This is a really tasty chutney- healthy and easy to make too..
Ingredients:
Green apples - 4
Green chilles - 4
Oil- 1 tsp
Mustard seeds, salt and hing to taste
Preparation:
Wash and dice the apple with skin , in to small cubes. Take a kadai , add oil and mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds splutter, add green chilles, hing and the apple.
Turn to medium flame and cover with lid.
When the apple is really soft,add salt and turn off stove and cool the mixture.
Blend to fine chutney in mixer.
It goes well with chappatis as well as plain rice.
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Akki Roti
Ingredients:
Rice flour - 2 cups
Choice of veggies, ranges from finely chopped onions, green chiles, shredded carrots, or chiiles and finley chooped methi leaves, or chilles and shredded cucumber
1/4 cup sour yogurt
jeera- 1 tsp
Salt to taste
water for kneading dough
Preparation time:
15-25 mins, depending on number of available shallow tawas:-)
Preparation
Mix rice flour, jeera , veggies, yogurt and salt . Add water little by little. Knead the dough until it is neither too ahrd nor very water, should be almost like chappati dough consistency.
Now take a shallow tawa, put in 1 tsp oil and take a orange sized ball of the dough, using your fingers, pat the ball and flatten it working on all sides. Continue until this covers the circumference of the tawa. now make a small hole with your finger and keep the tawa on the stove. Can add another 1/2 tsp of oil in the center, if you wish. Cover with a lid. Cook on medium flame. When the roti turns golden brown. Remove it from flame.
Server hot with pickle or plain yogurt.
Rice flour - 2 cups
Choice of veggies, ranges from finely chopped onions, green chiles, shredded carrots, or chiiles and finley chooped methi leaves, or chilles and shredded cucumber
1/4 cup sour yogurt
jeera- 1 tsp
Salt to taste
water for kneading dough
Preparation time:
15-25 mins, depending on number of available shallow tawas:-)
Preparation
Mix rice flour, jeera , veggies, yogurt and salt . Add water little by little. Knead the dough until it is neither too ahrd nor very water, should be almost like chappati dough consistency.
Now take a shallow tawa, put in 1 tsp oil and take a orange sized ball of the dough, using your fingers, pat the ball and flatten it working on all sides. Continue until this covers the circumference of the tawa. now make a small hole with your finger and keep the tawa on the stove. Can add another 1/2 tsp of oil in the center, if you wish. Cover with a lid. Cook on medium flame. When the roti turns golden brown. Remove it from flame.
Server hot with pickle or plain yogurt.
Quick tomato pickle
Quick tomato pickle:
Ingredients:
1. Ripe tomatoes- 10
2. oil, mustard seeds, methi powder, salt
3. red chilli powder - 1 tsp
Preparation time:
10 mins
preparation:
Dice the tomatoes into cubes. Heat a deep bottomed pan and pour soem oil. When it is hot, put the mustard seeds. When they splutter put the diced tomatoes, and salt . Cover with a lid. let it cook on medium flame.
If you have methi powder that is good, otehrwise, pan fry some methi seeds (without oil). cool it and grind it into a fine powder.
When the tomatoes are cooked very soft add, the methi powder and red chilli powder. Turn off the stove.
This tomato 'Bisi Uppinkai"(in Kannada, meaning hot pickle) goes well with rice, idlis as well as chappathis. My kids love it with chappathi.
When refreigerated , can stay for a week.
Ingredients:
1. Ripe tomatoes- 10
2. oil, mustard seeds, methi powder, salt
3. red chilli powder - 1 tsp
Preparation time:
10 mins
preparation:
Dice the tomatoes into cubes. Heat a deep bottomed pan and pour soem oil. When it is hot, put the mustard seeds. When they splutter put the diced tomatoes, and salt . Cover with a lid. let it cook on medium flame.
If you have methi powder that is good, otehrwise, pan fry some methi seeds (without oil). cool it and grind it into a fine powder.
When the tomatoes are cooked very soft add, the methi powder and red chilli powder. Turn off the stove.
This tomato 'Bisi Uppinkai"(in Kannada, meaning hot pickle) goes well with rice, idlis as well as chappathis. My kids love it with chappathi.
When refreigerated , can stay for a week.
Recipe for Goddu Saaru
Recipe for Goddu Saaru
This is a very easy method of Saaru(in kannada) or Rasam . Mt hubby loves this and it is also so very easy to make, especially after a tiring long day, when you have no mood to eat the greasy take out food and you have no energy left to cook something elaborate:
Ingredients:
1. tamarind juice
2. toamto -1
3. jeera
4. oil (just a little bit)
5. Cilantro
6. jaggery (bella or Gur) - small piece
7. Saarin pudi (aka rasam powder- even mtr rasam powder works)
8. Salt , hing to taste
Preparation
Mix the tamarind juice with 1.5 cups of water. Add saarin pudi, hing, jaggery, to it.
Bring the mixture to boil. Meanwhile, chop the tomatoes and cilantro very finely and add to mixture. Bring the whole moxture to boil. Add salt and turn off the stove.
Now take the tadka pan, add oil and when it is hot add some Jeera. When it splutters, add this to the Saaru mix.
Your godd saaru is ready.
PS: This is very tasty when eaten with very soft rice (rice cooked with excess water).
Cooking time = 5-7 mins
This is a very easy method of Saaru(in kannada) or Rasam . Mt hubby loves this and it is also so very easy to make, especially after a tiring long day, when you have no mood to eat the greasy take out food and you have no energy left to cook something elaborate:
Ingredients:
1. tamarind juice
2. toamto -1
3. jeera
4. oil (just a little bit)
5. Cilantro
6. jaggery (bella or Gur) - small piece
7. Saarin pudi (aka rasam powder- even mtr rasam powder works)
8. Salt , hing to taste
Preparation
Mix the tamarind juice with 1.5 cups of water. Add saarin pudi, hing, jaggery, to it.
Bring the mixture to boil. Meanwhile, chop the tomatoes and cilantro very finely and add to mixture. Bring the whole moxture to boil. Add salt and turn off the stove.
Now take the tadka pan, add oil and when it is hot add some Jeera. When it splutters, add this to the Saaru mix.
Your godd saaru is ready.
PS: This is very tasty when eaten with very soft rice (rice cooked with excess water).
Cooking time = 5-7 mins
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