Milk Peda | Milk Peda using Milk Powder | Easy and Quick Milk Peda | Special Diwali Sweet | Deepavali Special Milk Peda

How to prepare Milk Peda | Milk Peda using Milk Powder | Easy and Quick Milk Peda | Special Diwali Sweet | Deepavali Special Milk Peda

Milk Peda | Milk Peda using Milk Powder | Special Diwali Sweet | Deepavali Special Milk Peda

Ingredients:-

• Milk Powder - 1 Cup
• Sugar- ¼ Cup
• Milk- ½ Cup
• Ghee- 2 Teaspoon

Preparation:-

• Take a pan add milk and sugar
• Switch on the stove and stir well until the sugar dissolve
• Add milk powder and stir well
• Add Ghee in between
• Stir continuously in low flame until it get a thick consistency
• Once it down cool shape the Peda into round shape
• Tasty Diwali sweet Milk Peda is ready to serve

Cheers!!!
Minu
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Special Evening Snack using Wheat Flour | Shakarpali North Indian Sweet | Wheat Flour Snack

How to prepare special evening snack using Wheat flour / Shakarpali north Indian Sweet | Wheat Flour Snack

This evening snack is called Shankarpali made with very few ingredients. This sweet wheat flour snack is a perfect combination with hot tea. You can prepare and preserver this naalumani palaharam for many days in a closed container. This wheat flour evening snack is crisp outside and soft inside. You may prepare this easy wheat flour snack in a desired shape you would like to eat. It is very easy and since it is prepared using wheat flour it is healthy as well. Try to prepare this easy wheat flour snack Shankarpali and let know your feedback.  

Special Evening Snack using Wheat Flour | Shakarpali North Indian Sweet | Wheat Flour Snack

Ingredients:-

• Wheat flour- 1 Cup
• Sugar – ¼ Cup
• Water – ¼ Cup
• Ghee- 2 Tablespoon
• Salt – A Pich
• Oil as needed

Preparation:-

• In a pan add sugar and water and boil till sugar gets dissolved
• Add salt into wheat flour
• Add sugar syrup and knead it well
• Add ghee and knead again
• Flatten the dough using a rolling pin
• Cut the flattened dough into desired shape
• Heat oil in a pan and fry each piece both sides
• Tasty Shakarpali or wheat flour snack is ready to serve

Cheers!!!
Minu
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Kerala Special Vazha Kaambu cherupayar Puzhukku /Banana Stem Green Gram Puzhukku?

How to prepare Kerala Special Vazha Kaambu cherupayar Puzhukku /Banana Stem Green Gram Puzhukku?

Vazha Kaambu or Banana Stem is one of the very healthy vegetable easily available in most of the houses in kerala. Preparing puzhukku using Vazhakaambu is very easy and here I am showing how to prepare an easy vazha Kaambu cherupayar Puzhukku / Banana Stem green gram puzhukku in typical kerala style.

Kerala Special Vazha Kaambu cherupayar Puzhukku /Banana Stem Green Gram Puzhukku?

Ingredients:-

• Banana Stem sliced - 1 cup
• Green gram (Soaked) – ¼ Cup
• Salt to taste
• Water as required
• Green chilli – 2
• Turmeric Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Curry leaves as required
• Grated coconut – ½ Cup
• Raw coconut oil

Preparation:-

• Clean and cut Banana stem into small pieces
• Take a cooker and Cook green gram by adding required salt and water
• Add banana stem, green chilli, salt to taste, and turmeric powder, curry leaves required water and cook again
• Smash banana stem and then add grated coconut and mix it well
• Switch off the stove and pour a little raw coconut oil
• Tasty banana stem cherupayar puzhukku is ready to serve.
• Serve it hot with rice, Chappathi!

Cheers!!!
Minu
#VazhaKaambu #Ruchikaram #Puzhukku

Eenthu Virakiyathu | Cycads pudding | Special Eenthu Payasam

How to prepare Eenthu Virakiyathu |  Cycads pudding | Special Eenthu Payasam

Eenth or Cycads is used to prepare nutritious dishes. It is a rich source of proteins, carbohydrates and helps to control blood pressure. Eenthu Virakiyathu looks like a Payasam with less sweetness. Eenth Virakiyathu or  Cycads pudding one of the healthy dish you must try at home when you get dried Eenthu or Cycads.

Eenthu Virakiyathu |  Cycads pudding | Special Eenthu Payasam

Ingredients:-

• Eenthu (Cycads) – 1 ½ cup Soaked in water
• Jaggery – 250-300 gram
• Coconut milk – 1 ½ Cup
• Cardamom – 3 
• Ghee – 1 Tsp
• Chana dal (Cooked) – ¼ Cup 
• Salt a pinch

Preparation:-

• Grind eenthu/ Cycads by adding water
• Melt jaggery
• Take a vessel and add ground eenthu, melted jaggery, coconut milk and cardamom
• Switch on the stove and stir well
• Add ghee into it and mix it well
• Add salt as required
• Once it start boiling add cooked chana and mix well 
• Stir continuously until it reaches the required consistency 
• Tasty Eenthu Virakiyathu / Cycads pudding is ready to serve

Cheers!!!
Minu
#EenthuVirakiyath #Ruchikaram #CycadsPudding

Potato Besan Fingers | Iftar Nombuthura Snack | Naalumani Palaharam | Potato Snack

How to prepare Potato Besan Fingers | Iftar Nombuthura Snack | Naalumani Palaharam | Potato Snack

Potato Besan Fingers | Iftar Nombuthura Snack | Naalumani Palaharam | Potato Snack

Ingredients:-

• Potato – 2 Smashed
• Onion -1 Medium
• Turmeric Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – 2 Teaspoon
• Cumin Seeds – ½ Teaspoon
• Coriander leaves as required
• Gram flour – 1 Cup
• Salt to taste
• Oil as needed

Preparation:-

• Take a bowl and add smashed potato, onion, salt to taste, turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander leaves, and cumin seeds and mix it well
• Add gram flour little by little and mix it again
• Shape the mixture to make potato finger
• Heat oil in a pan and deep fry both sides 
• Tasty potato finger is ready to serve. 

Cheers!!!
Minu
#PotatoBesanFingers #Ruchikaram #EveningSnacks

Coconut Chocolate Laddu | Chocolate Coconut Laddu

How to prepare Coconut Chocolate Laddu | Chocolate Coconut Laddu

Coconut Chocolate Laddu | Chocolate Coconut Laddu

Ingredients:-

• Grated Coconut – 1 Cup
• Milk – 2 Tablespoon
• Ghee – 2 Tablespoon
• Sugar – ½ Cup
• Chocolate as required
• Cardamom Powder 5 pods
• Nuts as required

Preparation:- 

• Grind chocolate
• Heat ghee in a pan, add coconut and sauté well 
• Add sugar, cardamom powder, milk and mix it well
• Add chocolate and nuts and mix it again
• Transfer the coconut mixture into a plate and keep it aside for cooling
• Grind the coconut mixture and transfer it back to the plate 
• Apply ghee on your hand and make laddu shape
• Roll laddu over fresh coconut 
• Tasty Chocolate Coconut laddu is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

#CoconutChocolateLaddu #Ruchikaram #ChocolateCoconutLaddu

White Sauce Pasta | White Sauce Pasta Recipe | Creamy Pasta Recipe

How to prepare White Sauce Pasta | White Sauce Pasta Recipe | Creamy Pasta Recipe

White Sauce Pasta | White Sauce Pasta Recipe | Creamy Pasta Recipe

Ingredients:-

For Pasta Cooking

• Pasta – 2 Cup
• Water - 5 Cup
• Salt
• Oil – ¼ teaspoon
• Vegetables for Pasta
• Onion - Medium
• Carrot - Small
• Capsicum – ½ Portion
• Salt to taste
• Pepper Powder
• Chilli flakes
• Oil

White Sauce

• Butter – 4 Table spoon
• Maida/All-purpose flour – 4 Tablespoon
• Milk – 2 Cup
• Pepper Powder - ½ Teaspoon
• Cheese as required

Preparation:-

• Boil water and cook Pasta by adding salt and oil 
• Drain the water and pour cold water to avoid overcooking
• Heat oil in a pan and sauté onion, carrot, capsicum. Add salt to taste, pepper powder, chilli flakes and continue sautéing 
• Heat Butter in a pan add Maida/All-Purpose Flour and sauté well
• Pour milk and mix it well
• Add ½ Teaspoon pepper powder and mix it again
• Switch off the stove once it reaches the required consistency
• Add cheese, vegetables and Pasta into the sauce and mix it well
• Finally pour Milk to have the required consistency you like
• Tasty white sauce Pasta is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

#WhiteSaucePasta #Ruchikaram #CreamyPasta

Robusta Banana Halwa | Robusta Halwa in 15 Min | Kerala Pazham Halwa

How to prepare Robusta Banana Halwa | Robusta Halwa in 15 Min

Robusta Banana Halwa | Robusta Halwa in 15 Min | Kerala Pazham Halwa

Ingredients:-

• Robusta banana – 4
• Sugar – ¾ Cup
• Wheat Flour – 1 Tablespoon
• Ghee- 3 Tablespoon
• Cardamom – 4
• Cashew nuts as needed
• Salt – A pinch

Preparation:-

• Take a mixer jar and add banana, cardamom and grind it well
• Heat ghee in a pan, transfer ground banana mixture into the pan
• Add wheat flour and stir well
• After 2 min add sugar and salt into it and mix it well
• Add 1 Table spoon ghee and mix again
• After 4 to 5 min add cashew nuts and remaining ghee into it and mix well
• Stir continuously until it reaches the required consistency 
• Transfer halwa into a plate to cool down 
• Tasty Robusta halwa is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

#RobustaHalwa #Ruchikaram #OverRipeBananaHalwa

Rava Appam | Rava Naalumani Palaharam | Soft Rava Neyyappam | Rava Panji Appam

How to prepare Rava Neyyappam | Rava Naalumani Palaharam | Soft Rava Appam | Rava Panji Appam

Rava Appam | Rava Naalumani Palaharam | Soft Rava Neyyappam | Rava Panji Appam

Ingredients:-

• Semolina/Rava – ½ Cup
• All-Purpose flour /maida– 1 Cup
• Grated Jaggery – ½ Cup
• Cardamom– 4 Pods Crushed
• Salt a pinch
• Water as needed
• Oil as needed to fry

Preparation:-

• Heat 1 cup water in a pan and melt jaggery
• Take a bowl and add App-purpose flour/Maida, Rava, a pinch of salt, cardamom Powder and mix it well
• Pour Jaggery syrup into the bowl and mix it well
• Keep it aside for 30 min
• After 30 min open the vessel and mix it well
• Heat oil in a pan and pour a spoon full of batter and deep fry both sides 
• Tasty Rava appam / Rava Naalumani Palaharam is ready to serve. 

Cheers!!!

Minu

#RavaAppam #Ruchikaram #RavaSnack

Homemade Kurkure | Crispy Pasta | Kids Favorite Snack

How to prepare Kurkure | Crispy Pasta | Evening Snack | Kids Favorite Snack | Homemade Kurkure

Kurkure | Crispy Pasta | Evening Snack | Kids Favorite Snack | Homemade Kurkure

Ingredients:-

• Pasta- 1 Cup
• Water – 4 Cup
• Salt – 1 Teaspoon
• Oil- 1 Teaspoon
• Cornflour- 4 Table Spoon
• Kashmiri Chilli Powder – 1 Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder- ¼ Teaspoon
• Dry mango Powder- 1 Teaspoon
• Black salt – 1 Teaspoon

Preparation:-

• Take water in a vessel and boil water by adding salt and oil. Once it starts boiling add pasta into it and cook well
• Once Pasta is cooked drain the water
• Pour cold water on top of the cooked pasta to make it separate
• Transfer cooked pasta into a bowl and add corn flour on top of it and mix it well
• Heat oil in a pan and deep fry pasta by turning it all the sides
• Transfer fried pasta into a bowl and add kashmiri chilli powder, chilli powder, dry mango powder, Black salt and mix it well
• Tasty and Crispy Fried pasta / Kurkure is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

#Kurkure #Ruchikaram #CrispyPasta

Semiya Uppumavu | Vermicelli Upma | Breakfast Upma

How to prepare Semiya Uppumavu | Vermicelli Upma | Breakfast Upma

Upma is prepared many ways. Rava/Sooji, Broken wheat etc are the main ingredients we use while preparing Upma. Here I am showing Upma recipe prepared using vermicelli. This vermicelli uppumavu is very soft and each vermicelli is separate from each other. Vermicelli uppumav can be prepared as breakfast as well as evening snack. Since this is one of the healthy dish you must try this vermicelli Upma. As usual once you prepare Vermicelli Upma please share the feedback.

Semiya Uppumavu | Vermicelli Upma | Breakfast Upma

Ingredients:-

• Vermicelli - 2 Cup
• Mustard Seeds – ½ Teaspoon
• Dry red chilli – 2
• Curry leaves as required
• Urad dal – ½ Teaspoon
• Chana dal – 1 Teaspoon
• Peanut 1- 1 Tablespoon
• Ginger- ¼ Teaspoon chopped
• Onion – 1 small chopped
• Carrot – ¼ cup chopped
• Beans- ¼ Cup chopped
• Lemon juice- ¼ Teaspoon
• Salt to taste
• Coriander leaves

 

Preparation:-

• Boil water in a vessel with required salt and then add vermicelli and cook for 2 min
• Drain the water
• Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds. Add dried red chilli, Curry leaves, Urad dal, Chana dal, peanuts and sauté well
• Add chopped ginger and sauté again
• Add onion, carrot, beans and required salt and cook well for 2 min by closing the pan
• Transfer cooked vermicelli and add some ghee into it and mix it well
• Add coriander leaves and lemon juice into it and mix it well
• Tasty Vermicilli Upma is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Qatayef - Arabic Dessert | Eid Special Sweets | Iftar Nombuthura Special Arabic Sweet

 How to prepare Qatayef - Arabic Dessert | Eid Special Sweets | Iftar Nombuthura Special Arabic Sweet

Qatayef is an Arabic sweet. Qatayef is one of the must sweet we have to prepare during Iftar/Nombuthura. Arabs like sweet very much and their sweets are very different from other sweets which we normally prepare.  Qatayef is very easy to prepare and kids will love this sweet. This special Qatayef can be prepared during Diwali as well. Please follow the way I have prepared this special Arabic Sweet named Qatayef  and let me know your feedback.

How to prepare Qatayef - Arabic Dessert | Eid Special Sweets | Iftar Nombuthura Special Arabic Sweet

Ingredients:-

• All-purpose flour – 1 Cup
• Sugar -1 Tablespoon
• Baking Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Salt a pinch
• Milk – ¾ Cup
• Warm Water as required
• Oil as needed to fry

For Fillings

• Cashew nuts as needed
• Raisins as needed
• Pistachio as needed

For Sugar Syrup

• Sugar – ½ Cup
• Water – ¼ Cup

 

Preparation:-

• Take a bowl and mix all-purpose flour, sugar, baking powder and salt
• Pour milk and then water little by little and mix it well until it reaches the required consistency
• Close the vessel and keep it aside for 30 to 60 min
• After 30 min open the vessel and mix it well
• Heat a non-Stick Tawa and pour ¼ cup batter and make pan cake
• Take a small bowl and add cashew nuts, raisins, pistachio, sugar, butter and mix it well
• Take a pancake and add small portion of fillings and then close it by pressing it on the corner
• Heat a pan and pour ¼ cup water and then ½ cup sugar and make thick syrup
• Heat oil in a pan and deep fry each pan cake
• Dip the fried pan cake into the sugar syrup
• Tasty Qatayef, Arabic Sweet/Dessert is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

How to prepare Egg Peas | Green Peas and Egg snack | Calicut Beach Special Green Peas and Egg evening Snack | Naalumani palaharam

How to prepare Egg Peas | Green Peas and Egg snack | Calicut Beach Special Green Peas and Egg Masala

Egg and Peas is one of the favorite evening snack you may get it from Calicut beach. Green Peas and egg masala is very easy to prepare and it tastes very good. If you have a hot tea along with this egg and green peas then you may forget whether you are in beach or at home. Please follow the way I have prepared egg and green peas masala and let me know your feedback.  

Egg and Peas | Green Peas and Egg snack | Calicut Beach Special Green Peas and Egg | Evening Snack | Naalumani palaharam

Ingredients:-

• Green peas – ½ Cup Soaked
• Onion – 1 Medium
• Green Chilli -1
• Curry leaves as required
• Egg – 2
• Pepper Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Oil as required

Preparation:-

• Cooke green peas by adding salt to taste and required water in a cooker
• Cut onion and green chilli into small pieces
• Heat oil in a pan add chopped onion, green chilli, curry leaves and sauté well
• Transfer cooked green peas into the pan and mix it well
• Add eggs and salt as required, pepper powder into the pan and mix it again
• Tasty egg – Pease stir fry is ready to serve

Cheers!!!
Minu
#EggPeas #Ruchikaram #EveningSnack

Chicken Vada | Iftar Nombuthura Special Chicken Vada | Malabar Special Chicken Vada

How to prepare Chicken Vada | Iftar Nombuthura Special Chicken Vada | Malabar Special Chicken Vada

Chicken Vada is a special Vada prepared using Boneless Chicken. This Chicken vada tastes totally different from other mom vegetarian Vada varieties. This is one of the special evening snacks to be prepared during Iftar/Nombuthura time. Everyone likes this special Chicken Vada as it is Crispy and a perfect combination for a hot tea. Please follow the way how I have prepared this special Iftar Snack, Chicken Vada, and let me know your feedback.

How to prepare Chicken Vada | Iftar Nombuthura Special Chicken Vada | Malabar Special Chicken Vada

Ingredients:-

• Chicken – 7 Pieces
• Onion -1
• Ginger – 1 Inch
• Curry leaves
• Turmeric Powder – ½ Tsp
• Chilli Powder – 1 Tsp
• Cumin Seeds – ¼ Tsp
• Gram flour – 6 Table Spoon
• Salt to taste
• Oil as needed

 

 Preparation:-

• Take a cooker add chicken, salt to taste, ¼ teaspoon pepper powder and cook the chicken
• Cut onion, ginger
• Shred the cooked chicken
• Take a bowl and add shredded chicken, onion, ginger, curry leaves, salt to taste, gram flour, Turmeric Powder, Chilli powder, cumin seeds (If required add water ) and mix it well
• Add gram flour little by little and water as required to get the required consistency to make vada shape
• Shape the mixture to make chicken vada
• Heat oil in a pan and deep fry the vada both sides
• Tasty chicken vada is ready to serve.

Cheers!!!

Minu

Chocolate Donut | Perfect doughnut | Sugar Coated Donut

How to prepare Chocolate Donut | Perfect doughnut | Sugar Coated Donut

Chocolate Donut | Perfect doughnut | Sugar Coated Donut

Ingredients:-

• Dried Yeast – 1 Teaspoon
• Sugar - 2 Teaspoon
• Warm Milk – ½ Cup
• All-purpose Flour/Maida – 2 Cup
• Butter – 2 Teaspoon
• Egg – 1
• Vanilla essence – ½ Teaspoon
• Salt a pinch

Preparation:-

• Take a bowl and add yeast, sugar and milk. Mix it well and keep it aside for 10 min
• Take a big bowl and add all-purpose flour, a pinch of salt, butter and mix it well
• Add one egg and pour yeast mixture, vanilla essence and make dough
• If dough looks more watery spread Maida little by little and make a soft dough
• Keep it aside for 1 hour by applying oil or cover it with wet cloth
• After an hour mix it again. If it’s watery apply Maida on your hand
• Spread Maida on a floor and flatten the dough
• Cut it in round shape using a cutter or round vessel. Make a hole at the middle using a small cutter or bottle cap
• Spread Maida on a flat vessel and place the donut shaped dough on to it
• Keep it aside for 30 min after applying oil on top of it and cover it with a wet cloth
• Heat oil in a pan and deep fry both sides.
• To make sugar coated Donut, grind sugar with cinnamon and dip the donut on top of the sugar powder
• Take a bowl add ½ Cup sugar powder, ½ Tablespoon cocoa powder and then add milk little by little to make a thick paste.
• Dip donut into this chocolate mixture.
• Tasty sugar coated and chocolate coated donut is ready to serve

 

Cheers!!!

Minu

#HomemadeDonut #Ruchikaram #PerfectDoughnut

Special Bread Layered Sandwich | Special Bread Sandwich

How to prepare Special Bread Layered Sandwich | Special Bread Sandwich

Special Bread Layered Sandwich | Special Bread Sandwich

Ingredients:-

• Bread Slices - 6
• Beaten Egg with salt and pepper and milk- 2
• Chopped Onion – 1 Medium
• Chopped Tomato – 1 Medium
• Chopped Capsicum – 1 Small
• Salt a pinch
• Pepper a pinch
• Butter as required
• Mozzarella Cheese as required

Preparation:-

• Heat a pan add butter into it and toast all the bread slices
• Take one bread slice spread beaten egg on top of it
• Turn the bread and spread the beaten egg again
• Turn the bread again and add chopped onion, tomato, capsicum, a pinch of salt and pepper, mozzarella cheese
• Keep another bread on top of it and spread the beaten egg
• Turn the bread and repeat the process
• Tasty bread sandwich is ready to serve

 

Cheers!!!

Minu

Banana Cake | Pazham Cake | Naalumani Palaharam | Easy Banana Cake

How to prepare Banana Cake | Naalumani Palaharam

Banana Cake | Naalumani Palaharam

Ingredients:-

• All-purpose Flour/Maida – ½ Cup
• Baking Soda – ¼ Teaspoon
• Baking Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Sugar Powder – 40 Gram
• Unsalted butter – 40 Gram
• Salt a pinch
• Egg – 1 in room temperature
• Vanilla essence – ¼ teaspoon
• Milk – 1 Tablespoon
• Banana – 2 Small

Preparation:-

• Take a bowl and sieve ½ Cup all-purpose flour, ½ Teaspoon baking powder, ¼ Teaspoon baking soda
• Take another big bowl and add 40 gram powdered sugar, 40 gram melted butter, a pinch of salt and beat it well
• Add 1 egg kept in room temperature, ¼ teaspoon Vanilla essence and beat it again for a minute
• Add 1 Tablespoon Milk into the bowl and beat again for a minute
• Add 2 small banana into the bowl and smash it well
• Transfer All-purpose flour mixture little by little and mix it well
• Take a baking tin and apply butter on top of it. Transfer the cake mixture and tap it couple of times
• Preheat the oven for 10 minute by keeping the temperature at 175 degree.
• Keep the cake tin inside the oven and bake for 30 min.
• Tasty banana cake is ready to serve

 

Cheers!!!

Minu