Dry Ginger Sanuf Podi & Coffee ( for weight loss)

Sukku sompu Podi -  kaapi or tea

It's my mother in law's recipe.

Ingredients 

Dry Ginger (sukku) - 50 gram

Sanuf - 25 gram

Cardamom - 10 nos

Dry Mint  - 1/4 cup (optional)

Palm sugar (or) Palm Jaggery - 10 gram 

Method

Slightly dry roast the sanuf without burn.leave a cool for some times. 

Then add other ingredients and make a fine power. after cool transfer the powder into an air tight container.

Jaleela's Tips

 for digestion problem , stomach upset, gas problem,stomach pain , add this powder 1tsp  or 1/2 and prepare with tea or coffee.

  

 Sukku soombu (sanuf) Coffee 

Ingredients

Water - 250 ml

sugar - 1 tspn

sukku sanuf pwd - 1 tspn

coffee ( or ) Tea Pwd  - 1/4 tspn

Method

Boil the water with sukku sanuf pwd and reduce water 3/4 

add coffee ( or ) Tea Pwd, sugar boil for 2 min  and strain it.

Jaleela's Tips:

Morning regularly  have this pwd with coffee (or) tea it helps to reduce  weight.
we can prepare this coffee with milk or without milk
Instead of jaggery you can use sugar

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Home made Rasam Powder /Rasam /Simple & Quick Rasam

Home made Rasam Powder /Rasam

Ingredients

Whole Coriander  - 3 tbspn

thur dhal - 1 tbpsn

whole pepper corn - 1 tbspn

cumin seeds - 2 tsbn

methi seed - 1/4 tspn

turmeric pwd - 1/4 tspn

hing  asofeotida  - 1/4 tspn

dry curry leaves - hand full of

whole red chillies - 4 nos  

Method

Dry roast above said all the ingredients and grind it in mixie corase pwd.

let it cool and tranfer in an air tight container.

It's my special rasam pwd since 25 years I have been preparing rasam powder.(I already shared this recipe in Arusuvai.com & tamilkudumbam.com few years back.

nowadays, I am adding  1 tbspn of horse garm  which helps to weight loss.

For dry curry leaves: wash and drain it and fold it on a newspaper  keep it in the fridge for  two to three days  

Ingredients

Tamarind  - 1 lemon size

Hot water – 2 cup

Tomato – 1 no (cut into 4 pcs)

Homemade Rasam powder – 2 tspn

Salt – to taste

For tempering

Ghee

Mustard seeds – ½ tspn

Green chilli – 1 no

Garlic – 2 pod

Curry leaves – few

Coriander leaves – few

Method

Soak tamarind in a hot water and extract the juice

In a vessel boil tamarind juice, tomato, rasam powder, salt for 5 minutes.

Slightly crush together garlic, curry leaves, green chilli.

Heat separate small pan add ghee and mustard seeds crushed garlic, curry leaves and

green chilli fry for 2 minutes and add it to boiled tamarind juice. Garnishing with coriander leaves.

The flavorful rasam/ rasam soup ready to serve with white (plain) rice.

Rasam sadam is very good for digestion. 

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Rice Badam Kheer with Watermelon

Rice Badam Kheer(phirni) பீர்னி with Watermelon
There are so many varieties of kheer like soji kheer, pista rice kheer,sogo dates kheer,Rice badam kheer. Badam rice Kheer/Phirini is muslim marriage Traditional Sweet , Served with Naan, Bun, Idiyappam,Dosa...

For the magic mingle event, I have prepared kheer with watermelon. It’s a delicious  new flavour.

Magic Mingle Challenge - 16 - April - 2013

Sizzling Tastebuds Kalyani in this month's magic mingle two ingredients are Watermelon and Rice.My Second entry.

 Ingredients

Basmathi Rice – 25 gram

Watermelon juice – 100 ml

Milk – 100 ml

Badam – 10 nos

Cashew – 6 nos

Cardamum – 3

Sugar – 50 gram

Sweetented condensed milk – 90 ml

Pinch of kesari powder – (red food colouring) – 1 pinch

Method

Grind the rice into coarse powder and soak for ½ hour

In hot water soak badam for 5 minutes,drain the water and remove the skin.

Grind badam and rice with 1 cup of water and make it into a coarse paste.

Boil the milk with cardamom, rice and badam paste.

Cook well for 5 to 10 minutes.

In this stage reduce the heat and add watermelon juice,sugar, condensed milk, kesari powder and stir well. Allow this mixture to boil for 2 minutes. After getting a desired thickness turn off the stove.

Roast cashew with little ghee and add it to kheer.

You can serve this kheer with Dosa or small bun.

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Watermelon Rice Balls with Jaggery

Magic Mingle Challenge - 16 - April - 2013

Sizzling Tastebuds Kalyani in this month's magic mingle two ingredients are Watermelon and Rice.

they are really nice ingredients, we can make plenty of recipes , apart from juice or salad.

This jaggery rice balls is one of our Traditional breakfast , Even in my mother in law's house it is everyone’s favorite tiffin.This is a Unique way of making of this ingredient.
I have previosly shared this recipe in arusuvai.com & My Tamil Blog but without watermelon Juice

Watermelon Rice Balls with Jaggery

Ingredients

Basmati rice – 1 glass (200 gram)

Thick Watermelon juice – 150 ml

Jaggery – 150 gram

Grated coconut – 1 cup (req qty)

Cardamom – 2 nos

Salt – a pinch

Method

Wash and soak the rice for half an hour after that broke the rice with your hand and strain the water completely.

In a Tea pan add jaggery, 1 cup of water, pinch of salt and make the jaggery syrup and strain.

In a pressure cooker add washed rice, strained jaggery water,watermelon juice, cardamom (watermelon juice 1 cup + jaggery water 1 cup+ water ¼ cup)  and cook without closing the lid for 5 to 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes close the cooker lid and leave three whistle in a medium heat.
(DO NOT KEEP IT IN A HIGH FLAME,BEFORE CLOSING THE LID CHECK WHETHER THERE IS ENOUGH WATER TO GET THE RICE COOKED ELSE ADD SOME EXTRA WATER TO IT)

When the pressure gets released from the cooker transfer the cooked jaggery watermelon rice into a wide bowl or plate and let it cool for two minutes.

Make medium size balls to the cooked watermelon rice with your wet hand, sprinkle the grated coconut and roll it in a circular movement .Your Mouthwatering flavourful watermelon rice is ready to serve.
For more richness If you want you can add little ghee and chopped nuts.

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HomeMade Health Drink Podi ,Ragi Health Drink,Ragi Porriage

Ragi (Finger millet ) (Nachain Atta) is healthy drink for all age groups.
Ragi has high nutritional contents especially calcium and iron. Ragi based food is highly recommended for kids from six months onwards. 
Ragi Flour is great for diabetic people too we can prepare Ragi rotti, adai, Ragi idli, Snacks (like Ragi thattai) Sweet dosa,Ragi kozukkattai Eggless Ragi Cup Cake

Health Drink Powder – Ragi powder

Ingredients

Ragi– ½ kg

Samba wheat (சம்பா கோதுமை) - 50 gram

Par boiled rice – 50 gram

Badam– 50 gram

Sogo– 25 gram

Roasted Gram – 25 gram

Cardamom– 5 nos

Method

Dry roast each of all the given ingredients Separately ,Let it cool for sometime and Grind together into a fine power and sieve it.

Transfer the healthy powder into an Air-tight container.

From begining of childhood for my sons I am providing with in the early morning which keeps them good health, we also drink same in the morning.




Ragi Health Drink

Ingredients

Ragi powder (healthy pwd)  2 tspn

Milk – ¾ cup

Water – 1 ½ cup

Sugar – 4 tspn

Ghee – 1 to 2 drops

Saffron – 2 strands

Cardamom – 1 (or) cardamom fine pwd – ¼ tspn

Method

Boil the milk

Add ragi pwd into 1 cup of water mix well and strain; Now add ½ cup water, sugar, cardamom boil for 5 minutes.

Add milk and allow it to boil for 5 minutes,

Now add ghee and saffron.

Click Here -> Ragi Porriage for babies 

This health drink is suitable for 4 months babies to old age people.

 Its Very energetic drink. We can make this ragi solid or liquid.

Jaleela Tips:

It is even  good for people who are in diet,  you can use salt  (required qty) instead of sugar and butter milk instead of milk.As a glass of Ragi in the morning give you filled feeling for 2 to 3 hours.

I shared this recipe in arusuvaidotcom few years back.

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