Mirchi Masal

Well, after a long time, a hot recipe to all of you!! Its winter and everybody would like something hot and spicy.  

Mirchi Masal

Ingredients (serves 2-3 persons)

Bajji chilly/Bajji mirchi/Italian peppers - 6 or 7

Big onion – 3 (medium size)

Red chilly – 1

Garlic pods – 2 (finely chopped)

Ginger – 1 inch piece (grated)

Mustard seeds – 1/2tsp

Fenugreek seeds – 1/2tsp

Chilly powder – 1-2tsp

Turmeric powder – 1/2tsp

Coriander powder – 3tsp

Tamarind paste – 2tsp

Jaggery – 1-2tsp

Curry leaves

Water as required

Oil as required

Salt to taste

For grinding

Sesame seeds – 1tsp

Roasted groundnuts – 3tsp

Grated coconut – 2tsp

Cooking oil – 1/2 tsp

Preparation

Cut the mirchi to small pieces and fry them with 2tsp of oil until the skin changes to golden brown.

In a pan, add oil and then add ingredients for grinding and roast them. After the mixture gets cold, grind them to a fine paste and keep aside.

Method

Heat a pan, add oil and then add the mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, red chilly, curry leaves, chopped garlic pods, chopped onion, salt, grated ginger and fry them well.

Then add chilly powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, tamarind, jaggery and then add the ground paste and fry them with water until the raw smell disappears.

Now add the fried mirchi and sauté till the mixture combines.

Add salt if necessary in the end.

Serve hot with hot rotis and chapathis.

Guava, Banana smoothie

We have heard about cocktail juices in parties and high-end restaurants, but this smoothie is a combo of two sweet fruits which gives you a pleasure of drinking equivalent to the cocktail juices at the comfort of your homes..Happy drinking!!

Guava, Banana smoothie

Ingredients (For 3 persons)

Cold milk - 3 cups
Guava fruit - 1.no. (Without seeds)

Banana fruit -2 no.s

Badam - 5 no.s (preferably soaked for 5 hours)
Cashew - 10 no.s (preferably soaked for 5 hours)
Sugar or honey - optional

Directions
In a blender or mixer jar add the milk, guava fruit pieces, banana fruit pieces, soaked badam, cashew and the soaked water along with honey or sugar as preferred and mix them until you get a fine smooth drink. 

Before serving decorate with pomegranate seeds and serve cold.
If you don't have cold milk, do the smoothie and refrigerate it.

Kirni and Strawberry salad

Few tasty fruits + a healthy salad = a yummy fruit salad!! Come on, let's taste..

Kirni and Strawberry salad 

Ingredients

Kirni fruit size - 1 number

Strawberry - 2 to 3 numbers

Banana fruit - 2 numbers

For Dressing

Honey - 1 to 2 tsp

Pineapple paste - 2 to 3 tsp

Lemon Juice - 1 tsp (optional)

Preparation

Cut all the fruits into pieces of eatable size.

Mix the items given for dressing in a mixer.

Method

Put all fruit pieces in a mixing bowl.

Keep the mixture in refrigerator for at least half an hour.

Add the items given for dressing in the mixing bowl before serving.

Veg Masal Stuffed Red Rice Dosa

Masal Dosa is everyone's favorite, and yes there are varieties too, this one here is really simple to make, the same old masal dosa with a vege twist. Wana try??

Veg Masal Stuffed Red Rice dosa

Ingredients for Dosa (serves for 2 to 3 members)
Idly Rice - 1/2 cup ( pulungal rice)

Red or Brown Rice - 1/2 cup

Whole urad dhal(black gram) - 1/4 cup

Wheat Aval (Poha) - 1/4 cup (If not available use any type of Aval)

Fenugreek seeds - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

(Maintain proportion of rice, urad dal and aval as 4:1:1)

Method of preparation

Soak all the above ingredients in water for 5 to 6 hours (Water level must be 2 inches above the ingredients) and grind the mixture to the dosa batter consistency.

Keep the dough overnight or 8 hours to ferment.

Now the dough is ready to make dosa. Before making dosa check the salt in dough. To get more taste spread dosa in thin layer.

After 3/4^th roasting has happened on both sides spread the masal in one half of the dosa (on the dosa tava) and fold.

Now spread one teaspoon ghee or butter on dosa and roast both sides for few more seconds. Now the masal dosa is ready to serve. It is to be served hot otherwise it might become soggy.

Side dish preferable

Coconut chutney

Masal preparation method

Ingredients for Masal

Finley chopped big onion – 1(large)

Chopped Tomato - 1 (large)

Ginger - 1 inch piece (grated)

Chopped boiled vegetables, slightly mashed

(Carrot – 1,beans – 4, Cabbage - 2 leaves, Potato - 1, Beetroot - ½, frozen green peas - 1 handful, sweet corn - 1 handful, Broccoli flowerets as per taste (Optional - according to availability at the time of cooking)

Turmeric powder - 1 pinch

Salt to taste

For the seasoning

Cooking Oil - 2 tsp
Mustard seeds -1 tsp

Urad dhal -1 tsp

Slit Green chilies - 4
Curry leaves - 1 bunch

Asafoetida - 1 pinch 

Method of preparation

In a Frying pan put 1 tsp of oil and fry the masala ingredients listed for seasoning.

Add the remaining oil and fry the onion pieces with little salt to golden brown.

Add grated Ginger and fry for a minute.

Add the chopped Tomato and turmeric powder, sauté for a minute

Now add the slightly mashed vegetables along with salt and sauté for few minutes so that all the ingredients mix to form masal consistency.

Lastly add chopped coriander if preferred.

Now the masal is ready to spread.

Don’t add water, spreading the masal on dosa will be a problem.

Beetroot Milkshake

Summers' already begun, are you waiting for a variety? Check this one out!! All of us would have ate beetroots in salads or curries but milkshake from beetroot, I was puzzled too when i heard it first, but when i gave a try, it was amazing. It did not have the slightest hint of eating beetroot, except by its color.

Beetroot Milkshake

Ingredients

Cold milk - 2 cups (250 ml)
Almonds - 12 no.s
Beetroot - 1/2 (medium size)
Cashew nuts - 8 no.s
Milk powder (without sugar) - 1 tbsp
Sugar/Palm Sugar/Honey – as per taste

Preparation

Boil the beetroot and soak the almonds for around 5 hours.

Directions
In a blender add soaked almonds, boiled beetroot, cashew nuts, milk powder and the water used for soaking almonds along with honey or sugar as preferred and mix them until you get a fine smooth paste, then add milk and blend.

If you don't have cold milk, do the milk shake and refrigerate it.