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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Sweet Corn Mint Pulao

Sweet Corn Mint Pulao is flavorful and colorful dish, , easy to prepare. Kids would like this healthy Lunch box Recipe.

Ingredients

To dry roast and to grind to a masala powder:

Ø Pepper corns - 1 tsp

Ø Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Ø channa dal - 1 tsp

To grind:

Ø Chopped mint - three cup

Ø Green chilli – 5 nos

tempering

Ø Oil and butter - 2 tsbsp.

Ø Bay leaf - 2

Ø Cinnamon stick - 1/2" 1 no

Ø Finely chopped onion - 1 no

Ø Garlic - 5 cloves

Ø Curd – 1 tbspn

Ø Corn – 100 gram

Ø BasmatiRice - 600 gram

Ø Salt

Method:

1. Soak rice for 20 minutes. Rinse and Drain.

2. Roast and grind the masala powder ingredients.

3. Grind mint and green chilli coarse paste.

4. Heat a pressure pan. Add oil+ Bay leaves, cinnamon, chopped onion and garlic sauté for 2 to 3 minutes.

5. Add ground masala power, ground mint & green chilli paste and sauté for 2 min.

6. Add corn and curd saute for 2 min.

7. Add 1: 1 ½ water to bring it to a boil. (4 ½ cup)

8. Add rice and add salt to taste.

9. Cook for about two whistles

10. Serve with mutton gravy, boiled egg or chicken pepper masala or pappad,pickle and chips.

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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Nannari Lemon Sharbath

Nannari Lemon Sharbath

This refreshing drink is a great thirst quencher. Suitable for this hot summer.

Ingredients

Water - 800 ml (4glasses)

Nannari essence – 3 soup spoon

Sugar – 8 tspn (to taste)

Lemon – 3 nos

Salt – 1pinch

For Garnishing

Mint leaves

Method

Squeeze the juice from lemon and mix it in water

Add sugar and salt mix well till dissolved the sugar and strain it.

Now add nannari essence and mint leaves

Refrigerate for 3 hours.

Pour the juice into chilled glass serve it immediately

Flavourful Nannari Lemon Sharbath

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Ifthar Menu
Dates
Mutton Kheema Soup (kanji)
Raw Banana Bajji
Nannari Lemon Shabath
Cocktail Tank
Tender coconut Agar agar
Fruits(Watermelon,Orange,Sweet Orange)

28.8.13
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

During Ramadan month i used to prepare varieties of bajjis for Ifthar. It is liked by children to adult.
Everyone likes yummy snacks for Ifthar. Easy prepare with in 20 minutes.
Bajjis are the famous Indian snacks. It is a popular selling item for the street side snack vendors.

We can make varieties of bajjis like onion bajji, potato bajji,green banana bajji, bringal bajji, bread bajji,chicken bajji,egg bajji fish bajji,tomato, capsicum bajji.

All bajji's are great for evening snacks and we can pack this for lunch for school going children.

Ingredients

Green Plantain (vazakkaay) - 1 no

besan flour - 3 soup spoon full

rice flour - 1 soup spoon full

Soji (rava) - 1 soup spoon full

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tspn

Kashmiri red chilli powder – 1 tspn

salt - to taste

oil – ½ tspn

bicarbonate of soda - 1 pinch

Oil – for frying

Method

Peel the skin from green banana and cut into desire shape

Add little water and mix all the ingredients, except Vazakkay (Green Banana), to become a thick batter (like idli batter consistency).

Heat oil over a medium flame. Dip the Banana slices in the batter one by one and deep fry to golden brown. Crispy Green Banana bajji is ready serve with tomato ketchup or any chutney variety.

Adding soji makes the bajjis more crispy

Note:

Instead of g & g paste you can use fennel seed powder or Garlic powder
Instead of Soji & Corn flour you can add bajji batter with little maida & corn flour. Corn flour also makes the bajjis more crispy.

Onion & Green Banana Bajji

Green Banana Bajji

Ifthar Menu

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Ramadan Mubarak to all.

Monday, July 8, 2013

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Sunday, June 30, 2013

How to make Kuboos - Arabic Kuboos - Arabic Bread

I tried many times kuboos for my children as their taste. My son's favorite recipe.

Kuboos is a Arabic Bread (like chappathi) It is a Traditional food for all Arabs.It is a healthy diet food.

Serves : 4 person

Ingredients

Maida (All purpose flour)– 2 1/2 cup
wheat - 1/2 cup
Yeast – ½ tspn
Sugar – 2 tspn
Hot milk – 1/2cup
Salt – ½ tspn
Butter -50 gram

In half glass of hot water add yeast, salt, sugar dissolve it and make it sit for 10 minutes, then add maida (plain flour) , wheat flour , hot milk and butter mix well make a soft dough. Set aside for 3 hour.

Divide the dough into sweet orange or big lemon size ball dust more flour and prepare thick chappathies .

Heat a tawa (pan) and put the prepared thick chappathie and cook for 2 minutes flip over and cook for another 2 minutes, no need to spread the oil.

Arabic kuboos is ready to serve.
It goes very well with all grill items (chicken, mutton ,beef) & with hamuus , Kabab,tikka all type of gravy , egg varieties and vegetable gravies.This kuboos is really a tasty food.
Instead of maida you can also use wheat flour (atta).

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I had shared this Kuboos Recipe குபூஸ் (அரேபியன் ரொட்டி) 15.11.2007 in arusuvaidotcom