubby who hate to eat chat masala and spices, tasted 2 frankies fortunately. I am totally satisfied !!! and Happy because the taste met that frankie 95%. Let’s see how to do Frankie…

Ingredients :

Finely chopped Onion – 1

Carrot finely chopped or grated – ½ cup

Coriander leaves – ¼ cup

Lemon juice – 3 tsp

Greenchilli finely chopped – 2

Green peas  half boiled – ½ cup (Oops I forgot to add)

All purpose flour/maida – 1 cup

Milk – 4 tsp

Sweet chutney – as required for all filling (nearly 10 tsp). Sweet chutney i have referred from  raks kitchen

Chat masala – 4 tsp

Red chilli powder – 2 tsp

Boiled potato – 1

Oil

Water

Salt – as required

Method :

  

      1.    In a bowl, add all purpose flour, salt with milk , water and make a dough.

      2.   In a bowl, mix chopped onion, carrot, lemon, 1 tsp chat masala , salt and keep  aside.

      3.    In a separate bowl add potato and mash it. Then add redchilli powder ½ tsp, chat                masala ½ tsp, salt and mix it well. Make this mixture as small balls.

     4.   Heat heat oil in a pan. Meanwhile roll the potato balls in breadcrums and do a deep fry. Take the deep fried balls in separate plate.

      5.     Take the prepared dough and make it to small balls.

     6.   Roll the balls into chapatti size and keep aside.

     

    7.   Heat tawa and add oil and toast the maida frankie till it comes to brown colour. Don’t flip to other side.  Now spread the sweet chutney on the Frankie and then add fried potato balls and then spread onion-carrot mixture . Roll this Frankie very well. Toast this Frankie in low flame.  Roll the other end with tissue paper and serve hot.

(Tip: First you can toast all frankie one side without flipping and keep in a plate. Then do the filling for all frankies, roll it and toast again in tawa. Instead of doing one by one filling, whole thing doing is easy.)

Green Moong Dhall Curry/ Pachai Payaru Curry

Ingredients:

  Whole moong dhall/ Pachai payaru – 1 cup

  Onion – 1

  Carrot –  small size 1

  Coconut -  2 tsp

  Green chilli – 3 chopped

  Mustard – 1 tsp

  Cumin seeds – 1 tsp

  Ajwin / Omam– ½ tsp

  Turmeric powder – 1tsp

  Chilli powder – as per taste

  Oil – 2 tbsp

  Salt

Method :

 1. One day itself soak the green moong dhall in water.Means tomorrow afternoon going to do means today morning itself soak it in water.

        2.  Night drain the water and set aside in a bowl. Use it next day.

    

       3.     Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds, as it spluttering starts, add ajwin, cumin seeds, and greenchilli to it.

       4.     After the spluttering stops, add onion and fry till it become brown colour.

        5.     Then add the whole moong dhall .

        6.     Add turmeric,chilli powder,salt in it.

        7.     Let the moong dhall fry for 5 minutes, add the carrot and fry for 2 minutes.

        8.     At last add coconut and fry. Now the moong dhall curry is ready to serve.

         Enjoy this Curry with rice and chapathi.

Instant Onion Puliyodharai

Ingredients :

Tamarind juice concentrated – 1 cup

Onion / small onion – 1/2 cup chopped

Green chilli – 4 chopped

Red chilli – 4

Curry leaves – little bit

Turmeric powder – 2 tsp

Chana dhall – 3 tbsp

Urid dhall – 2 tbsp

Mustard seeds – 1 tbsp

Salt

Sesame oil - 3 tbsp

Boiled rice – 2 cup

Method :

     1. Take a pan and heat oil. Add Mustard seeds, as it starts spluttering add chana dhall and urid dhall. When these dhall turns brown in colour, add green chilli and red chilli.

    2. When the green chilli splutters, add curry leaves and small onion and fry deeply till the onion becomes golden brown.

    3. Add the tamarind juice to this fried mixture and stir well.

    4. Add turmeric powder, Salt. Add sesame oil when required.

    5. If you want more chilli, add the chilli powder to this mixture. (optional step)

    6. Stir this mixture till it comes to the gravy consistency.

    7.At last add boiled rice to this mixture and serve hot.

Fried Rice

Ingredients :

    Finely Chopped fresh Vegetables – Carrot,beans,greenpeas,cabbage,capsicum( 1 ½ half cup)

   Onion – 2

   Red chilli sauce or Green chilli sauce – 2 tsp

   Soya sauce – 1 tsp

   Pepper powder – ½ tsp

  Cashews – 6 numbers

  Salt

  Ghee / Oil

  Boiled Basmati rice – 1 cup

Method :

1. In  low flame, heat ghee in a pan. Add onion. When the onion starts to get light brown, add the fresh chopped vegetables and fry till the vegetable get boil.
2.  At this stage add the green chilli sauce and soya sauce. Fry deeply.
3. Add the black pepper powder and fry.
4. Add the salt.
5. At last add the boiled basmati rice with this mixture and stir well so that vegetables can mix with rice well.
6. Fry cashew in ghee and add it to the fried rice.

         Optional : Without adding soya sauce and ghee also fried rice taste good. Instead of ghee add oil. 

         Ghee gives  good smell and flavour to this fried rice.