Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Kale leaf Patra

 Ingredients

Big Kale leaf                              20 nos
Toordhal                                    1/2 cup
Channadhal                                1/2 cup
Green chilli                                 6nos
Ginger                                        A bit
Rice flour                                   1 Tablespoon
Asafoedita                                 1/4 Teaspoon
Salt                                             To taste

Procedure

Kale leaf is to be cleaned,washed and dried in apaper towel. Soak both the dhalls for 2 hours.Wash and drain the water. Grind it to apastewith slt,chilli,ginger and asafedita.Remove and add rice flour.Mix well and spread it on one side of the Kaleleaf.Like this spread the whole paste on all the kale leaves.Now keep one kale leaf on the other.Now slowly roll the kale leaf to a sprng roll .Prick with a tooth pickso that Patra rolls won"t become loose.Now steam all the patra rollsfor 15 minutes.Remove and kee aside.. Cut the patras into  2" pieces. Keep a shallow Pan and heat it. Arrange the patras4 pieces at a time. Spread some olive oil so that it will be fixed uniformly.Turn all the side to get an appealing look.Remove and serve withsome sweet or spicy sauce

Beetroot and Potato Cutlet

Ingredients

Potato                                     1/4 kg
Beetroot                                  1(grated0
Ginger                                     A bit
Garlic                                      4 pods
Coriander powder                   1Teaspoon
Chillipowder                            1 teaspoon
Garammasalapowder               1/2 Teaspoon
Salt                                          To taste
Chopped coriander leaf           3 Tablespoon
Sooji(Rava0                             For dusting the cutlet
Oil For frying
Bread slices                              2Nos

Procedure

Cook the potatos,soft peal and keep  aside.Grind the Beetroot without water.Mash the potatosand add the Beetroot mixture with 2Breadslices,salt, coriander powder ,garammasalapowder,chillipowder and chopped coriander leaves and kneed it to a  ball.Now divide them to lemon  sized balls.Heat the oil in a pan .Dust the balls liberally with Rava and press it to a desired shape and deep fry them by adding 4 to 5 pieces at a time to golden colour.Remove and serve with spicy mintchutney or tomoto ketchup.

This is a good  to use as a Anack.

Urid Chutney

Ingredients:


Small Onion                1/2 cup
Urid Dhal                   1/4 cup
Red Chilli                   8
Tomato                      2
Tamarind                    A bit
Salt                            To taste
Oil for saute               2Tablespoon
Oil for seasoning         2Tablespoon
Mustard seed             1 Teaspoon
Curryleaves                10 leaves

Procedure:

Heat the oil for seasoning,then add ustard to splutter.Add  1teaspon of Uriddhall and roast it adding Asafoeditta and keep aside.Again keep the pan add 2 tablespoon of oil and urid dhall and start stirring by adding redchilli.When the uriddhall becomes   golden colour add onion till it becomes transparent. Now add salt and cut tomotos with a bit of tamarind and stir for 5 minutes.Allow it to cool.Then grind it to paste and transfer it to the seasonings.

This is served with Dosa and Iddli.




Onion Kotsu

Ingredients:


Onion:                     3nos
Tomato:                  2nos
Chilli Powder                      1 1/2 Teaspoon
Garlic:                     6
Salt                        To taste
Poppyseed             1tablespoon
Cashewnut             8 nos
Coconut scrappings1/2 cup
CurryLeaves
Oil                          3 tablespoon
Sombu                   1Teaspoon
Jeera                     1 teaspoon

Procedure : 

Heat the oil and add Sombuand Curryleaves and season it.Add cut onions and garlic with little saltand saute this.Meantime make a paste of chillipowder with waterand keep aside.Add cut Tomatos and mix well adding prepared chillipaste. with salt to taste.Now grind coconut,poopyseed and cashewnut together and extract the juice.Add  to the mixture in the panand allow it to simmer for 5 minutes. Add curryleavesand remove.

This is good for serving with Iddly and Disa.               



Bath Powder for all

Ingredients:


Whole Greengram:          1kg

Fenugreek                      3tablespoon

Kasthuriturmeric:             200gm

Edward Rose:                 50nos
(Rose used for making garland)

Procedure:


Dry all ingredients in the sunlight and drygrind to fine powder. Store in a tight container.

This is good for skin lusture,antiseptic. Hence can be used for Children. Elders also can use this.