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 ..

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

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..

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

Pappu Chekkalu

Ingredients :

Rice Flour -- 4 cups

Roasted peanuts -- 1 cup

Sabudana/Sago/Saggubiyyam -- 1/4 cup ,soaked

Channa daal -- 1/2 cup , Soaked

Salt -- to the taste

Butter -- 3 tsp

Green chillis -- 10

Dry red chillis -- 5

Corriander -- a bunch,chopped

Curry leaves -- few nos

Cooking soda -- pinch

Oil -- to deep fry

Method :

1. In a blender,add roasted peanuts,green chillis,dry red chillis and make into fine powder (no prob even if it is not that soft )

2. In a bowl add 4 cups of rice -flour ,ground peanut mixture,salt,butter,cooking soda,chooped corriander,chopped curry leaves,already soaked sabudana/sago/saggubiyyam,soaked channa daal, and mix it into dough . Use little bit of water for that but make sure..the dough is hard enough .

3. Make equal parts of the dough into small balls and on a polythene paper spread them with the fingers into a small circle as shown above

4. Heat oil in a pan and fry all these small circle shaped dough

Very delicious Andhra snack.

Bellam Gavvalu

Ingredients :

All-Purpose flour /Maida -- 2 cups

Jaggery -- 3 cubes

Water -- 1/2 cup

Cardamom -- few nos

Oil-- to deep fry

Method :

1. Take the maida/all-purpose flour in a bowl..and mix water and make a dough like we do for chapathi and keep it aside for 15 min by covering with a lid.

2. On a ''gavva-maker'' or can use clean new hair-comb to prepare this

3. Make small equal parts of the dough and spread each on the gavva-maker with thumb and roll it as shown above in the pic.

4. Heat oil in a pan,deep fry the gavvalu till they turn brown and crispy

5. In a seperate pan, add 1/2 cup water , broken cardamom,3 cubes of jaggery and let it boil to get bellam pakam/jaggery-syrup

6. To know wether u got proper consistency of the jaggery-syrup, take normal water in a cup and pour a drop of the syrup in to it. If u find the syrup getting solidified then it means that ur syrup is ready for preperation

7. Once it is done..drop all the gavvalu into it and stir well and switch off the stove and leave it for 30 min to get into room -temp. Then can serve

Can be preserved for months.

Very tasty south-indian snack ..prepared for festivals..

Challa Punugulu

Ingredients :

Urad daal -- 1/4 cup

Rice -- 2 cups

Curd -- 5 tsp

Ginger -- 1/2 inch

Green chillis -- 4

Salt -- to the taste

Maida [ All purpose flour ] -- 2 cups

Cumin seeds -- 1 tsp

Oil -- to deep fry

Cooking soda -- 1/4 tsp

Method :

1. For dosa batter , soak urad daal , rice overnight and grind like smooth dosa batter

2. Leave the batter for whole day in room temperature

3. Take the batter, add curd,salt,ginger chilli paste, cooking soda

4. Add the maida slowly till u find the batter to be medium in consistency

5. Make sure you wont make the batter so hard..if u find it hard,add some curd and make it loose..

6. Heat oil in the pan and pour the batter with spoon or hand inorder to get small balls.

7. Fry till they turn brown and remove

Serve with coconut chutney

Janthikalu

Ingredients :

Peanuts -- 1 cup

Rice flour -- 4 cups

Tymol seeds/Ajwain/Vaamu -- 3 tsp

Butter -- 4 tsp

Salt -- to the taste

Red chilli powder -- 1 tsp

Oil -- to deep fry

Cooking soda -- 1/2 tsp

Method :

1. Fry the Peanuts and make fine powder

2. To the peanut powder , add Rice flour,tymol seeds,Salt,red chilli powder,boiled butter,cooking soda and mix into tight dough by adding water

3. Place the dough into the janthika maker and press onto a plate

4. Heat oil to high and fry the prepared janthikalu

Challa pindi

Ingredients :

Rice flour -- 1 cup

Butter milk (sour) -- 1 cup
Mustard seeds -- 1 tsp
Cumin seeds -- 1 tsp
Asafoetida -- pinch

Channa daal -- 1tsp

Urad daal -- 1 tsp
Dry red chillis -- 2 nos
Green chillis -- 3 slit
Salt -- to the taste
Curry leaves -- few nos
Corriander -- chopped

Oil -- 1 tsp

Method :

1. In a pan , heat oil and add the seasoning and let them splutter
2. Add green chillis and add the buttermilk,salt
3. Let it boil till it gets bubbles
4. Add the rice flour and mix it well..
5. Cook for 5 min and remove from flame.

Yummy when served hot ...and can be served at snack time
Preparation time : 10 min