Curry Leaves dry Chutney...

Karabevinpalle chutney.. You can use it as alternate of curry leaves, use as mixture to your white rice just like Puliogare dry powder...And it is very good for health also...

Prep Time: 10 min

Cook Time: 30 min

Serves for: more than 10 persons

Ingredients:

3cups - Fresh Curry leaves

1/4 cup - Urud dal

1/4 cup - Channa dal

1/4 tsp - Hing

4 - Red chillies

1tsp - Red Chilli powder

½  tsp - Coriander Seeds

1tbsp - Oil

Salt - to taste

Direction for Preparation:

1.  In pan fry fresh curry leaves using oil until they are crisp. When they are crisp remove from heat and keep aside let it cool down.

2.  In same pan add remaining oil and fry Urad dal, channa dal ,coriander seeds and red chillies until dal turns brown. Let it cool.

3.  In After completely cooling down curry leaves and dal, coarsely grind them by mixing together in mixer.  

4. Add required amount of salt and red chilli powder, mix well and store it in air tight container.  

5. Use this it with hot rice and ghee, or chapathi as side dish.

Apple Cinnamon Pie..

Till now not able to get my pie dish in bangalore..:( As I am always stuck with work hardly I get some weekends which are free enough,where I can do some trail and error. So yesterday I got it... thought to try my many days wish that is PIE..APPLE PIE...APPLE CINNAMON PIE...But my first worry was not having any pie dish. still managed to do it in my cake baking tray, which turned out very well, Second worry is how my pie crust turn out, trust me pie crust was very crispy and very tasty. Finally I was happy as I tried one of my favorite dish.

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 15 min

Serves for: 4 persons

Another Click...of beautiful mouth watering Pie...

Ingredients

For Filling:

2 – Apple chopped lengthwise

1 tbsp – Butter

2 tbsp – powdered Sugar

½ tsp – Cinnamon powder

For Pie:

1 cup – plain floor

100 gm – frozen Butter

2 tbsp – ice cold water

2 tbsp – butter or vegetable oil (1 egg substitute)

For Garnishing:

1 tsp – Castor Sugar

1 tsp – Chocolate Syrup

Direction for Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven at convention mode at 190C. Sift flour and mix it with Butter. Add cold water and knead into dough.

2. Mix butter, cinnamon powder, apples and powdered sugar and microwave for 3-4 min, keep aside to cool.

3. Roll the dough and cut into two layers of the shape of the pie dish.

4. Now line the dish with 1 layer, stuff it with the prepared apple filling and cover with other layer, press the edges together.

5. Brush the butter on the pie (egg substitute).

6. Bake in preheated oven for 10-15 min, at 190C on convention mode.

7. Sprinkle castor sugar and garnish it with chocolate syrup.

8. Cut into wedges and serve.

Avalakki Chivada....Dipawali Special snack...

These chivada are my all time favourite.. I tasted these from many people but I always loved to have special chivada prepared by my mom.I tried them in my home more than thrice but never got time to pen down and take picture... So today as Dipawali special I prepared them,try out recipe and let me know how it come out. Enjoy Safe Dipavali with kurkure avalakki chivada...

Prep Time: 20 min

Cook Time: 15 min

Serves for: 4 persons

Ingredients:

2 cup – Avalakki (medium thin poha)

4 tbsp – Ground nuts

4 tbsp – Fried gram

1 tbsp – Coconut pieces

3 tbsp – Oil

1 tbsp – Sesame seeds

1 tsp – Coriander seeds

4-5 – Green Chilly

1 tsp – Termeric Powder

1 tsp – Chilly Powder

Salt - to taste

Fresh Curry leaves

Fresh Coriander leaves

Direction for Preparation:

1. Heat Avalakki in Microwave for about 5 min or until they are crisp, stirring in between to avoid burning. (Get medium thin poha, you can get it from megastores. For crispyness of avalakki my mom used to dry them in sunlight, as modern technology utilization I used microwave for this process…J)

2. Slit the green chillies length wise and keep aside. (Adjust these according to taste)

3. In Kadai, put oil and add ground nuts first and stir continuously.

4. When Ground nuts are started to brown in colour, add fried gram , green chilly, Coconut pieces,coriander seeds,curry leaves.Let them splitter.

5. Add turmeric powder,salt and red chilly powder according to taste.

6. Now add coriander seeds,sesame seeds and stir well.

7. Switch off the gas and let it cool the mixture completely (to maintain crispiness of avalakki)

8. After cooling completely add fresh and finely chopped coriander.

9. Add crispy avalakki and stir well. Store in air tight container, can store more than 15 days.

10. Serve them with cup of coffee to you Diwali guests.

Hoolige... Diwali Special....

Enjoying Diwali with traditional food Hoolige / Obbattu...:) Happy Diwali to my readers..:)

Ingredients

1 cup - Channa Dal

1 cup - Jaggery

1/2 tsp - Cardemom powder

4 tbsp - Oil

A Pinch of Salt

For dough (Kanak):

1 ½ Cup - Maida

2tbsp - Sooji

Direction for Preparation:
1. Pressure cook channa dal for 5-6 whistel.

2. After boiling, drain all the excess water

3. Mix boiled channa dal with, powdered jaggery and boil about 10 min.

4. Smash the mixture using hand blender or in mixer (Hooran) (If you find extra water in mixture, remove it by squeezing it using muslin cloth)

5.Make dough with maida,sooji,salt and oil using required amount of water. Cover and keep the dought aside for 1 hour (Kanak)

6. Stuff dal mixture(Hooran) in douhh(kanak),use oil to palm to avoid sticking.

7. Roll stuffed dough on Plastic paper by using oil, just like chapati.

8. Fry on hot tava using oil.

9. Serve Hoolige with Ghee.

Chocolate Trifle...

My week has ended with satisfaction of completing my work on time, enjoying my Friday evening with cup of coffee. As weekend special I am not in mood to prepare any fully fledged dinner like roti, dal, rice tired of eating it…Today I wanted to have something different, while surfing through internet I came across an idea of preparing simple desert… THIS IS THE RESULT OF MY WEEKEND SPECIAL DESSERT…CHOCOLATE TRIFLE…

Ingredients
2 piece – Chocolate cake

3-4 tbsp – Fresh Cream

1 tbsp – Choco Chips

2  -  Choice of butter biscuit(I used Britania Goodday biscuit)

1 tbsp – Chocolate sauce

Direction for Preparation:

1.Take glass(I used wine glass) to arrange triffle.

2. Apply Chocolate sauce to the walls of glass. 

3. Roughly crush the biscuits, and crumble the chocolate cake keep aside.
4. First start with filling 1/4 of glass with crushed biscuits.
5. Next fill the glass with crumbled cake followed by a tbsp of fresh cream.
6. Follow this arrangement of biscuits,cake and cream until you reach end or 3/4 of glass.
7. Finally garnish with some extra cream,choco chips and chocolate sauce.
8. Chill it in freezer to maintain consistency of cream.
9. You can even use ice cream  as one more layer, arrangements and garnishing are left to your own imagination.