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Monday, June 29, 2020

Tomato Soup / Basic Tomato Soup - Soup Recipes

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Tomato Soup
Ingredients 
Diced large vine tomato -3
Diced small potato - 4
Diced carrot -1 small
Chopped garlic - 2
Diced onion - 1/4
Salt and pepper to taste
Hot milk - 1 cup
Vegetable broth or water - 2 cups
Italian seasonings - 1/4 tsp
Sugar - 1/4 tsp
Butter - 1/2 tbsp
Method
Heat butter in a pressure cooker add onion and garlic,saute till its light brown.
Add the carrot,potato and tomato saute till tomatoes are soft.
Add the seasonings and water/broth and pressure cook till soft.
Cool the pressure cooked ingredients & mash it well or blend it to a smooth mixture.
Strain the mixture transfer it into a pan add hot milk give a boil,adjust the seasonings.
Switch off the stove and serve it hot garnished with bread croutons.

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Tomato Soup
Ingredients
Large ripe tomatoes - 6 diced
Carrots - 1 small cut into cubes
Chopped onion - 1/4 cup heaped
Chopped garlic - 3
Cinnamon stick - a very small piece
( do not add too much otherwise the soup will have a strong cinnamon flavour ) 
Bay leaf - 1 small
Whole black pepper - 1/4 tsp
Salt to taste
Sugar - 1/4 tsp
Water as needed
Fresh cream ( optional) for extra richness as needed
Butter - 1 tbsp

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Tomato Soup
Method
Heat butter in a pan add the bay leaf,cinnamon and black pepper stir.
Add the carrots onion,garlic and tomatoes saute for a minute.
Add salt and pour one cup of water and pressure cook till soft.
Cool and open the pressure cooker lid and strain out the liquid,discard the bay leaf and cinnamon.
Add the cooked tomato mixture into a blender and blend to a smooth liquid,strain this mixture.
Transfer the puree and the strained liquid to a pan add water if needed add sugar and give a boil.
Switch off the stove mix the cream if using and serve hot.
Note:
a) Once cream is added do not boil otherwise the soup will curdle.
b) You can garnish with bread croutons or cheese and serve.



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Sunday, June 28, 2020

Quick Wheat Flour Halwa / Atta Halwa / Godhumai Maavu Halwa / Wheat Flour Halwa / Aate Ka Halwa / Atte Ka Halwa / Kada Prasad Recipe / Gurudwara Karah Prasad Recipe / Kada Prashad Recipe

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Wheat Flour Halwa
Ingredients
Wheat flour / Atta / Godhumai Mavu - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Ghee - 1/2 cup
Boiling hot water - 2 cups
Cardamom powder - 1 tsp
Cashew nuts - 15 broken into small pieces (optional)

For caramelization ( optional,this is added to just give colour to the halwa)
Sugar - 5 tsp
Water - 1 tbsp
Method
Add water and sugar in a pan in medium low flame keep mixing till you get a light golden brown syrup,Switch off the stove if you cook more the syrup will turn bitter and hard.


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Wheat Flour Halwa
Method
Pour ghee in a non stick pan add the cashew nuts fry till light brown,remove to a plate.
Now add the wheat flour to the ghee and in low flame fry the flour till colour changes and raw smell has completely disappered.Do not fry in high flame and burn the wheat flour.This step is very important otherwise your halwa will taste raw.
Reduce the flame to low and carefully add the boiling water and stir vigorously to avoid lumps.
If you are a beginner then once flour is roasted switch off the stove,cool a bit then pour the boiling hot water and quickly mix to avoid lumps,then switch on the stove.
Cook till the halwa has absorbed the water and its thick.Add the sugar and keep mixing till everything is combined.Now pour the caramelized sugar and mix well.
Lastly add the cardamom powder and fried cashew nuts and switch off the stove.
Serve this halwa hot or warm.

Note:
a) Fry the wheat flour till raw smell has completely gone otherwise the final product will still have the raw smell.This step is very important.
b) Use only boiling hot water,Do not add cold water.
c) You can add jaggery or brown sugar instead of white sugar.
d) This is the prashad served at the gurudwara temple. Cashew nuts are not used in the temple prashad.


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Friday, June 26, 2020

Egg Bejo / Burmese Egg Bejo / Atho Egg Masala /Egg Bejo Burmese Style Street Food

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Egg Bejo
Ingredients
Hard boiled eggs - 3
(using a sharp knife make a deep slit on top,Do not cut it completely till the end)
Salt - 1/ 4 tsp
( diluted with 1 tsp water)
Red chilies - 3
Lemon juice - 1 tsp
( diluted with 2 tsp water)
Diluted tamarind juice - 2 tsp
Sliced garlic - 6
Sliced onion - 1/4 cup
Chopped coriander leaves - 1 tbsp
Oil to deep fry as needed


Method
Heat oil in a pan add the sliced onions and deep fry till crisp and brown,cool and crush them.
In the same oil deep fry the garlic till crisp and brown,remove to a bowl and crush them.
Deep fry the red chilies till light brown.Cool and crush it using a mortal and pestle.
Save the oil we will be using 1 or 2 tsp while filling the eggs.


How to fill the eggs?
Carefully open the slit eggs and fill it up with some crushed fried onion,crushed fried garlic,crushed fried red chillies,few drop of lemon juice,tamarind juice,salt water,drizzle the saved fried oil and lastly top it with chopped coriander leaves.
Serve immediately!


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Thursday, June 25, 2020

Donuts Recipe / Homemade Donuts / Doughnuts Recipe

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Donuts
Ingredients
Maida / All purpose flour - 2 cups
Nutmeg powder - a pinch
Salt-1/4 tsp
Sugar - 1/4 cup + 1 tsp
Egg -1
Butter - 2 tbsp (room temperature)
Luke warm milk - 1/2 cup
Dry yeast - 1 & 1/2 tsp
( make sure yeast is not old then they will not froth and donuts will not puff up)
Oil to deep fry as needed
Topping
Cinnamon sugar for dusting as needed
You can also dip it into melted chocolate or Salted caramel sauce


Method
Take warm milk in a bowl to this add 1 tsp sugar and yeast,mix well.
Cover and rest for 5 minutes till they froth.This shows that the yeast has activated.
Take a wide bowl add maida,salt,sugar,egg and butter mix till they are crumbled.
Now add the yeast mixture and mix to a soft non sticky dough.
Cover this dough with a cling wrap or towel,leave it at a warm place to ferment for 2 hours till the dough doubled in size.
Punch the dough and roll it into 1 inch thick sheet,do not roll the sheet thin.Using a round cutter cut into circles and with a smaller cutter cut the center ( SEE PICTURE)
Heat oil in a pan and carefully drop each donuts into the oil and deep fry them in medium flame till light brown on both sides and fried well.Remove it on a kitchen tissue.
While still warm dust it with cinnamon sugar or dip it into melted chocolate and enjoy!


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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Poori Masala / Potato Masala For Poori / Poori Kizhangu Recipe / Poori Masal / Poori Curry

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Poori Masala
Ingredients
Boiled & mashed potato - 2 large
Frozen peas - 1/4 cup
Salt to taste
Turmeric powder-1/2 ttsp
Besan diluted in water -1 tsp
Sliced onion - 1/2
Chopped tomato - 1 small
Slit green chillies - 4
Ginger grated-1/4 tsp
Curry and coriander leaves - 2 tsp
Tempering
Oil - 2 tsp
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Urad dhal - 1/2 tsp
Channa dhal - 1/4 tsp
Jeera - 1/4 tsp

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Poori Masala
Method
Heat oil in a pan temper it with above ingredients.
Fry onion,curry leaves,ginger & green chillies till transparent.
Add the tomato and saute for a minute.
Add salt,turmeric powder,potato and peas fry a bit and pour water as needed & give a boil.
Lower the flame and add the diluted besan,cook for a minute or till raw smell as disappeared.
Switch off the stove garnish with curry and coriander leaves.
Best served with poori.



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Rava Idli / Rawa Idli Recipe / Semolina Idly /Sooji Idli Recipe With ENO

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Rava Idli
Ingredients
White rava/sooji/semolina-1 cup
Salt-1/2tsp or to your taste
Turmeric powder- a generous pinch
Curd-1 cup
Water-1/4 cup
Lime juice-3/4 tsp
ENO fruit salt-1/2tsp
Tempering
Oil-1 tsp
Mustard-1/2tsp
Urad & Channa dal-each 1/4tsp
Chopped green chillies-1
Chopped ginger-1/8tsp
Chopped curry & coriander leaves-1tsp
Garnish
Grated carrot & fried cashew nuts

Method
Heat oil in a pan & temper it with above ingredients.
Add the rava & turmeric powder, in very low flame fry for few minutes,do not burn or over fry them.I usually switch off the stove & fry it in the heat of the pan.
Cool this mixture,now mix the water,lime juice,salt & curd.The mixture will look like a idly batter,light & semi thick ( your batter should not be too thick or too thin).
Grease your idly plates with oil,place a fried cashew nut & some grated carrot.
Heat water in your idly cooker,once your ready to steam the idly, mix in the ENO to your batter & gently mix till it forms froth & bubbles starts to appear.
Immediately pour a ladle of batter on top of the carrot/cashew nut & steam them for 8 minutes or till done.
Serve it hot with any chutney you wish.


Note:
ENO is very important ingredient in this recipe,make sure its active,otherwise your idlys will not turn out good.Some people use cooking soda instead of ENO fruit salt.
You can also mix in grated carrots & peas into the batter.
Instead of chopped green chillies & ginger ,you can grind & add it to the batter.

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Friday, June 19, 2020

Homemade Salted Caramel Recipe / Easy Salted Caramel Sauce / Salted Caramel Sauce

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Salted Caramel Sauce
Ingredients
White sugar - 1 cup
Heavy cream - 1/2 cup ( room temperature)
Unsalted butter - 6 tbsp ( room temperature)
Salt - 1/2 tbsp
( If you want more salty then add 1 tbsp)
Vanilla essence - 1/2 tbsp

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Salted Caramel Sauce

Method
Take a heavy sauce pan add the sugar in medium flame let the sugar melt.
Do not stir once the sides starts to melt then slowly loosen up the sides using a wooden spoon or spatula.Now slowly swirl the pan for the sugar to melt my its own.Do not stir as they may form lumps.Don't worry if the sugar get clumped up remove from fire and stir quickly.
Once the sugar has melted and reached to an amber colour,reduce flame and add the butter,whisk vigorously to avoid burning.The hot caramel will bubble so handle carefully.
Now slowly add the heavy cream and mix well till everything is combined and reaches to a thin pouring consistency Do not cook the sauce till thick as they will harden when cooled.
This will not take more than a minute switch off the stove.
Now add the salt and vanilla essence mix well.
Cool completely and pour it into a glass bottle and store it in fridge.Before using warm slightly.


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Thursday, June 18, 2020

Avocado Ice Cream / Homemade Avocado Ice Cream

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Avocado Ice Cream
Ingredients
Avocado -2 small
(scoop out the pulp)
Sugar-12 tsp
(add more if you want it sweet)
Whole milk-225 ml
Nestle's Table cream - 1 tin (225 ml )
Vanilla essence-1 & 1/2 tsp
Lime juice-1 tsp
Method
Blend all above ingredients together to a smooth mixture.
Pour it in a container,close & freeze it.
Remove it from the freezer and blend it well in a mixi,freeze it overnight.
Scoop out & serve it with any topping of your choice.

Note:
Whipped cool whip can be added instead of table cream.

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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Homemade Vetiver Drink / Vetiver Sarbath / Khus Sharbath / Vetiver Sharbat / / Vetiver Syrup / Khus Sherbet

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Vetiver Sarbath
Ingredients
Vetiver root/grass / Camel Grass - a small bunch ( around 100 gms)
Jaggery - 1 cup
Water - 6 cups


Method
Wash the vetiver root well to remove mud or dust.
Soak it in fresh water overnight.
Next day add the vetiver with water in a pan and boil for 5 minutes. add jaggery and boil it for another 10 minutes.
Cool and filter the syrup/essence discard the root,store it in a clean bottle in fridge.

How to use?
Take 1/4 cup of the essence/syrup in a glass pour 3/4 cup cold water.
Add few drops of lemon juice,mix and serve cold.
Your refreshing drink for summer is ready!

Note:
Do not boil too much otherwise your syrup will turn bitter.
Store this in fridge.
Add jaggery according to your sweetness.
You can replace jaggery with white sugar or palm sugar


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Monday, June 8, 2020

Atukula Vadiyalu / Aval Vadam / Andhra Style Aval Vadam / Poha Fryums - Vadam / Vathal Recipes

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Atukula Vadiyalu / Aval Vadam
Ingredients
Thin Aval/Poha/Atukulu - 2 cups
Tomato juice - 1 cup
( Grind 2 large tomatoes)
Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
Salt to taste ( around 1/2 tsp)
Jeera - 1 tsp
Chopped onion - a handful
Method
Take a wide bowl add all the above mentioned ingredients .
Mix well to make sure the poha is soaked well.add very little water if needed.
After 20 minutes shape it into flat disc or make small balls from the dough and place it on a thick plastic sheet or clean white cloth.
Dry these vadam in sun till its dry and crisp.
Store it in a container and deep fry in batches and enjoy with rice.

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Egg Fingers Recipe / How to Make Egg Fingers / Crunchy Egg Fingers

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Egg Fingers
Ingredients
Eggs - 3
Milk - 2 tsp
Salt to taste
Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Italian seasonings - 1/2 tsp
Bread crumbs - as needed
All purpose flour / Maida - 2 tbsp
( add some water and dilute to a semi thick smooth paste)
Oil to shallow fry as needed




Method
Take a bowl add the eggs,milk,salt,Italian seasonings,red chilly powder and turmeric powder.
Whisk the ingredients well,pour this mixture into a greased aluminium container and steam for 3 minutes or till they are hard.
Once cooked cool the egg ,using a knife loosen up the edges and unmold. Use a sharp knife to cut into fingers /semi thick strips.
Dip each egg fingers into the diluted maida paste and roll it into the bread crumbs.Make sure all sides are well coated.
Heat oil in a pan and shallow fry the egg finger in batches till all sides are golden brown colour in medium high flame.
Take it on a kitchen tissue to remove excess oil .
Enjoy these egg fingers with ketchup or chilly garlic sauce.


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