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Suyan is a very simple sweet vada /bajji made using wheat. My grandma use to make different types of vada,Pakoda’s etc.This is one among them. This is my hubbys and now my daughters favourite too. No complicated ingredients. Mixture will be ready in minute . This is simplest sweet I have ever seen in my life. I am not includind semi home made items . This can be taken as Evening snack.
Suyan
Ingredient
1. Wheat flour – 1 cup
2. Sugar – as needed
3. Pinch of soda salt(sodium bicarbonate)
4. Oil for frying
5. if big banana then 1/4 banana
Preparation
1. Take wheat flour in bowl to it soda salt, mashed banana, and then sugar.
2. Add water (batter consistency should be thick) and mix well. Just taste and add sugar accordingly.
3. Heat the oil in kadai and using spoon take the batter and pour in oil. It will puff. Deep fry and then take out.
Tips
You can add 2 tsp of white rava also.
If you don’t have banana leave that ingredient. It is not must.
If the batter is like dose batter then it will get flatten and absorb oil.
You can add 2 tsp of maid too along with wheat flour.
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Vinayagar chaturthi is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Ganesha. Vinayagar Chaturthi is grandly celebrated in India.Lord Ganesha /Vinayagar is the Son of Lord Shiva and Parvati. The festival Vinayaka Chaturthi is an occasion or a day on which Lord Ganesha makes his presence on earth for all his devotees. Whenever we remember “Vinayagar chathurthi ” /”Ganesh chathurthi” the first thing comes in our mind is “KOLUKKATAI”. There are different types of Kolukkattai’s (both sewwt and mirchi) but we used to make this kara kolukkati always at my home. This can be eaten as tiffin as well as snack too.
Ready for cooking
Kolukkattai
Ingredients
1. Idli rice – 2 cups
2. Coconut grated - 1/2 cup
3. Salt - to taste
4. Oil - 2 tsps
5. Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
6. Curry and corriander leaves
7. Channa dal/kadalaparuppu - 1/2 tsp
8. Urudal – 1/2 tsp
9. Green Chillies - 5
10. Onion medium size - 1
Preparation
1. Soak the rice for minimum of 2 hours and grind it into a thick coarse batter with salt (thick and close to rava consistency so that you can make shapes).
2. Chop the onions, chillies, curry leaves and coriander leaves.
3. Heat the pan with oil. Temper the mustard seeds, channa dal & urud dal. When it starts spluttering, add the onions, chillies and curry/corriander leaves.
4. Fry for few minutes and add the grated coconut.
5. To this add the grinded batter and mix well. Add salt if needed.
6. Then add the coriander leaves and mix well.
7. Now make them into small oval shape balls and steam it in a idli pot / cooker for 10-15 minutes
Tips
Some of the variations you can try are :
You can replace green chillies with red chillies. The chillies can be grinded along with the rice if you have kids at home.
Instead of grated coconut you can cut the cocount into very small pieces and grind along with rice OR you can add the finely chopped pieces to the batter directly.
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We all are aware of Malai Kofta which is a very famous recipe. This kofta is made up of mixed vegetables. Recently I heard from one of my friend that they make Kofta’s using bottle guard(surrakkai), cabbage etc. Cabbage is easily availabe vegetable in all seasons so letz try this Cabbage kofta. I don’t follow any hard and fast rules in making gravy for this kofta. Once I made gravy in southindian style (replace paruppu uruandai with cabbage uruandai in paruppu urandi kozhumbu) and anothertime I made north Indian style kofta gravy. This Kofta goes well in all types of gravies. Here I am not mentioning the gravy since you can add this balls into your very special gravies.
Cabbage Kofta
Ingredients
1. Cabbage - 2 cups (finely chopped (like finely chopped onion for vada’s))
2. Channadal/kadalaparuppu - 1 cup
3. Green chilli - 2 (finely chopped)
4. Jeera/cumin seed - 1/2 tsp
5. Salt – little
6. Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
7. Besan/Kadala mavu - little (may be 2 tsps)
Preparation
1. Pressure cook channa dhal with 1 to 1 1/2 cups of water. It should be cooked well. If you mash it with hand, it should get mashed well. Once it is cooked well drain the water from it. Keep that drained water to use while making gravy.
2. Cook the cabbage well with little water. Once it is cooked well drain the excess water and keep for future use in gravy.
3. Now take the drained channa dal, drained cabbage and to this add finely chopped green chilli, red chiili powder, little cumin seeds(black cumin seeds will be good) and salt as needed.
4. Now add little Besan/gram flour . This will act as binding agent.
5. Mix all the ingredients well and knead and make small balls out of it.
6. Deep fry the balls in oil.
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My daughter loves pancakes a lot especially from IHOP. Sometimes she used to ask me in odd times. So I started making pancakes using the recipe I got in net. I came good but can’t be compared with IHOP ‘s Pancakes.
Pancakes
Ingredients
1. All purpose flour /maida - 2 cups
2. Baking powder – 2 tsp
3. Salt – 1/2 tsp
4. lightly beaten egg – 1
5. Milk - 1 and 1/2 cups
6. Butter melted - 2 tsp
Preparation
1. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.
2. In abowl, add egg and milk. Add to flour mixture, stirring until smooth.
3. Then add the melted butter and mix well.
4. Heat the dose pan pour a spoon of batter for each pancake. Don’t spread. Let it spread by itself.
5. Cook until done on both side like dosa.
6. This can be eaten with Honey or maple syrup.
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I still remember I tasted my very first cutlet with my friends in Neyveli which one of my favourite place too. Though I lost contact with my Neyveli friends I always remember the days we spent together. Hope if any of my friends browse this recipe will contact me. Cutlets are well known appetizer/Starter. Itz simple ,healthy and easy to make. Different color veggies are used. Kids will love this since it won’t be too spicy.
Ingredients
1. Carrot - 4
2. Potatoes - 4
3. Green Peas - 1 cup
4. Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
5. Onion - 1
6. Green chillies - 5 to 6 (avoid this if making for kids)
7. Ginger (very small piece)
8. Red Chilli Powder
9. Garam Masala powder
10. Salt
11. Coriander leaves - a small bunch
12. Eggs - 2
13. Breadcrums - as needed
14. Oil to fry.
Preparation
1. Boil the potato and peel it and mash it with hand and keep aside. Cook peas and chopped carrots separately. When its done cool it mash it with hand.
2. Heat the pan with 1 tsp of oil and cumin seeds.
3. Add and fry chopped onions, chopped green chillies and finely chopped ginger, chilli powder and garam masala powder.
4. Transfer the contents into bowl. To this add mashed potato, peas and carrot.
5. Add the chopped corriander and curry leaves(optional).
6. Add Salt and mix well . Care should be taken not even a drop of water is added at any time.
7. Make ball out of this mixture, flatten and shape like cutlets by pressing and keep ready.
8. Break the eggs in seperate bowl. Dip the shaped cutlets in egg and roll them in bread crumbs.
9. Heat flat bottomed pan or dosa tava with little oil and shallow fry this.
10. When one side is done turn the other side and cook till both sides are brown.
11. Serve with chutneys or Ketchups.