Saturday, June 4, 2011

Noodles



Ingredients:
  1. Noodles packet – 1
  2. Big Onion – 1 (Medium size)
  3. Tomato – 1 (Medium size)
  4. Curry leaves
  5. Green Chilli – 1
  6. Mustard Seeds – ¼ TS
  7. Oil – 2 TS
Preparation:
  1. In a pan, heat oil and add mustard seeds. When it splutters add curry leaves.
  2.  Add onion, green chilli and sauté it for a minute.
  3. Add Tomato and cook it till it is soft.
  4. Now add 2 glass of water.
  5. Add the noodles masala which is in the noodles packet.
  6. When water boils, add noodles.
  7. Cook it for 10 minutes in medium flame until water evaporates.
Tips:
  1. Green Chilli is optional. If you want it spicy noodles, add it.
  2.  If you add too much water, noodles doesn’t good to eat.

Egg Pepper Fry


Ingredients:
1.       Egg – 3
2.       Coconut – ¼ cup
3.       Pepper – ½ TS
4.       Turmeric
5.       Salt – To taste
6.       Oil – 4 TS
Preparation:
1.       Boil the egg and cut it into two slices.
2.       Grind the coconut, pepper and turmeric with enough water.
3.       In a pan, add oil and add the ground paste. Let it to boil.
4.       Keep the sliced eggs downwards in the coconut masala.
5.       Cook it till the coconut turn into brown.
Tips:
1.       This egg pepper fry go very well with Rasam.


Rasam




Ingredients
1.       Tamarind - small
2.       Pepper - 1/4 ts
3.       Cumin - 1/4 ts
4.       Garlic - 3 pods
5.       Tomato – 1 small size
6.       Green Chili - 1
7.       Red Chili – 1
8.       Turmeric Powder
9.       Asafetida - little bit
10.   Mustard – little bit
11.   Curry leaves
12.   Coriander leaves 
13.   Salt - to taste
14.   Oil

Preparation:

1.       Soak the tamarind in a cup of water and extract juice out of it.
2.       Crush pepper, cumin seeds, garlic, green chili and coriander leaves as shown in the picture and add it in the tamarind juice along with turmeric and salt.  
3.       Now add the tomato into the tamarind juice and crush it well.
4.       Adjust with the water if tamarind juice is too tangy.
5.       In a pan, add little bit oil.
6.       Add mustard, red chili and asafetida. Once the mustard seeds crackle add curry leaves add the tamarind juice.
7.       Before rasam boil, turn off the stove.

Tips:
1.       Add little bit coconut if you like when you crush the pepper and etc.
2.       Green chili is optional. Use it if you want spicy rasam.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Pan Cake

Ingredients:
  1. Pancake powder – 1 ½  Cup
  2. Egg -2
  3. Milk – 1 Cup
  4. Oil – 1 Ts
  5. Syrup – To taste
Preparation:
  1. In a bowl, add pancake powder, milk and egg.
  2. Beat the mixture well without any lumps.
  3. In a pan, pour ¼ cup of mixture and add oil.
  4. Cook both sides like omelet.
  5. Pour honey or any syrup on top of the pancakes before serve it.

Tips

  1. If pancake powder is not available, make it will all purpose flavor.
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Bitter gaurd Fry

Ingredients:
  1. Bitter guard – 250g
  2. Green Chilli – 1 TS
  3. Turmeric Powder – ¼ TS
  4. Garlic – 3
  5. Fennel Seeds – ¼ TS
  6. Oil – 3 TS
  7. Salt – To Taste
Preparation:
  1. Cut the bitter guard into thin slices. Crush the garlic and fennel seeds.
  2. In a pan heat 1 TS oil and add the bitter guard and sauté it for 3 minutes. Add little bit water.
  3. Add crushed garlic and fennel seeds, green chilli, turmeric powder and salt.
  4. Cover the pan with lid and cook it in low flame.
  5. When water evaporated, add 2 TS oil and cook it till golden brown.

Tips:
  1. If you add 1 spoon coconut paste, it will be tastier.