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Ulundhu Congee / Urad Dal Congee
Urad dal/Ulundhu Congee is good for health, especially for bones. It is easy to prepare and highly recommended for girls in teenage. It is good for bone health.
You can have it for breakfast or dinner and it can be digested easily.
Try it at your home and enjoy this healthy and delicious Ulundhu Congee with your family.
Serving: 4 pax
Preparation Time: 10mins
cooking Time: 30mins
Ingredients
| Whole Urad dal | 1 cup (skin peeled). |
| Freshly grated coconut | 3 tbsp |
| Cardamom powder | 1 tsp |
| Jaggery | 2 cups |
Preparation
Break or grate the jaggery and add 1/4th cup of water to it and boil. Once it dissolves, filter the mixture to get rid of dirt from the jaggery syrup.
This will be little sweeter, if you like to have less sweet you can reduce 1/4th cup jaggery. Keep the syrup aside for later use.
Method
1. Wash the urad dal thoroughly and soak for at least 2 hrs.
2. Blend the urad dal into a fine paste along with freshly grated coconut.
3. Mix this urad dal paste with 3 cups for water. Keep it little watery.
4. Take a heavy bottom vessel and transfer the mixture to that vessel.
5. Use burner stove or induction stove and boil the urad dal congee.
6. Keep stirring the urad dal congee continously, otherwise it will stick on to the bottom of the vessel.
7. Let it boil for at least 8 – 10 mins.
8. Once urad dal congee is cooked well, then add the jaggery syrup to the urad dal congee.
9. continue stirring and now add the cardamom powder.
10. Mix well and once congee reached the correct consistency, turn off the flame.
11. Serve the congee hot and enjoy.
Homemade Veg Pizza
Pizza is a favourite Italian food for every child.
Let’s make a scrumptious pizza at home.
Serving: 6 pax
Preparation Time: 45 min
Ingredients
| for Pizza Base: | |
| All purpose flour/Maida | 1 cup |
| Whole wheat flour | 1 cup |
| Baking Powder | 2 tsp |
| Curd | 1 cup |
| Salt | ½ tsp |
Mix all the ingredients and make a soft dough. Give enough pressure and knead well.
Cover it and keep aside for at least 30 minutes.
| for Pizza Sauce: | |
| Tomato | 4 (ripped) |
| Garlic | 2 pods |
| Chili powder | 1 tsp |
| Turmeric powder | ½ tsp |
| Black pepper | 1 tsp crushed |
| Italian mixed herbs | 2 tsp |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp |
| Salt | to taste |
Blend the tomato in the blender to make a puree.
1. Heat olive oil in a pan(can use butter also)
2. Add finely chopped garlic and fry until it turns golden brown in colour.
3. Add tomato puree to the pan.
4. Also add salt, Italian mixed herbs, chili powder, turmeric powder and crushed black pepper.
5. Let it boil for a few minutes.
6. Keep stirring the sauce.
7. Cook until the oil separates.
8. When the sauce thickens, put off the flame.
9. Homemade pizza sauce is ready.
| for Vegetables: | |
| Onion | 1 big |
| Broccoli | 150 gms |
| Capsicum | 150 gms |
| Paneer | 150 gms |
Wash and cut the vegetables into thin slice. You can also use vegetables of your choice.
Other Ingredients:
Cheese
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius.
2. Divide the dough into 8 parts to make 4 pizzas.
3. Roll the dough into a thin circles(7″ in diameter).
4. Then, spread the cheese on top.
5. Let’s make two-layer pizza.
6. Place another thinly-rolled circle on top.
7. Form the crust of the pizza by folding the edges inwards.
8. Spread homemade tomato sauce on top of the second layer of the pizza.
9. Next, spread your mixed vegetables on top.
10. Now cover the pizza with your favourite kinds of cheese.
Bake the pizza for 15 to 20 mins.
Enjoy your homemade delicious pizza.
Lemon Poha (அவல் உப்புமா)
Lemon Poha is a healthy south Indian breakfast. Poha is rice flakes/beaten rice.
Poha is also light on the stomach and can be easily digested. Therefore, it can either be had as the first morning meal or as a light evening meal.
Simple recipe with great taste.
Serving: 4 Pax
Preparation Time: 20mins
Ingredients
| Poha / Rice flakes | 2 cups |
| Sprouted green moong dal | ¼ cup(optional) |
| Onion | 1 big |
| Dry Chilli | 2 |
| Ground nuts/ Peanuts | ¼ cup |
| Lemon | Half, Medium sized |
| Mustard seeds | ½ tsp |
| Split Urad Dal | ½ tsp |
| Hing/asafoetida | ½ tsp |
| Turmeric powder | ½ tsp |
| Coriander leaves | few |
| Salt | To Taste |
Preparation
Wash Poha and soak it with little water.
Chop onion finely.
Method
1. Heat oil in a pan.
2. Season with mustard seeds, split urad dal and hing.
3. Then add dry red chili, finely chopped onions and saute until the onion turns golden colour.
4. Add groundnuts/peanuts and fry until it is cooked.
5. Now add sprouted green moong dal and saute for a while then add salt and turmeric powder.
6. Sprinkle some water, mix well and cook the sprouted green moong dal.
7. After few minutes add soaked Poha and mix well.
8. Stir well so that it will not stick to the pan.
9. Sprinkle some more water and cover the pan and simmer the flame and cook for a while.
10. Once the Poha is cooked put off the flame and squeeze the half lemon and mix the Poha well.
11. Now Lemon Poha is ready to serve.
12. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves before you serve.
doduttu (sweet)
Nutritional Value of Rava
1. Made from durum wheat, Semolina digests slowly making you feel full for a longer duration of time.
2. Semolina improves kidney function.
3. Semolina is a good source of several B-Complex vitamins [thiamine, folate] and Vitamin E, which help to support your metabolism and in building the immune system of the body.
4. It is rich in minerals, such as phosphorus, zinc and magnesium which help strengthen the bones and improves the nervous system.
5. It is rich in iron.
Ingredients
| Rava | 1 cup |
| Sugar | 1 to 1¼ cup |
| Maida | ¼ to ½ cup |
| Sesame seed(white) | 1tsp |
| Salt | 1 pinch |
| Cardamom powder | ½ tsp |
| Oilto fry |
Method
Rinse and soak Rava with very little water at least for ½ an hour, so that Rava will absorb all the water.
Add 1 cup sugar and ¼ cup water to another bowl.
Heat it and let…
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Raw Onion Chutney
This is an instant Chutney. No need to fry or boil or cook. Just grind it and season it. Tasty Chutney is ready.
Ingredients
| Onion | 2 big sized |
| Tomato | 4 medium sized |
| Dry red chili | 4 |
| Mustard seeds | ½ tsp |
| Split Urad dal | 1 tsp |
| Curry leaves | few |
| Salt to taste |
Method
This is a very easy and delicious Chutney.
1.Take the blender jar and add roughly chopped onions, tomatoes, dry chilies and salt.
2.Grind it to fine paste/ chutney, no need to add water.
3.Transfer it to another bowl.
4.Heat oil in a pan and season with mustard seeds, split urad dal, curry leaves and Hing / Asafoetida, then pour it on Chutney.
Now enjoy this simple and delicious Chutney with Idly and Dosa or any other tiffin varieties.
Thakkali / Tomato Sambar
Tomato Sambar goes great with Idly and Dosa. The Tangy taste will stays in your mouth.
Tomato Sambar is easy to make and very very tasty.
Ingredients
| Ingredients | Measurement |
| Onion | 1 medium sized |
| Tomato | 3 small |
| Freshly grated Coconut | ½ cup |
| Roasted gram | 2 tbsp |
| Turmeric powder | ½ tsp |
| Mustard seeds | 1 tsp |
| Green Chili | 1 (medium sized) |
| Red Chili powder | 1 tsp |
| Fennel seeds | 1 tsp |
| Split urad dal | 1 tsp |
| Curry leaves | 1 strand |
| Coriander leaves | 1 fist |
| Salt | to taste |
| Oil | 2 tsp |
Preparation:
1. Chop the onion roughly.
2. Chop 1 tomato finely.
3. Blend 2 tomatoes, roasted gram, fennel seeds and freshly grated coconut into a fine paste.
4. Cut/slit the green chili.
Method:
1. Heat a pan with oil.
2. once the oil id hot, Season with cinnamon and cloves.
3. Add in cut slit green chili, curry leaves, roughly chopped onion and saute for a while.
4. Now add finely chopped tomatoes and saute well until tomatoes turns mushy.
5. Add in turmeric powder and red chili powder(here I am using 1 tsp, if you like to have spicy sambar add chili powder of your taste). cook until raw smell of chili powder goes off.
6. Now time to add in the blended mixture and salt. Mix well and add 1 to 2 cups of water and let it boil.
7. Add chopped coriander leaves and continue to boil. Boil the sambar for 3 – 5 mins.
8. Once the Sambar is thickens, turn off the flame.
9. Enjoy this tasty Thakkali Sambar with Idly/Dosa.
Rava Ladoo
Rava Ladoo is a traditional Indian sweet
There are different ways to make Rava ladoo. This is my way of making.
Rava/Sooji/Semolina Ladoo is full of nutrients.
Ingredients
| Rava / Semolina / Sooji | 2 cups |
| Freshly grated coconut | 2 cups |
| Sugar | 1½ cups |
| Salt | a pinch (not more than a pinch) |
| Cardamom powder | 1 tsp |
| Ghee | 4 tbsp |
| Milk | 2 tbsp |
| Cashew nuts | 2 tbsp(broken) |
1. Preparation Time 10mins
2. Cooking Time 10mins
3. Serving ~30 ladoos
Method
1. Take a wide pan(preferrably non-stick pan).
2. Keep the flame low to medium.
3. Heat ghee and put broken cashew nuts, roast it for few seconds. Don’t let the cashew nuts change colour.
4. Now add freshly grated coconut, no need to fry for long, just saute for a minute.
5. And then add Rava, here I am using roasted rava, if you are using regular rava fry it for a longer time, until the aroma comes.
6. Add salt and cardamom powder to the mixture and mix well until it combines evenly.
7. Reduce the flame to low and add sugar.
8. Mix everything until it combines well.
9. Put off the flame and finally add the milk to the mixture and mix well.
10. Transfer the Rava Ladoo mixture to another plate and let it cool down a little.
11. Before it cools down completely, make the mixture into small small ladoos.
12. Take a small portion from the mixture and squeeze it with your palm and make balls, called ladoos.
13. Enjoy this delicious and mouth-watering Rava ladoos
Garlic Chutney / Poondu Chutney
Garlic Chutney is a tasty and healthy chutney. Make this chutney in just two steps.
Ingredients
| Garlic pods | 1 full hand / 70 gm(peeled) |
| Tomato | 2 big |
| Dry red chili | 2 |
| Salt to taste |
For Seasoning
Mustard seeds ½ tsp
Split urad dal 1 tsp
Curry leaves few
Method
1. Add Peeled garlic(you can use garlic without peeling the skin also), dry red chili, tomatoes and salt to the mixie jar.
2. Grind it without adding water.
3. Transfer to another bowl.
4. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, split urad dal and curry leaves.
5. Pour this to the chutney.
This is very easy to make and healthy Chutney too.
Good combination with south Indian Tiffins.
Sprouted Green Moong Dal Poori/Chappathi
Sprouted Green Moong Dal Poori/Chappathi.
Make a healthy poori with Sprouted Green moong dal.
Ingredients
| Whole Wheat flour | 2 cup |
| Sprouted Moong Dal | 1 cup |
| Green Chili | 2 |
| Ginger | 1 inches stripes |
| Oil to fry | |
| Salt to taste |
Wash the green moong dal and soak it overnight, next morning drain the water, close it and keep it aside for until next day to get the healthy sprouted green moong dal. It has lots of health benefits. Lets make delicious and healthy sprouted green moong dal poori.
Method
1. Blend the Sprouted Green moong dal, Green chili and ginger in a mixie jar with/without adding water. Both can be done.
2. Mix this mixture with Whole Wheat flour, salt and 1 tsp of oil, and make a soft dough.
3. Knead the dough soft and keep it aside for 30 mins.
4. Make small balls and then roll it for Pooris.
5. Heat enough oil in a kadai and fry then pooris.
6. Very tasty and very healthy poori is ready
Ginger Chicken
Spicy and juicy Ginger Chicken masala.
Ingredients
| Chicken | 250 gms |
| Onion | 1 big sized |
| Tomato | 2 medium sized |
| Chili Powder | 1½ tsp |
| Turmeric Powder | 1 tsp |
| Ginger & Garlic Paste | 1 tbsp |
| Cumin Seeds | 1 tsp |
| Green Chili | 2 (slit) |
| Ginger | 2 inches stripes |
| Oil | 2 tbsp (gingelly Oil) |
| Salt to taste |
Method
Remove the skin and wash the chicken thoroughly.
Slice the onion.
Chop the tomatoes.
1. Heat oil in a kadai. Use gingely oil to make Ginger Chicken Masala.
2. Fry sliced onion until it turns to light golden brown in colour.
3. Then add chicken pieces and saute well, after 5 mins add ginger & garlic paste and turmeric powder.
4. Keep mixing the chicken untill the raw smell of ginger & garlic paste goes off, when the chicken is half cooked add chopped tomatoes, chili powder and salt.
5. Mix the ingredients well until combine, then cover the kadai with a lid and simmer the flame and cook, mix the chicken in between, if needed add ½ to 1 cup water and cook the chicken until the oil separates.
6. Check the salt & spice and adjust. When the chicken is cooked completely and the oil separates, switch off the flame.
7. Garnish with 1 tsp of cumin seeds, cut slit green chili and thin strips of gingers.
8. Cover the kadai with lid and let it rest for at least ½ an hour before serving.
Tasty and aromatic Ginger Chicken is ready.
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