Potato Paneer Croquettes

Ingredients needed : 

• Potato - 4
• Grated Paneer - 1/ 2 cup 
• Onion - 1
• Corn flour  - little
• Maida - 2 tsp.
• Coriander leaves - little
• Garam masala powder 
• Chili powder - little (or)
• Green chili - 1
• Hing - little
• Turmeric powder 
• Salt
• Oil for deep frying 
• Bread crumbs 

Method : 

           Wash and roughly chop potaotes and boil well till done , peel the skin and mash it well . Grate paneer finely , Chop coriander leaves ...

Finely chop onions and add little salt and set aside for few minutes, by then water will ooze out of onion , squeeze excess water and use it ..

In a bowl add mashed potato + grated paneer + chopped onions + chopped coriander leaves + corn flour + maida + salt + turmeric powder + garam masala powder + chili powder / chopped green chili + hing powder and mix it well and take some dough and make small roundels or make in oblong shape ..

In a small bowl add 2 tsp. of maida and mix it with water and make a paste ...grind bread slices in mixie using pulse / whip button and make bread crumbs and take it in a plate  ...

take the potato paneer balls and dip it in maida mixture and then roll it in bread crumbs and place it in a plate and place it in fridge for some time say for 30 minutes or so and then deep fry it in oil till done ..

Yummy and Crispy Potato paneer croquettes are ready ..serve it with tomato sauce . 

Variations : 

• You can add sweet corn , capsicum ..
• Instead of paneer , you can make with cheese cubes ..place a small cheese cube in the middle of potato mixture and fry it ..

Garlic bread

Ingredients needed : 

• Bread slices - 4
• Unsalted butter - little
• Garlic pods - 3
• Coriander leaves - little
• Mixed dried herbs - little
• Pepper powder - little
• Salt - little

Method:

               Take a small bowl add Butter + salt + pepper powder + mixed dried herbs and mix it well and make like a paste ...

Chop coriander leaves finely and peel the skin and grate garlic finely and add it to the mixed butter and mix it well ..if needed you can melt the butter and use it ..

Spread the butter mixture on bread well and heat tawa and place the bread cook it for few minutes on medium flame (till the garlic gets cooked)..then turn the bread and cook it for few seconds on the top side and serve it hot ...

Yummy garlic bread is ready ..you can have it with soup ..

Horsegram / Kollu Sundal

Ingredients needed :

• Kollu - 1 cup
• Onion - 1
• Salt
• Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp.
• Jeera - 1/2 tsp.
• Sombu - 1/4 tsp.
• Hing - little
• Turmeric powder - little
• Dried red chili - 1
• Curry leaves - 1 string
• Coriander leaves - little
• Oil

Method :

            Wash and soak horse gram for whole day then pressure cook it with salt  for 3 or 4 whistle. Chop onions finely and keep it ready .

Once done, drain the water and take horse gram separately don't waste the water you can use it in making soups or use it for making kollu sambhar. 

Heat kadai add 2 tsp. of oil + mustard seeds + jeera + sombu + dried red chili + curry leaves + hing + Onion + salt and fry it well to this add kollu + turmeric powder + salt and mix it well  and switch off the flame and garnish with coriander leaves .

Healthy and yummy sundal is ready 

Chettinad Masala Seeyam

                  Recently Mahaslovely home , a co-blogger celebrated her 3rd blog anniversary and called her friends to do guest posting each friday ..she was so kind to ask me and was happy to share space with her and shared this recipe in her space /blog ..  Do check her space and enjoy her recipes and she is very good in baking cakes ... she asked us to answer few questions do check her space for the answers ..

These are the questions : 

1. Few words about u/some thing special which we don`t know??
2. Give 3 Food photography tips or 3 useful kitchen tips??
3. How to improve fans n followers for food blog n food bog face BOOK page??
4. How food blog changed ur life?How many recipes your posting in a month approximately and your memorable moments which related to blog??
5. Finally,tell me few words abt MLH??

Ingredients needed :

• Idli rice - 1/2 cup
• Whole Urad dhal - 1/2 cup
• Hing - little
• Mustard seeds - little
• Jeera - little
• Onion - 1
• Green chili -1
• Ginger -1
• Curry leaves - few
• Coriander leaves -few
• Salt
• Oil

Method:

           Soak rice and urad dhal for 2 hours and then grind it into thick smooth consistency paste. Chop onions, green chili, ginger, curry leaves, coriander leaves and set aside.

Take a kadai add oil + mustard seeds + onion + green chili + ginger and fry for few mins. Once done allow it cool a bit and add it to the batter along with salt + jeera + curry leaves + coriander leaves+hing powder and mix it well

Heat a kadai and add oil for deep frying , in medium heat drop take little batter and drop it in oil and cook it till done . Serve hot with spicy tomato onion chutney.

Vada Pav

Ingredients needed :

To make Vada, Outer covering, Garlic chili powder : 

For Stuffing : 

• Potato - 2 
• Green chili - 1
• Ginger - little
• Coriander leaves - little
• Salt 
• Turmeric powder - little
• Hing Powder - little

For outer covering :

• Gram flour / Besan flour - 1 cup
• Salt 
• Hing powder 
• Turmeric powder 
• Chili powder 
• Oil for deep frying .

For Garlic Coconut chili powder :

• Grated Coconut 
• Salt 
• Chili powder 
• Garlic cloves 

To serve : 

• Paav, buns  or Burger buns .
• Ghee

Method : 

Wash and roughly chop potatoes and boil it and once done allow it to cool well and peel the skin and take a bowl and mash it well to this add salt + turmeric powder + salt + hing powder + chopped green chili and ginger and mix it well and set aside, take little mashed potato + coriander leaves and make small roundels and keep it in a plate ..

Heat a kadai and add little oil and saute chopped galic and to this add grated coconut + salt + turmeric powder + chili powder and mix it well .. 

You can use desicated coconut , kopra / dry coconut ..if using fresh coconut grate it and fry it in kadai for few minutes ...

Heat a kadai and add oil for deep frying meanwhile , take a bowl and add besan flour + salt + hing powder + turmeric powder + chili powder and mix it well to this add water little by little and mix it well make sure no lumps are there and the batter is little thicker in consistency ..

Once the oil is hot take a each potato (balls) mixture and dip it in gram flour mixture and drop it in hot oil and allow it to cook well and drain the excess oil and set aside . 

When Serving Heat a tawa , spread ghee on buns and roast it for few seconds and spread a tsp. of garlic - coconut chili powder and place a potato vada / bonda on top of it and serve it . 

Vegetable Cutlet / KFC style Veg Strips

Saw this recipe here and tried it already twice once like Vegetable strips and next time like cutlet ...both tasted yummy .

Ingredients needed:

• Potato - 2
• Peas / Corn - 1 cup
• Carrot + beans - 1 cup
• Maida flour - little
• Corn flour - little
• Red chili flakes - little
• Pepper powder - little
• Chat masala powder - little
• Salt
• Bread crumbs - little
• Cornflakes powder - little
• Oil - for deep frying 

Method : 

• Heat a pan add dried red chili and fry it and then grind it coarsely and set aside 

• In a small bowl take maida flour + corn flour + red chili flakes + salt and little water and make thin paste and set aside ..

• Take a blender tear bread slice roughly and grind it for a second and keep it in a plate

• Grind cornflakes roughly in blender and set aside or use rolling pin snd powder it 

• Peel potato skin and finely chop beans +carrot take it in a bowl along with peas + corn add little water and place the potatoes in the base of pressure cooker and cook it till done .

• If using dried Peas , soak it overnight and pressure cook it and take it in a blender and using the whip button grind it for a minute and use it.

• Take a wide bowl , mash Potato + cooked veggies + corn + peas + salt + red chili flakes + chat masala powder + pepper powder + maida flour + corn flour and mix it well 

• Take a small ball size of the dough and either flatten it or make it in oblong shape and do the same for rest of dough ...

• Dip it in maida + corn flour mixture (step 2) and then coat it in bread crumbs (step 3) repeat the same steps again and finally 

• Then roll it in cornflakes powder and keep it aside for few minutes ..

• Heat oil for deep frying and drop one vegetable strips or vegetable cutlet and fry it till done ..you can even fry 2 or 3 at a time ...

Serve it hot with Tomato + chili sauce .

Thayir Vadai / Curd Vadai

Ingredients needed:

• Medhu Vadai - 6
• Carrot - 2
• Corainder leaves - little
• Jeera powder  - little
• Chili powder - little
• Chat masala (optional) - little
• Thick curd - 2 cups
• Salt - little

To grind : 

• Coconut - 1/2 cup
• Green chili - 1

Method : 

                  Make medu vadai : click for recipe here. Grind Coconut + green chili into smooth paste by adding little water take it in a bowl and mix it with curd + salt. Peel carrot skin and grate it. Chop coriander finely and set aside. 

In a serving bowl spread little curd mixture and place vadais on it then pour remaining curd mixture on top of it and sprinkle jeera powder , chili powder , chat masala powder and grated carrot , coriander leaves... allow it soak for few minutes and serve it . 

If you wish you can soak the medu vadai in hot water once fried and squeeze water well then soak it in curd mixture .

You can also use kara boondi to garnish. Mix it well and then serve it ..

Onion Chili Pakoda

Bajji milagai

Ingredients needed : 

• Gram flour - 1 cup
• Rice flour - little
• Onion - 2
• Bajji Milagai / Chili - 1
• Chili powder - 1/2 tsp.
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp.
• Hing powder - little
• Salt - little
• Oil - for deep frying 

Method : 

              Chop onions and bajji milagai  lengthwise . In a bowl add besan flour + salt + chili powder + turmeric powder  + hing and mix it well to this add chopped onions + bajji milagai  and mix it again and set aside for few minutes 

Heat kadai add oil for deep frying ..take the bajji flour mix and by now water would have oozed out from onion and made the bajji mix bit sticky ...now sprinkle rice flour and mix it well (if needed sprinkle little water) and take the batter little by little and drop it in hot oil and deep fry till done . 

Yummy hot pakodas are ready . 

Kara Poli ~~ Type 2

When I posted Kara poli, got a tip in comment , tried it in the method mentioned, loved this version too . Followed the same tip and made this . Thanks a lot for the person who shared the tip . This is what the comment said :

Anonymous :: October 25, 2013 at 2:51 AM

Hi ... just tried the recipe with a little modification. If you want real krishna sweet recipe - dont add onions , second add dosa milagai podi( idly chily powder ) on one side of the polis along with finally chopped coriander leaves. To the potato mix , add 1/4 tsp of garam masala. It tastes exactly the same as krishna sweets masala poli.

Ingredients needed : 

For outer covering : 

• Maida - 2 cup
• Turmeric powder - little
• Salt 
• Oil - little
• Water 

For stuffing :

• Potatoes - 3 or 4 
• Salt - little
• Coriander leaves - little
• Garam masala powder - 1/4 tsp.
• Idli milagai podi - little
• Cashews (optional)

Method: 

For outer covering : 

                   Take a bowl add maida+ salt + turmeric powder + oil and mix it well then add water little by little and mix it well till you get soft dough and cover it and set aside . 

For stuffing: 

                   Peel potato skin and cut it into three or four pieces and boil it well till done, once done allow it to cool completely and mash it well to this add salt + garam masala powder + idli milagai podi + finely chopped coriander leaves + cashews if using and mix it well . 

                 Now take small ball size maida dough and make a cup shape of the dough and take little stuffing place it in middle and then bring all the edges together and seal it well... take a small plantain leaf and place the stuffed dough dip your fingers in little oil and flatten the dough gently,  ...heat a tawa and cook poli by adding little oil or ghee and cook on both sides till done .  Kara poli is ready to serve ...tastes best when served hot .

Vazhaipoo Vadai

Ingredients needed : 

• Chana dhal - 1 cup
• Toor dhal - 1/2 cup
• Vazhaipoo - 1 cup
• Onion - 1
• Red chillies - 3 or 4
• Jeera - little
• Fennel seeds / Sombu - little
• Hing powder - little
• Curry leaves
• Salt
• Oil 

Method:

            Chop onions finely . Soak Chana dhal + toor dhal for an hour. Chop Vazhaipoo / plantain florets . To clean plantain flower check here. 

        Drain  the water grind it bit coarsely in mixie along with dried red chilies . Transfer it to a bowl and add salt + jeera + sombu + Hing powder + roughly chopped curry leaves + chopped onions + chopped vazhaipoo and mix it well .          

       Take a kadai and add oil for deep frying, once it is hot take little batter and flatten it in your palm and drop it in oil and allow it to cook well on both sides, yummy and hot vazhaipoo vadai is ready .

Cassava / Maravalli Kizhangu Chips

Maravalli kilangu / Cassava Chips, one of my all time favorite chips and I am sure kids will also love it .

 Ingredients needed:

• Cassava 
• Oil 
• Salt
• Chili powder
• Hing powder

Method :

                          Peel Cassava skin and grate it in chips cutter (like how you do it for potato chips) . Take a kadai and oil and heat it ..once it is hot take a handful of grated chips and drop it in oil and fry it well till done, remove it and spread it in paper towel ... In a small cup add Chili powder + salt + hing powder and mix it well then sprinkle it on the chips and toss it well and then transfer it to a air tight container. 

Linking this to "Friendship 5 Series - Kids special - fast food " started by Geethaa  Achal and Savitha Ramesh. 

Onion Pakoda / Thool Pakoda

Ingredients needed:

• Besan flour - 1 cup
• Rice flour - little 
• Onion - 2
• Chili powder - 1/2 tsp.
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp.
• Hing powder - little
• Salt - little
• Curry leaves - 15 
• Oil - for deep frying 

Method:

             Take a bowl add besan flour + rice flour and mix it well.. Peel skin of onion and chop it lengthwise and add it to the besan and rice flour to this add curry leaves + salt + turmeric powder + hing powder + chili powder and mix it well using hands.. sprinkle very little water if needed and mix it well..it shouldn't be too sticky ... 

Heat a kadai and oil , once it is hot take a handful of flour mixture and drop it evenly spread not in lumps .. (like sprinkling)  in hot oil and allow it to cook well till done . 

Hot and crispy Thool / Onion pakodas are ready. 

Linking this to "Friendship 5 Series - Kids special - fast food " started by Geethaa  Achal and Savitha Ramesh

Ribbon Pakoda

I saved this recipe from some website, not sure which one. But it turned out good. Thanks to whosoever it was

INGREDIENTS:

RICE FLOUR - 2 CUPS
BESAN - 1 CUP
RED CHILLI POWDER - 2 TSP
SALT - AS NEEDED
ASAFOETIDA - A PINCH
SESAME SEEDS |ELLU 1 TSP
MELTED BUTTER - 2 TBLSP
OIL FOR DEEP FRYING

METHOD:

- In a wide bowl, add the rice flour and gram flour .
- Add in the redchilli powder, salt, sesame seeds,butter and asafoetida.
- Mix this into a soft dough using water.
- Heat oil for deep frying in a kadai.
- Add a portion of dough in the murukku press (use the ribbon pakoda achu) and make a round layer in hot oil.
- When it is done on one side flip this carefully using the ladle.
- When the sizzling sound subsides take it out from the hot oil and drain the excess oil in a kitchen towel.
- Repeat this for the remaining dough.
- Store in airtight container.

Coconut Burfi

Ingredients:

Coconut, grated - 1 cup heaped
Sugar - 1 cup
Cardamom pdr - a pinch
Cashews - 10
Ghee - 1 tsp

Preparation:

In a pan, add a lil ghee and fry cashews till brown. Set aside and when they cool down, chop them to small pieces. To the same pan, add grated coconut and sugar. Saute together till it mixes well. Continue to stir in medium flame till the sugar melts to form a thick syrup texture. When the mixture starts to leave the edges of the pan, with some foamy consistency, switch off the stove. Add cashews and cardomom powder 2 mins before you switch off the flame. Pour this on to a greased plate and level out the top layer. Cut to pieces when still warm.

Pepper Karasev

Ingredients:

Besan - 1.5 cups
Rice flour - 1 cup
black pepper - 15 nos (adjust to your taste)
Oil (heat before adding) - 3 tbsp
Asafoetida - a pinch
salt - as needed
garlic pods - 3 nos

Grind black pepper and garlic pods (do not make it powder like...coarse grind it). Mix this with besan + rice flour + salt + asafoetida + hot oil. Oil can be replaced with softened butter. Mix water as required such that the dough is not too stiff.

Heat oil in a deep pan. Check the oil by dropping a lil dough to the oil. If it comes up immediately then the oil is at the right temperature. Then using the 3 circles thenkuzhal achu in the muruku presser make the karasev. Remove it from oil, once the sizzling stops. Break it to pieces once it cools down. Yummy and crunchy karasev is ready for diwali 

 

 

Sweet Corn Kofta

 

Ingredients needed :

• Sweet corn (frozen) - 1 cup
• Bread - 2
• Potato - 3
• Onion - 1
• Green chillies
• Salt
• Oil 
• lemon juice

Method :


Chop onions and heat kadai and add 1 tsp. oil and fry onions till done ...peel potato skin and chop it into pieces and take a saucepan and add little water and  boil the potatoes till done, once done take the potato pieces and allow it cool well and then mash it and set aside, as I used frozen sweet corn , bring it to room  temperature .

Take a blender and grind bread using whip button and make it powder and set aside ...then grind sweet corn + green chillies coarsely .. and transfer it to a bowl and add mashed potato + salt + lemon juice + bread crumbs and mix it well ...then take a small portion of the mixture and shape it in balls and keep it ready ...


Heat a paniyaram pan and add little oil in each hole and place the potato - sweet corn balls and fry it in medium heat till done and serve it with tomato sauce ..


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Moong dhal Pakoda

Ingredients needed :

• Moong dhal (Pasi paruppu) - 1 cup
• Jeera - 1/2 tsp.
• Dried red chilli - 2 
• Hing powder 
• Salt
• Oil

Method :

Wash and soak moong dhal for 1 hour , then drain the excess water and take a blender and add the moong dhal + Jeera + dried red chilli and grind it coarsely by just sprinkling little water . Once done take it in a bowl and add salt , hing powder and mix it well ..

Heat a paniyaram pan and add oil in each hole and take a spoon of dough and drop it in the hole ...and allow it to cook well on both sides ...keep the flame in medium heat and cook it as it take time to cook inside.

Moong dhal pakoda is ready .

I am not sure about deep frying it ...If you wish you can do it . As I used this pakoda and made gravy as a side dish for chapathi will post the recipe soon.

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French fries

Hi all ,


Hope you all are doing good . Thanks for all your wishes, I am better now. For past few days my son is having chicken pox and was fully engaged with him. He is also getting better now , did not expect May month will be this worst ..hoping to get back with my routine soon...well coming to this recipe ,made this long back, but posting it today...saw this in Aarthi's blog here came out perfect. My son loved it a lot. Thanks Aarthi for sharing the recipe...

Ingredients needed :

• Potato 
• Salt
• Chilli powder 
• Oil 

Method : 

Clean the potatoes and remove the skin and slice it lengthwise slightly thicker in size .. Take a pan and add water + little salt + chilli powder and allow it to boil well then add the potatoes and allow it to cook till it gets tender (you can check by inserting a fork ) ...then switch off the flame and drain the water completely and allow it to cool well ...

Heat a kadai and add oil for deep frying and once the oil is hot drop cooked potatoes and fry it well till done ...once done drain them in paper towel, when it is slightly hot add the chilli powder + salt and gently toss them so that it gets coated evenly ...and enjoy the french fries .

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Maida Biscuits

The  tiny biscuits /  thukkada  recipe along with photo was sent by Lavanya . Hope you all like both the version ..

Savory biscuits.:

Maida 1 cup
Salt to taste
Chilli powder 2 tsp
hing ( a pinch)
oil.

Make like a chapati dough. Roll as thin as possible like that for a chapati.
Cut it in cubes using knife. Deep fry the cubes.

Sweet biscuits.:
 

Maida 1 cup
sugar 1 1/2 cup
cardamon powder
oil - 2tsp

Its the same procedure like that for savory biscuits. Since its sweet version, the dough will be more sticky. Use enough flour while rolling as chapati. Cut into small cubes. Deep fry the cubes.


Its a very easy evening snack to make.

Couscous Potato Cutlet

I wanted to try ragada patties , followed the same recipe except for patties I tried making it with Couscous. Loved this a lot ...you can either make it with the peas gravy or just can have the patties alone along with salad and bread

Ingredients needed :

• Couscous - 1 cup
• Potatoes - 2
• Carrot (Opt.) - 1 
• Chilli powder - 1/4 tsp.
• Salt
• Oil

Method :

Peel carrot skin and grate it and set aside ..peel the potato skin and chop it into pieces and take a pan and boil it well with reqd. amount of water, once done take the potato pieces alone and allow it to cool completely , then mash the potatoes and keep it aside ...if you have any excess water , don't discard it use it to cook the couscous.

In the same pan add little more water and allow it to boil well then add a tsp. of oil + salt and add the couscous and switch off the flame and keep it closed for few mins ..couscous will observe all water, take a fork and spread the grains gently .

Take a bowl and add the couscous + mashed potatoes + grated carrot + salt + chilli powder and mix it well ...then take a little mixture and shape it into patties and arrange it in a plate ...once done keep the patties in freezer for 10 -15 mins. (this helps in frying the patties without breaking )..

Take a non stick tava and place the patties and add oil and fry it well on both sides and then serve it ...

If you want to make it along with the peas gravy then check this recipe :

ragada patties