Okra Garlic Fry(Bendakaya vepudu)

ingredients:
Okra(Benda kayalu) chopped 2cups
Onion chopped 1
Curry leaves 10
Salt to taste
Turmeric powder 1/4tsp
Red chilli powder 1tsp
Garlic powder 1tsp
Oil 2tsp
Popu:
Cumin seeds 1/2tsp
Mustard seeds 1/2tsp
Urad dal 1/2tsp
Channa dal 1/2tsp

Preparation:
1. Heat oil in a pan, fry one by one popu items.
2. Add Onion, curry leaves fry for 1minute, add chopped OKRA mix well keep the flame on medium fry for 2minutes.
3. Add salt, turmeric powder mix well, close with lid cook for 5 minutes.
4. Remove lid, add Chilli powder, garlic powder mix well, fry okra till it becomes soft and well cooked, remove from stove.

Serve hot.... with rice, combination of any dal, sambar, rasam...

Mixed Dal Dosa

ingredients:
Rice 1 1/2cup
Mixed dals  2cups
                        (Mixed dals----------Urad dal, Green gram dal, Soy, Rajma, Toor dal, Bengal gram dal)
Fenugreek seeds 1tsp
Onion small Chopped 1
Green chilli 3
Ginger 1/2"
Cumin seeds 1/2tsp
Salt to taste
Oil

Preparation:
1. Soak Rice, mixed dal, fenugreek seeds for 4-5 hrs, Grind soaked ingredients, onion, green chilli, ginger, cumin seeds, salt together as a dosa batter by using water.
2. Fermentation is not required, wait for 1/2-1hr and prepare dosa.
3. Heat dosa pan, pour one ladle of batter and spread it as thin dosa, pour little oil on top and sides of dosa, roast it till golden brown color, and flip carefully and roast other side, remove from the pan.
4. Serve hot with peanut chutney or ginger chutney or coconut chutney...

note: you can use Red chilli instead of green chilli
Add Curry leaves for additional flavor.

Rava Laddu(Sooji Laddu)

ingredients:
 Sooji rava 1cup
 Grated coconut 1/2cup
 Sugar 3/4cup
 Milk 1/3 cup(adjust)
 Cardamom powder 1/2tsp
 Cashew nuts chopped 2tsp
 Raisins 3tsp
 Almonds chopped 1tsp
 Ghee 2tsp

Preparation:
1. Heat 2tsp ghee in a pan, fry cashew, almond and raisins on medium flame.
2. Add grated coconut fry for 1minute, add sooji rava keep the stove on low flame and fry till the mixture turns into slightly brown color or till you get nice aroma.
3. Add Sugar mix well fry for 1-2 minutes on very low flame and switch off the stove.
4. Add milk slowly, stir well while mixing milk, finally add cardamom powder mix well, transfer it to a plate.
5. Wait for 2-3 minutes... once the mixture becomes warm, take some portion of mixture into your hand make small lemon size ball by using your hand, do the same for remaining mixture.
 Sooji laddu is ready to eat..
Let dry these laddu's for some time and store...

Note:
The laddu mixture is dry then add few teaspoons of milk while making laddus.
You can use water instead of milk.

Rice flour pakoda(pakora)

ingredients:
Rice flour 2cups
Onions  2
Green chilli finely chopped 2
Curry leaves chopped 1stalk
Ginger finely chopped 1tsp
Salt to taste
Oil

Preparation:
1. Peel the skin and finely slice the onion.
2. In a mixing bowl take onions, rice flour, green chilli, curry leaves,ginger and salt mix well with out adding water.
3. Leave it for 15-20 minutes.
4. Now you can observe onions released some moisture that is enough for binding the ingredients together.
5. Heat oil for deep frying, knead the mixture.
6. Slowly drop the onion mixture into hot oil and fry, when the pakoras cooked and become crisp remove from the oil or till golden brown. 
7. Repeat the same process for the rest of the mixture.

Serve hot and enjoy.......

Spicy peanut powder/Verusenaga podi

 ingredients:
Verusenaga pappu/Pallilu/Peanuts/Ground nuts  1cup
Dry red chilli 12
Garlic pods 6
Cumin seeds/jeera 2tsp
Dry coconut powder 2tbsp
Salt to taste
Oil 1tsp

Preparation:
1. Heat a pan and roast ground nuts/verusenaga pappu on medium flame, peel off  the skin and keep aside.
2. In the same pan add oil and fry red chilli for 1minute, add cumin seeds/jeera fry for one more minute remove from the stove.
3. Cool the ingredients completely.

• Now grind red chilli, cumin seeds, salt as powder.
• Add Garlic pods, Fried ground nuts and dry coconut powder grind as a coarse powder.

 

Serve with idli, dosa, hot rice with Ghee.
You can use this powder in preparation of curries also...
Store it in a dry air tight container.

Tomato-Capsicum Rice

ingredients:
Cooked rice 2 cups
Onion chopped 1
Ginger -garlic paste 1/2tsp
Tomato chopped 2
Red capsicum chopped 1/2cup
Green chilli chopped 3
Chopped cilantro 2tbsp
Salt to taste
Turmeric powder 1/4tsp
Hing pinch
Meat masala powder 1tsp
Garam masala powder 1/4tsp
Bay leaves 1
Cloves 2
Cinnamon 1/2"
Oil 2tbsp  

Preparation:
1. Heat oil in a pan fry bay leave, clove, cinnamon and add onion fry for 2mins.
2. Add ginger-garlic paste fry till it leaves oil, add tomato, capsicum and green chilli mix well and fry.
3. Add salt, turmeric powder, hing mix well and cook on medium flame for 2-3 minutes.
4. Add meat masala powder, garam masala powder mix well and cook it for 1 minute, add chopped cilantro mix well.
5. Fry till the mixture leaves oil, now add cooked rice to it and mix well, keep it on stove for one minute and remove from the flame.

 Serve hot with raitha.....

Bittergourd stir Fry(kakarakaya vepudu)

ingredients:

Bitter gourd(kakara kayalu) peel, slice into rounds 1lb

Salt to taste

Turmeric powder1/2tsp

Red chilli powder 1tsp

Dry coconut Powder 3tsp

Garlic cloves 2

Cumin seeds (1/2+1/2)tsp

Mustard seeds 1/2tsp

Oil 4tsp

 Preparation:

            Grind Red chilli powder,

                      Garlic 

                      Cumin seeds as powder and use it as chilli powder.

1. In a mixing bowl take bitter gourd slices, salt, turmeric powder mix well and keep a side.

2. Now Heat oil in a pan add mustard seeds, cumin seeds let them crack, add bitter gourd slices.

3. Mix well, cover with lid and cook for 5minutes on medium flame, stir occasionally.

4. Now remove lid, add chilli powder mix well and fry until it gets golden yellow color or bit crispy.

5. Add Dry coconut powder mix well and keep it on medium flame for 1-2 minutes remove from the stove.

Serve with rice & dal combination or with pappucharu, Curd rice.......