Friday, November 28, 2008

MAKING OF GINGER GARLIC PASTE



Ingredients:-

Ginger root - 150 grams
Garlic - 150 grams
Turmeric - a pinch


Method:-

  1. Scrape the skin from the Ginger root. Wash it and cut it into chunks. Keep it aside. Peel Garlic.
  2. Put the ingredients in a blender. Add a little water, just enough to help in the grinding.
  3. Store in a clean airtight jar.
  4. To increase shelf life of the paste, use a little oil instead of water in step 2.


Monday, November 10, 2008

Idly batter




Ingredients

2 cups Idli Rava
1 cup Urad dal
Salt to taste

Method:

1)  Soak Rava in plain water for 4 hrs.
2)  Soak dal in plain water for 4 hrs.
3)  Make a fine paste of Urad dal & keep aside.
4)  Take a handful of rava & tightly squeeze the water out of it & add it to the urad dal paste.
5)  Continue untill all the rava is done.
6)  Add Salt to it & mix well.
7)  Leave OVERNIGHT in a warm place for fermentation.




Idly




Method:

Steam the  idly batter in Idli stand for 8-10 mins and serve hot with coconut chutney 




Saturday, November 1, 2008

EGG BHURJI

Egg Bhurji is one of my favoraite dish.....This is the dish i prepared for first time in cooking at the age of 16 yrs and the curry was burnt and didnt come out well as i cooked it in high flame.....and i first made my brother to taste it......he joined his hands and told "ninu evadu chesukuntado kani..vadi pani anthe".........sounds funny rit.........but now iam expert in this dish..and all my family members loves this dish....
now after a short story...here is the recipe

INGREDIENTS:-

Eggs - 3
Onions - 2 medium sized finely chopped
Oil- 2 tbsp
Green chillies - 1 or 2 coarsly chopped
Salt as required
Turmeric powder- a pinch
Red chilly powder- 1 tsp

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Garam masala- 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds-1tbsp
Jeera - 1/2 tsp


METHOD:-

  1. Heat oil and add mustard seeds and jeera and let them splutter.
  2. Now add the finely chopped onions and green chillies salt and turmeric and fry till onions becomes translucent.
  3. Add red chilli powder and garam masala ,ginger garlic paste and fry for another 2-3 min till a nice aroma is released.
  4. Add the eggs and keep stirring till the whole onions mixture is coated by the eggs and fry till done