Kitchen and Home Making

Join with us in EFM - Oats SERIES! Rush up to send in your entries. For more details about the event, click HERE! Ingredients: Paasi Payaru / Pachai Payaru/ Green Gram - 1 cup Bengal Gram / Kadalai Parupu - 4 tbsp Rice Flour - 4 tbsp Onion – 1 (finely chopped) Green Chilly – 2 (finely chopped) Curry Leaves – few Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Soak Green gram and Bengal gram in a bowl of water for an hour. After an hour drain the excess water and grind it little coarsely without adding water. Mix rice flour, chopped onions, chillies and curry leaves and enough salt to the grinded flour thoroughly. Divide the flour into equal number of small size of balls. Heat oil in a pan. Take a ball and flatten it with the palm of your hands. Slip the vada in oil and let it tocook in simmer flame itself. When one side is cooked, turn it to the other side and let it to cook well. Vada is ready to serve. You can provide this healthy snack with a cup of hot cof

Join with us in EFM - Oats SERIES! Rush up to send in your entries. For more details about the event, click HERE! Ingredients: Maida / All purpose flour - 4 cups Water - 1 cup Cooking Oil - 1 tbsp ( for kneading) Salt - 1 tsp Sugar - 1/2 tsp Cooking Oil - 1/2 cup ( to cook parota)   Cooking Instructions: Mix maida, sugar, salt, 1 tbsp oil and enough amount of water and make a smooth dough. Spread 1 tbsp of oil over the dough and cover the dough with a damp cloth and keep it aside for about 2 hours. After an interval of 2 hours, Take a small portion of dough in your hand and Keep the dough in between the index finger and thumb and press it. You will get a lemon size ball from the dough. Repeat the same process until you finish the dough. Again cover those balls with a damp cloth and leave it for one more hour. More the time we leave the dough undisturbed, more easy for us to roll out parotas and parotas will be soft too. Now take a lemon size dough, apply oil in you

Join with us in EFM - Oats SERIES! Rush up to send in your entries. For more details about the event, click HERE! Ingredients: Baby potatoes –1/4 kg Onion - 2 (finely chopped) Sambhar Powder - 1 1/2 tsp ( i used Aachi Brand) Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp Garlic - 5 pods (finely minced) Curry leaves –A sprig Water - 2 tbsp Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Salt - to taste Cooking Oil - 2 tbsp Cooking Instructions: Wash the potatoes and pressure cook it for 2-3 whistles. Once it is cooled down, peel off the skin and keep it aside. Let the potatoes be rightly cooked not too hard, not too soft. Add sambhar powder, turmeric powder aand salt to the potatoes and sprinkle a very little of water and mix it well so the masala coats evenly on all the potatoes. Let it marinate for at least half an hour.  Heat oil in a pan and saute it with mustard seeds and curry leaves. Now add onion and garlic to it and fry until onions become soft. Now add the potatoes to it and fry well. Sprinkle some