Thursday, October 8, 2009

Rice flour Roti

Ingredients:

Rice flour 2 Cups
Finely cut onions 2 Tbl Spn
Fresh coconut 2 Tbl Spn
Crushed ground nuts and roasted gram 1 Tbl Spn
Chopped green chillies 2 Tsp
Salt and Oil As required

Method:

In a broad vessel put rice flour, salt, finely cut onions, fresh coconut, crushed nuts and 1 tbl spn oil and mix well. In a vessel boil one cup of water. Mix the flour with that hot water. When it becomes cool, knead the flour with your hands. If necessary sprinkle little water and make it into stiff dough. Make it into medium size balls. Take a plythene paper. Greese it with oil . Keep one ball and make roti with your fingers. Keep a roti pan on stove. Put this roti on the pan. Put oil on the top and sides. Close it with a lid. Keep it in medium flame. After some time take the lid and turn the roti and add little water and fry it. Like that prepare all roties. Eat this when it is hot. Garlic chutney goes well with this roti.

Rawa Roti

Ingredients:

Bombay Rawa 2 Cups
Water 2 Cups
Sour Curd 2 Tbl Spn
Finely cut onions 2 Tbl Spn
Chopped green chillies 4
Finely cut curry leaves 1/2 Tbl Spn
Salt and Oil as required

For Seasoning:
Mustard and Broken uraddal little

Method:

Keep a kadai in stove. Pour little oil and put mustard . Then allow it to crackle and add broken urad dal. Then put chopped chillies, onions and curry leaves. Allow for a minute. Add 2 cups of water. When it boils add salt and rawa. Keep it in low flame. Mix well. When it comes into dough consistency remove it from fire add sour curd and mix well. Allow it to cool. Then make the dough into balls. In a wet cloth keep one ball and press it with your fingers and amke a roti. Like that prepare one by one. Keep a roti pan in stove and fry one by one. Directly take from wet cloth and put it on the pan. Add oil and fry it. Coconut chutney goes well with these roties.

Pudina (Mint) Roti

Ingredients:

Maida 2 Cups
Pudina leaves 2 Tbl Spn
Green chillies 4
Salt As required
Oil As required
Ghee 2 Tsp

Method:

Take maida in a broad bowl. Add salt and ghee and mix well. Chop chilles. Cut pudina leaves finely. Add to maida and mix well. Then add water and mix it. Keep that dough aside for one hour. Make it into lemon size balls and prepare roties with the help of roti maker or with roller. Fry the roties one bye one in pan adding little oil. Keep the stove in medium flame. Always put the roti on pan allow it to fry for half minute then turn it and then add oil and fry it. You will get good soft roties.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Garlic Rice

Ingredients:

Basumati Rice 1 Cup
Garlic Flakes 6
Aniseeds(Sombu) 1/2 Tsp
Cinnamon 1 inch piece
Curry leaves Few
Salt As Required
Vetrilai 5
Ghee 1 Tbl Spn
Turmeric Powder 1/2 Tsp

For Powder:

Black Til Seeds 1 Tsp
Pepper 1 Tsp
Dry Ginger Powder(Sukku) 1/2 Tsp

Fry the above three ingredients without oil and make it into powder

Preparation:

Cook the rice separately(For one cup rice you can pour 1 1/2 cup water). In a kadai put the ghee. Fry cinnamon and aniseeds. Then put garlic flakes. Then cut the leaves and add. Then add the above mentioned powder, salt and turmeric powder. Sprinkle little water and fry for few minutes. Now add cooked rice and mix gently. Sprinkle little water if necessary and mix. Keep it in low flame for few minutes. Then you can remove it from fire.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Soft Chappathi

Ingredients:

Wheat Flour 2 Cups
Water 1 1/2 Cup
Salt As Required
Oil 1 Tbl Spn

Preparation:

In a broad bowl pour the wheat flour. Put salt and mix it well. In stove keep the 1 1/2 cup water and little oil(1 tsp). Allow it to boil. When the bubbles comes pour the water in the flour and mix it with ladle. Close it with lid. Allow it to cool. Then knead it with hands and make it soft. If necessary sprinkle water. and mix. Make it into balls. Sprinkle little rice flour on the balls and prepare chappaties with roti maker or with the roll. With the help of pan fry chappaties both sides. Add little oil. It will be very soft.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Bisibelabath


Ingredients:
Raw Rice 1 Cup
Tuar Dal 1 Cup
Peeled small onions 1 Cup
Fresh green peas 1/4 Cup
Tomatoes 2 Big
Sambar Powder 3 Tbl Spn (preparation is in my chutneys and powders blog)
Grated fresh coconut 1 and 1/2 Tbl Spn
Cashew bits 1 Tbl Spn
Salt As Required
Turmeric Powder 2 Pinches
Tamarind One big lemon size (soak in water)
Ghee 1 Tbl Spn
Oil 2 Tbl Spn
Til Seeds 2 Tbl Spn
Dhania Powder 2 Tsp
Curry Leaves Few
Chopped Coriander leaves 1 Tbl Spn
Cinamom(patta) 1 inch piece
Cloves 6 or 8
Preparation:
Cook the rice and dal separately in cooker. When it is hot mash the dal well and mash the rice little. Fry the till seeds without oil and make it power and keep aside. Grind the sambar powder and coconut with little water and keep aside. Sqeeze the tamarind and keep the juice ready. Cut the tomatoes into pieces and keep it ready. Keep pressure pan in stove, put oil, add cloves, cinamom, then put small onions, peas and fry for 3 to 4 minutes. Then add tomato and fry for another three minutes. The add some water close the lid, allow it for 2 or three whistles and switch off. After it become cool, add tamarind juice, mashed dal, salt, dhania powder, till seed powder, turmeric, curry leaves andmix well. Add coconut sambar powder paste and mix. Allow it to boil. Add enough water to make it into thick sambar. Put the chopped coriander leaves and remove it from fire. In a big vessel put the rice and por this sambar and mix well. Add ghee. Keep it in stove in low flame . Fry the cashew with ghee and put it on top. It will be in semi solid consistency.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Tomato Rice (Thakali Satham)


Ingredients:

Rice 1 Cup
Tomatoes 4 Big
Onion 1 Big
Green Chillies 3
Dhania Powder 1 and 1/2 Tsp
Chilli Powder 1 and 1/2 Tsp
Curry leaves and Chopped coriander leaves Little
Salt As Required
Oil 2 and 1/2 Tbl Spn
Garam Masala Powder 1 Tsp
Ginger garlic paste 1 Tsp
Turmeric Powder a pinch

To Season:
Mustard, Urad Dal, Bengal Gram Dal and Few Cashew Pieces

Preparation:

Wash the rice and cook it with 3 Cups of water in cooker. Pour it in a broad bowl and allow it to be come cool. In a kadai put the oil, tamper the mustard, add urad dal, bengal gram dal, and cashew pieces. Put ginger garlic paste. Slit the green chillies length wise and put it. Add curry leaves. Add finely cut onions and fry for few minutes till it becomes light brown. Cut the tomatoes and put it in mixie and make it paste. Now put this paste in kadai. Add salt, chilli powder, garam masala powder, dhania powder and turmeric. Mix well. Allow it to fry till the oil separates from it. Make it cool. Put it in rice. Gently mix it with rice. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Jeera Pulav

Ingredients:

Basumati Rice 1 and 1/2 Cup
Water 1 and 1/2 Cup
Coconut Milk 1 Cup
Jeera 1 Tsp
Slitted Green Chillies 3
Cardamom 5
Conamom 1 inch piece
Cloves 10
Cashew bits 1/2 Tbl Spn
Curry Leaves Few
Oil 2 Tbl Spn
Salt As Required

Preparation:

Soak the basumati rice in water for one hour. Remove the water from rice. In a vessel put rice, 1 and 1/2 cup water, coconut milk, salt and half Tbl Spn oil. Cook it in a cooker. Por the cooked rice in a bowl. Make it into cool. Keep it aside around 10 minutes. In a big kadai pour the remaining oil . Add jeera, green chillies, cloves, cashew, cardamom, cinamom, curry leaves. Fry for few minutes. Add the cooked rice. Gently mix it. Fry it in low flame for few minutes. Keep it in a hot pack. Serve it hot with spicy curry.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Bahalabath (Thair Satham)


Ingredients:

Rice 1 Cup
Thick Curd 1 Cup
Fresh Cream 1 Tbl Spn
thick Milk 1/2 Cup
Salt As Required
Green Chillies 2
Curry Leaves Few
Chopped Coriander Leaves Tbl Spn
Grated Carrot 1 Tbl Spn
Mustard 1/2 Tsp
Ginger bits 1 Tsp

Preparation:

Cook the rice as usual. When it is hot pour it in a big bowl and smash it little with the help of ladle. Put salt. In a small kadai put the oil and add mustard. When it tamper add slitted chillies and curry leaves. Take it from fire and put it in the bowl. Allow it to become cool. Then add fresh cream curd. Mix well. Then add coriander leaves, carrot and milk and mix it with the help of ladle. It will be in semi solid consistency(Like payasam consistency). Keep it aside for 2 hours. Then it will become solid. As it is you can eat. There is no need to add water or curd while eating.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Mixed Veg Rice


Ingredients:

Basumati Rice 1 and 1/2 Cup
Green chillies 2
Carrot (small pieces) 1/2 Cup
Beans (small pieces) 1/2 Cup
Fresh Peas 1/2 Cup
Oil 2 Tbl Spn
Salt As Required
Chopped Coriader leaves 2 Tbl Spn
Badshah Garam Masala Powder 1 and 1/2 Tsp
Big Onions 2
Water 2 and 1/2 Cups
Ginger garlic paste 1 Tsp

Preparation:

Soak Basumati Rice in water for one hour. Cut onions into long thin pieces. Keep a big vessel in which you can cook rice in stove, put oil add ginger garlic paste, then onions fry for few minutes. Add all three vegetables and fry for 5 minutes. Add soaked rice and fry for 3minutes. Add salt, garam masala powder, coriander leaves and 2 and 1/2 cup of water. Then keep this vessel in the cooker. It will take same time like plain rice to cook. After removing it from fire you can eat with tomato sauce.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Aloo Roti

Ingredients:

Wheat Flour 1 and 1/2 Cup
Maida 1/2 Cup
Salt and oil As required

To make Aloo Stuff:

Potatoes 1/4 Kg
Onion pieces 1 Tbl Spn
Chopped Green Chillies 1 Tsp
Chopped Coriander leaves 1 Tbl Spn
Garam Masala Powder 1/2 Tsp
Salt and Oil As Required

Preparation:

For Inside Stuff:

Pressure cook the potatoes well, remove the skin and smash it well. In a kadai add oil first then chopped chillies and onions. Fry it for two minutes. Then add smashed potates, salt and garam masala powder. Then mix well. If it is very dry add little water so that you can make balls properly. Add coriander leaves and remove it from fire. Make it cool. Then prepare lemon size balls.

For Outer Layer:

Take a bow and put wheat flour, maida, salt and 2 Tsp oil and mix well. Add one cup of water. And mix well with your hands. Knead it for few minutes to make it soft. Usually if you take a cup of flour half cup of water is enough. If necessary you sprinkle water and mix. Keep it for one hour.

Preparation of Roti:

Make roti flour it balls. Take a ball and roll. Keep the lemon sized potato ball in it and close it well. Like that you make all balls. Then take one by one and make thick roties and fry it in a pan with little more oil than normal chappaties. Fry both the sides well.
Take a cup of thick curd add pinch of salt and red chilli powder mix well. This suits well with these roties.

Ragi Roti

Ingredients:

Ragi Flour 1 Cup
Bengal gram dal 1 Tsp
Mustard 1/2 Tsp
Curry leaves Few
Onion 1/2 Tbl Spn
Oil and salt As required
Tamarind Juice 1 Tbl Spn

Preparation:


Take a kadai put one Tsp of oil add mustard, allow it to crackle, then put bengalgram dal, red chillies, curry leave, then add tamarind juice, add half cup water and salt. Once the water starts boiling keep the stove in low fire and pour the ragi flour and close it with lid. Don't mix it. Let it be in slim. After 3minutes remove it from fire and add onion pieces and mix well with a ladle. After it become cool mix it well with you hands and make it soft. Keep it for half and hour. Then prepare usual size balls and make roties. Very tasty and healty roties you will get.

Jowar Roti


Ingredients:

Jawar Flour 1 Cup
Wheat Flour 1/2 Cup
Salt As required
Oil As Required

Preparation:

Take a big bowl, put jawar flour, wheat flour , salt and 2 Tsp oil and mix it well with a ladle. Then take a 3/4th cup of water in a small vessel and boil it. Pour the hot water into that flour bowl and mix well with the ladle. Keep it aside. After it becomes cool knead the flour with your hands to make it soft and keep it for half an hour . Make it into small balls and do roties with the help of usual roti roller gently. You should give only half the pressure what you will give normaly to prepare roties. You must make small balls so that you can put 3 to 4 roties at a time in the pan. Since the jawar flour won't have the elasticity it is difficult to prepare normal size roties. Prepare it with medium flame. Both the sides you have to fry adding little oil.