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Crisp pakodas

October 25, 2010

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Add a little corn flour / rice flour to the gram flour/besan while mixing the dough.

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Chikudu Ginjala Annam/Lilva beans Rice

Chikudu ginjala annam is rice cooked with lilva beans.When I was in school mom used to maintain garden in our back yard where she used to grow brinjal/egg plant,lilva beans,coriander/cilantro,spring onions,methi & she used to make all curries with fresh veggies.Especially in winter season there used to be plenty of chikudukaya/lilva beans & greens available around so mom used to take advantage of it and make many dishes like rice,sabzi,just fry the beans etc with this veggie.Frozen lilva bean seeds are always available for us in Indian stores . Ingredients: Rice(Basmathi/Sona masoori)- 2 cups Lilva Beans - 1 cup Onion - 1 small(finely chopped length wise) Green Chillies - 2(sliced length wise) Jeera/Cumin/Sajeera - 1/4 tsp Cinnamon stick - 1/2 inch Clove - 1 Cardamom - 1 Bay Leaf - 1 Oil - 2tsp Ghee - 1tsp(optional) Cilantro - 1/4 cup finely chopped Spring Onion - finely chopped(optional) Methi - finely chopped (optional) Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp Garam masal...

Gulab jamun

Gulab jamun a popular Indian sweet and undoubtedly has countless fans.I'm not sweet toothed but still wanted to make this yummy dessert and it turned out delicious.I'm glad that finally after a month of procrastination I finally got time to post this recipe. Ingredients: Gulab Jam Mix - 1/2 packet(makes 15 -20 jamun's) Milk - 4tsp Oil - To fry Sugar - 1cup Water - 1cup Ghee - 1tsp Cardamom/Elaichi - 2(powder) Method: 1.Mix gulab jam mix and milk to make a smooth dough(do not knead hard as you do for roti) and leave it aside for 15min. 2.After 15 min ,apply ghee to your hand ans make round balls of desired size and keep all the balls in a plate.Meanwhile heat oil on medium and start frying the jamun's and leave them in a tissue. 3.In a bowl add 1 cup water ,1 cup sugar and boil the water on medium flame for 10 min ,add a drop of lime juice and cardamom powder.Check the syrup consistency and add little water if required. 4.Add jamun's to the syrup and le...

Sorakaya Senagappapu /Bottle gourd Channa Dal Fry

Wanted to have some simple food today so thought of preparing Sorakaya/lauki/bottle gourd and found an interesting recipe from edivyaraj. blogspot bottle-gourd-skin-fry-sorakaya-pottu through google. I sometimes use the lauki skin to make pickle but this is very interesting.I used her idea of using up the lauki skin and prepared a new combination.It came out real tasty. Ingredients: Lauki/Sorakaya - 1 Onion - 1/2 small Spring Onion - 3 tsp Channa dal - 6-7 tsp(washed and soaked) Methi leaves - 1/2 cup Cilantro - 4tsp(finely chopped) Garlic - 3 cloves Jeera/Cumin Seeds - 1/4 tsp Curry Leaves - 2 Salt - to taste Red Chili Powder - 1/4 tsp(Optional) Coriander Powder - 1/4 tsp Green Chillies - 2 Method: 1.Wash and peel the lauki/sorakaya and keep the skin aside.Now dice the sorakaya and keep the pulp and seeds aside.Chop the lauki skin and pulp into small pieces. 2.Soak channa dal for 1 hour,meanwhile chop the onions,spring onions,cilantro,garlic,curry...

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