Moong dal cake

Hello,

Let us celebrate friendship day with a healthy,tasty and nutritious sweet made with moong dal. 

Happy Friendship Day to all my readers.

Moong dal cake

Ingredients

Moongdal - 1 1/2 cup

Ghee - 3 tbsp

Sugar - 1/2 cup

cardamom pod - a few

Method of Preparation

In a heated pan add moong dal, a teaspoonful ghee and dry roast till golden brown. allow the dal to reach room temperature. In a mixer add moong dal and sugar make a fine powder out of it. add a few cardamom pods to it. Powder further till you get absolutely fine powder. Put the powder into the pan and keep very low flame. Mix it gently by adding ghee. Now transfer into greased plate  Flatten it with a laddle. Cut into desired shape garnish with broken cashew nuts. If you add less ghee you can roll into soft melt in your mouth maladdu! 

Aloo fry

Hello,

Yet another kids favorite. Aloo fries with indian flavour! My kids are very fond of it. These potatoes are much heavier and longer than the ordinary pototes that we use. 

Ingredients

Potato - 3 long and large

crushed pepper/kashmiri red chilly powder - 1 tsp

salt as required

Oil required for shallow fry

Method of Preparation

Wash peel and cut pototo into long thin stripes. wash and cook in water for about 3 to 4 minutes. Drain the water. In a flat frying pan pour sunflower oil and shallow fry potato by arranging them well so that each piece gets cooked and roast in medium flame. Remove from the frying pan and place it on a kitchen absorbant towel allow the excess oil to drain from the fried aloo. Arrange in the serving plate gently sprinkle crushed pepper/red chilly powder and salt. Mix gently and serve with sauce. 

Bisi bisi vegetable Upma

Hello,

Let me share with you the worlds best breakfast. 

You thouhgt its very easy to make Upma wait, till I explain to you the process!! Its need lot of effort and technique to make tasty yummy upma.  Over the years I have mastered the art of making tasty Upma.

Ingredients

Semolina/sooji rawa -  1 1/2 cup

Vegetables 

Onion - 1

carrot - 1

beans - a few

ginger - a big piece

green chilly - 2

curry leaves - a few

sunflower oil - 1 tbsp

ghee - 2tbsp

coconut oil - 1 tsp

mustard seed - 1 tsp

broken urad dal - 1/2 tsp

channa dal - 1 tsp

hing powder - 1/2 tsp

salt - as required

Method of Preparation

*In a heated pan roast semolin/sooji rawa by adding a spoonful of oil till golden yellow. You will get the roasted aroma when its ready. Make sure you keep the flame low so that it will not burn the rawa. Remove it on a plate.

Wait till I explain to you the level of difficulty.

* cut all the vegetables into small pieces. Cut a few curry leaves. 

* Boil 3 to 4 cups of water in a vessel.

Pour oil in the same pan in which you fried the rawa. When hot add mustard, urad dal and channa dal. When mustard spluter add chopped vegetables fry till they are just cooked, add fried rawa, salt and hing powder and saute more. Once well mixed start adding boiled water 2 cups at first, reduce the flame allow the rawa to cook. After sometime add one more cup of boiled water, reduce the flame. Let the rawa cook till soft and tender like soft flowerets. Add curry leaves. If necessary add more water and cook further. But make sure you add just a little water at a time. Once done pour coconut oil on top and serve hot with pickle and curd/sambhar. 

Read how Upma won the best breakfast award!!

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/Up-Up-Upma-Indian-chef-wins-100000-prize-in-New-York/articleshow/8881462.cms