Vegetable Spring Rolls

Ingredients:
Spring roll Pastry sheets (will get from the Chinese store Around 1$ (AUD) will get 50$)
Onion - thin long slices
Cababge- thin long slices
Carrot- Thin long slices
beans - thin circles
salt
Pepper
oil

Preparation:
1.Take a pan add oil fry onions, later carrots, later cabbage, later beans and last add salt and pepper.
 2. Cool it.
3. Take a Pastry sheets follow the instructions (sheets has to come to room temperature )\
4. Keep vegetables on one side role it one time and then fold the sides and role till it end. Check the internet images how to role Spring rolls.
5. Fry it in oil.
Serve hot with some dipping sauce

Veg Wheat Upma

Healthy Breakfast

Ingredients
1 inch ginger
1 small onion cut into thin slices
cumin seeds,
Carrots
Beans(optional i didnt have so i didnt added)
peas
peanuts
cashews
oil
salt
mustard seeds
chenna dal
Uradh dal
Broken wheat fine

Preparation:
1. Take a kadai pour oil add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, ginger, chenna dhal, uradh dhal, cashews, peanuts, beans, peas, carrots fry it well.
2. Add 1 glass of water boil it with salt.
3. Add the broken wheat and stir it well.

4. Serve hot with chutney.

Vegetable Pakoda

Ingredients

1/2 cup whole Baby corn (cut into long thin slices)
1/2 cup Carrots (long thin slices)
1/2 cup Potato (long thin slices)
1/2 Cup Red onion (long thin slices)
1/2 cup gram flour
1/4 cup rice flour
salt
Green chillies
Ajwain seeds

Preparation:
1. Mix all the vegetables well.
2. Mix with the gram flour without adding water.
3. Add salt and rice flour, Ajwain seeds, green chillies and mix well with little bit water.
4. Fry in the oil.

Serve hot..........

South Indian Mixture- Snack

I love mixture first tried came well after seeing Vasanthy Suresh (one of my friend) in FB thanks to Vasanthy Suresh.

Ingredients
Besan flour
rice flour
salt
chilli powder
oil
curry leaves
peanuts
poha
soaked whole Chenna


Part 1:

1. Making boondi
* Take bowl of besan floor add 1 teapsoon of rice flour salt and mix with water it should be fall from the boondi spoon. (check the consistency)
* Fry the boondi keep aside.

Part 2:
* Take 2:1 aration Gram and Rice flour make nice muruku with the help of muruku maker and keep aside.
* Fry it keep aside.

Part 3
* Take soaked whole chenna keep it for dry on cloth
* Fry it in oil until it turns crispy.

Part 4
* Take a poha and fry it normal heat oil otherwise it will burns keep aside.

Part 5
* Take a kadai pour oil add curry leaves, chenan dal (soaked), peanuts, cashewsfry it nicely
* Add chilli powder and salt mix all the ingredients
Mixture ready

Peanut Pakoda

I love this snack and very easy one to make in the tea time snack.

Ingredients
1 handfull of peanuts
1/2 table spoon of gram flour
1/4 table spoon of  rice flour
chilli powder
salt
butter
oil
Water

Preparation"
1. Take one bowl add all the ingredients with sprinkling water
2. Fry in the oil until u get crispy peauts.

Serve with nice chai...

Special Indo-Mexican Dinner

I love special meals thats the reason i always make different dishes with different combination..

Here i prepared


1.Veg Samosa (i used frozen one)
2. Veg Wrap (Home made Wrap)
3. Tandoori.Chicken thighs(Home made Chicken thighs)

1.Vegetable Samosa
I bought frozen vegetable samosa big pack from Costco just take 4 samosa and preheat in microwave and light fry in oil.

2.Vegetable Wrap

Ingredients
mixed vegetables
lemon slice
salt
pepper powder
shredded cheese
Chapathi (home made) or tortillas

Now making wrap

once you done cutting vegetables and making round chapthi.. just before eating take a bowl add mixed veggies how much a person (like if kid means can't eat much  but adult means we can add more veggies ) need and salt, lemon juice, shredded cheese, pepper powder and microwave 1 min and wrap in chapathi done...


3. Tandoori chicken look at Tandoori chicken recipe

Yummy special dinner ready... Perfect combination I love it

Perugu Garelu (famous dish from South India) or Indian Donuts

Perugu Garelu wow yummy dish and my husband likes. Even me too like it very crispy boondi on top of it.


Ingredients Garelu
1 cup uradh dal
salt
water very less


Making Batter :

soaked 1- 2 hours

make a thin consistency batter adding salt in middle, use very less water with the help of wet grinder.


Ingredients for curd sauce or Perugu sauce:

2 cups of thick home made curd
pinch turmeric
salt
coriander leaves
curry leaves,
2 green chillies or 2 red chillies
channa dal ,
split uradh dal,
mustard seeds,
water

Preparation of Indian Donuts: (see my log for making garelu in other posts)

1. Take a kadai pour half level oil heat it well on medium flame.
2. Dip your hand on hand and take ball size batter and keep a small hole on middle of the garelu and fry it on low flame.
3. I usually make chitti garelu means small size than the regular garelu.
4.Take a plate and place fried items on tissue towel it will absorb excess oil.

Preparation of Curd Sauce:

1.Taka kadai pour few drops of oil let it hot.
 2.Add mustard seeds, uradh dal, chenna dal, curry leaves, red chillies or sliced green chillies, salt, water
3.Don't burn it just it has to heat thats all..


Now soak donuts in curd sauce few hours like 6 hours (according to USA and Australia weather conditions).

Garnish with Coriander leaves or add few cups of boondi on top of it and serve... Imagine it's yummy .

I finished almost 3 pieces...delicious

Chekralu or Seasame Muruku(Indian Famous Snack)

I love this one..
Ofcourse Kids enjoy
Ingredients

2 cups rice flour
1/2 cup uradh dal flour
salt
Ajwain seeds
seasame seeds
ghee
oil
water
chilli powder
muruku machine
zip log cover

Preparation:
1.Take rice flour roast it without burn it too much
2.Take uradh dal and roast it (flour should be bit heat)
3.Take two flours mix with salt.
4.Now add chilli powder, ajwain seeds, seasame seeds.
5.Add butter or oil make nice dough.
6.Take a kadai pour oil and heat it on medium flame.
7. Take zip log sheet or aluminum foil keep some dough on muruku machine make chekkralu on zip log sheet later with the help of your hand shift into oil..
8.Fry it until it turn nice color.
9.Remove from oil and place it on tissue towel and shift to tight lid container.

Crispy Chekkalu (Andhra Famous Snack)

Today i got some time and also want to eat some Indian snack.. I choose chekkalu which very easy and crispy

Ingredients

2 cups of rice flour

2-3 green chilli
1 inch ginger
curry leaves
soaked chenna dal
roasted peanuts (pealed skin and roasted split peanuts)
water
salt
oil

Making Dough
1.Take a big bowl add rice flour .
2.Make a a paste of chilli, ginger, curry leaves.
3.Add the paste to rice flour and add soaked chenna dal.
4.Roast the peanuts on low to medium flame peel off the skin and split into 2 pieces each and mix all together with the warm water make a nice dough..
5.Take a plastic or plastic ziplog cover keep small amount of dough and make it circular shape fry it in oil.

Note:
Water plays major role and frying time


After coming to Australia i tried with white Rice flour which comes bit white crispy chekkalu than the previous picture in this reciepe.

Veg cheese burger

Kids love every day different variety so i go one day with dosa, idly, poori e.t.c other day do noodles, soup, burger, snadwich e.t.c

Very easy we can prepare in minutes

Ingredients

Burger bread
cheese slices
tomato
cucumber
lettuce
mayonnaise

Preparation
1.Take a Burger bread cut into two half slices and apply mayonnaise one end (optional if u want more your can apply both sides too).
2. Now keep thin slices of tomato, thin slices of cucumber, lettuce and cheese slice.
3.Close with the other part of bread and eat.
4.If you want microwave it for few minutes and eat.

Bhel Poori

Now it's chat time ...
A well know item from North part of India

Ingredients
1 cup of puffed rice (roast it well)
1 cup bomaby mixure
few peanuts(roast it well)
few chetni dal (roast it well)
half onion slices
tomato slices
green chilli (thin slices)
green chutney
mango (shred into very small slices with the help of shredder) or you can use tamarind chutney instea dof mango
chat masala
lemon juice
2 small crispy poori

Preparation:
I make 2 small poori with all purpose flour i need crispy poori so we have to use either all purpose or maida
Take a big bowl add all the ingredients, with poori pieces(break the poori into small pieces)
close the lid and shake well for mixing all the ingredients
check salt level properly

ready set go.. Switch on the TV keep nice Dvd and start eating and watching

Punugulu -Andhra Evening Time Snack

It's raining here..Dull weather, i feel like if it happens in India, Definitely i will tell to my dad to bring punugulu from the road side shop.. I love it very much even my kids too..

Today i want to try this at my house..

Ingredients
1/2 cup uradh dal
1 cup rice
coriander leaves
salt
oil
baking soda

Chutney:

chetni dal
oil
curry leaves
green chillies
tamarind juice
Cumin seeds
Chenna dal
uradh dal
2 red chillies
mustard seeds
salt

Preparation:(punugulu)

1. Soak the dals and rice for 4 -6 hours depending up on the climate conditions
2. Grind it thick consistency.
Note: Generally we will add more water to dosa batter here for punugulu we have to add very less water..
3.Add salt and baking soda, coriander leaves
4.Heat the kadai pour more oil
5.Fry it and serve it with nice liquid chutney here like
chetni dal chutney or onion peanut chutney.

Chetni dal chutney Preparation:

1. Taka kadai pour bit oil add cumin seeds, curry leaves, green chilli one by one.
2.Add chetni dal(Roasted split peas) and grind it with tamarind jucie and salt.

Seasoing:
Taka kadai pour very less oil add mustard seeds, dals, curry leaves, red chilli top it on chutney.


Note : you can also make these with your existing dosa batter

the picture below shows prepared with existing dosa batter

Mysore Bonda

Actually i have to say thanks to one of my friend she remind me this dish after seeing in her blog i started trying this dish.. I love this especially in small hotel they prepare very well ..

I can't tell this is exactly same like that hotel bonda but this is 90% same like that

Ingredients

All purpose flour or maida 1 bowl

Rice flour ¼ bowl

Baking soda ¼ teaspoon

Butter milk

Ginger chopped

Cumin  seeds

Green chillies chopped

Coconut slices

Salt

Water

Preparation

1.Take a bowl add all purpose flour mix well and add rice flour to it mix well

2.Add baking soda to the mixture

3.Add butter milk slowly to the mixture mix well and cumin seeds too

4.Keep Aside for 10 min

5.Later Add chopped ginger,chillies, coconut slices to it..

6.Marinate it upto 1 hour

7. Take a bowl of water to clean hands while making bonda..

8. Take a Kadai pour ½ level oil and flame should be  low..

9.Take little batter with the cleaned hand pour in oil fry it well.

10. it will turn into round small ball side bonda

11. Serve NOT HOT bit cold will be good then only it will become bit soft with coconut chutney.

Aloo Bonda

Very special dish from the' North part of India'

Ingredients

Chopped onion

Cooked and mashed potatoes 2

Turmeric

Cumin seeds

Salt

Curry elaves

Mustard seeds

Green chilli slices

Ginger slices

lemon

Gram flour

Water

Baking soda

salt

Preparation:

1.Pressure cook the potatoes

2. Peel the skin mash it

3.Take a kadai pour oil add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, chillies,ginger, curry leaves fry it well

4.Add onion slices and mashed potatoes, add salt to it..

5.Switch off the flame let it get warm..Mean while make the batter

6.Take 2 cups of gram flour in another bowl mix salt and baking soda  with water

7.Make a batter paste.

8.Add lemon juice to the potato gravy

9.Make cooked potato curry into small balls

Like this

10.Coat that ball with batter and fry in oil on low to medium flame serve hot..

You can serve this dish with ketup to your little kids.

Still i remind, during my childhood when I was going to shirdi to visit Shridi saibaba temple I tasted this on the railway station.. it’s yummy dish try it and let me know

Crispy Cabbage Pakora

Ii loveeeeeeeeeeee  this cabbage pakora..


Ingredients
1/4 cabbage
salt
pinch food color
rice flour 1/2 cup
gram flour 1 cup
water
baking soda
chillies
onions (optional)

Preparation

1.Take the cabbage and onion cut into long thin slices
2.Add  flour with salt and  water mix it well
3.Add baking soda, food color
4.Heat the kadai pour oil
5.Fry the cabbage in that oil
6.Serve hot


Some people like to eat with green chutney.. 

Plantain chips

Plantain chips.. kids love it.. we can serve as side dish with rice items or else keep like snacks..

Ingredients
2 plantain
salt
chillipowder, turmeric powder(optional)
Preparation:
1.Peel the plantain skin
2. Using slicer slice the plantain into circular shapes
3.Now Take kadai pour oil to medium level
4.Fry the sliced plantain at a time few slices
5. keep on tissue towel
6. Add salt if u like chillipowder add it.. i like chillipowder so i add that too..

Tamilnadu simple breakfast Kuzhi paniyaram

2 green chillies
Ingredients

Left over Dosa or idly batter
small red onion
few curry leaves
jeera seeds
pinch baking soda

Preparation:
1.Cut the onions into small thin slices
2.Cut the chillies into small pieces
3.Add curry leaves and jeera
4.Add baking soda to it

note: some people fry all the ingredients and mix into the batter coming to me i just add raw things to batter and mix well..

4.Now take paniyaram pan i use non stick one which helps to reduce the oil content

5.Pour the batter on it with small spoon..

6. After few minutes turn other side..

7.Serve with any spicy pickle like red chilli pickle or tomato pickle.. or u can serve with regular tomato chutney see tomato chutney recipe in my previous post...





enjoy the breakfast

Plantain Bajji

Ingredients
small size plantian
1 full cup besan flour
1/4 cup rice flour
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
salt


Preparation:

1.Take plantain peel the skin cut into half and then cut them into long thin slices(use slicer)
2.Take bowl add besan,rice flour add salt,chillipowder
3.Mix all with little bit water
4.Add pinch baking soda
5.Take another vessel heat it pour more oil
6. Take each thin slice of plantain dip into the batter and fry it both sides
7. Serve hot with tomato ketchup

Bread Toast

This is very easy dish and especially for kids.. they love.. if mom feeling very lazy to cook something so just prepare this dish for your kids... i do same when i feel bit tired i prepare this give to my kids...


Ingredients

5 bread slices(wheat bread or any bread)
2 eggs
1 cup milk
sugar
ghee or butter

Preparation
1.Take a bowl add milk,sugar beat it well
2.Add beaten eggs mix it well
3.Take bread slice one by one
4.Dip in the sauce both sides
5.Heat tawa place the the bread add little bit ghee or butter around
6.Turn other side and repeat same
7.Serve it with any ketchup or salad or plain

Dosa

Ingredients
Take 2 cups uradh dal soak for 6-7 hours(depends on your local weather)
Take 7-8 cups of sams long grain rice (soak 8-9 hours


Preparing batter:

1.Grind the dal using wet grinder
2.After finished take it into one seperate bowl
3. Later grind the rice
4.At last mix together.. and grind 5 -10 more minutes

5.Keep out side at room temperature

6.Next day Dosa tawa heat it make dosa on it.
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serve hot with nice chutneys