Ani’s Kids Recipe,South Indian samayal & Tips!

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Cheese sandwich is simple and easy to make in a minute.

For kids

Take two bread slices  toast it with ghee (your wish) buy form grocey store the square shaped slices cheese coming as a pack (eg singles).  This cheese is available in almost all the grocery shops. Keep the cheese slice inbetween the two toasted bread slices.  Cut diagonally and give your kids. They find it easy to hold and eat nicely.

My kid ,she even don’t want to toast the bread.  She is 3 year old .  She used to make her own sandwich and eat it. She will takeout  cheese slice from refrigerator keep the slice inbetween bread slices and she will eat it.

You can aslo make variation in this. Buy hot dog buns. slice the butter stick  ask your kid to open the hotdog bun (which has cut to open) and ask him/her to arrange the sliced butter sticks in straight line and him/her to close the bun and eat it. Since they are making they really enjoy this.  I have seen this  in my kid.

For Grownups

You can make a slight variation to what i have mentioned so that adults also like this sandwich. This is very simple sandwich which can be made in 2 mins. We need 2 mins only for toasing the bread. You can toast  it using toaster or in dosa tava . This can be liked both by adults and kids.

Sandwich

Ingredients

1. Breadslices -2
2. Kraft cheese slice-1
3. onion slices -1 ( take big onion and make a thin slice which willcome as circle)
4. tomato slice-1(take big tomato and make a thin slice like circle,if tomato is small make 2 slices)

Preparation

1. Toast the bread.
2. Take one slice bread on the top of keep stacking cheese slice,tomato slice  and then onion slice ( or in any order). Cover with another slice of bread.
3. Cut in diagnal and make it into two halves.
4. Simple sandwich is ready. Which is good for breakfast.

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This recipe I got from SunTv’s local kitchen. The reason why I am posting this is ,this can be treated as Kids food. Kids will love it and itz healthy food too. For kids who don’t like chutneys this dosa is good since it can be eaten like a snack. Speciality of this dosa is no need of Fermentation and also no need for Urud dhal.

CARROT DOSA

 Ingredients

1. Idli Rice (or) raw rice   – 1cup
2. Carrots – 2 (not baby carrot)
3. Red chilli -5( upto 7)
4. Perungayathool – 1/4 tsp
5. Cumin (jeera) – 1/2tsp
6. salt- as needed

Preparation

1. soak the rice for atleast 5 hrs.
2. Grind the rice, chillies,grated carrots,Perungayathool(asefotedia powder),Jeera seeds,salt by adding little water in mixie like dosa batter. Don’t make the batter too watery.
3. Heat the dosa tava. When it is ready pour the batter and spread and sprinkle little oil on the top. When it is done on one side turn it and cook other side too.
4. Sometimes dosa may break. So pay little attention while turning the dosa.
5. Serve hot with your favourite chutney’s.

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Now we are going to see how to make gouthumai rotti. Gouthumai is a tamil word for Wheat so in English we can call this as Wheat Roti. This is good for Diabetic patients. My grandpa was diabetic patient so my granma used to make wheat recipe atleast one time a day. The most common recipes she used to cook are Gouthama dosai and Gouthma rotti. This is very simple recipe and good for health also.

Gothuma roti

Ingredient

1. Wheat flour – 2 cups
2. chopped onion – 1 cup ( more you add ,more it tastes)
3. chopped green chilli -2
4. chopped curry leaves and corriander leaves – little
5. oil and salt – as needed

Optional items

These are not necessary but if you want to can add these. Pinch of turmeric powder & 1/4 tsp of  chilli powder

Preparation:

1. Mix all the ingredients by adding very little water make like chapathi dough.
2. Take butter paper or thick glossy paper. Pour 1 tsp oil on it and spread it with your hand. Take a lemon sized ball of the dough and pat it on the paper with hand like roti.
3. Then carefully place the prepared roti on the tawa(butter paper on the upper side) and immediately remove the butter paper slowly.  If you feel uncomfortable with it, then make thick rotis and take it on your palm and place it on the tawa. 
4. Cook well on both sides till golden brown. Rotti is Ready.

Tips

Instead of Wheat flour add Raggi flour/ Ragi flour and make Ragi roti.

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I am from a place close to coimbatore which comes under coimbatore district. Coimbatore area is called as KonguNadu. Each Kongu family has their very own recipe for Arisim Parupu Satham (kid of kootansoru). It is a very simple dish made with ingredients that are readily available and has no complex flavors. It is a dish that we fall back on when we want a quick simple and nutritious meal but at the same time lazy to do much prep work.

My First Recipe

Also ,this is the first food I cooked when I was in 9th standard. We had a small factory that time in vedapatti village . Sometimes my mom also used to go there. For that  village the  buses are in particular timings only. If she misses 6 .30 bus then next bus in on 8.30.  In such occasions since I want to help my mom I used to cook this food before she comes and keep it ready.  It is really really simple. My mom and others used to tell me my recipe is very very tasty.

Paruppu sadam

INGREDIENTS

1. Rice – 1  cup
2. Toor dal – 1/2 cup
3. Red chillies (broken in half and seeds taken out)-3
4. Red chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
5. Onion -1/2 ( or 1 roughly chopped )
6. Tomato – 1  (small size -chopped)
7. Garlic  pods chopped – 2
8. Turmeric powder – little
9. oil – 1 tsp
10. Fresh Coconut (cut into pieces) – 1/4 cup (this is optional)

For Temper

1. Mustard,-1/4 tsp
2. Cumin (jeera) -1/4 tsp
3. Sombu – 1/4 tsp
4. Curryleaves/li>

PREPARATION

TIPS

Add chopped vegetables (carrots, beans, peas, potatooes) I usually add cut potatoes, the kids like the potatoes. Serve with lemon pickle, vadakam and yogurt.

If you are going to cook Basmathi rice then before adding the rice let the dal is half cooked since the rice gets cooked soon evein in one whistle.

Water measure

1. Basmathi rice – 1 cup means 1 and half cup water
2. Normal rice – 1 cups 2 cups of water
3. Dhal – 1/2 cup  means atleast 1 cup of water needed.

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I am just giving littlebit information about the Canteloupe. It is no wonder that the cantaloupe with its refreshingly rich flavor and aroma and minimal number of calories is the most popular variety of melon in the United States. Although they have become increasingly available throughout the year, their season runs from June through August when they are at their best.

The cantaloupe derives its name from the ltalian papal village of Cantalup, where it was first cultivated around 1700 A.D. It belongs to the same family as the cucumber, squash, pumpkin and gourd, and like many of its relatives, grows on the ground on a trailing vine. Cantaloupe are also referred to as a netted melon because it has a ribless rind with a distinctive netted skin. Inside of the melon there is a hollow cavity that contains seeds encased in a web of netting. Cantaloupe is also known as rockmelon in several parts of the world.

In India we used to get mulambalam which is same as cantoloupe. so you can make juice with that fruit also.

Canteloupe Fruit

INGREDIENTS

1. Cantaloupe – 1
2. Sugar as needed
3. Water little
4. Milk  little (like 1/2 0r 1 cup)

PREPARATION

1. Skin out,Peel the outer layer of the Cantaloupe and also take out the seeds. Cut the flesh part fruit into small pieces.
2. In a blender or juicer -mixer put the pieces add little water,little milk(optional) ,sugar and blend well.
3. Pour in glass put some ice cubes and serve chill.

TIPS

You can use kirney (called in chennai),Mulambalam called in otherparts of south India) or cantaloupe. I don’t find any diffence in taste. I have tried out using all these.

Instead of water if you are adding milk then it will be Cantaloupe Milk Shake.