Saturday, October 31, 2009

Banana Flower Chutney / Bale Hu Chutney / Pume chutney

Ingredients

1. Banana flower – 4 florets

2. Grated Coconut – ½ cup

3. Tamarind paste – ½ tsp

4. Salt – as required

5. Ghee/Oil – 1 tsp

6. Mustard seeds – ½ tsp

7. Curry leaves – 3-4

8. Buttermilk – 1 cup

9. Red chilly or green chilly – 2

 

Method

  1. Cut banana florets into small pieces and put them in buttermilk for 5 minutes
  2. Grind them with coconut, salt, red/green chillies, tamarind paste and little water to a smooth paste
  3. Put this paste in a vessel. Garnish with fried mustard seeds and curry leaves
  4. This tastes good with Dosa, idly and rice

Banana Flower Chutney,Bale Hu Chutney, Pume chutney

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Banana Buns / Banana Sweet Puri / Mangalore Buns

Ingredients

  1. Banana – 2 to 3 medium size (ripe)
  2. Wheat flour or all purpose flour – 1½ cup
  3. Sugar – 2-3 tsp
  4. Salt – 1 tsp(as required)
  5. Oil to fry

Method

  1. Grind banana with sugar and salt to a smooth paste without water
  2. Mix wheat or all purpose flour to this paste and knead to a thick dough(similar to chapatti/puri)
  3. Keep this dough for 6-7 hours

If you want to prepare it quickly, you can add a pinch of baking soda while making the dough. So you have to just keep the dough for about half an hour

  1. Make small balls and roll them to puri size
  2. Heat oil and fry them till they turn golden brown
  3. Serve them with chutney/saagu/kurma
Banana Buns
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Friday, October 30, 2009

Coconut Burfi

Ingredients

  1. Shredded Coconut – 3 cups
  2. Sugar – 1 cup
  3. Ghee – ½ cup
  4. Cardamom – ½ tsp
  5. Water – 1 1/2 cup

Method

  1. Fry shredded coconut in a pan till it starts changing colour to golden brown
  2. Take sugar in a separate pan , add water and heat in a low flame
  3. Keep stirring the sugar syrup till it becomes sticky
  4. Now add fried coconut to the sugar syrup, add ghee, mix well and heat till it starts separating from bottom of the pan
  5. Add cardamom and mix
  6. Spread this mix evenly over a greased plate. Keep it for cooling
  7. Cut this into required square or diamond shapes
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Kodubale / Crunchy Rings

Ingredients

  1. Rice flour – 2 cups
  2. Maida flour (all-purpose flour) – 1 cup
  3. Onion – 2 sliced
  4. Red Chilly – 4 to 5
  5. Hing / Asafoetida - ½ tsp
  6. Curry leaves – 7 to 8
  7. Butter – ½ cup
  8. Oil
  9. Salt – as required

Method

1. Grind sliced onion, red chillies, hing and curry leaves to a dry mix

2. Mix rice flour and maida, fry in a pan without oil for about 2 min

3. Add the ground paste to the flour. Add salt

4. Add butter and little water to this mix and knead to a thick dough(similar to chapati)

5. Make small balls from this dough, roll them using palms and join both the ends making a ring

6. Heat oil in a pan, drop these rings in boiling oil and fry till they become golden brown

7. You can store this for about a week

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Banana Rasayana / Balehannu rasayan / Rasayana

Ingredients

  1. Banana – 2 to 3 medium size
  2. Coconut milk – ½ cup
  3. Milk – ½ cup
  4. Til / Gingelly – 1 tsp
  5. Jaggery – ½ cup

Method

  1. Cut banana into small pieces
  2. Mix jaggery, coconut milk and milk. Stir till jaggery completely dissolves
  3. Add banana pieces and til/gingelly to this
  4. Serve cold. This can be served as desert. Few like this with Neer Dosa instead of eating dosa with Chutney
  5. We can even use mango instead of banana here
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Nellikai Tambli / Gooseberry buttermilk soup

Ingredients:

  1. Nellikai [Gooseberry] - 10 medium size
  2. Shredded Coconut – 1 cup
  3. Buttermilk – 1 cup
  4. Green chilly – 2
  5. Salt – as required
  6. Ghee/Oil – 1 tsp
  7. Mustard seed – ½ tsp
  8. Red chilly – 1
  9. Curry leaves – 3 to 4
  10. Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp

Method:

  1. Cook Gooseberry/Nellikai to tender. Remove the seeds
  2. Grind Gooseberry, green chilly, coconut and cumin seeds to smooth paste
  3. Add buttermilk and salt to the paste
  4. Heat ghee/oil in a pan. Add mustard. When mustard starts to splutter, add curry leaves and red chilly
  5. Garnish this over the paste
  6. This tastes good with rice
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Menaskai – Sweet and Spicy gravy

Ingredients

  1. Chopped vegetables – 1 cups ( bitter gourd or raw mango or pineapple)
  2. Shredded coconut – 1 cup
  3. Red Chillies – 3 to 4
  4. Til / Gingelly – 1 tsp
  5. Tamarind paste – 1 tsp
  6. Salt – 1 tsp
  7. Curry leaves – 5 to 6
  8. Mustard seeds – ½ tsp
  9. Ghee/oil – 2 tsp
  10. Jaggery – 1/3 cup

Method

  1. Cook chopped vegetables with jaggery, tamarind paste and salt till it becomes tender
  2. Fry gingelly(til) and red chillies with 1 tsp of oil for about a minute
  3. Add this fried mix to shredded coconut and grind to smooth paste with little water
  4. Add this paste to the cooked vegetables and mix
  5. Garnish with fried mustard and curry leaves
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Majjige Huli

Ingredients

  1. Chopped vegetables – 2 cups
  2. Grated coconut – 1 cup
  3. Green Chillies – 3 to 4
  4. Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp
  5. Buttermilk/Yogurt – 1 cup
  6. Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
  7. Curry leaves – 5 to 6
  8. Red chillies – 2 to 3
  9. Salt – as required
  10. Ghee/oil – 1 tsp

Method

  1. Cook chopped vegetables to tender
  2. Grind grated coconut, cumin seeds and green chillies with little water
  3. Add this paste and salt to cooked vegetables. Boil for 5 min
  4. Remove the vessel from the stove. Add buttermilk/yogurt and mix well
  5. Garnish with fried mustard seeds,curry leaves and red chillies

Majjige Huli , Melara

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    Wednesday, October 21, 2009

    Easy Neer Dosa Recipe - How to prepare delicious Neer Dosa?

    Ingredients

    1. Rice - 2 cups

    2. Salt – as required

    3. Ghee/oil

    Method

    1. Soak rice in water for 3-4 hours

    2. Grind it to a fine paste

    3. Add water to make it a very thin batter.

    4. Add salt

    5. Heat the pan, splash the batter over the pan. Make sure you spread the batter thin and evenly on the pan. As the batter starts to cook, the pours will start to bobble out.

    6. You can spread ghee/oil over the spread

    7. Remove dosa when the edges start to separate from the pan

    8. You can eat with chutney or rasayana (recipe is under 'sweets')

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    Kharjura Payasa(Dates Kheer)

    Ingredients

    1. Kharjura/Dates – 7 to 8
    2. Jaggery– 3 tablespoons
    3. Milk – 1 cup
    4. Cashew, almond, cardamom – as required
    5. Ghee to fry

    Method

    1. Remove the seeds and cook dates in little water till they become soft
    2. Grind them to smooth paste
    3. Empty the paste into the pan. Add milk and jaggery to the paste. Heat in a medium flame
    4. If the mixture is too thick, add milk and boil for some more time
    5. Add cardamom, fried cashews and almonds. Raisins are not needed
    6. Serve either hot or cold

    Kharjura payasa/ dates kheer

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    Sabbakki Payasa/ Sabudana Payasa (aka Kheer)

    Ingredients

    1. Sabbakki or Sabudana (pearl tapioca or sago rice) – 1 cup
    2. Sugar – 1 cup
    3. Milk – 3 cups
    4. Raisin, Cashew, almond, cardamom – as required
    5. Ghee

    Method:

    1. Soak Sabudana in water for about 30 mins.
    2. Once they soaked, cook them till they become transparent. It usually takes about 15 mins.
    3. Add milk and sugar. Again Heat on a low flame for few more mins.
    4. Keep stirring since the cooked Sabbakki has the tendency to burn and might get stuck to the pan.
    5. As you cook Sabbakki, its consistency becomes thicker. So, if you feel, you could add a little bit of milk as required.
    6. To garnish, roast few cashews, almonds in ghee (clarified butter) and add to Payasa. Also add raisins and cardamoms.
    7. That's it! you’re done. Serve cold or hot.
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