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Preparation time: 30 mins Serves 4 Ingredients: Small onions – 10 nos.cut in halves Garlic – 6 to 8 cloves Tomato – 1 big finely chopped  Curry leaves – 1 sprig Red cow peas – 1 cup Tamarind – pulp of 1 lemon size ball Chittinad sambar powder – 4 table spoons Coriander powder – 2 tablespoons Turmeric powder Oil – 3 table spoons Salt to taste For seasoning: Jeera – 1 teaspoon Sauf – ½ teaspoon Black pepper – 1 teaspoon Hing – ¼ teaspoon Fenugreek seeds – ½ teaspoon Procedure: Dry roast the peas in a heavy bottom vessel until the aroma comes out. In a cooker add the peas and 1½ cups water and cook it for 4 whistles or until its soft. Keep a pan on the stove, add oil and when its warm and ready add the seasoning. When it starts to splutter add curry leaves, turmeric and fry till the raw smell goes. Then add onions and cook till the colour changes, then add garlic and fry, now add the tomatoes and cook until they b...

Sambar is a simple dish which everyone makes almost daily for breafast. So here is a simple recipe which is delicious yet with less spices and made with natural ingredients instead of using sambar powder. The aroma of this sambar fills the house and makes you eat more idlies or dosas just for the taste of the sambar :) Let's get going with the recipe: Preparation time:  20 mins. Only Serves 6 Ingredients Thoor dal - 1\2 cup  Sambar onion  -15 to 20 nos. peeled Tomato- 1 no. big Green chilly - 4 big Red chilly - 2 long Curry leaves - 2 sprigs Capsicum - 1/2(optional) Potato - 1 no. medium Drumstick - 1/2 piece Brinjal - 4 to 5 nos. Tamarind - 1/2 lemon size Oil - 3 tablespoons  Ghee - 1 table spoon Jagerry - 1/2 teaspoon (optional) Salt to taste Coriander to garnish For seasoning: Mustard -1/2 teaspoon Split urad dal - 1/2 teaspoon Methi seeds - 1/2 teaspoon Hing - 1/4 teaspoon  For grinding: methi seeds - 1/4 tsp...

Preparation: 40 mins Serves 5 Ingredients: Chicken-3/4 kg Small onions-30 nos.(peeled) Tomato(big)-1 chopped  Garlic-10 big cloves (peeled) Curry leaves-2 sprigs Turmeric powder-1 teaspoon Sesame oil-4 tablespoons Chettinad masala powder-5 spoons Salt to taste  Coriander sprigs for garnish  To grind: Coconut- 1/4 scraped To season: Jeera-1 spoon Black pepper-1 spoon Methi seeds-1/4 teaspoon(optional) Cinnamon-1/2 inch -2 pieces Bay leaf- 1 small To make fresh chettinad masala powder: Red chilli - 16 nos Coriander seeds-4 tablespoons Cumin seeds- 2 teaspoon Fennel seeds- 2 teaspoon Channa dal - 2 teaspoon Raw rice - 2 teaspoon Dry roast all these items and dry grind them. Preparation: Wash the chicken pieces twice. In a pressure cooker, add oil,seasonings and turmeric powder....fry them. Now, add chopped small onions and cook them till the color changes and they become transparent. Then add the chopped garlic and fry it for two m...

Preparation time: 10 minutes Serves 4 Ingredients: 2 whole apple 2 big bananas Sugar - 8 tablespoons Or Honey 5 tablespoons vanilla ice cream - 4 scoops ice cubes(optional) Preparation: Peal and rough chop the fruits Add it to a blender run it once .. coarsely Now add sugar or honey.. of your choice Now puree it smoothly. Add ice cubes and serve it. Note: A good midday snack which will lighten your mood. if you like mint, you can add a few sprigs to give a nice zest to the smoothie.

Preparation time :30 minutes This recipe gives about 10 -12 rasagullas Ingredients needed : 1. Homemade paneer 2.Sooji 1/2 tablespoon 3.Sugar 11/2 cups 4.water 4 cups 5.rose essence- 1 tea spoon 6. Sliced pistachios for garnish Ingredients for home made paneer: 1.1L cows milk full fat 2.1/2 lemon preparing home made paneer: 1.Take the milk in a vessel and allow it to boil 2.Once it reaches a boil, squeeze the lemon and allow it to curdle 3. Let it cool for some time 4. Then, put a muslin cloth on a strainer and pour the milk into the muslin cloth 5.squeeze it to drain the liquid and add cold water over it and drain again to remove the sourness from the lemon 6.hang it for 10 to 15 minutes so that the liquid is drained completely - your homemade paneer is ready. Preparing the rasagullas: 1.Soak sooji in little water for 10 minutes 2.Take the home made paneer in a big mixing bowl and add the sooji to it draining the water it was soaked in. 3.Mix it toget...

Preparation time:  30 mins. Serves 4 Ingredients Spinach 1 big bunch Paneer 200 gms Water - 1/2 cup Cashews 4 to 5 pieces Onion - 1 big Tomato - 1 medium   Green chilly - big 2 nos. Garlic-4 to 5 big cloves Jeera - 1 teaspoon Corriander powder - 2 table spoons Chilly  powder - 1/2 teaspoon Garam masala powder - 1 teaspoon Preparation: Clean and wash the spinach thoroughly. In a vessel, add the cleaned spinach, green chilli, and cashews with water and cook for 7 to 8 minutes. Then cool it down to room temperature. Finely chop onion, tomato and garlic. N ow, puree the boiled spinach and other ingredients into a smooth paste using a blender. Keep a non stick pan on the stove in medium flame, add a knob of butter, once it melts add jeera to it. Add onions and cook until they turn transparent, now add the garlic and sauté for a few minutes, then add the tomatoes and cook until the peels come out separa...