Carrot & Broccoli rabe stir fry /Carrot-broccoli keerai thoran

This recipe is a simple stir fry having 2 healthy ingredients. Carrot which is an excellent source of Vitamin A,  and broccoli rabe, rich in iron..thus the combo is sure good for health. :) I got a fresh broccoli during our last visit to Farmers market here. The other day I was planning to make Broccoli paruppu usili, and didn't want to waste the greens. Saw the carrots, and the lovely colour combo of orange & green strike my mind. We had a nice meal consisting of rice - adzuki beans bottle gourd kuzhambu-broccoli usili...

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Misal Pav

  Ingredients  Pav Buns - 4 Butter - 1/2tablespoon Dried yellow peas/ White peas -1/4cup To sauté and grind  Onion -1 Tomato -2 Ginger-2" piece Garlic -3 cloves Fresh Coconut - 2 to 3 tablespoons Oil To temper Oil - 1tablespoon Cumin seeds-1/2teaspoon Chilli powder- 11/2teaspoon Amchur powder- 1/2teaspoon Coriander powder-11/2teaspoon Turmeric powder-1/4teaspoon Sugar -1/2teaspoon Salt Cilantro to garnish Chopped onions and chivda - as needed. Method Soak the peas over night, pressure cook it with enough salt for...

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Semiya-Javvarisi Payasam/Sago-Vermicelli Kheer

 Back home  the sago-vermicelli combo for payasam is common. But once(and only once! ;)) I tried making sago payasam, but ended up pretty badly. After that I never turned my head on sago while making payasam. I was happily settled with vermicelli payasam and paruppu payasam. Actually I almost forgot buying sago..then started buying it for the sago kichidi / javvarisi upma. Only a few days back suddenly remembered the sago-vermicelli payasam, and prepared it with extra caution. It turned out to be delicious. Ingredients Sago...

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Rasa Vadai

This is a very quick and interesting recipe when you make masal vadai (or) urad dal vadai. Soak the vadai in rasam for 2 to 3 hours and you get a nice evening snack. :) Can garnish with kara boondi / mixture while serving. Click here for the rasam recipe. Click here for the Masal vadai recipe Click here for Urad dal vada / Methu vada I have used masal vadai/paruppu vadai in this recipe. You can make the same with Methuvada too. Soak the vadai in rasam for at least a couple of hours. Microwave the individual servings...

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Orange Marmalade Coffee Cake

Ingredients  All purpose flour -11/4cups Sugar-1/2 cup +1/4cup(for the middle layer) Orange marmalade-1/4 cup+2tablespoons(at room temperature) Orange Juice -taken from half of an orange. Baking powder-3/4teaspoon Baking soda-1/4teaspoon Salt-1/4teaspoon Eggs-2 (at room temperature) Vanilla essence-1teaspoon  Butter-6tablespoons(at room temperature) Curd-1/4cup(at room temperature) Cinnamon powder-1/2teaspoon  Orange zest- 11/2teaspoons For the Glaze Icing Sugar - 3tablespoons Orange Marmalade...

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Quinoa Upma

Edit Ingredients Quinoa -1/2cup Water -1cup Shallot-1 Green chilly - 2 to 3 (adjust to your taste) Cilantro- to garnish Channa dal ,Urad dal - 1 teaspoon each Mustard seeds-1/2teaspoon Sugar-1/4teaspoon Salt Oil Method Combine the quinoa with a cup of water and start cooking. Once it started boiling, reduce the heat to medium, cover the pan and cook for 7 minutes. Open the pan, stir it once, reduce the heat to low,  and cook for couple more minutes. (For me, it took roughly about10 minutes to cook). By now the quinoa wont...

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Avacodo chapati / Avocado roti

Ingredients Ripened avocado -1 Lemon juice-2 teaspoons Chilli powder-1/teaspoon Coriander powder-1teaspoon  Whole wheat flour -13/4 cup  Water Oil Salt Method  Cut the avocado n scoop the pulp, squeeze the lemon juice and mash it well. Add the chilly -coriander powders and salt with avocado and mix everything. Add in the aata, slowly add water and make a stiff dough. Keep it in an airtight container for 1/2hour. Make lemon size balls out of the dough, and make Roti's. Heat a griddle,...

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Tomato Kurma with Coconut chutney

  One day I tried this kurma accidentally and we got hooked up with this ever after! Now a days I make sure that there is  some left over chutney to make this kurma for the next meal! ;) Ingredients  Coconut chutney-1/4cup Tomato -2 Onion - 1 Green chilly -1 Mustard seeds -1/2teaspoon Cumin seeds -1/2teaspoon Sakthi curry masala powder - 2teaspoons Turmeric powder-1/8teaspoon Sugar -1/4teaspoon Salt Oil Few curry leaves and cilantroMethod Chop the onions-g/chilly and tomato. Heat some oil in a pan, make the tempering...

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