Today'sTip

Add fenugreek seeds to make the batter for dosas, which will yield a different aroma.

Today's Tip

Soak rice in warm water to make soft idlis.

Today's Tip

To make crispier wheat dosas, dry roast the wheat powder/mavu first and then add water to make dosas.

Today's Tip

When you fry ladiesfinger, sprinkle some curd to avoid the stickiness.

Today's Tip

Use gingelly oil when making vatral/vatha kuzhambu will intensify the flavour and aroma.

Capsicum Rice

Ingredients:

Capsicum - 1/2 kg chopped

Rice - 2 cups.

Oil - as required

Salt - as required

Onion - 1 chopped

Green chillies - 4

Turmeric powder - 1 tsp

Tomatoes - 3 chopped fine

Coriander leaves - 1/2 bunch

To grind to a fine paste:

Grated coconut - 1/2 cup

Garlic - 1/4 cup

Aniseeds(Sombhu) - 1 tsp

Cloves - 4

Cinnamon(Pattai) - 2 small pieces

Method:

Soak rice in water.

Remove the seeds from capsicum and cut it into small pieces.

Heat oil in a pressure cooker.

Add onions and green chillies and allow it to fry till golden brown.

Add the ground paste and allow it to fry till raw smell evaporates.

Add chopped tomatoes and allow it to fry.

Add coriander leaves

Add Capsicum and fry it for 1 min.

Add 4 cups of water, turmeric powder, salt and rice.

Pressure cook it for 2 whistles.

Cool it.

Serve with egg, onion raitha...






Today's Tip

Add tender coconut water instead of plain water to wheat flour in order to make delicious chapattis.

Today's Tip

To keep potatoes fresh for long days, keep an apple within it.

Today's Tip

To overcome the excess salt in the gravy( kuzhambhu) fry the rice in dry "kadai/pan", then powder it and add it to the gravy( kuzhambu). The excess salt will disappear.

Today's Tip

If you forget to soak legumes like Channa, Rajma or Green Peas the previous night, then dry roast them on a kadai/pan before pressure cooking them. This will make them cook faster and easier.

White Pumpkin Halwa

Ingredients:

White Pumpkin - 1 piece

Sugar - as required

Ghee - as required

Fry golden brown in 1 tbsp ghee:

Dry grapes - as required


Cashew nuts - as required

Method:

Peel off the skin from the pumpkin and also remove the seeds.

Grate the pumpkin.

Boil grated pumpkin in a kadai without removing excess water from the pumpkin for 5 minutes till the raw smell goes off.

Add sugar and stir till it melts.

Then add ghee, fried nuts and stir till ghee mixes well with the halwa.

Serve halwa with nuts.






Today' Tip

When preparing Onion bajji's, slice the Onions without peeling the skin first. Peeling the skin after slicing will help in retaining the round shape of the onions, without them getting separated.


Today's Tip

Soak Groundnuts, grind and add to grated coconut when making coconut burfi.
This imparts a distinguished flavour to the burfi.