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 Ingredients  Curd - 1 cup Coriander leaves - half cup Ginger - 1 or 2 slice Green chilli - 1 small Steps 1. Grind the above ingredients with little salt. 2.Add it to the mashed rice & mix well. Add extra curd if needed. You can also little amount of milk to avoid the sourness if you planned to eat lately. 3.Check salt and add if needed. 4. Do the tempering with mustard, a pinch of perungayam and curry leaves. Serve it with spicy side dishes.

Ingredients  Sundakai - 1 cup Tomato - 1 Onion - 2 Curry leaves Turmeric powder - 1tspn Chilly powder - 1 tspn Garlic cloves - 3 or 4 Vegetable oil - 2 tbspn Salt as per taste Steps 1. Heat pan with oil , Drop mustard, curry leaves & Garlic . Saute for a minute and add chopped onion , saute for 2 mins. 2.Add chopped tomato and saute until its soft and mushy. 3.Add chopped sundakai. 4. Add chilly powder ( i used homemade chilly powder 1 tbspn ) if its not possible for you.. Add 1 tspn of red chilly powder & 2 tspn of coriander powder. 5.Add turmeric & Add salt. 6.Add little amount of water and mix. Close the pan with lid. Let it cook for few mins until all water is absorbed .. open the lid now and then & stir .. so that the masala doesnt stick to the pan. 7. Fry till crispy fry is formed. Sundaikai will shrink nicely  Serve it with curd Rice .. Best combo 😍😍

Bored of usual side dishes??? Try this awesome easy one and have fun!! EGG Tomato Gravy Ingredients Egg - 2  Tomato - 3 Onion - 3 Homemade chilly powder - 1 tbspn Or Red chilli powder - 1tspn Coriander powder - 2 tspn Turmeric powder - 1 tspn Salt as per taste Steps 1. Heat kadai with 2 tbspn of oil , add mustard, cumin a tspn and curry leaves. 2. Add chopped onion and saute for few minutes. 3.Grind the tomato (not too smooth ) add it to the kadai. Saute until its soft and mushy. 4.Add turmeric powder , chilli powder and salt. 4.Add water half cup and let this boil for 5 to 8 mins. 5.When the gravy becomes thick enough.Add 2 eggs to it and stir nicely. 6.Let the gravy be cooked until the raw smell of egg goes.(it takes 3 to 5 mins maximum) Serve it with hoti roti or idly / dosa.

Nethili fish fry is a mouth watering recipe with few ingredients and it is effortless :) Ingredients Nethili fish fry - half cup Homemade chilly powder - 1 tbspn . Or Chilly powder - 1 tspn Coriander powder - 2 tspn. I prefer adding homemade chilly powder for ultimate taste. Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbspn Turmeric powder - 1 tspn Salt as per taste lemon juice - 1 tspn (optional) Steps  1. Clean the fish . 2. In a bowl of cleaned fish add the turmeric powder, chilly powder , ginger garlic paste and salt . Lemon juice(optional) 3.Marinate the fish for 20 to 30 mins at least. 4. Fry the nethili fish in dosa kal or fish pan you use with 4 tbspn of oil.(as needed)

Ingredients  Nethili fish - 1 cup Tamarind - two gooseberry sized Shallot / small onion / chinna vengayam - 1 cup Tomato - 2 no. Vendhayam - 1 tspn Mustard - 1 tspn Coconut - 3 tbspn Homemade chilly powder - 2 tbspn Turmeric powder - 1 tspn Curry leaves & coriander leaves - f ew Salt as per taste. Veg oil - 3 tbspn Steps  Soak tamarind for ten minutes before starting the recipe and extract the juice. Clean fish and wash it.. 1. Heat a kadai with 3 tbspn of oil ( you can also use gingelly oil ) * Do the tempering.. * Add mustard, vendhayam , powder sombu (or as whole) , vadagam - 1 tspn.(optional) * Add curry leaves and green chilli (chopped straight -2 no.s) 2. Add chopped small onion half cup and half cup without chopping . ( totally 1 cup) Saute for few mins. Add chopped tomato and saute until its soft and mushy 3. Add tamarind water , chillypowder , turmeric powder and salt. 4. Close the kadai with lid.. Let this gravy boil for ...

Ingredients  Tomatoes - 3  Onion - 2 Ginger - 2 coin sized Dry Red chilli - 2 Salt as per tatse Method Heat Kadai with 1 tbspn of oil. Add dry red chilli and ginger. Add chopped Onion and saute for 2 mins. Add chopped tomatoes and saute until soft.  Grind them with little water and salt. Do the tempering with mustard , a pinch of hing and curry leaves. Serve it with Idly / dosa. Variations You can try... * Add mint leaves , coriander leaves and curry leaves little fried with other  ingredients and grind it .

Ingredients Potato - 3 Boiled Coconut - 2 tbspn Onion - 3 Tomato - 3 Ginger garlic paste -1 tbspn For tempering Mustard, Cumin, Curry leaves, Green chilli - 1 Corriander leaves for garnish. Method  Boil potatoes and mash it . Heat kadai with 1 tbspn of oil , add mustard , cumin (i love adding cumin in every gravy dish i do ) Add curry leaves , ginger garlic paste Add chopped onion and saute for few mins. Add chopped tomatoes and green chilli  Saute for few mins until tomato becomes soft and mushy Add mashed potatoes  Add water , 1 tbspn of homemade chilly powder and 1 tspn of tumeric powder Add salt. Mix the gravy and Let it cook for 5 mins in medium flame. Grind coconut with little water. Add coconut paste at the end and cook for two mins. Add corriander leaves & switch off the stove. Serve it hot with Idly / dosa / Roti..

Ingredients Shallots - half cup Tamarind - one gooseberry size Garlic cloves - 5 Vendhayam - 1tspn Corrainder leaves- 1 tbspn Salt as per taste. Red chilli - 2 no. Steps *  Chop the shallots , Soak the tamarind in water and extract the juice. *  Heat kadai with 1 tbspn of oil, drop mustard , vendhayam (must for enhancing taste) and a pinch of asafoetida/ hing / perungayam. * Add curry leaves and chopped dry red chilli , crushed garlic. I normally dont add rasam powder in this recipe.. adding rasam powder will give you  another version of shallot rasam taste. I prefer you to try that once too.. * Fry chopped Shallots and add the tamarind water . * Add salt. * When rasam starts boiling add coriander leaves and switch off the stove. Serve it with rice :) Know What You Eat Shallots / Chinna Vengayam 

Ingredients Kathirikai  / Brinjal -  5 medium sized Small Onion  -  half cup Dry Red chilly -  3. Steps Fry each item separately Grind with salt as per taste Tempering Heat kadai with  1 tbspn of oil Drop mustard  ,  1 tspn of ur address dhal Add curry Leaves and a pinch of hing /asofoetida. Pour the grinded Kathirikai chutney to the kadai..  Let this boil for 2 mins. Add water as per your wish for consistency. I like thicky so I dint add much water. Serve it with hot dosa / idly.. :)  *********************************************************************************

Know about what you eat Manathakkali  / Black night shade / makoi Helps in treating mouth and stomach ulcers. Reduces Urinary infections Cures constipation Improves eyesight Helps in uterus problems,reduces the stress during menstruation . How to prepare Manathakkali Vathal  Ingredients  Manathakkali - 2 cups Curd - 1/2 cup Salt - 1tspn *  Clean and wash manathakkali. *  Add salt to curd and mix well *  Add the manathakkali seeds to the salted curd and soak it over night *  Drain the manathakkali from curd and transfer to a plate next day & let it dry in sunlight. *  Evening , soak again in curd and repeat the same process till the curd completely absorbed by manathakkali seeds.  * Store it in air tight Box.

Know About What You Eat Strengthen Bones Control Diabetes Lower Blood Pressure Helps in fertility Problem Prevent constipation Treat piles.. Click here to know more about miracle  benefits of fig. Ingredients Athikai / small figs - 1 cup Moong dhal - half cup Coconut  - 3 tbspn Tomato - 1 Cumin - 1 tspn Turmeric powder - 1tspn Home made chilly powder - 1tbspn Salt as per taste For tempering.. Mustard , curry leaves , dry red chilli - 2.no Ghee / veg oil  - 1 tbspn Steps For making Athikai Kootu 1.Clean moong dhal and pressure cook it for 2 or 3 whistles. 2.Wash athikai and cut it into half .. grind it coarsely or crush it using motor. I grinded light coarsely because my son eats it only if fig dissolves in gravy .. if we crush it ll be visible for him so he may avoid eating it... small trick to make him eat healthy foods. For others, you can also try crushing them lightly .. so that you can taste the fig separately in gravy. 3....

Ingredients  Coconut milk - 2 cups. Basmati rice - 1 cup. Meal maker / Soya chunks - half cup Capsicum - 2 (use different color so that appearance will be good) Onion - 2 (chopped straight) Green chilli - 2 (slice it straight) Ginger garlic paste - 1tbspn Salt as per taste. Mint & corriander leaves for garnish. Patta, bay leaf , Cloves  Sombu/ Aniseed - 1 tspn ( i prefer powdered) Steps Soak basmati rice before starting all other steps. Heat pan with 2 tbspn of vegetable oil  Add patta,bayleaf, cloves (opt) & sombu powder . Add Green chilli. Add ginger garlic paste. Add Chopped Onion & saute for few minutes. Add Chopped Capsicum . Add Soaked Rice & Add coconut milk  Add Salt & mix well. In a seperate bowl , boil water & put the meal maker in it.  Switch off it after 2 mins. Drain the water from meal maker completely by pressing each by your hand. Add meal maker to the pan we are cooking rice. Close...

Ingredients  Wheat flour - 1 cup Turmeric powder - 1tspn Curd - half cup Salt as per taste. Garam masala powder - 1 tsp. Finely Chopped onion - half cup. Finely chopped Corriander leaves - half cup Green chilli - 2 finely chopped. Method of making masala wheat dosa 1.In a Bowl take wheat flour & curd , mix together . 2.Add water for getting perfect dosa batter consistency. 3.Let this batter be closed for 10 mins. 4.Add chopped onion , chilli , corriander leaves , salt ,  garam masala and tumeric powder . 5.Mix everything together. 6.Heat dosa pan, spread butter or vegetable oil over it. 7.Make dosa with masala wheat flour batter. Turn it gently . Serve it with Chutney.

Ingredient Prawn - 1/2 kg Tomato - 2 medium Onion - 3 medium  Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbspn Briyani masala - 1 tbspn Salt as per taste Patta , bay leaf , Cloves - few. Cardamon - 2 no. Coconut milk - for boiling rice (2 cups) Basmati rice . Steps  1.Wash & Clean prawns . 2.Soak basmathi rice for 10 mins. 3.Heat pan, add 2 tbspn of vegetable oil . Add bay leaf, paata ,cloves & cardamon. 4.Add the ginger garlic paste  . 5.Add the chopped onion .. saute for few mins  6.Add the chopped tomato.. Saute for few mins  7.Add the prawns... mix well with masala. 8.Add Briyani masala & a pinch of turmeric powder. (alternate masala for briyani masala...  1. red chilli powder 1 tspn & coriander powder - 2tspn with garam masala - 1spn. OR 2. You can also use 1 1/2 tbspn of Homemade chilli powder .) 9.Add the soaked rice. Rice and water ratio : For 1 cup of basmati rice i added  1 and 1/2 cups of water (coc...

Ingredients  Pasi paruppu or moong dhal - half cup. Sago / javvarsi - a hand full. Jaggery or nattu sarkari - half cup. Coconut - 3 tbspn roasted in ghee (optional)  Cardamon - 2 or 3. Cashew nuts and raisins  Badam for garnish. Steps 1.Roast the moong dhal for  2 mins and wash them once. 2.Pressure cook it for 2 or 3 whistles 3.Mean while , boil the sago / javvarisi with 2 cups of water with a pinch of salt.  4.Heat a pan , add ghee  5.Fry cashew nuts and raisins. 6.Add the cooked moong dhal and half cup of water to it. 7.Let this boil .    Add the cooked sago to boiling moong dhal. 8.Add the powdered jaggery and mix well. 9.Stir the payasam .. check the consistency & add water if needed . 10.Finally add ghee roasted coconut to the payasam & switch off the stove. Healthy  & yummy treat is ready for you.

Ingredients  Bourbon biscuits - 5 or 6 Honey - 2 tbspn. Vanilla essence - 1 tbspn Milk- 3 tbspn Vegetable oil - 2 tbspn. Sugar - 3 tbspn. Steps 1. In a mixer .. Add the biscuits and sugar. Grind it as fine powder. 2. Add the vanilla essence and milk and grind it nicely. (here you can also replace milk with egg .. but egg must be beaten nicely to avoid the smell of egg in cake ) 3. Add vegetable oil and grind it. 4. Grease a small cup (i used stainless steel) with butter . 5. Pour the batter into it.. batter must be filled half of the cup ..    since cake raises while baking ..   you need to give space for raising... else the batter will come outside while cooking.. 6. Preheat the pan with salt in the base. 7. Place a plate in the pan.. keep the bowl above the plate. Close the lid of pan. 8. Wait for 5 to 6 mins. Check the cake with toothpick.If its done it will cum non sticky. 9.Switch off the stove & let the cake cool complet...

Ingredients  Maida / all Purpose flour - 1 cup Butter - 1/2 cup Egg -  3 no. Baking powder - 1/2 tspn Baking soda - 1/4 tspn Sugar - 1/2 cup. Vanilla essence - 1/4 tspn Milk - 3 tbspn Salt - a pinch. Steps for making Sponge cake   1. In a bowl , sift maida , Baking powder , baking soda and salt. 2.Beat 3 eggs(white) using hand mixer or electric blender separately.  3. In another bowl add melted butter , sugar and vanilla essence and 3 egg yolks. Whip nicely so that it forms a smoothy texture . Sugar must be completely blended with mix.  4. Add milk  and beat with it. 5.Add the flour to this mix slowly and blend it. 6. Add the white egg mix to the cake batter.. mix the batter nicely so that everything blend together.  7.Pour the batter to a butter greased pan . 8. Preheat the cooker for few mins. 9.  Put salt in the base of cooker. 10. Remove the casket of cooker. Dont use whistle. Place the batter...

Ingredient  Carrot - 1 Egg - 2  Salt as per taste Green chilli - 1  Pepper powder (optional) - 1/2 tspn Curry leaves. Tumeric powder - 1/2 spn Onion - 1 Steps 1. Heat kadai , add 1 tbspn of oil. 2. Add Chopped onion ,curry leaves  and chopped green chilli (u can avoid it if ur kid hate to see in their food). 3. Add grated carrot to it and saute . Add salt and turmeric powder . 4. Add egg to it and fry for mins. 5. Switch off the stove and mix the carrot egg masala to the rice. 6. Add salt if needed. Note : u can try this rice replacing carrot with beans Or you can also try adding both grated carrot and finely chopped beans with egg. Healthy And Tasty Rice is ready for sure. **************************************************************

This one is a life saver for lazy bugs like me.. you can make it in few minutes. There are different versions of making tamarind rice.. this one is the easy version.Will post the other versions soon. Ingredients  Tamarind - lemon sized. For tempering : Mustard - 1 tspn Vendhayam - 1 tspn Urad dhal- 1 tspn Channa dhal - 1 tspn Red dry chilli - 2 Hing / perungayam - 1 pinch Curry leves - few Tumeric powder - 1 tspn Roasted ground nuts - few (optional) Boiled Rice -2 cups Steps  Heat kadai , add 2 tbspn of gingelly oil (i prefer ) Or veg oil. Do the tampering .. start with mustard and then add vendhayam, hing , dry red chilli , urad dhal, channa dhal,curry leaves, roasted ground nut.. Add the tamarind water ( make thick water consistency ) Add salt Add tumeric powder. Let this boil for few mins When the gravy becomes thick enough for rice , switch off the stove. Add the tamarind gravy little by little to the rice and mix it. (Check salt and ad...

Ingredients  Sathu maavu flour - 1 cup nattu sarkarai - 3 tbspn melted butter -  1/4 cup Cardamon powder - 1 tspn Nuts (optional) Steps  In a bowl  add the flour and nattu sarkarai Add the melted butter and cardamon powder . Add the chopped nuts. Start mixing the dough gently with your hands.. when it reaches the soft dough consistency. keep it in fridge for few mins Meanwhile , Here i prepared using pan with lid.. u can also make it in pressure cooker or oven. Preheat the pan for few mins with salt in base.. spread butter in the tray .. Make small balls with dough and press gently . Keep this in the butter tray. close the lid.Keep the flame low. Wait for 10 to 12 mins. Bottom of the cookie will get brown. Switch off the stove.. Cool the cookie completely. Store it in air tight box.. ***************************************************