Ragi flour Oats Ladoo - 5 Ingredients Fix Challenge

This month Lakshmi Vimala gave sweet with 5 ingredients. I made these ladoos

Ingredients

Ragi flour - 1 1/4 cup

Oats - 1 cup

Ghee - 2 tsp for flour frying

Sugar powder - 2 tsp

Honey to make balls

Method

1. Dry roast the oats in a pan for 5 mins and transfer to a bowl.
2. Add ghee and roast the ragi flour in a pan until nice aroma comes.
3. Add oats to a mixi jar and make powder.
4. In a bowl add three flours and mix well. Add honey and mix well. Make balls.

Linking to:

"5 Ingredients Fix Challenge" by Lakshmi.

Bottle Gourd Cabbage Milk Curry / Sorakaya Cabbage Paala tho Koora

                                 
                                             

Ingredients

Bottle gourd/Sorakaya Pieces – 2 cups

Drumstick/Munakkada pieces – 10

Peas / Pachi batani – ½ cup
Tomato chopped – 1

Onion chopped – 1 big

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Green chillies chopped – 3

Red chilli powder – 2 tsp

Fresh coconut grated – 3 Tsp

Coriander powder – 1 tsp

Salt to taste

For tempering

Mustard seeds – 1 tsp

Cumin seeds – 1 tsp

Urad dal – 1 tsp

Green chilli chopped – 4

Curry leaves – 10

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Oil – 2 tsp

Method

1. Heat oil in a pressure cooker and temper it.
2. Add onion, chillies and fry until color change. Add ginger garlic paste and fry for 2 mins.
3. Add all vegetables pieces, and fry for 2 mins. Add tomato and saute for 2 mins.
4. Add chilli powder, salt, coriander powder, coconut, water (½ cup). Mix well.
5. Close it with lid. Allow the 3 whistles. After steam releases, serve with roti/rice.

Besan & Vermicelli Ladoo/ Senaga pindi & Semiya Ladoo - Shhhhh Cooking Secretly Challenge

This month I was paired with Sathya Priya Karthik. She gave me Besan and Vermicelli. These ladoos tastes really awesome.  Thank you so much for giving wonderful ingredients.  

Ingredients

Vermicelli / semiya - 1 cup

Besan / senaga pindi - 1 cup

Powder sugar - 1 to 1 1/2 cup

Ghee to make ladoo

Elachi powder - 1/2 tsp

Dry fruits

Method

1. Heat ghee in a pan, fry the until aromatic. Transfer it to a bowl.
2. Add vermicelli and fry until crisp. Transfer it to another bowl. Cool it.
3. Make the semiya as rough powder. Fry the dry fruits in a ghee.
4. Take a bowl, add roasted powders, sugar,  elachi powder, dry fruits and mix well.
5. Add ghee little by little and make ladoos. 

Carrot Egg Burji - Shhhhh Cooking Secretly Challenge

This month I was paired with Ramya. She gave me Onion and carrot. 

Ingredients

Grated carrot - 1 cup

Chopped onion – 1 medium

Green chilli slits - 4

Eggs – 3

Garam masala – 1 tsp

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Salt to taste

                

For tempering

Mustard seeds – 1 tsp

Cumin seeds – 1 tsp

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Curry leaves – 1 string

Method

1. Heat oil in a pan and temper it.
2. Add onion, saute for 3 mins. Add ginger garlic paste and mix for 2 mins.
3. Add green chilli, carrot and mix well. Close it with lid. Fry for 10 mins.
4. Add coriander powder, garam masala, salt and mix for 3 mins.
5. Now beat the eggs in a bowl. Add this mixture to the carrot pan and mix well. Fry until it separates.  
6. Serve it rots.

Kakarakaya Podi

Ingredients

Kakarakaya / Karela / Bitter Gourd – 6

Garlic – 2 whole

Red chilli powder – 3 Tsp

Dessicated coconut powder – ½ cup  

Curry leaves

(According to your taste)  

Salt to taste

Oil to fry

Method

1. Cut the Karela into round shape.
2. In a bowl add Karela pieces, Salt, Turmeric powder and mix well. Leave it for 1 hr.Squeeze the excess water.
3. Heat oil in a pan, deep fry the Karela pieces until it turns crispy on low flame. Strain the pieces.
4. Fry the curry leaves in oil.
5. In a mixi jar add garlic, chilli powder, curry leaves, salt and make slight coarse powder.
6. Now mix the coconut powder with ground coarse powder.
7. Heat 3 tsp oil in the pan, add ground mixture to it.
8. Keep stirring on low flame for 5 mins. Add fried Karela pieces and mix well.
9. Remove from flame and cool it completely.
10. Store it in an air tight container. 

Mango ice cream Milkshake

Ingredients

Mango pieces  - 1/2 cup

Milk chilled - 1 cup

Vanilla ice cream - 1 scoop
Mango jam - 1 tsp

Honey optional

Method

In a blender add milk, ice cream, mango, jam and blend for 30 seconds.

Serve in glasses.

Note:

If you want more sweet, add honey and blend it.

Other Mango recipes:

1) Mango Chocolate Drink
2) Mango Puree Fruit Salad

Marshmallow Candies

Ingredients

Marshmallow big size – 10
(If you are using small size, take 5 to 6 and roll it as small ball)

Butter – 2 tsp

Chocolate chips semi sweet – 1 cup

Gems / Sweet hearts for decoration

               

Method

1. In microwave safe bowl add butter and chocolate. Keep it for 40 sec to 1 min.
2. After that leave it for 30 sec. Dip each marshmallow into chocolate and press the gem/sweet heart. Prick this with lollipop stick or tooth pick.
3. Keep it in freezer for 30 minutes. 

Biyyam Vadiyalu / Sun dried Rice Fryums

Ingredients

Biyyam / Rice - 3 cups

Saggubiyyam / Sabudana - handful

Water - 12 cups

Salt to taste

Vaamu / Ajwain - 2 tbsp

Method

1. Soak rice and sabudana separately for overnight.
2. Next day drain the water in rice and make a batter with 2 cups of water . The consistency should be like dosa batter.
3. Add 10 cups of water to a bowl, put it on a stove.
4. Add drained sabudana and allow to cook. Sabudana should be transparent if it cooks properly. Add salt and mix well.
5. At this stage reduce the heat add rice batter and mix continuously to avoid lumps.
6. Mix well for 10 minutes. The batter becomes thick.
7. Place the star shaped plate with  murukku press. Fill the murukku press with thick batter.
8. Press on the plastic sheet. Leave some space in between. Place it under direct sunlight for 24 hrs. Flip it. Dry them under sun for 2-3 days or until they are completely dries.
9. Store them in an air tight container. They stay for one year.
10. Deep fry them in oil. Serve them with South Indian meal.

Note: Rice and water ratio should be 1:4.

Pala Puri / Milk Puri

Ingredients          

Puri – 6

Milk – ¼ liter

Sugar – 2 Tsp

For Paste 

Grated coconut – ½ cup

Roasted poppy seeds – 1 Tsp

Method

1. Make puris using wheat flour.  
2. Heat the milk in a pan, when its boiling add paste and mix it for 5 mins on low flame. 
3. Add sugar/honey and mix for 2 mins. Keep it aside. Let it cool. 
4. Now add the puri to milk leave it for 2 mins. 
5. Remove the puri and fold twice like handkerchief. 
6. Keep it on the plate and pour remaining milk over it. 

Linking to:
Gayathri's WTML event hosted by Sapana.

'ONLY' Summer Food & Drinks June 2014 - Event Roundup

I would like thanks to Pari for giving me the wonderful chance to host this event. Thank you friends for participating in the event. The winner is announced by Pari, which is sponsored by Tarla Dalal Office.

Roundup recipes.

Delectabla flavours entries:

            1)  Mango Juice                     

             

Mayuri's jikoni entries:

          2) Apple cinnamon ice cream     


           


          3) Roasted eggplant dip

            

            4) Vanilla chia pannacotta             

                


                5) Water mousse                       

               


Taleoftwotomatoes entries:


              6) Pineapple smoothie


                  



                    7)  Sharjah drink           

                   


Prachisvegkitchen entries:

               8) Watermelon cooler                   

                   
           

                   9) Mango banana smoothie

                     



                  10) Glucamole salad

                       

                   
                11) Thandai mousse

                      


              12) Baked Mathri

                      


 Shobha Keshwani entries

               13) Persimmon lassi

                             


            14) Mango crepes with coconut sauce

                  


            15) Moong sprout salad

                    



Lav art craft food

               16) Dahi vada

                  


Seduce your tastebuds entries:

               17)    Bajra Curd rice

                   

               18) Rose milk popsicle

                      

                  19) Jal jeera


             

Savorindian entries:

               20) Watermelon cooler

                       



Realhomecookedfood entries:


                21) Strawberries and cream frappucaino

                            


                 22) Chocolate espresso smoothie

                       

               
                  23) Mango cheesecake parfait

                           

                 
                    24) Banana split milk shake
   
                           


                   25) Badam pista kesar kulfi

                      

              26) Chickoo kulfi

                   

              27) Mango pineapple coolatta

                      


Cookingwithsj

               28) Carrot orange juice

                      


               29) Beetroot Lemonade

                 


Smithakalluraya entries:

            30) Mango rasayana

                   

   
              31) Mouth refresher

                    


Hamareerasoi entries

             32) Honeydew melon juice

                



Sweettoothraf entries:

             33) Mango trifle

                     


Cookinggoodfood entires entries:

              34) Mango and dark chocolate trifle

                           



Cookininpajamas entries:

               35)  Quick raw mango pickle

                      


Mystylerecipes entries:

               36) Pudding with berries