Murukku

Ingredients

1. Rice flour
2. Urad dhal
3. Sesame seeds
4. Cumin seeds
5. Salt
6. Butter

Method:

• Fry urad dhal in a kadai.. just heat it and allow it to cool. Grind into smooth powder
• Add rice flour and urad dhal powder(in 4:1 ratio) with little water.
• Also add sesame seeds, cumin seeds and butter.
• Mix the ingredients and make into a smooth dough.
• Keep the dough inside the murukku-maker and press into different desired shapes.
• Deep fry them in oil until it is cripsy and light golden color.
• Enjoy diwali with tasty murukku.

I am sending this recipe to Priya's diwali contest

Boondi Laddoo

Ingredients

1. Besan flour
2. Sugar
3. Cardamom
4. Cashew nut
5. Raisins

Method:

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  Mix the besan flour with equal amount of water and make a smooth batter
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  Heat oil in a pan and pour the batter into the hot oil pan through a seive with small round holes.
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  Fry the boondi's and keep it ready
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  Make a sugar syrup and add cardamom powder to it.
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  Mix in the fried boondi's and roasted cashew nuts and raisins when the sugar syrup is hot.
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  Make small balls out of this mixture when it is warm
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  Boondi laddoo is ready to be served.

Soya chunks cutlet

Ingredients

1. Soya chunks
2. Potato
3. Cumin seeds
4. Chilly powder
5. Coriander powder
6. Breadcrumbs
7. Salt

Method:

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  Soak the soya chunks in hot water for 10minutes
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  Boil the potato. Remove the skin and mash the boiled potato.
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  Drain the water from soya.
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  Grind the soaked soya chunks with cumin seeds.
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  Mix the mashed potato, ground soya chunks along with salt, chilly powder and coriander powder
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  Make small balls and flatten a little bit.  Season it with breadcrumbs.
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  Add oil in a pan and fry the cutlets.
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  Pan fry the cutlets until it turn little brown and crispier.
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  Delicious and protein-rich cutlet ready to serve with tomato sauce.

Masala Poori

Ingredients

1. Wheat chips
2. Puffed rice (pori)
3. Roasted peanuts
4. Cooked Garbanzo beans(white kondakadalai)
5. Onion
6. Chilly powder
7. salt

Method

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  Chop the onion to fine peices
• Mix pori with roasted peanuts, garbanzo beans and onions along with salt and chilly powder
• Finally toss it with the crushed crunchy wheat chips
• Yummy masala poori is ready for evening snack

Wheat chips

Ingredients

1. Wheat flour
2. Salt
3. Oil

Method

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  Make a dough with wheat flour by adding warm water and salt
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  Make small balls with the dough
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  Roll each ball like we do for chapathi
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  Cut the rolled dough into peices in a desired shape.
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  Deep fry the dough peices in oil.
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  Yummy wheat chips ready for evening snack

Simple-n-Healthy Breakfast

Ingredients

1. Multi-Bran wheat bread
2. Eggs
3. Onion
4. Salt
5. Pepper

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  Toast the wheat bread
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  Make omlette - beat the eggs and add chopped onions, salt and freshly ground pepper
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  Simple and healthy breakfast ready to serve

Quick-n-Easy Salad

Ingredients

1. Lettuce
2. Salt
3. Pepper

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  Chop the lettuce.
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  Sprinkle some salt and fresh ground pepper.
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  Toss the lettuce and its ready to eat.
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  Healthy, Simple and quick salad

Rasagulla

Ingredients

1. Milk
2. Lemon juice
3. Sugar
4. Cardamom

Method:

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  Boil the milk.
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  When the milk is well boiled, add a teaspoon of lemon juice.
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  Milk will start curdling to a semi-solid form
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  Allow it to cool.
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  Take a strainer and place a tissue cloth over it.
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  Pour the curdled milk and strain the water out of it.
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  Make little balls out of the strained curdled milk.
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  Make sugar syrup and add powdered cardamom to it. Now add the milk balls to the syrup.
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  Let it cool down with the syrup inside refrigerator for 1 hour.

BlueBerry Oatmeal Muffins

Ingredients

• Oatmeal - 3 cup
• All-Purpose flour(Maida) - 1 cup
• Blueberries - 1/2 cup
• Baking soda - 1/2 tspn
• Baking powder - 1/2 tspn
• Honey - 1/2 cup
• Eggs - 1
• Vegetable oil - 1/4 cup
• Unsalted butter - 1/4 stick
• Salt - a pinch

Method:

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  In a bowl mix oatmeal, all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt.
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  In a separate bowl, beat the eggs and then add honey, melted butter and oil and beat them well with a whisk.
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  Add this to the dry ingredient mixture and whisk until the dry ingredients are well mixed with the fluid
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  Finally add the blueberries and just mix it roughly.
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  Take a muffin pan and pour the muffin batter.
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  Preheat the oven to 350 degrees .
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  Place the muffin tray and let it cook for 15 minutes
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  After 15 minutes, bluerberry muffin is ready to taste.

Kothamalli (Cilantro) Chutney

Ingredients

1. Cilantro - 1 bunch
2. Red chilly - 3
3. Onion - 1
4. Coconut - 4 to 5 tspn
5. Tamarind - 2 tspn
6. Salt

Method:

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  Clean and wash cilantro.
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  Chop the onions.
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  Add oil in a kadai and fry onions
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  Add chillies to the onions and then fry for 3-5 minutes
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  Now add the cilantro and fry until the cilantro becomes soft and it will shrink to half.
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  Now add the shredded coconut and fry for another 5 minutes.
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  Allow it to cool and grind with tamarind and salt.
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  Cilantro chutney goes well with hot idly or dosa

Chikki

Ingredients

1. Peanuts
2. Brown sugar

Method:

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  Split the peanuts and remove the husk from it.
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  After cleaning, dry roast the split peanuts.
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  Meanwhile prepare the jaggery with water.
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  When the jaggery comes along to form lightly thicker, add the roaster peanuts.
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  Mix peanut well with the jaggery.
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  Now take a plate and cover it with foil paper.
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  Pour the jaggery, peanut semi-liquid batter to the foiled plate.
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  Before it cools down, just cut into peices in a desired shape.
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  Let it cool and it will be set to solid form.
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  Yummy chikki is ready to taste.

Vegetable Couscous

Ingredients

1. Couscous
2. Mixed vegetables - carrot, beans, corn kernels, peas
3. Sundried Tomato
4. Green chilly
5. Coriander leaves
6. Olive oil
7. Mustard seeds
8. Channa dhal
9. Peanuts
10. Salt

Method:

• Add couscous to a clean and dry bowl.
• Pour hot water to the couscous bowl. See to that the water level is just above the coucous.
• Note to take care the water level as extra water will make couscous to be very soggy.
• Keep this covered for 10-15 minutes.
• Meanwhile add little oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds.
• Once when the mustard splutters, add channa dhal and peanuts and let it fry.
• Now add onions, green chillies and saute the same
• Once when the onion becomes tender and fried, add the mixed vegetables and saute the same.
• Add the salt as per taste. Sprinke some water and let the vegetables cook.
• Now chop the sundried tomatoes and add it to the frying pan.
• After 15 minutes, uncover the couscous pan and mix the cousocus with the fork without forming lumps
• Add the cooked mixed vegetable mixture to the couscous bowl.
• Toss the couscous and vegetables.
• Finally garnish couscous dish with minced coriander leaves.
• This dish will be really tasty and it is a light meal.

Iam sending this recipe to WYF: Light Meal event

Kathrikka Chutney

Ingredients

1. Kathrika - big one
2. Onion
3. Coconut
4. Green chilly
5. Tamarind
6. Salt
7. Oil

Method:

• Wash the brinjal and fry directly in the stove until its skin gets dried off.
• Allow the brinjal to cool
• Heat oil in a pan, Add onion and saute it until the onion becomes soft and translucent .
• Then add green chillies and saute for 2 min
• Now add the shredded coconut and let it fry for few minutes.
• Peel the skin off from the brinjal.
• Grind the fried ingredients along with the peeled brinjal and little tamarind along with salt and little water
• This chutney goes well with dosai.

Banana Cake

Ingredients

All-purpose flour - 3 cups
Bananas(ripen) - 2
Baking soda - 1/2 tspn
Baking powder - 1/2 tspn
dry fruits - 1/2 cup
Butter - 1 stick
Egg - 2
salt - a pinch
Butter Milk - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup

Mix all the dry ingredients together except dry fruits
Mash bananas and keep it aside.
Beat the eggs and add the butter milk to it.
Now add the mashed bananas and the egg mixed with butter milk to the dry mixture
Stir it lightly 5-6 times along with the butter
Now add the dry fruits and pour the cake mix to the cookware greased with butter
Preheat the oven to 350degrees
Place the cake mix and bake it for 30minutes
Once the cake is baked allow it to cool and the yummy cake is ready to cut and serve