Friday, June 4, 2010

Aratikaya(Raw Banana) Fry

Ingredients:
 Raw banana:2
Shredded coconut
Onoin:1
Mustard seeds
Jeera
Crushed Ginger
Garlic
green chillies

Procedure:
  1. First cut each banana into 3 pieces and boil them.
  2. Heat oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds,jeera,garlic.
  3. Then add ginger and green chillies paste and fry for a min.
  4. Now add onoins and fry them.
  5. Add boiled banana pieces and fry then on low flame.
  6. Add shredded coconut,salt and fry for 10mins.
  7. Serve hot with rice.

Beans Fry

Ingredients:
Beans:250gms
Carrot:3 small
Mustard seeds
Urad dal
Jeera
Garlic
Dry red chillies
Curry leaves

Procedure:
  1. First cut the beans and boil them in a pressurecooker.
  2. Heat oil in a kadai add dry red chillies,jeera.mustard seeds,uraddal and curry leaves.
  3. Add carrot and fry till raw smell goesoff.
  4. Then add boiled beans ,salt,chilli powder and fry for 10-15 mins.
  5. Serve hot with rice.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Vegetable fried rice

Ingredients:
Capsicum-1big
Carrot-2
Spring onions
Garlic
Green chillies-4
Shredded cabbage
Soy sauce
White veniger
Egg-1(optional)
Biryani rice
water

Procedure:
  1. Heat oil in a kadai and add cut garlic and green chillies.
  2. Now add carrot pieces and fry for a minute.
  3. Add capsicum and shredded cabbage and fry for 5 mins.
  4. Now add egg and scramble it.
  5. Add soy sauce and veniger.
  6. Add rice and stir for 2 mins.
  7. Now pour water and let the rice cook completely.
  8. Finally garnish it with spring onions and serve hot.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Basic sponge cake

Ingredients:
All purpose flour(Maida):1cup
Powdered sugar:1cup
Baking powder:1tbsp
Butter:1/2 cup
Vanilla eseense:1tsp
Eggs:2

Procedure:
  1. First beat eggs in a seperate bowl for 2mins.
  2. Sieve maida and baking powder in a bowl.
  3. In a bowl beat butter, sugar,vanilla essense.
  4. Now add the eggs mixture into this and keep beating.
  5. Add maida and baking powder mixture to the above content and continue beating for 15-20mins.
  6. Apply Butter to a 8*8 cake pan and pour the mixture into this.
  7. Preheat oven to 350 and bake cake at same temperature for 25-30mins or till completely baked.

Sorakaya kura(Bottleguard curry)

Ingredients:
Sorakaya:1 big
onoins
Ginger-garlic paste
Chilli powder
Curry powder
Mustard seeds
Jeera
Chana dal
Coriander leaves
Milk

Procedure:
  1. Cut vegetables and onoins into small pieces and put them aside.
  2. Heat oil in a kadai ,add mustard seeds,jeera.chana dal.
  3. Add onoins and fry them.
  4. Add ginger-garlic paste and fry on a lowflame till raw smell goesoff completely.
  5. Now add curry powder and cut vegetable pieces and fry for 5mins with lid on.
  6. Now pour some water and let it cook for sometime.
  7. Once all the water evaporates completely add little milk and coriander leaves and stir for 2mins.
  8. Serve hot with rice or roti.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Tomato rasam

Ingredients:
Tomatoes:4-5
onion:small
Green chillies
Ginger-garlic paste
Mustard seeds
Coriander powder
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves
Asfoedita
Jeera
Salt

Procedure:
  1. Heat oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds,jeera,curryleaves.
  2. Now add onoins and green chillies.
  3. Add tomaotes and fry till raw smell goes off completely.
  4. Add ginger-garlic paste,corinader powder,asfoedita.
  5. Add 2 cups of water and salt and let it boil for 15mins on high flame.
  6. Finally add chopped coriander leaves and serve it hot with rice.

Tofu Tomato curry

Ingredients:
Tofu(Extra firm)
Diced Tomatoes(canned Italian style)
Onions
Green chillies
coriander leaves
salt

Procedure:
  1. Heat oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds,jeera,chanadal,greenchillies.
  2. Add onoins and fry till goldenbrown.
  3. Now add diced tomatoes and fry for 5mins with lid on.
  4. Now addsalt and water for gravy and mix it well.
  5. Add tofu just 10mins before as it is very soft.
  6. Finally add coriander leaves and serve with roti's.