Rice Kheer

     Always i'll be waiting eagerly for Onam, Vishu etc etc (all Keralite festival) fest to come. Dont think am a malayali. The silly and useless reason was i'll get bowl full of rice kheer from my neighbour keralites. He he :P How silly i am. From this you can understand my crazinees on this Rice Kheer. Its my long time plan to prepare rice kheer at home. Since my family doesnt like sweet much, i was bit dragging my preparation plan. Finally, thought of preparing this at last saturday, thought my hubby will not like this but he had 2 glass full of kheer. That was a real surprise and also enjoyed lot by tasting that self-prepared kheer :)

ALL YOU NEED:

Par-boiled Rice	1/2 cup
Grated Coconut	1/4 cup
Sugar	1 cup
Elachi	2 Nos.
Milk	1 litre

To Garnish

Ghee	3 spoons
Cashew	8 Nos.
Raisins	8 Nos.

METHOD:
     Take heavy bottomed pan, bring down 1 litre milk to boil, add sugar, powdered elachi and soaked rice and keep the milk in flame until it comes down to 1/2 litre and the rice gets cooked well. Stir inbetween by adding grated coconut. Paralley heat 3 spoons of Ghee in a pan, add cashwenuts, raisins, do a saute and put off the flame. Now lets check the milk, Once the rice gets boiled and kheer reach thick consistency, add on the garnished items and do a soft stir without breaking the rice shape. Allow it to cool for a while, now serve to the loved ones :)

    Sending this to Akila's Event - Dish name starts with R

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Thattu Vadai

     My lil one will go crazy for all deep fried/Oil items. Whenever you come to my home, you can find all types of junk foods stocked on our table. Sometimes, even i feel not to buy any junks as its not healthy and bit worried, what type of oil they have used to prepare it etc.. etc... So, decided to prepare some tea time muncher at home. Was just waiting for that auspicious(!) day to come. Finally, got a very long leave of 4 days, so i planned to give my first try. thanks god it came out well and also it was cleaned off by next day itself :P

ALL YOU NEED:

Rice Flour	2 cups
Urad Dhall Flour	2 spoons
Fried gram flour	2 spoons
Groundnut	1/2 cup
Bengal Gram	1/4 cup
Red Chilly	8 Nos.
Garlic	3 Bulbs
Butter	2 spoon
Salt	To Taste
Water	Needed
Oil	Deep Fry

METHOD:
     Soak Bengal gram for 2 hours and drain the water. Grind Garlic and Red chilly without adding water. Let both sit for a while. Seive all flour (Rice flour, Roasted Urad Dhall and FriedGram powder), add melted butter, salt, hing, grinded garlic+red chilly paste, soaked bengal gram, roasted groundnut (Skin removed), add required amount of water and mix all until it comes to a non-sticky dough. Make the dough as small balls and take a plastic cover (I used Milk Cover), grease it with a drop of oil, take a small rounded dough, flatten it using your fingers. Paralley heat oil for deep frying. Add a pinch of dough into the oil, to check oil gets heated. Now add flattended dough into the oil 1 by 1, leave it for a min and flip it, until it gets cooked perfectly.

    Sending to the event CWS-Peanuts hosted by Priya.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Stuffed Brinjal

     Will go mad whenever i see fresh brinjals. As soon as i buy that, will immediately prepare some interesting recipe which suits those fresh brinjal, only then will get perfect sleep :P So, this is the one among that madly tried dish. Main disadvantage in trying this recipe is, You need to wait long i.e. more than half an hour to taste this delicious, nutty dish. Can't you wait even for 1 hour if it is delicious dish !!?? Surely i will.... Moreover, this is the first time i tried this recipe that too using Sessame seeds for the first time in this 3 years of cooking period. So, thought of sharing my newly excavated recipe to ur views :)

ALL YOU NEED:

Green Brinjal	1/4 kg
Gingelly Oil	1 spoon
Corainder Leaf	2 Twigs
Turmeric Powder	Pinch
Salt	To Taste
Oil	2 spoons

To Roast & Grind:

Diced Onion	2 Nos.
Diced Tomato	1 Nos.
Sessame Seed	2 spoons
Red Chilly	4 Nos.
Garlic	6 Cloves
Ginger	1/2 inch
Salt	Pinch
Oil	1 spoon

METHOD:
     Take a non-stick pan, heat a spoon of gingelly oil, add slited Green brinjals, add Turmeric powder and pinch of salt. Saute it well. Meantime, heat another pan, add a spoon of oil, roast all the ingredients under "To Roast & Grind" until raw smell goes off. Make it as a fine paste. Now add on the grinded paste to the Brinjal and give a saute without breaking the brinjal shape. Adjust with salt. DONOT add water. Close the pan with lid, give a soft stir inbetween. Fry it until brinjal gets cooked and the grinded paste sticks well to the Brinjal. Garnish with chopped corainder leaf and serve hot.

Note: You can substitute sessame seeds with roasted groundnut too. Instead of adding Red chilly can also add chilly powder to Brinjal.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Easy tangy Tomato chutney

     I am a big lover of all Tangy items which includes even Tamarind Syrup :P So, it should say this my most favorite chutney which my MIL use to prepare whenever we are running out of some gravy for Dosai/Idly. As the name implies, it can be prepared very easily in very short duration that too using very basic inhouse ingredients. Rather than having it with Dosa or Idly, i always love to lick it without any sidedish ! Whereever she prepares this, i cant resist licking it immediately :P So here comes my all time licking chutney :P

ALL YOU NEED:

Ripen Tomato	4 Nos.
Gingelly Oil	1 spoon
Curry Leaf	1 Twig
Garlic	4 Nos.
Chilly Powder	1 spoon
Corainder Leaf	2 Twigs
Turmeric Powder	Pinch
Mustard	1 spoon
Salt	To Taste

METHOD:
     Grind all 4 tomatoes along with Garlic to a fine paste. Take a pan. Heat a spoon of gingelly oil, add mustard once it cracks, add curry leaf, coriander leaf, pour grinded items, add chilly powder, turmeric powder and required salt. DONOT add water. Allow it to boil, until raw smells goes off. Now serve with Dosa or Idly. So simple is it !!??

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Chickpea Sundal

     This is my most favorite one among all Sundal varieties. At the same time, Noone will like sundal varieties in my home. Being a lazy girl, Do you think will prepare it only for me ???!!! Noway, So, will wait for Vinayar Chathurthi festival:P . Will boil nearly a cup full of sundal only for me and Lord. Ganesha :D and will empty half of the plain boiled sundal and remaining will be prepared as Sundal. Still if i have any left overs, will store it in fridge and make it as Channa for my chapathi the next day :P See, how am craving for this chick pea. Poor girl am :( Here comes the my favorite sundal recipe........

ALL YOU NEED:

Chick Pea	1 cup
Chopped Onion	2 Nos.
Coriander Leaf	2 Twigs
Grated Coconut	1/4 cup
Urad Dhall	2 spoons
Curry Leaf	1 Twig
Green chilly	2 Nos.
Red Chilly	1 No.
Ginger	1/2 Inch
Garlic	5 Nos.
Salt	To Taste
Oil	2 spoons

METHOD:
     Pressure cook overnight soaked chick pea for 5 mins and drain the excess water once pressure gets released. Heat 2 spoons of oil in a pan. Add mustard, once it gets splutters, add Red chilly and Urad dhall, do a sauting. Now add chopped onion, chopped curry leaf, corainder leaf, mashed garlic and ginger. Do a hard saute by adding a pinch of salt. Now add on boiled chick pea, saute it. Before switching off the flame, add grated coconut and adjust with salt. Give a sauting for 5 mins and switch off.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Masala Pori/Puffed Rice

     If anyone ask me to award for the best and non-junky snack. I will defenitely suggest this. I should say this is one of THE BEST Healthy, tasty, crispy, cheap and non-fatty snack. This is our traditional, home town based snacker which my grand ma use to prepare this often and even my mom will have this instock all time. During my childhood, if we are planning for a long trip, my mom will start preparing this, to munch during our bored journey time. One day, we went to temple and saw people selling this in huge numbers, suddenly thought why i shouldnot give a try so bought it immediately and prepared and even tasted and now its for your viewssssssssssssssssss................

ALL YOU NEED:

Puffed Rice	2 cups
Red Chilly Powder	1 spoon
Turmeric Powder	Pinch
Pepper Powder	1/2 spoon
Curry Leaf	4 Twigs
Urad Dhall	2 spoons
Garlic	8 Nos.
Salt	Pinch
Oil	2 spoons

METHOD:
     Take a wide frying pan. Heat 2 spoons of oil, add mustard, once it gets splutters add urad dhall. Wait until it turns golden brown. Take garlic cloves and do a whip in a mixer grinder. Add it into the oil along with curry leaf. Once garlic turns yellow brown, add the puffed rice, add in all powders and required salt. Do a hard stir with the garlic mixture for a while. That's it... Its ready to munch :) Allow it to cool down for a while, to store it in air tight container. Be careful it should not lose its crispyness.

Note: You can substitute chilly powder with red chilly, if ur serving it to kids.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Mixed Fried Rice

     Thinking what is that mixture in this mixed fried rice !!! Nothing complicated, its sooooooooo simple. I used both chicken and Egg with some veggies to prepare this. Reason was, asusual, am a lover of egg fried rice and my hubby is fond of chicken rice. I dont want to spend time on preparing two different fried rice which have same taste. So prepared by adding both in the same rice. Even was bit scared how the outcome will be, b'cos this was my first try that too during weekend. Not Bad ! Taste was really good. We really enjoyed with chicken curry.

Its my lil one carving who broke the perfect bowl shape :)

ALL YOU NEED:

Basmathi Rice	1 cup
Chopped Carrot	1/4 cup
Chopped Garlic	10 Nos.
Chopped Beans	1/4 cup
Spring Onion	1/4 cup
Chopped Cabbage	1/4 cup
Pepper Powder	Pinch
Ajino Motto	Pinch
Capsicum	1/4 cup
Egg	4 Nos.
Chicken	200 g
Oil	2 spoons
Salt	Pinch

METHOD:
     Boil basmathi rice with a pinch of oil and drain the excess water. Pressure cook chopped chicken pieces by adding pinch of salt for 5 whistle. Take a bowl, break all 4 eggs, add pepper powder and salt and do a stir. Take a pan, add a spoon of oil, once its gets heated, pour the egg mixture, make it as a crumbled egg and even let this sit for a while. Now take a non-stick pan, heat a spoon of oil. Add all veggies expect capsicum, chopped garlic, crumbled egg, chicken pieces and even Ajino Motto, give a hard stir and cover the pan with lid, until it gets cooked. Now add on the capsicum, stir it for a while and add cooked rice, give a saute without breaking the rice shape. Now serve hot with sauce and best side dish.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬