Malar's Cuisine

Uzhundhu(Urad dal) vadai

2013-04-15T22:24:00.002-04:00

Ingredients

Urad dal 1 cup

Onion 1/4 cup

Curry leaves 5 to 6 leaves

Coriander leaves A small bunch

Cumin seeds 1 tsp

Pepper 1/2 tsp

Green chilli 1 or 2

Salt as required

Oil as required

Direction

Wash and soak urad dal for 2 hours.
Grind urad dal in the grinder if you can,otherwise blend in a blender by adding little by little water.
Do not add too much water. If you add too much water, the vadai will be too oily.If your batter is so thick,it will become hard.To avoid this,check the batter before making the vadai.
Take some water in a bowl,put a small amount of batter into the water. If the batter floats,the consistency is good.
Heat some oil in a pan.Mix all the ingredients in the batter.
Take water in a bowl, dip your hand in the water and take some lemon size batter. Make it into a ball. Press in the middle of the ball and put it into the oil.Fry them until it turns into golden brown. Have it with coconut chutny and enjoy :)

A Vanilla Rose Cake

2013-01-03T14:09:00.000-05:00

Dear readers,

Sorry for the long absence.It has been a while since I post on the blog.
I was too busy with my little daughter.So.I could not post properly.
After a while I started to get a feeling that I have to start again with a good recipe.
Today is my sweet daughter's birthday.I did a cake for her.I start blogging with this beautiful cake :)

Ingredients:

Butter - 1 cup
Sugar- 2 cups
All purpose flour(Maida)- 3 cups
Eggs - 4 cups
Milk - 1 cup
Vanilla Extract- 2 tsp
Baking powder - 1 tbsp
2 9*3 inch cake pans
Star tip
Even bake strips( to bake the cake evenly)
Ready to use Butter cream

Direction:

To make a cake :

Preheat the oven to 350F.
Soak Wilton Bake even strips in water.
Lightly butter and flour the cake pans.
You could use electric mixer or hand mixer.
Since I don't have both of them,I used our regular blender.
Blend butter(room temperature) until it becomes fluffy.
Gradually add sugar and blend well.Beat well for 5 minutes until it gets fluffy.
Add vanilla extract.Add 1 egg at a time and blend well.
After adding all eggs,blend them for 5 minutes.
Mix sifted all purpose flour and baking powder.
Add flour in three stages and milk in two stages.(F-M-F-M-F)
Once added everything,blend them well for 10 minutes.
Cover the pans with strips.
Divide them into two parts and pour them into the cake pan.
Bake it in the oven for 30 to 35 minutes.

To decorate:

Make your own butter cream recipe or I bought ready to use Butter cream recipe.
Mix color whatever you want.
Place a cake in a base( I used our regular serving tray).
Apply the icing on top and place another cake on top of the icing.Icing the whole cake evenly.
With a big star tip,make swirls like rose around the cake.

Flat wrap Quesadilla

2011-03-31T08:57:00.000-04:00

Ingredients :

Italian flat wrap - 1
Onion - 1 cup
Mushroom - 3
Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup
Green chili - 1
Red chili flakes
Egg - 1
Pepper powder
salt

Direction :

Beat egg,pepper and salt well and keep aside.
Heat oil in a pan,add onion and saute it well.
Add mushroom and remaining ingredients.
Saute well and close the lid.
Allow to cook and make the masala dry.
Heat a pan and roast the flat wrap on one side.
Turn other side and pour the egg mixture.
Close the lid for 5 minutes and add the masala on top of the egg.
Turn to other side to cook the egg.
Place it in a plate and wrap it to half.
If you want cut them into half and serve with any sauce of your choice.

Lilva Kachori

2011-03-29T09:33:00.001-04:00

Ingredients :
All purpose flour(Maida) - 1 cup
Surti Lilva - 1/2 cup
Green chili - 2
Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup
curry leaves
Mustard seeds
Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
salt
Oil for frying

Direction :

Mix the flour and salt,add water to make it a soft dough.Keep aside for 10 minutes.
Blend lilva,green chili,coriander leaves and curry leaves together.
Heat oil in pan and add mustard seeds & cumin seeds.
Add the ground mixer and saute well tell it becomes dry and tender.
It will take around 15 to 20 minutes.
Heat oil in a pan for frying.
Make 6 balls out of the dough and the liva.Take one ball and make small roti from that.
Place lilva ball in the center of the roti and close the edges as we do in the modak.Then roll it in your palm to make a smooth ball.
Put these balls into the oil.Deep fry them till it becomes golden brown.
Serve hot with tea or coffee.

Kadalai Mittai,Chikki(Peanut Brittle)

2011-03-18T16:47:00.000-04:00

Ingredients:
Peanuts - 1 cup
Jaggery - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Aluminum foil

Direction :

Dry roast the peanuts well for 15 to 20 minutes.
Cool and place it in a cloth.
Press well with your palm to remove skin and break them.
Grease a plate with oil or ghee.
Heat two pans,take the sugar in one pan and the jaggery in another pan.
Pour 1 tbsp of water in the jaggery.
Do not add water in the sugar. It will melt slowly and will become caramel.
To check the right consistency pour a drop of jaggery and caramel in the water.
If you can make a ball out of it,then that will be the right consistency.
Then pour caramel into the jaaggery and mix well.
Now add peanuts and mix it carefully.
Pour the mixer into the plate.
By a knife cut them correctly.

Pori Urundai ( Puffed rice balls )

2010-12-17T18:49:00.000-05:00

Ingredients :
Pori - 4 cups
Jaggery - 2 cups
Cardamom powder

Direction :

Mix pori(puffed rice) and cardamom powder.
Heat jaggery in a pan with little water.
Once it melts fully, strain it to remove dusts.
Again heat the jaggery.
Keep water in a bowl near by to check the consistency of the jaggery syrup.
Put a drop of jaggery in the water.If you can make a ball out of it,then that will be the right consistency.
Pour the sugar syrup immediately into the pori( puffed rice ).
Mix them well with hand and make balls out of it ( pori should be warm enough to handle)

Semiya Kesari ( vermicelli halwa)

2010-12-17T18:34:00.000-05:00

Ingredients :

Semiya - 1 cup
Water - 1 & 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Cashew nuts
Raisins
Ghee - 1 tbsp
Food color

Direction :

Heat a pan with ghee and roast the semiya till it becomes slightly brown color.Keep aside.
Again add ghee and roast the cashews and raisins.Keep aside.
Add 1 & 1/2 cups of water and a pinch of food color.
When it comes to boil add the semiya and allow to cook for 10 minutes.
Add the sugar and cook another 5 to 10 minutes.
Finally add the cashews and raisin and serve hot.

Rasmalai

2010-12-17T18:19:00.000-05:00

Ingredients :

Milk - 8 cups
Sugar - 1 cup
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp
Saffron
Cardamom powder
Nuts

Direction :

Boil 4 cups of milk in a large vessel.
When it comes to boil,add lemon juice.
Now milk will start to curdle.
Strain the curdled milk using a thin cloth and wash it in cold water immediately.
Hang it for half an hour.
After that kneed the paneer until it becomes soft and make small balls out of it.Press the balls gently in your palm to flatten slightly.
Simultaneously boil another 4 cups of milk in another thick bottomed pan with some saffron and cardamom in a medium flame.
Stir continuously till milk reduces to quarter of its original quantity and becomes semi solid consistency called malai.Add sugar as you wish.
Heat 4 cups of water and 1 cup of sugar in a pressure cooker for 5 to 10 minutes(or 1 whistle).
Now paneer becomes double the size.Cool and squeeze them.
Add those rasagulas into the malai and garnish with saffron and nuts.

Crocheted little girl hand bag

2010-11-18T15:36:00.000-05:00

Newborn Kimono,Hat and Shoe

2010-11-18T14:53:00.000-05:00

Rice Kheer

2010-11-11T17:55:00.000-05:00

Ingredients :

Cooked rice - 1 cup
Milk - 2 cups
Raisin
Cashews
Almonds
A pinch of Cardamom powder
Saffron

Direction :

Soak saffron in warm milk for few minutes.
Heat ghee in a pan and fry raisins,cashews and almonds.Keep it aside.
Add 2 cups of milk and saffron milk in the same pan and add the rice.
Let it boil and stir in between.
When it become thick add sugar and cardamom powder.
Switch off the flame and serve hot.

Thakkali thokku 2

2010-11-08T18:55:00.001-05:00

Ingredients:

Tomato - 1kg
Tamarind - lemon size
Garlic - 7 nos
Mustard seeds
Green chili - 4
Chili powder - 2 tsp
Salt

To grind

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Fenugreek seeds - 1 tsp
Hing - 1/4 tsp

Direction :

Dry fry the ingredients under 'to grind' and make a powder out of it.
Boil the tomatoes and remove the skins.
Blend well using a blender.
Heat oil in pan,add mustard seeds,green chili,garlic.chili powder and tomato paste.
Make a paste from tamarind and add it to the above mixture.
Stir well until tomato turns tender.
Finally add the ground powder and salt.
This will goes well with Idly,Dosa and Rotti.
And also you can make instant Tomato rice.

Coconut sweet ball

2010-11-08T15:41:00.000-05:00

Ingredients :

Shredded Coconut - 1/2 cup
Jageri - 1/4 cup
Cardamom powder - a pinch

Direction :

Heat a pan and add jageri with little water.
Once jageri is fully melted,strain them using a strainer to remove dust.
Heat another pan and add coconut and cardamom powder.Fry them for few minutes.
Then add the jageri and stir them for 2 minutes (or until mixture become semisolid)
Pour them into a plate and cool down.
Cut them into square or make a ball out of it.

Idli podi

2010-11-08T15:32:00.000-05:00

Ingredients :

Urad dal - 1/2 cup
Channa dal - 2 tsp
Red chili - 10 nos.
Curry leaves - 1 string

Direction :

Dry fry the urad dal and channa dal separately.
Heat oil in a pan and fry the red chilli and curry leaves.
At first blend the red chili and curry leaves.
Then add urad dal,channa dal and salt.
Blend them to a corse powder( if u like,grind to fine powder)
Store it in a air tight container.

Pomegranate juice

2010-11-08T15:23:00.000-05:00

Ingredients :

Pomegranate - 1
Milk - 1/4 cup
Sugar - 1 tsp

Direction :

Take pomegranate seeds,sugar and milk in a blender.
Blend them well.
If u want, strain them.

Bread pizza

2010-11-08T15:17:00.001-05:00

Ingredients :

Bread - 2
Mozzarella cheese
Capsicum
Tomato
Onion
Pizza sauce - 2 tsp

Direction :

Preheat the oven for 450.
Apply pizza sauce on the bread,spread some cheese add the topping whatever u like.
I added onion,tomato and capsicum.
Keep it in the oven for about 5 minutes.

Aattukal Soup

2010-11-08T15:04:00.000-05:00

Ingredients :

Goat bones - 1/2 lb
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - 1 string
Red chili - 3
Pepper - 1/4 tsp
Small onions - 10
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
(sambar)Masala powder - 1 tsp

Direction:

Wash the bones and marinate it with turmeric powder and salt.
Heat oil in the pressure cooker and then add mustard seeds,curry leaves,red chili,pepper and cumin seeds.
Then add onions and saute them well.
Add bones and masala powder and saute them well.
Pour 3 glasses of water and close the pressure cooker.
Keep it for 6 or 7 whistles and then serve hot.

Kaju Katli

2010-10-26T15:52:00.000-04:00

Ingredients :

Cashews - 1 cup
Instant dry milk - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
Water - 1/4 cup

Direction :

Powder the cashews and sugar using a blender separately.
Keep powdered cashews in a bowl.
Heat a pan and add powdered sugar and milk powder.
Stir them for 5 minutes.
Add the above mixture in the powdered cashews with the cardamom powder and knead them very gently by adding little by little water.
When all the powders are mixed well,roll them like chapathi.
cut them into shapes you want and decorate with cashews.

Kalakand Milk Sweet

2010-10-05T10:36:00.003-04:00

Ingredients:
Milk - 8 cups
Sugar - 1 cup
Pistachios
Lemon juice - 2 tbsp

Direction:

How to prepare paneer:

Boil 4 cups of milk.When milk starts boiling,add the lemon juice.
Now milk will curdle.
Separate the paneer and pour cold water.

Curdled milk.

Paneer separated from water.

4 cups of milk.

Milk reduced to one fourth...

Preparing kalakand :

Boil another 4 cups pf milk in a high flame.
Once milk starts boil reduce the heat and stir in between until milk reduces into one fourth of its original volume.It will take around 2 hours.
Once milk become like cream add the paneer and sugar.
Stir continuously for 45 minutes or 1 hour.
Pour kalakand into a pan and cut into cubes.
Garnish with sliced pistachios.
Now our delicious kalakand is ready :)

Baby Cardigan with Hat

2010-10-05T10:11:00.000-04:00

Paal Kozhukatai

2010-09-10T15:14:00.000-04:00

Ingredients :

Rice flour - 1 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
cardamom - 2

Direction :
Mix rice flour with water by adding little by little.
Leave some amount of dough as it is.
Make small balls(any shapes) out of the dough.
Steam them using idly cooker.
Mix the remaining dough ,sugar,cardamom and milk well.
Boil them with the cooked kozhukatai for 10 minutes or until it becomes thick.

Egg Bonda

2010-09-10T15:06:00.000-04:00

Ingredients :

Eggs - 4
Gram flour - 1 cup
Red chili powder - 1 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp

Direction :

Boil the eggs,remove the shell and cut them into half.
Mix gram flour,chili powder and salt.
The batter should be thick.
Heat oil,dip the egg in the batter and deep fry them.

Bonda from left over dosa batter

2010-09-10T15:00:00.000-04:00

Ingredients :

Left over dosa batter
Rice flour as req.
Onion
Green chili - 2
Curry leaves
Pepper - 5 or 6
Coriander leaves

Direction :

If dosa batter is so thin add rice flour to make it required consistency.
Add remaining ingredients in the batter.
Heat oil,take some batter by hand and put it in the oil.
Deep fry them and eat with coconut chutney.

Adai Dosai

2010-09-10T14:52:00.000-04:00

Ingredients :
Toor dal - 1/4 cup
Channa dal - 1/4 cup
Urad dal - 2 tsp
Moong dal - 2 tsp
Rice - 1 cup
Red chili - 3
Curry leaves
Onion
Coconut pieces
Coriander leaves
Cumin seeds
Salt

Direction :

Soak rice and all dals separately for 2 hours.
At first blend rice,then add dals,red chili and salt.
Blend them coarsely and transfer it to a bowl.
Now add curry leaves,coriander leaves,coconut,onion and cumin seeds.
The batter should be thick.
By using dosa tawa make beautiful dosas.
Coconut chutney goes well with this dosas.

Spinach Poriyal

2010-09-10T14:34:00.000-04:00

Ingredients:

Spinach - 1/4 kg
Onion - 1/4 cup
Shredded coconut - 2 tsp
Mustard seeds
Cumin seeds
Curry leaves
Red chili - 1

Direction:

Wash spinach well and cut them properly.
Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds,cumin seeds,curry leaves,red chili and onion.
Saute them well and add spinach.
Close the lid and allow to cook.
Stir now and them the spinach.
cook them until all water evaporates.
Finally spread shredded coconut.