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Crispy Murukku

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Ingredients : Besan flour - 3 full tbspns Rice flour - 2 full cups Salt as per taste Sesame - 2 spn Asafoetida Oil - 2 tbspn Ghee - 1 tbspn (optional) Method : Mix all Ingredients and make it as chappathi dough but this dough must be softer than chappathi dough(use water as per need ). Use muruku achu and prepare muruku :)  Heat pan with enough Oil (medium flame ) Drop muruku in oil , wait until it turn light golden color.

Channa /Kondai Kadalai Kuzhambu

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Ingredients : Kondai kadalai / Black channa - 1/4 cup Chopped Onion - 1 Chopped Tomato - 1 Chopped Potato - 1 Chopped Brinjal - 5  Tamarind Juice - 1/4 cup (OPTIONAL) Mustard - 1/2 spn Turmeric powder - 1/2 spn Chilly Powder - 1/2 tbspn Salt To Grind : Grated Coconut - 2 to 3 tbspns Red chilly - 2 Black pepper - 1 spn Fennel Seeds - 1/2 spn Method : Wash and soak channa Over night. Heat oil (2 tbspns) Drop Mustard , curry leaves. Drop Onion and fry it. Add tomato and cook it well. Add Chopped Brinjals , Potatoes and drumstick and fry it for few mins. Add Cooked Channa. Now add the paste we grinded with half cup of water. Add salt , turmeric powder and chilly powder. Cook until all veggies are cooked enough. Add Tamarind juice and cook it for 3 to 5 mins in low-med flame.(optional step) Goes well with hot rice or Tiffin items like idly, dosa , poori and chappathi :)

Kathiri Vathal Kuzhambu

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Method : To Grind  - shallots ( chinna vengayam -10 nos ) with red chillies (3) , Fried ( fenugreek - 1/2 spn , bengal gram - 1 spn , corriander seeds - 1/2 spn ) curry leaves - 5 , garlic - 5, black pepper - 1/2 spn , cumin (jeeragam) - 1/2 spn. Heat Gingelly oil (2 to 3 tbspns)  Drop mustard , Curry leaves Add Ground nuts (verkadalai) and fry for 1 min Add kathiri vathal and fry it for 1 min Add Drumstick and fry it (Optional step) Add the grinded paste. Add salt , tumeric powder - 1/2 spn , Chilly powder - 1 spn OR Sambar powder - 2 spns. Add water - 1/2 cup Let this cook for few mins. (approx 2 to 3 mins) Now add tamarind juice (1/2 cup) In low-med flame cook the gravy until it becomes thick or till the consistency you desire. Goes well with Rice or Tiffin items like idly and dosa.   

Egg in Hole

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Method : Cut the bread in middle in any shape you desire .,i.e., a round / heart shape. Take 2 eggs and beat them up. Heat pan with some butter / ghee. Place the bread , pour the egg inside the hole of bread. Sprinkle some pepper and salt in it. keep it in low flame , Cover the pan with any lid. Turn the bread once the egg is cooked. 

Pepper Mushroom Fry

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Ingredients : Mushroom - 1 cup Oil - 3 to 4 tbspns Cumin Seeds / Jeeragam - 1 tspn Green Chillies - 3 ( Narrow cut ) Curry Leaves - few Chopped Onion : 1 1/2 cup Chopped Tomato : 1 no. Whole Black pepper - 3 tbspns or as per ur spice level ( coarsely powdered ) Chopped Garlic - 2 tspn Chopped Ginger - 1 tbspn Salt Method : 1.Heat oil in pan,drop Cumin seeds and curry leaves. 2.Drop onion , garlic , ginger , green chillies and fry for 2 mins. 3.Add tomato and 2 pinch of salt . Let this be cooked for 2 more mins. 4.Now add the cleaned and chopped mushrooms. 5.Mix well , cover the pan with a lid and keep it in low flame for 5 mins. 6.Add Salt and Pepper and mix well . 7.Again cover it and keep it in low flame until mushrooms are  cooked well or till the consistency you desire.

Aloo Paratha

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Ingredients : Wheat flour - 1 cup Oil - 2tbspns Water and salt Make use of the above items and prepare the dough as for chappathi. Stuffing : Well Boiled Potatoes - 3 ( 4 whistles in Pressure Cooker ) Turmeric powder - half spn. Chopped Green chillies - 3 to 4 tbspns Chilly powder - as per ur taste Pinch of salt Cumin Seeds (optional) Garam (optional) Method : 1. Peel the potatoes and mash it well. 2. Combine all the stuffing ingredients and mix it well. 3. Roll dough into round shapes and keep the stuffing in it  4. Now seal the edges and roll the paratha so that the stuffing is not coming out. 5. Heat the pan and place the rolled paratha 6. Apply some oil on the sides of paratha and turn it on other side. 7. Serve with Curd / Pickle / Coconut chutney. My Fav is Curdddd <3 :) :)

All Green Chutney

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Ingredients : Pudhina / Mint - 1 cup Corriander - 1 cup Curry leaves - 1/2 cup Chopped Tomato (medium sized) - 2 Chopped Onion (medium sized)- 2 Grated Coconut - 1/2 cup Garlic - 3 Tamarind - little amt Urad dhal - 1tbspn Red chillies - 6 to 8 Mustard - 1 spn Salt. Method : 1.Heat pan with 2 spn of oil. 2.Drop mustard, urad dhal and fry until it turn light brown. 3.Fry all the above ingredients and grind well with salt as per your taste. 4.Goes well with idli , Dosa :)