Peanut Gravy

     Will ever grandmas recipe tastes bad ?!?! According to me no way. Yes, this recipe is my grandmas newly excavated recipe who can be called as "Traditional 5 star hotel chef". All her recipe will have heavenly taste which all time linger in our mouth. You wont believe am literally mouthwatering here just by thinking her recipes. Actually i tried for my breakfast but this will go very well with rice. Her comes my grandmas recipe which was tried by me.

ALL YOU NEED:

Fresh Peanut	2 cups
Chopped Onion	2 No.
Chopped Tomato	1 No.
Coriander Powder	1 spoon
Sambar Powder	1 1/2 spoon
Turmeric Powder	Pinch
Coriander Leaf	2 Twigs
Fennel Seeds	1 spoon
Curry Leaf	1 Twig
Mustard	1/2 spoon
Salt	To Taste
Oil	1 spoon

To Grind:

Coconut	3/4 cup
Garlic	4 Cloves
Ginger	1/2 inch
Cloves	4 Nos.
Cardamom	1 No.
Cinnamon	Pinch

METHOD:
     Take a pan, add shell off fresh peanut and pinch salt, allow it to boil by adding 1 glass of water. Meantime, grind the items listed under "To Grind". Once the peanut is cooked, put off the flame. DONOT strain the water. Now heat a spoon of oil in a pan, add mustard, fennel seeds, curry leaf, coriander leaf, chopped onion, saute onion for a while, Now add chopped tomato, saute it for 2 mins and it time to add turmeric powder, sambar powder and coriander powder, saute well until oil oozes out. Now pour the boiled peanut along with cooked water. Let it boil for a while. Now pour the grounded mixture, let it get cooked, until raw smell goes off. Once done garnish with coriander and serve hot with idly, rice or roti.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Masala Peanut

    Wow ! the name itself tempting me to munch it right now with a cup of hot masala tea. According to me this is the best tea time muncher. Whenever we buy this, me the one who gobbles most of the count. I'll not leave even the peanut skin, which tastes more than the masala peanut. Since its not available in my current location, thought why not i try at home. Finally tried and here comes.....

ALL YOU NEED:

Raw Peanuts	2 cups
Besan Flour	1/2 cup
Chilly Powder	2 spoons
Food Color	Pinch
Rice Flour	1/4 cup
Fennel Seeds	1 spoon
Garlic	7 to 8 Nos.
Hing	1/2 spoon
Salt	To Taste
Oil	To deep fry

DEEP FRIED VERSION:
     Take a wide pan, add raw peanut (use either with skin or without skin), besan flour, rice flour, hing, red chilly powder, salt and food color, mix all the ingredients without adding water. Now take a mixer, add garlic cloves and fennel, grind it coarsely and mix with the peanuts. Now sprinkle some water, make sure the mixture should not be watery and it should be in rava ladoo mixture consistency. Adjust with salt. Now heat oil for deep frying. Once done, take handful of mixture and drop evenly, try not to put it as lumps. Keep the flame in medium and toss evenly and let the batch be in flame for 3 mins max.

MICROWAVE VERSION:

    Even i tried roasting it in microwave. For which, take a plate add a cup of peanut mixture (mixture of all the ingredients) and add a spoon of oil to the mixture. Mix well. Now evenly spread the mixture on the plate and microwave it for 5 to 6 mins. Make sure, you toss the mixture inbetween. I personally liked microwave version when compare to the deep fried.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Carrot-Groundnut Kootu

     Generally i like to have raw carrots rather than having boiled/cooked ones. But still, as i need to feed my lil one, will add/prepare this veggie in my dish whether with/as rice or salad or poriyal etc.etc. So, that was a hurry-burry weekday, thought of preparing some healthy stir fry for my lunch but when i searched my fridge, i can find hardly 3 carrots which wont be sufficient for 4 ppl (including MIL). So, was totally blank and now suddenly an idea got flashed, i got some fresh raw groundnuts which was untouched for a week's time, just to compensate the quantity, thought why not to add the Groundnut to the Carrots. Yes, even i did it, OMG ! what a taste and really loved the boiled groundnut taste while munching it :) Its for ur views now !!!

ALL YOU NEED:

Carrot	3 Nos.
Groundnut	1/2 cup
Moong Dhall	4 spoons
Chopped Onion	1 No.
Grated Coconut	Handful
Corainder Leaf	2 Twigs
Dry Chilly	3 Nos.
Curry Leaf	1 Twig
Mustard	1 spoon
Salt	To Taste
Oil	1 spoon

METHOD:
     Pressure cook plain groundnut for 3 whistles. Do another pressure cooking moongdhall and Carrots for 4 whistles. Leave it aside. Now take a pan, heat a spoon of oil, allow mustard to splutters. Add in dry chillies, Chopped onion, curry leaf, coriander leaf, do a sauting for by adding pinch of salt. Once done, add the pressure cooked items, groundnut, carrot+moong dhall, do fine sauting until the excess water gets dried. Now add on the grated coconut, do a sauting for 5 mins. Now transfer to serving bowl and serve hot !

    Sending to the event CWS-Peanuts hosted by Priya.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Nutella Nuttie !

     Whenever i go for my monthly provision hunt, this Nutella will be my Eye catcher all time. Since am very new to this and its one of the emerging product in chennai, i use to panic what is it, whether it is a choclate or Bread Spread or any baking ingredients etc. etc. I like to try it but they had only a huge bottle for sale, since its new i dont prefer buying that huge bottle, suppose if it doesnt taste good, it will get wasted totally. So, directly went to SA (Sales Agent) and asked whether they have any promo/tiny pack. She said NO, my expression was literally like this smiley :( Days passed.... (!)

    Again a Day came for my next month's provision hunt. As soon as i entered into the shop, i was totally in joy on seeing a product near billing counter. You know what was that ??!!! That was my most awaited P R O M O P A C K of NUTELLA......... U want to know the price its Just RS.10.... Yiiiipppeeeee !!!! Immediately grabbed two. Completely emptied one pack simply by licking it and had another one which i use to prepare this NUTELLA NUTTIE !!! BTW, how was the dish name ?? :P

Most awaited PROMO PACK !

ALL YOU NEED:

Nutella	2 spoons
Roasted Groundnut	3 Nos.
Roasted Cashew	3 Nos.
Biscuit	1 No.

METHOD:
     Powder the biscuit in mixie. Keep it aside. Take 2 spoons of nutella in a small cup. Now take a cashew, it can be whole or half/cracked one and a single roasted ground nut. Dip it in nutella until it coats well with the nut. Now dust with biscuits powder. Place in a plate and freeze it for 30 mins. Now take it out. Its time to Taste. My kid is a big cashew lover when it is coated with nutella, OMG ! She enjoyed lot, thats what i need. :)

Note: Just for trial i prepared only 3 Nos.

    Sending to the event CWS-Peanuts hosted by Priya.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬