Banana Flower Vadai

Ingredients:
Channa dal or yellow split peas -1cup
Cinnamon,clove -1or2pieces
Red chili - 3 no
Curry leaves,coriander leaves -few strands
Onion diced -1/2 cup
Salt to taste
Oil to fry
Banana flower (remove outer skin and take only the florets in side,from that florets also take out centre stem and small leaf like portion in the front of the flowers ,after removing all this chop the flowers and soak it in the water till u use it) -1cup(approximately one flower )

Method

• Soak Channa Dal half hour and strain the water.Grind with chili,cinnamon and clove with very little water into coarse batter.
  Now mix it with onion,chopped coriander and curry leaves,chopped banana flower(strain water and squeeze out water thoroughly and add to the mixture) and salt .
• once this is ready heat oil in a kadai make like patties and deep fry into golden brown colour.
• serve with any kind of dip.u can also serve it plain hot vada.

coconut rice

Ingredients

Cooked rice- 1cup

Grated coconut-1/2 cup

Mustard,uradal,channadal-1tsp

Red or green chili- 2n0

Cashew-5no

Curry leaves & coriander leaves- few strands

Hing-1pinch

Oil-1 1/2tsp

salt to taste

Method:

In a kadi add oil and add all other ingredients one by one (Mustard,Uraddal, Channadal,Chili,Curry leaves,Cashew, grated Coconut)

After frying for 2 to 3 min add rice and mix well with salt and 1pinch of hing.

Sprinkle coriander on top and serve .

Baghi

Ingredients:
Plaintain - 1
Besan flour - 1 cup
Rice Flour - 1 Tbsp
Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
Salt To Taste
Baking Soda - 1 pinch
Oil - As needed (for frying)
Asafetida - ¼ tsp

Method:

Peel the edges of the plantain and slice it to your desired Shape
　
Now mix all the ingredients together (except the oil ! ) with water to make batter.
　
Pour the oil into a pan or tava , and heat it. Once it is well heated, dip the plantain slices in the batter and fry them till they are golden.
　
Serve hot with Ketchup or Chutneys of choice.
Enjoy!

(Optional) Let me know if you liked it or not!

Rasa Malai

Ingredients:
Milk - 2 litres
Sugar - 2 cups
Water - 2.5 cups
Saffron - 1 pinch
Broken Pista & Badam - 1 tbs
Cardomom - 1/2 tsp
Vinegar - 2 tsp
All Purpose Flour - 1 tsp

Method:
Make paneer with one litre of milk using vinegar. Now strain the paneer, and mix it with the all purpose flour, and make small flat balls.
Now take another litre of milk and place it on the stove, add 1/2 cup of sugar and let it boil till it is reduced to 1/2 the quantity. At this stage turn of the stove and add cardamom and saffron, mix well.
Take a pressure pan and add 2.5 cups of water and rest of the sugar and mix well.
When it starts boiling add the paneer, and close the lid. Leave it for 2 whistles, and release the pressure and open the lid. Now remove the paneer and press it lightly, and add it to the milk.

Once it is soaked well, serve it chilled.

Jeera poori with spicy potato curry

For preparing jeera poori :

Take a cup of atta(whole wheat flour) add to it quarter spoon of whole jeera ,salt and one spoon of hot oil.

Mix all ingrediants above and make a dough and deep fry it to make hot puris.

For spicy potato curry:

Corriander seeds - 2tbs

Channa dal -1tsp

Urad dal -1/2tsp

Idli rice - 1tsp

Whole jeera -1/4tsp

Whole pepper -1/4tsp

Red chilies -6flakes

Saunf powder -1/2tsp

Boiled potato -2 medium size

Onion - 1 medium size

Tomato -1medium size

Salt to taste.

method:

First dry roast ingrediants ie [corinder,channa dal, urad dal, idli rice,whole jeera,whole pepper,red chilli] then grind , but not too smooth powder.

Take a kadai put 2 tbs of oil then add onions cut in long pieces, then add tomato let the oil come out, then add the ground masala, add some turmeric powder and the required amount of water allow it to boil till oil comes out.

Atlast add salt to taste then the boiled potato leave for one minute .

In another kadai put a table spoon of oil allow it to boil switch of the gas and then add the saunf powder and pour this into the curry which is ready to serve.

ENJOY THE GREAT COMBINATION!

Urad dal Sweet Idli

Ingredients:

Urad dal - 200gms

Jaggery - 100gms

Cardamom -2 or 3 pieces

Method:

Wash urad dal thoroughly and soak it for half an hour .

Smash jagerry and keep aside.

Drain urad dal and grind it without adding water,water in the dal itself is enough .

Grind it to the smooth paste and then add the jagerry to it and mix again.

Remove it from the grinder and then add cardamom powder .

Now take a idli bowl and pour the batter into it and bake it for 10 to 15 mins.

And its now ready to taste ,the yummy urad dal idli.

Crispy masala Bindi(okra)

Ingredients:

Bindi _ 1/4 kg

For stuffing:

coriander powder -1tbsp

jeera powder -1tsp

chat masala -1 1/2tsp

chili powder -1tsp

fried gram powder -2tsp

salt to taste

For batter:

corn flour - 3tbs

rice flour -1tbs

maida(allpurpose flour) -1tsp

method:

• Wash bindi's thoroughly, and select those are in medium size and not too long .
• Now slit bindi in long wise and cut the edge only on the up side,and check for the worms.
• And next step is to mix the ingredients given in stuffing.
• Fill the stuffing in the slit bindi's and keep for half an hour.
• Now mix the batter with salt and pepper ,with enough water and also little thinner.
• Keep oil in kadai,allow it to boil, then dip the stuffed bindis in the batter and deep fry those till golden brown.