Veg Fried Rice

Ingredients:

Basmati rice                              : 2 cups
Carrot                                        : 1 finely chopped

Beans                                         : 6 nos finely chopped
Capsicum                                   : 1/2 finely chopped
Sweet corn                                 : 2 tbsp
Soya chunks                               : 5 nos
Spring onion                               : 2 finely chopped

Garlic                                          : 2 cloves 
Green                                          : 2 nos
Ginger                                         : small piece
Soya sauce                                  : 1 tbsp
Vegetable oil                               : 2 tbsp
Salt to taste                              
Vinegar                                        : 1 tsp


Method:

Soak rice for 20 mins in water.
Chop green chillies, ginger and garlic finely and keep aside.
Soak soya chunks in hot water for 10 mins and squeeze it, wash again and cut very finely.
Cook rice adding salt and 3and a half cups of water in a rice cooker and keep aside.
Heat oil in a kadai add chopped garlic, green chilli and ginger and saute for 1 min. Then add chopped capsicum and saute for 1 more min and add the chopped vegetables, chopped soya,sweet corn and saute again for 2 to 3 mins adding salt.
Then mix the cooked rice with this and fry for 2 mins. Add vinegar and soya sauce mix well. Garnish with finely chopped spring onion and serve.

Carrot Halwa

Ingredients:

Grated carrots                      : 2 cups
Milk maid                            : 1 cup
Sugar                                    : 1 cup

Cashews(broken)                 : 6 nos
Cardamom pdr                     : 1/2 tsp
Ghee                                    : 2 tbsp


Method:

Heat the ghee in a pan and add the cashews and fry it till golden brown and remove from the pan and keep aside.
Add grated carrots in the same pan and  saute for 2 mins and add the condensed milk , mix well. Cook it in a low flame till the milk got evaporated. Add the sugar now and mix well. Stir it well till it leaves the sides of the pan.
Sprinkle cardamom pdr over it, mix it.
Garnish it with fried cashews.
  

Payasam (idichu pizhinjathu)

Ingredients:

Broken rice( raw)                       : 1/4 cup
Jaggery (vellam)                        : 1/2kg
Coconut milk (thin)                   : 2 cups
Coconut milk (thick)                 : 1/4 cup

Ghee                                          : 1 tbsp
Cashew & Raisins                     : 1 tbsp



Method:

Wash and pressure cook the rice adding 1 cup of water.
Melt the jaggery in 1/2 cup of water and strain it to remove the impurities.
Either you can extract milk from fresh coconut or use the ready made coconut milk. 
Grate 1 coconut and adding 2 tbsp of warm water, mix well and extract the milk from it and keep aside. This is the 1 st coconut milk or thick milk.
Put the extracted residue in a mixer and add 1/2 cup warm water and blend it  and squeeze the milk from it. This is the 2nd milk or thin milk.

Open the cooker and slightly mash the cooked rice and add the jaggery syrup to that and mix well. Keep it in stove and boil for 2 mins, then add the thin coconut milk. Let it boil for 3 to 4 mins. When it is becoming  thick add the thick coconut milk and remove from fire.
Break the cashews into small pieces. Heat the ghee and and fry cashews and raisins and pour this on the payasam and serve it.

Kal dosa (thattu dosa)

Ingredients:

Urad dal                         : 1/4 cup
Boiled rice                     : 1 cup

Raw rice                        : 2 tbsp
Fenugreek seeds            : 2 tbsp
Sal to taste
Oil as required


Method:

Soak Boiled rice and raw rice together, Urad dal and fenugreek seeds together for 3 hours.
Grind the urad dal and fenugreek first and then the rice. Add salt and mix well. Keep it for min 6 hours to ferment.
Mix well. Heat a dosa tawa, take a full ladle of the batter and pour it on the middle of the tawa and spread it lightly to make thick dosa. Sprinkle little oil over this and close it with a lid. After 2 mins open the lid, turn the dosa and cook it for 1 more min. Repeat the process with the remaining batter. Serve it with chutney or chicken curry.