Airfried Nachos

Airfried Nachos 

Airfried Nachos made with leftover rotis / flat bread. A non-fried/ healthy and tasty snacks for tea break.

Ingredients:

Leftover flat bread/ rotis- 3-4  numbers 

Method:

# Cut the rotis.

# Arrange them in Airfrier. 

#Airfry @200'c for 10-15 minutes.

# In-between check and shake well.

Nachos are ready to serve.

Serve with cheese sauce or Salsa and enjoy.

Pl.do try and provide your comments.

Corn Pulao

Corn Pulao 

Corn Pulao is a delicious, mild flavoured, less spicy Pulao which is very easy to make at home. You can use sweet corn / Desi corn to prepare this dish. Today I used normal raw rice, you may try with basmati rice which gives nice taste and aroma to this Pulao.

Ingredients:

Sweet Corn - 1/2 cup

Capsicum- 1/4 cup

Raw rice- 1 cup

Clove - 2 nos

Cinamon- 1 inch

Star Anise- 1 no

Cardamon- 2 nos

Raisins- 4-5nos

Oil / ghee - 1.5 tablespoons 

Jeera / cumin - 1 tsp

Onion - 1 finely chopped 

Green chilli  - 2 nos

Salt to taste 

Method:

# Wash  rice and soak for 10 minutes.

# In a pressure cooker  add oil / ghee, add all the whole spices, cumin/ jeera and saute well.

# Add the chopped onions, green chilli's, corn, capsicum and saute well.

# Add salt, washed rice, 2 cups of water and cook the Pulao for 2 whisles.

# Allow the pressure to release.

Corn Pulao is ready to serve.

Strawberry Oats Smoothie

Strawberry Oats Smoothie 

Good morning 

Healthy, delicious, creamy, smooth Strawberry Oats Smoothie to kick start your day. You just need few ingredients to make this yummy creamy Smoothie.

Ingredients:

Roasted Oats- 2 tablespoons 

Fresh Strawberries- 10-12 nos

Milk - 1cup

Sugar - 1.5 tablespoons 

Method:

# In a mixer jar add Roasted Oats, Strawberries, sugar and blend well. 

# Add milk and blend once again.

Smoothie is ready to serve. Garnish with chopped Strawberries and Roasted Oats.

Pl. do try and provide your comments.

Thank you!

Okkarai (Diwali Special)

Okkarai/ Ukkarai 

Ukkarai is a traditional South Indian dessert prepared for Deepawalli. A gluten-free, tasty and delicious dessert for Deepawalli celebration.

Ingredients 

Channa dal - 1/2 cup

Toor dal - 1/2 cup

Jaggery- 3/4 cup

Ghee- 2 tablespoons 

Cardamom powder- 1 tsp

Cashews- few.

Method 

# Dry roast both the dal until it turns golden in colour.

# soak for 1hr.

# Remove water...grind the soaked dall coarsely.

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# Steam the the batter  for 15-20 minutes.

# Allow it to cool down. Pulse it in mixie/ crumble well.

# Add 1/4 cup water and dissolve Jaggery. Filter the Jaggery to remove impurities.

# Make a thick syrup / consistency of the Jaggery  should  hold a ball shape once dropped in plain water. 

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# Add the dall crumble to the thick Jaggery syrup and mix well.

# Fry cashews in ghee. Mix with  okkarai.

#Add Cardamom powder and mix well.

Do try this recipe and provide your comments.

Thank you!

Nimki (Airfried)

Nimki is a snacks which is made with wheat flour, salt, ghee/ butter, kalonji/ black onion seeds. All the Ingredients are mixed with  little water to form a dough. Rolled to a flat bread and cut into desired shape and airfried.

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat flour - 1 cup

Butter / ghee - 2 tsp

Kalonji/ black onion seeds - 1/4 tsp

Oil - 1 tablespoon

Water- to knead 

Salt to taste

Method:

# Mix Whole Wheat flour, salt, kalonji, ghee.

# Sprinkle little water to knead a stiff dough.

# Divide the dough to Marble size balls.

# Roll the dough to a flat bread / Chappati with 1/2 inch thickness.

# Cut in desired shape.

# Place the nimkis in airfrier and fry at 180'c for 12 minutes. In between brush some oil.

Once nimkis are fried allow it to cool, store in an airtight container.

Pannivaragu Kara Pongal/ Proso Millet Pongal

Pannivaragu Kara Pongal/ Millet Pongal 

Good morning!

Navaratri is all around the corner...so thought of sharing a millet Kara Pongal with Pannivaragu/ Proso Millet / Barri.

Kara Pongal is a savoury version of sweet Pongal. The same recipe can be made with normal raw rice which I've shared last year.

Ingredients:

Proso Millet- 1 cup

Moong dal- 1/4 cup

Ghee - 1.5 tablespoons 

Pepper- 1 tsp

Cumin/ jeera - 1.5 tsp

Salt to taste 

Cashews- few

Asafoetida/ hing - 1/4 tsp

Curry leaves few

Method:

# Wash and soak Pannivaragu for 1/2 hr.

# Discard the soaked water from millet.

# Wash moong dal, mix moong dal and millet add 1.5 cups of water and pressure cook for 3 whisles.

# Dry roast pepper and cumin. Make a coarse powder.

# Once pressure is released,  mash Pongal well.

# Add Asafoetida and salt.

# Heat a kadai add ghee. Fry cashews, pepper and cumin powder, curry leaves and pour into the Pongal. Mix well and serve.

Panchamrit Cake

Panchamrit Cake 

Panchamrit is offered as a Prasad during Festivals. It is made with 5 basic things... milk, curd, ghee, honey and mashed bananas. Now a days we add Jaggery, dates, raisins, nuts etc. 

To make Panchamrit we use unboiled milk, curd, honey, mashed bananas, ghee,  jaggery powder, raisins and mix well. 

A tea-time cake which is super soft, delicious, mild in sweet...a perfect companion for 

 tea/ coffee.

Ingredients:

Panchamrit- 3/4 th cup

Whole Wheat flour- 150 gms/ 1.25 cups approx

Baking powder- 1 tsp

Baking soda- 1/4 tsp

Melted butter - 3 tablespoons 

Milk - 1/4 cup

Honey - 2 tablespoons 

Warm water - 3 tablespoons if needed 

Method:

# Sieve whole wheat flour, baking powder and baking soda for 4-5 times.

# Grease the baking tin with butter  / oil. Baking tin size 6 inches.

# Preheat oven @170'c.

# Mix Panchamrit, melted butter, honey together.

# Mix sieved flour with  Panchamrit. Use cut and fold method.

# The batter should be thick dropping consistency. Add milk and mix well. If the batter is too dry add warm water...which is just optional. 

# Pour the batter to  greased tin. Tap well.

# Bake @ same temperature for 30 minutes/ until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

# After ten minutes of baking demold on wire rack. 

# Once cake comes to  room temperature cut into pieces and serve.

Please do try and provide your comments. If you try and like this cake.