Nankhatai Cookies

Ingredients:

Butter - 1/2 cup / 4 OZ ( kept under room temp)
All purpose Flour - 1 cup
Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
almonds ( sliced) - few

Method :

1. Take a bowl and beat the butter along with sugar until it is creamy enough
2. Now in a separate bowl, add all -purpose flour , baking powder, salt mix it well & keep aside
3. Now in the butter mixture, add portions of the flour mixture(not all at a time) and mix it well into a soft dough
4. Rest it for about 10 min
5. Now make the dough into equal portions shape it in desired way, decorate with almonds
6. Preheat the oven up to 300C for 15 min
7. Now place the cookie tray in the oven and let it cook for about 20-25 min .
8. Switch off the oven and rest them for 5 min .
9. Now remove from oven and let the cookies cool down to room temperature.

A very delicious cookie recipe which can be stored for long time ..

Burnt garlic chilli fried rice

This is one of my fav recipes from Indo-Chinese restaurant at my place ,I love to it eat all the time.

Ingredients :

Sonamasoori rice : 2 cups

Water : 4 cups

Carrot : finely sliced

Capsicum : finely sliced

Spring Onions : a bunch sliced

Garlic pods : 4 very finely chopped

Olive oil (preferably) : 3 tsp

Soy Sauce : 4 tsp

Vinegar : 4 tsp

Dry red chilli flakes : 2 tsp

Salt : to the taste

Preparation :

1. Cook the rice and keep aside

2. Heat olive oil in a pan and fry garlic slices until they turn dark brown / burn a little

3. Add the vegetables chopped and saute for 5 min

4. Now add Soy sauce,vinegar,salt,chilli flakes and mix well

5. Now add the rice and fry it for 10 to 15 min

A very tasty Chinese recipe

Butter Corn

Ingredients :

American sweet corn (frozen) : 4 cups

Butter : 50g

Lime juice : 1 tsp

Black pepper powder : 1/2 tsp

Salt : to the taste

Corrinader : chopped , 1tsp

Preparation:

1. In a pressure cooker boil the corn upto 2 whistles / can just boil in a vessel with hot water

2. Drain the water completely and keep aside

3. Heat a pan and drop butter ,corn, corriander,salt,pepper powder and saute for 5 to 10 min

4.Remove from flame and add lime juice to it and serve hot

healthy and real tastey snack

Green gram Bullets

Hi friends,and all the followers of my blog......here am back after quite a long break and the reason for that is..Iam blessed with a baby boy.. named him Avyay Aaditya....who is keeping me busy all the day :) but am trying to start the blog again with some really delicious recipies.l...so shall we start !!!!

Ingredients :

Green gram ( whole moong daal) - 250 g , soak overnight

Rice flour - 4 tsp

Asafoetida ( Hing) - 1/2 tsp

Green chillis - 4 , finely chopped

Ginger - 1 inch finely chopped

Salt - to the taste

Oil - for deep fry

preparation :

1. Grind the soaked green gram daal coarsely without adding water.

2.Add rice flour,chopped ginger,asafoetida,chopped chillis,salt

3.Make the bullets as shown ,if the consistency is not proper to get the shape,can add some rice flour again.

4. Deep fry the bullets with simmer flame until they turn brown

serve with tomato ketchup / green chutney

Dosakaya Pachadi -- Andhra style

Ingredients :

Yellow Cucumber /Dosakaya -- 1 ,peel and chop into small pieces by removing the seeds inside.

Green Chillis -- 2 finely chopped

Corriander Leaves -- finely chopped

Lemon -- 1 full

Turmeric powder -- pinch

Bengal gram/chana dal/senagapappu -- 1 tsp

Black gram/minapappu -- 1 tsp

Corriander seeds -- 1/2 tsp

Mustard seeds -- 1/2 tsp

Cumin seeds -- 1/2 tsp

Asafoetida -- pinch

Dry Red Chillis -- 4

Oil -- 1 tsp

Salt -- to the taste

Method :

1. Heat oil in a pan, add channa daal,urad daal,corriander seeds,mustard seeds,cumin seeds,Asafoetida,dry red chillis, and fry till they turn brown in color and let it cool.

2. Mix the chopped cucumber pieces,lemon juice,corriander leaves,chopped green chillis and keep aside.

3. Now grind the roasted seasoning with salt , into fine powder

4. Now add this powder to the cucumber mixture and mix it well and allow it to settle for 10 min

5. Serve with hot rice.

Instant Mukkala Pachadi

Ingredients :

Raw Mango -- 1 ,peel and chop into small pieces

Chilli powder -- 3tsp

Salt -- 2 tsp

Lemon juice -- approximately from 4 lemons

Green chillis -- 3 , finely Chopped

Method :

1. In a bowl, add the chopped raw mango,salt,chilli powder,chopped green chillis,lemon juice

and stir well.

It is ready to eat as soon as u prepare and must be refrigirated if u wish to preserve for more than 1 day...

Rasam (Hotel Style)

Ingredients :

Tamarind -- half a lemon size
Water -- 4 cups
Salt -- to the taste
Asafoetida (Hing) -- 1/4 tsp
Turmeric -- pinch
Rasam Powder -- 2 tsp
Oil -- 1 tsp
Tomato -- 1/2 chopped
Corriander leaves -- few chopped
Mustard -- 1 tsp
Curry Leaves -- few
Fenugreek seeds (Menthulu) -- 5 nos
Cumin seeds -- 1/2 tsp
Jaggery (optional ) -- pinch
Blackpepper powder -- 1/4 tsp

Method :

1. Heat Oil in a pan and add mustard,fenugreek,cumin,curry leaves.Let them splutter
2. Now add 2 tsp Rasam Powder and fry till it gives nice aroma
3. Add tamarind juice made of 1/2 lemon size tamarind and 4 cups water
4. Add turmeric,Hing/Asafoetida,Salt,Jaggery,corriander leaves ,chopped tomato ,Black-pepper powder
5. Boil for about 20 min
6.Serve hot with any fries

Pesara Rotti

Ingredients :

Whole green Moong-daal (pesalu) -- 1 cup

Rice -- 1 cup

Salt -- to the taste

Ginger -- 1 inch piece ,chopped

Cumin seeds -- 1 tsp

Hing/Asafoetida -- 1 tsp

Green chillis -- 3,finely chopped

Hot water -- 1 1/2 cup

Oil -- 4 tsp

Method :

1. In a mixer, grind the moong-daal (pesalu),Rice into a rough powder(like sugar crystals) and keep aside .

2. In a bowl mix the grounded powder,salt,hing, ginger,green chillis,cumin seeds with the hot water and allow it to get soaked for about 2 hrs.

3. Heat 2 tsp oil in a pan and drop the dough and spread it with hand and keep it in simmer flame

4. Reverse the roti and again pour 2 tsp oil into it.

Cook till it turns redish brown colour and remove from flame...

Make sure the roti is not thick..it must be spread thin

Serve hot with any spicy chutney..

Bobbatlu

Ingredients :

Bengal gram/chana dal/senagapappu -- 1 cup

All purpose Flour /Maida -- 1 cup

Jaggery -- 1 cup

Cardamom -- 5

oil -- 1/4 cup

Ghee -- to toast

Method :

1. Cook channa daal in a vessel and make sure it is not over-cooked.

2. Drain all water from channa daal and in a blender, mix it with jaggery,cardamom and keep aside (blend without water)

3. Take maida/all purpose flour and mix it like chapathi dough with water and pour 1/4 cup oil and keep aside for half-an-hour,which makes dough turn soft.

4. Make equal parts of dough and channa mixture

5. On a ziploc paper, spread the dough with fingers and keep channa mixture into it and close from all sides

6. Again by applying oil to your fingers,spread the whole thing with fingers and make like chapathi

7. Heat a pan and toast the prepared bobbattu with ghee on it

A very famous dish of andhra..

Sorakaya Appalu

Ingredients :

Sorakaya/Bottle gourd -- half , finely grated

Rice Flour

Ginger-Garlic paste -- 1 tsp

Peanut powder -- 2 tsp

Chillis -- 5

Corriander leaves-- 1/4 bunch

Salt -- to the taste

Cooking Soda -- pinch

Soaked channa dal -- 1/2 cup

Oil -- for deep-fry

Method :

1. In a blender,grate chilli and corriander leaves

2. Mix grated bottle gourd,riceflour,salt,ginger-garlic paste,peanut powder, chilli-corriander mix,

salt,soda,soaked channa dal without using water.

3.Add the rice-flour slowly and mix it without any water..as the moisture in bottle-gourd is enough.Make it as hard in consistency.

4. Make equal balls of the dough

5. On a polytheylene paper, apply some oil and pat the dough into small circles as shown in pic.

6. Now heat oil in a pan and deep-fry the appalu till they turn brown

Make sure that the ingredients should not dominate the flavour of Bottle-gourd

very healthy snack for kids