Carrot balls

Ingredients:

Carrot                      : 2

Condensed milk      : 2 tbsp

Sugar                       : 1cup

Besan                       : 1/4 cup

Ghee                        : 4 tbsp

Cardamom powder  : a pinch

Method:

Grate carrot and boil it with the condensed milk. Then grind it to a paste.

Boil sugar with little water and make a syrup.

Add the carrot paste to this, mix well. Add ghee, mix  and  seive the besan to this, stirring frequently. Cook it till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan completely. Then transfer this to a plate, let it cool for sometime. Then make small balls out of it.  Looks like bengali sweets!!!

  

       

Cabbage Dosa

Ingredients:

Idli rice                             : 1 cup
Raw rice                           : 1 cup
Shredded cabbage            : 1 cup
Green chillies                   : 2
Coriander leaves              : 1/2 cup(chopped)



Method:

Soak rice for 2 hours.
Boil the shredded cabbage and drain.
Grind rice with green chillies and coriander leaves.
Mix the cabbage and salt to the batter. The batter resembles like ada dosa batter.

Heat the dosas tawa and pour one ladle full batter and spread it evenly.
Sprinkle oil and when it changes colour slightly to brown turn it and cook the other side also.
Serve  it hot with tomato chutney!

Egg curry

 

 Egg Curry

Ingredients:

 Eggs                                        : 4 nos
Shallots                                    : 5 or 6 nos

Chilli pdr                                  : 1 tsp
Coriander pdr                           : 2 tsp
Ginger                                      : 1/2 " pc
Garlic                                       : 2 cloves
Turmeric pdr                            : 1/4 tsp
Grated coconut                         : 1 cup
Tamarind paste                         : very little
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves


Method: 


Boil the eggs and remove the shells and keep aside.
Heat a tawa and roast the chilli pdr and coriander powder until the raw smell goes. Then add shallots, ginger, garlic and grind it into a smooth paste.
Grind the coconut seperately into a paste.
Mix the masala paste and tamarind paste, add 2 cups of water and let it boil for 2 or 3 mins. The add the coconut paste and boil it in reduced flame for 4 mins. Cut the boiled eggs into two and add this to the curry and cook for 1 more min. Remove from fire. Add curry leaves. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.

Tomato rice(Thakkali sadham)

Ingredients:

 Raw rice                  : 2 cups
Tomatoes                  : 3 nos
Green chillies           : 2 nos
Turmeric pdr            : 1/8 tsp
Cloves                      : 2 nos
Cinnamon                : 1/4"pc
Onion                      :1 sliced
Garlic                      : 4 cloves
Chilli pdr                 : 1/4tsp
Salt to taste
Curry leaves            :1sprig
Oil                           : 1tbsp


Method: 

Cook rice in a rice cooker adding salt.  You can use the left over rice also. The rice should not be overcooked.

Heat oil in kadai, add cinnamon and cloves. When it is done add garlic cloves and fry. Then add the finely sliced onion and slit green chillies,  saute till the onion is light pink in clolour. Add the chilli pdr and turmeric pdr, mix well.

Now add the chopped tomato and saute it well. When it becomes mushy add  a little salt and mix well. Now add the cooked rice, mix well. Check salt and garnish with curry leaves. Serve it with potato chips or kondattam!!

Vegetable semiya upma

Ingredients:

Semiya(vermicelli)        : 1 cup
Carrot                             :1
Beans                             : 4nos
Peas                                :1/4 cup
Onion                             : 1
Ginger                            : 1/2" pc
Green chilli                    : 1-2
Turmeric pdr                  : 1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds                : 1 tsp
Urad dal                         : 1 tbsp
Red chillies                    : 2 break into 2
Oil                                  : 2 tbsp
Ghee                              : 1 tbsp
Curry leaves                  : 1 sprig
Cashews                        : 6-8 nos
Water                             : 3 cup


Method:

Heat ghee in a kadai and fry the cashews till golden brown Remove from the ghee and roast the semiya in the same ghee. Roasted semiya also available in the market.

Chop onion, green chillies and ginger  finely.
Cut carrot and beans  into small pieces.

Heat oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds, when it splutters add urad dal, broken red chillies and curry leaves.
Add chopped onion, green chillies and ginger and saute till the onion becomes transparent. Then add the vegetables to this and saute for 1 more minute, add salt and turmeric powder and 3 cups of water. When it boils add the roasted semiya and let it cook in a low flame till the water got absorbed.
Stir it frequently and finally garnish with fried cashews and coriander leaves. Serve it hot with coconut chutney!!

Puthina paratha

Ingredients:

Wheat flour             : 2 cups
Mint (puthina)         : 1/2 bunch
Salt to taste
Chat masala            : 1/4 tsp
Butter/Ghee            : as required



Method:

Seperate mint leaves from the stem and wash it.

Pat dry a handful of the leaves and dry roast it in a hot tawa. Then crush it to a powder, keep aside.
Chop the remaining mint leaves.
Mix the wheat flour, salt and mint leaves together and add required water and knead it to a dough and cover it with a wet cloth and keep aside for 20 mins.
Take a lemon sized ball and roll it into a medium sized chappathi.

Mix the mint powder with the chat masala.
Cook it on a tawa, when cooked on one side flip it over to the other side. when the brown spots appear brush with oil or ghee and sprinkle the mint &  chat powder over it.
Repeat the process with the remaining dough.

Serve hot with any side dish of your choice.

Meen Porichathu ( fish fry)

Meen porichathu:

Ingredients:

Here I used seer fish for this purpose. Any fish such as Pomfret, King fish, Sardines or Mackerals also can fry like this.

Seer fish                      : 4 thin slices
Kashmiri chilli pdr     :  1 tsp
Pepper pdr                  : 1 tsp
Ginger                        :1/4"pc
Garlic                         : 2 cloves
Turmeric pdr              :1/4 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil as required
Lemon juice               : 1 tsp

Method:

Grind the garlic and ginger with all the masala powders and salt together.
Cut the  fish into thin slices and wash it well.  Then marinate the fish slices with the masala and lime juice. Keep it for 1 or  2 hours in fridge.

Heat  a nonstick pan  apply a little oil and place the fish on the  pan. Turn the fish pieces frequently till it turns golden brown colour.  Serve it hot with onion, lemon wedges etc.

You can also deep fry this in hot oil till golden brown. But tawa fried fish needs less oil, so here I tried that.