Monday, October 27, 2008

Badam milk using MTR badam powder

  • Boil 1 glass of milk
  • Add 1 spoon of MTR badam powder/badam feast and sugar to taste
  • Done

Mango milk shake using mango pulp

  • Add 1 glass of milk and 1/4 glass of mango pulp (ready available in stores) and sugar to taste to the blender and blend
  • Done

Jaljeera

  • There are 2 types - jaljeera(water) or jaljeer(buttermilk)
  • Just add MTR jaljeera powder to water or to buttermilk
  • done

Palak Rice

  • Clean and grate 1 bunch of palak
  • Boil palak in water
  • chop some garlic and green chillies and ginger
  • add this mixture to blender and grind
  • normal oggarane (use 2 chopped onions)
  • Add the ground paste to oggarane
  • Add 1 chopped tomato
  • Add little red chilli powder and lime juice
  • Add salt
  • Add coriander, cumin powder, coriander powder, jaljeera powder
  • Done

Friday, October 17, 2008

uppittu/upma

  • fry rava with little oil just till it starts to turn brown
  • upma will be tasty if lots of vegetables are added
  • so chop carrots,tomatoes,brinjal,beans,potatoes and cook them in microwave for about 22 min
  • chop onions - 2 of them
  • start with oggarane
  • add 4x cups of water, if you have added x cups of rava
  • add lemon juice, little red chilly powder, and salt to taste
  • add kottambri soppu and coconut
  • wait till the liquid starts to boil
  • now add roasted rava and stir in parallel
  • wait for few mins and done

Monday, October 6, 2008

Masoppu saaru

  • soppus that can be added - palak,sapseege/sabakki,menthya,dantu,keere
  • pressure cook soppus with little bele
  • leave bele and take out only boiled soppu
  • grind boiled soppu,onions,garlic,khara pudi,green chillies in the blender
  • Rest of the process is similar to normal saaru making
  • Add more garlic during oggarane.

Avarekalu saaru

  • Avarekayi is available in frozen section under name - surti papdi lalva..something like that
  • grind onions,khara pudi,garlic,cocunut,coriander powder,red chillies,zeera powder in the blender
  • In the mean while pressure cook avarekayi with swalpa bele and salt
  • Rest of the process is similar to normal sambhar preparation
  • done

Avalakki uppittu

  • This is quite easy to make.
  • Use lots of onions for oggarane.
  • Soak avalakki in water for 5 mins.
  • In the mean while chop onions and all other stuff requried for oggarane.
  • Drain water from avalakki. when oggarane is done, add it to avalakki. avalakki needn't be boiled.
  • Add lime juice to the mixture.
  • Basically same as chitraanna