Banana Kaju katli Smoothie

Banana Kaju katli Smoothie 

Kaju katli is a thin fudge dessert made with cashews and sugar...which is very popular during Festivals specially Diwali, Navaratri, etc. 

Ingredients :

Kaju katli- 7-8 pieces

Bananas - 3 medium size 

Milk - 1 cup

Water - 1/2 cup

Method:

# Soak kaju katli in warm milk for 1 hr.

# In a blender add milk, soaked kaju katli, bananas and water and blend well.

# Pour the Smoothie in glasses and serve.

Foxtail millet/ Thinnai Urundai/ Ladoo

Thinnai Urundai/ Foxtail millet Ladoo 

A healthy, delicious easy ladoo recipe with Foxtail millet. Festivals are all around the corner...try this easy and healthy ladoo recipe with few Ingredients.

Ingredients:

Foxtail millet- 150 gms

Powdered sugar- 100gms

Cardamon powder- 1 tsp

Melted butter/ Ghee - 3 tablespoons 

Few cashews.

Method:

# Wash and rinse Foxtail millet and soak for 3-4 hrs.

# Rinse the water and dry roast well until you get a nice aroma.

Dry roast on medium flame.

Let it cool down completely.

# Make a fine powder of Foxtail millet.

# Mix powdered sugar and Foxtail millet flour together.

# Heat a pan add ghee... fry cashews. Mix fried cashews with powdered sugar Foxtail millet flour.

# Mix well. It will be  very hot...leave it for 2 minutes and start  making Ladoos.

Store them in an airtight container.

Foxtail millet ladoo is ready to serve.

Kuthiraivalli/ Barnyard Millet Dates Smoothie

Kuthiraivalli/ Barnyard Millet Dates Smoothie 

Kuthiraivalli / Barnyard Millet Dates Smoothie is a healthy, delicious, easy and also a perfect recipe served during fasting days.

Ingredients:

Kuthiraivalli/ Barnyard Millet- 3 tablespoons 

Milk - 1/2 cup

Seedless Dates - 10 nos

Banana- 1 no

Water - 1/2 cup

Fresh fruits 

Method:

# wash and soak Barnyard Millet for 3-4 hrs.

# Cook the Barnyard Millet well.

# In a mixer jar add cooked millet, dates, Banana and grind until smooth.

# Add milk mix well...serve with fresh fruits.

Panchamrit/ Panchamritam

Panchamrit/ Panchamritam

Good morning!

Panchamrit/ Panchamritam is offered as a neivedhayam. Panchamrit literally means 5 foods in Sanskrit. The five foods such as, cow milk, ghee, curd, jaggery / honey with bananas, dry fruits, raisins etc. You may also add chopped dates and some edible camphor. It takes hardly 5 minutes to prepare this recipe.

It's a concoction of these ingredients mixed to form a Panchamrit.

Ingredients:

Cow milk - 1/4 cup

Ghee - 1 tablespoon 

Curd - 1 tablespoon 

Bananas- 6 nos (medium size)

Honey- 2 tablespoons

Jaggery - 1/4 cup

Dry fruits - 1/2 cup 

(A mix of cashews, almonds, raisins, pistachio)

Crushed cardamon- few

Method:

# Mash bananas, chopped dry fruits, cow milk, ghee, curd, honey, jaggery, crushed cardamon.

# Mix everything well.

Panchamrit is ready for neivedhayam.

Do try this easy, simple and provide your comments.

Thank you.

Barley whole wheat Roti

Barley whole wheat Roti 

Good morning!

A delicious healthy easy to prepare this Barley whole wheat flour rotis.

Ingredients:

Barley flour- 1/2 cup

Whole Wheat flour- 1/2 cup

Salt - 1/2 tsp

Water to knead 

Method:

# Mix barley,  whole wheat flour, salt, sprinkle water and knead a soft dough. Rest the dough for 10-15 minutes.

# Make marble size balls.

# Dust some whole wheat flour and with the help of rolling pin start rolling to make this roti.

# Heat a tawa...put the rolled roti and cook for 40 seconds.

# Flip the roti cook on other side for 30 seconds.

# With a slight wet cloth press on the corner so that it puffs well....or can directly put in the burner.

# Can smear some ghee / butter and serve hot with some spicy sabji.

Cabbage Thoran

Cabbage Thoran 

Good morning 

Cabbage Thoran is one of the item served during  Onam Sadhya. A vegan, healthy side dish...which can be served with sambar, rasam, parrupu or even with chappati.

This is slightly different from porrial as the coconut, cumin, green chilli's are grinded and mixed with Cabbage.

Ingredients:

Cabbage- 250 gms

Coconut oil - 1 tsp

Cumin-1 tsp

Green chilli- 2  nos

Grated coconut- 1/2 cup

Mustard- 1 tsp

Turmeric powder- 1 pinch

Salt to taste

Curry leaves  for garnish 

Method:

# Finely chop cabbage, and wash well.

# Heat a pan, add oil...add mustard, let it crackle well. Add cabbage, turmeric powder, salt and sprinkle water and cook on medium flame.

# Grind grated coconut, cumin, green chilli without adding water.

# Add the grounded coconut to the cooked cabbage.

# Mix well  with curry leaves.

Cabbage Thoran is ready to serve.

Millet Adai

Millet Adai (kodo + Proso Millet)

Good morning 

A healthy breakfast/ tiffin recipe made with millets. As this year is considered as the International Millet year...I'm sharing some of the easy and healthy Millet recipes.

Adai is a mix of lentils,  which are soaked for couple of hours. Traditionally Raw rice is also soaked separately and grinded with green chilli, ginger, and fermented for 4-5 hrs spread like a Dosa. Today I'm sharing a millet Adai recipe. 

I've served Adai with  vellam / jaggery.

Ingredients:

Proso Millet - 1/2 cup

Kodo millet- 1/2 cup

Toor dal - 1/4 cup

Channa dal- 1/4 cup

Urud dal- 1/4 cup

Green chilli- 1 no

Red chilli- 2 nos

Ginger- 1 ich

Oil- as required 

Curry and Coriander leaves 

Asafoetida- 1/2 tsp

Salt as per taste.

Method:

# Wash millets well and soak for 6-8 hrs.

# Wash lentils well and soak together for just 2 hrs.

# Drain the water from lentils, add green chilli's, dry red chilli's, chopped ginger, asafoetida, salt and sprinkle little water and grind it coarsely.

# Pour the grinded lentils in a vessel....drain the water from millets and grind as the same way like lentils.

# Mix both together...add chopped curry and coriander leaves.

# Let the batter ferment for 4-5 hrs.

#Heat a tawa...drizzle oil, take a ladle of adai batter and spread slightly thicker than Dosa. Make hole in the center, drizzle oil allow it to cook on a medium flame for 30-40 seconds/ until the sides are cooked well.

# The above picture is taken before I drizzled the oil.

# Once cooked slowly turn the Adai.

# Drizzle some oil and cook for 30-40 seconds. 

Millet Adai is ready to serve. You may serve with jaggery powder, gun powder, ghee, sambar, chutney etc.

Please do try and provide your comments.

Thank you!

Podalangai Poriyal

Podalangai Poriyal 

Podalangai Poriyal is a delicious, healthy, side dish...which is very popular in Tamilnadu (One of the South Indian State from India).

Poriyal is a dry curry which is served with steamed rice, Sambar/ Rasam...this also goes well with chapati/ roti.

Ingredients:

Snake gourd- 250 gms

Grated coconut- 3 tablespoons

Oil - 1tsp

Mustard- 1/2 tsp

Urud dhall- 1/4 tsp

Turmeric powder- 1 pinch

Salt - as per taste 

Few curry leaves 

Method:

# Wash and chop finely the snake gourd.

# Heat a pan add oil, add mustard seeds let it crackle well...add urud dhall. Let the urud dhall change its colour, add Snake gourd, turmeric powder, salt and 1/4 cup water and cook on a medium flame.

# It takes 10-12 minutes to cook. Check once it cooks well, add grated coconut, curry leaves and mix well.

Snake gourd curry is ready.

Pl.do try and provide your comments.

Thank you!

Ragi Mudde

Ragi Mudde 

Ragi/ Fingermillet Mudde is a delicious, healthy and also a Staple food of Karnataka. Ragi is rich in fiber, iron, and also a diabetic friendly....If you are on weight loss, this is a good alternative to rice.

Ingredients 

Ragi flour- 1 cup

Water - 2 cups

Salt - 1 pinch

Ghee/ oil - 2 tsp

Method:

# Boil water add a pinch of salt, 1/2 tsp of oil/ ghee and just 1tsp of ragi flour.

# Once the water boils well Add the ragi flour and reduce the flame for 15 minutes. Do not stir.

# Remove from flame and stir with a wooden stick/ I use non stick wooden spoon to stir well. 

# Close the container for 10-15 minutes.

# Keep water in a vessel. 

# Smear oil/ Ghee in a plate...dip the spoon in water and take a portion of cooked ragi flour, put it in the plate, whichis smeared with oil...wet your hands and start making ragi mudde. 

# If the consistency is correct...it will not stick to your hands.

# Serve with upsaru/ Sambar, chutney.

Whole Wheat Beetroot Bread

Whole Wheat Beetroot Bread 

Whole Wheat Beetroot Bread is a super delicious, soft, healthy bread recipe made with minimum spices such as chilli powder, salt, dry fenugreek leaves/ kasuri Methi.

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat flour- 250 gms

Beetroot puree - 1 cup

Active dry yeast- 1.5 tsp

Milk -1/4 cup / 30 ml

Jaggery powder- 1 tsp

Salt - 1 tsp

Chilli powder- 1/2 tsp

Coriander leaves- 1/4 cup

Dry fenugreek leaves/ Kasturi Methi- 1tsp

Water - 3/4 cup / as per  required 

Oil - 2 tablespoons 

Method:

# Mix all the Ingredients.

# Mix everything except water. Sprinkle water and knead the dough. Add 1 tsp of oil and knead. Stretch and fold the dough...which is very important. It takes 20-25 Minutes to knead the Bread dough. Apply oil and cover the dough for 1/2 hr / until it doubles in size.

# After the dough proofs well punch down to remove the excess air and knead for 2-3 Minutes. Add 1tsp of oil and knead well.

# Grease the baking tin with oil / butter.

(Baking tin size 7×4)

# Give a log shape to the dough and place it in the tin.

#Cover well. Let it proof for 20-25 Minutes/ until the dough reaches the top.

# Preheat oven at 190'c for 10 Minutes.

# Milk wash the Bread and bake at same temperature for 30 Minutes.

# Once baked apply butter and cover with a cloth. After 10 Minutes loosen the sides of the baking tin and unmold. Let it cool down completely.

slice your bread and enjoy.

Please do try and provide your comments.

Thank you!