Kerala Special Pazham Puttu | Nenthra Pazham Puttu

How to Prepare Kerala Special Pazham Puttu | Nenthra Pazham Puttu?

Kerala Special Pazham Puttu | Nenthra Pazham Puttu

Ingredients:- 

• Puttu Podi (Rice Flour) – 2 Cup
• Banana – 2 sliced
• Grated Coconut – 1 cup
• Cardamom powder - 1 pinch
• Ghee – 1 Tea spoon
• Sugar – 1 Table spoon
• Salt to taste

Preparation:-

• Take a bowl and mix puttu podi (Rice Flour) and salt. Add water little by little and mix the rice flour well.
• Take another bowl with sliced banana, add sugar, grated coconut (1 to 1 ½ Table Spoon), cardamom powder, ghee into it and mix it well
• Take a puttu making vessel and fill the items in the order of grated coconut, banana, puttu podi. Repeat the same until the vessel become full.
• Keep the puttu making vessel over the cooker for 5 to 10 min for steaming
• Transfer the puttu into a plate, soft and tasty pazham puttu is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Soft Aval Dosa | Beaten Rice Dosa | Rice and Beaten Rice Dosa

How to Prepare Soft Aval Dosa | Beaten Rice Dosa| Rice and Beaten Rice Dosa?

Soft Aval Dosa | Beaten Rice Dosa | Rice and Beaten Rice Dosa

Ingredients:- 

• Raw Rice (Soaked Overnigh) – 2 Cup
• Aval (Beaten Rice) - 1 Cup
• Salt to taste
• Water as needed
• Oil as needed

Preparation:-

• Take a mixer jar and add soaked rice, aval, salt, required water and then grind 
• Transfer the Dosa batter into a vessel
• Heat a tawa and apply oil on top of it. Pour one big spoon batter over the tawa and spread it to make Dosa. Make sure you stir the batter every time you take the batter.
• Soft Dosa is ready to serve

 

Cheers!!!

Minu

Malabar Special Mutta Surka | Iftar/Nombuthura special Mutta Surka

How to Prepare Malabar Special Mutta Surka | Iftar/Nombuthura special Mutta Surka?

Malabar Special Mutta Surka | Iftar/Nombuthura special Mutta Surka

Ingredients:-

• Roasted Rice Flour (Very Fine) – 1 Cup
• Egg – 2
• Onion– 1 medium, finely chopped
• Ginger – ½ Tsp (Chopped)
• Green chilli - 2
• Fennel seeds -1 Tsp
• Coriander Leaves as needed
• Salt to taste

 

Preparation:-

• Take a bowl, add rice flour and then mix the egg
• Add required salt then mix it well
• Pour water little by little (Around 1/4 Cup) and make the batter similar to Idili batter
• Add chopped onion, green chilli, ginger, fennel seeds and coriander leaves into the batter and mix it well
• Heat a pan by pouring required oil to do deep fry.
• Pour a spoon full of batter into the hot oil and do deep fry on both sides
• Tasty “Mutta surka” is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Malabar Special Thari Kanji | Iftar/Nombuthura special Thari Kanji

How to Prepare Malabar Special Thari Kanji | Iftar/Nombuthura special Thari Kanji?

Malabar Special Thari Kanji | Iftar/Nombuthura special Thari Kanji

Ingredients:-

• Milk – ½ Litre
• Semolina/Rava – 3 Tbsp
• Vermicelli / Semiya – 1 Tbsp
• Sugar – 5 Tbsp
• Water – ½ Cup
• Coconut Milk– ½ Cup
• Ghee – 1 Tbsp
• Cardamom powder – 1 Tsp
• Shallot/Small Onion – 3 chopped
• Cashew nuts as needed
• Raisins as needed
• Salt a pinch to balance the taste

 

Preparation:-

• Heat a pan and add Ghee into it. Add Semolina/Rava and then Vermicelli / Semiya and sauté well
• Pour milk and water into the pan and cook Semolina/Rava. Make sure you stir continuously to avoid Semolina/Rava become thick
• Add Sugar into the milk and stir well
• Add cardamom powder and stir continuously
• Pour coconut milk and mix it well
• Add a pinch of salt to balance the taste
• Switch off the stove once it reaches the consistency
• Heat a pan and add Ghee into it. Add chopped shallot/small onion into it. Add Cashew nuts and then raisins and sauté well 
• Transfer the onion, cashew and raisins mix into the Semolina/Rava milk
• Tasty Semolina/Rava milk or Thari kanchi  is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Soft Gothambu Puttu | Wheat Puttu | Kerala Breakfast recipe

How to prepare soft gothambu/wheat puttu?

 Soft Gothambu Puttu | Wheat Puttu | Kerala Breakfast recipe

Ingredients:- 

• Wheat Flour – 2 Cup
• Grated Coconut as needed
• Water – ½ Cup (120 ml)
• Salt to taste

Preparation:-

• Take a flat vessel and mix wheat flour and salt needed
• Pour water little by little in to the flour and mix it well
• Take a mixer jar and transfer the wheat flour into it and pulse it for twice
• Make sure you don’t grind the wheat, pulse the wheat for twice or thrice
• Transfer the wheat into a vessel from the mixer jar and mix it well
• Take a puttu making vessel and fill coconut and wheat flour alternatively
• Keep it over the cooker for steaming
• Transfer the puttu into a plate, soft wheat/gothambu puttu is ready to serve
• Serve it hot!

 

Cheers!!!

Minu

Sweet Bread Toast | Kids special Bread Toast

How to prepare a very simple Sweet Bread Toast/Kids special Bread Toast?

Sweet Bread Toast | Kids special Bread Toast

Ingredients:-

• Bread – 6 Slices
• Pineapple Jam – 3 Tbsp
• Aval/Rice Flakes – 3 Tbsp
• Milk – 2 Tbsp
• Sugar – 1 Tbsp
• Cardamom Powder – 3 Crushed  
• Butter – 1 ½ to 2 Tbsp

Preparation:-

• Add sugar and cardamom powder into the milk and stir well until it dissolves
• Add Aval/Poha into the milk and soak it for few min
• Cut the black portion of the bread
• Take one bread at a time and paste the Jam over the bread
• Add soaked Aval/Poha over the bread and keep one bread over another
• Take a pan and toast the bread with butter
• Serve it hot!

Cheers!!!

Minu

Soft Phulka | Soft Pudina/Mint Phulka

How to prepare Soft pudina Phulka/Roti?

 Soft Phulka | Soft Pudina/Mint Phulka

Ingredients:-

• Wheat Powder – 1 Cup
• Pudina/Mint – 15 to 20 stump
• Water - ¼ cup for grinding Pudina/Mint + 2Tbsp
• Salt to taste

Preparation:-

• Take a vessel and add wheat powder into it. Add Salt and mix it properly.
• Pour Pudina paste into the wheat, while mixing add additional 2 Tbsp water little by little and knead it well
• Transfer the dough into a closed vessel and keep it aside for 20 to 30 min
• Make medium size balls to make phulka
• Now take one of the balls and place it on a flat surface dusted with wheat flour. Using a rolling pin, roll the ball to a circular shape
• Heat a Tawa and keep one phulka at a time and cook both sides
• Once both sides are cooked for a min, by using clip take out the phulka and keep it directly over high flame. Flip over the phulka until it cook well.
• Serve it hot with Vegetable or chicken curry!

Cheers!!!

Minu

Mangalore Special Bun | Banana Puri

How to prepare spongy and sweet Mangalore Special Buns?

Mangalore Special Bun | Banana Puri

Ingredients:-

• Maida – 1 Cup (150 ml)
• Banana Robust- 1
• Curd - 3 Tbsp
• Baking Soda – ½ Tsp
• Salt as required
• Sugar – 1 to 2 Tbsp
• Cumin Seeds – ½ Tsp
• Ghee – ½ Tsp
• Oil as required

Preparation:-

• Take a mixer jar and add banana, curd, sugar and blend well
• Take a big vessel and add Maida into it then add Cumin seeds, Salt and Baking soda and mix well
• Pour the blended banana mixture into the Maida and knead well
• Add little ghee into the mixture and again knead it well
• Transfer the dough into a small bowl and add the balance ghee on top of it and cover it well. Keep the dough aside for 4 to 8 hours
• After 4 to 8 hours open the cover and knead the dough again
• Make medium size balls using the dough
• Now take one of the balls and place it on a flat surface dusted with Maida flour.  Using a rolling pin, roll the ball to a circular shape
• Take a pan and pour the oil to fry the bun
• When one side is cooked flip it over to cook the other side
• Serve it hot with chutney!

 

Cheers!!!

Minu

Onion Wheat Ottada | Gothambu Ottada

Onion Wheat Ottada | Gothambu Ottada

Ingredients:-

• Wheat flour – 2 Cup (140 ml)
• Grated Coconut – ½ Cup
• Onion –½ Cup
• Coriander Leaves – ½ Cup
• Fennel seeds – ½ Tsp
• Salt as required
• Water – 1 ¼ Cup
• Oil as required

Preparation:-

• Take wheat powder in a bowl and then add salt and mix well
• Add grated coconut, onion, Coriander leaves, and fennel seeds and mix well again
• Add ½ cup water first and then mix well, later add remaining water and mix properly to make thick batter
• Take a Dosa tawa and spread some oil across
• Add some water on your palm and take palm full of batter. Put the batter into the tawa and flatten it with fingers
• Flip the ottada and cook well

Another Method:

• Take a banana leaves and flatten the batter over the leaf and then put it on to the dosa tawa. Remove the banana leaf after some time and flip the ottada

Cheers!!!

Minu

Ripe banana Puttu( Ethapazham Puttu)

Ingredients
Ripe banana  - 1(sliced)
Rice    - 1 Tsp
Rice flour  - 1 Cup
Coconut (Grated)  -1/2 cup
Water
Salt

Preparation

• Mix Banana with sugar and keep it aside.
• Add sufficient water and salt to the rice flour and mix well.
• Add Coconut into the flour and mix again.
• Take a Puttu maker. Fill the bottom layer with Banana. Add a thick layer of the puttu mix over it followed by another banana layer. Continue it until the vessel filled.
• Boil water in the pressure cooker or puttu maker and place it.
• Steam it for 4 to 5 min until the steam comes out of the hole.
• push out the puttu to a serving plate.

NB :-
To find the right consistency of the mix, you should be able to make balls when holding the mix with hand and without breaking it.
Instead of using rice flour, you can soak the rice for 4 – 5 hrs and grind it. And before making puttu just fry mix for some minute.
Cheers !!!
Minu

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Sponge Appam

Ingredients
Rice    -2 cup
Rice flakes/Aval/Poha  -1 cup
Coconut    -1/2cup
Urud dal   - 1 Tsp
Yeast        - 1/4 Tbsp
Milk   -1 cup
Sugar as needed
Salt
Water
oil

Preparation

• Soak the rice,urad dal and riceflakes together in water 4 to 5 hrs.
• Grind  these with coconut  and milk to a smooth batter.
• Add salt and yeast into it. keep it overnight.
• Before using the batter add sugar and keep it for another 1/2 an hour.
• Heat the thava and drizzle a little oil.
• Pour a ladle full of batter. Don't spread the batter.Covered and cook well. Don't turn the appam to cook the other side.

Simple spaghetti recipe

How to make Simple Spaghetti

Spaghetti - 1 Pack
Water - For boiling
Carrot - 2 Big
Onion - 2 Big  cut into the lenght of spagetti
Capsicum (Bell Pepper) - 1
Green Chilli - 4
Garlic - 4 Cloves
Ginger - 1 piece
Curry Leaves
Oil

Cut spagatti into pieces. Add this into boiling water. Once it is cooked drain the water and keep it aside.
Add oil into the pan, once it is hot add ginger and garlic into it. Stir untill it looses the raw smell. Then add onion and stir well unstill its colour started changing, now add carrot, Capsicum, Green Chill and stir well. Once it cooked add boiled Spaghetti into it. Mix well, garnish with curry leaves.

Note: You may also add mutter and coriander leaves as well.

Bread upma

Ingredients:

Bread slice    -8(cut into small pieces
Onion           - 1 finley chopped
Tomato         - 1 chopped
Green chilli   - 2 chopped
Dry chilli       - 1 cut into 2-3 pieces
Oil
Mustard
curry leaves


































Preparation :-
In a frying pan put oil, once oil gets heated add mustard, after splattering the mustard add dry chilly and curry
leaves and roast. Add onion and green chilly. Roast well till onions gets golder brown.
Then add tomato and roast till it mix well with onion. Finally add bread pieces and mix well.
Adjust the seasoning and turn off the heat.

**If you are a non vegetarian adding an egg before mixing the bread to the above recipe will give more taste.