Strawberry MilkShake

Ingredients :

Milk 1 cup

Strawberries 5-7

Ice cream* 1 scoop

Sugar As needed

Ice cubes As needed

Method:

Wash the strawberries and slice it roughly and place in a blender along with the other ingredients. Blend well until you get frothy, smooth milkshake.

Kandi Podi / Toordal Powder

Ingredients

10-15 Red chillies
1 cup toor dhal(dry)
1/2 cup chana dal or 1 cup Dahlia (fried chana dal)
3-4 garlic cloves
Few curry leaves
pinch of Hing

Method:

1. Add red chilli whole (depending upon your taste buds)
2. Add 1 cup of Dry toor dal
3. Add few cumin seeds, dry roast them till the toor dal is slight reddish in color
4. Add either 1/2 cup of channa dhal OR Add 1 cup of Dhalia
5. Add 3-4 cloves of Garlic
6. Add curry Leaves (optional)
7. Make sure that all the ingredients are nicely cooked in a very slow flame, to ensure, just fold the red chili and it should break into pieces in no time. If all the ingredients are cooked good they can be powdered easily.
8. Switch off the flame and let it cool for 10 mins
9. Grind them into a fine powder.

Chana Sundal

Ingredients:

1 cup dried white chickpeas
1 tsp black mustard seeds
1 tsp jeera seeds
1 tsp urad dal/spilt skinned black gram
a pinch of asafoetida
2 dry red chilies
10-12 curry leaves
2 to 3 tbsp fresh grated coconut (Optional)
salt as required

Method:

1. Rinse and soak the chickpeas overnight in enough water.
2. Drain and pressure cook the soaked chickpeas with 1 tsp salt and 3 to 4 cups water till they are cooked till soft and drain and keep aside.
3. Heat oil in a pan add the mustard , jeera and urad dal.
4. The mustard seeds will crackle and the urad dal will get browned.
5. Now add the curry leaves, red chilies and asafoetida and fry for 10-15 seconds.
6. Now add the cooked chickpeas and salt and stir and saute for 4-5 minutes on a low to medium flame.
7. Switch off the flame and add the coconut and stir well.

Serve the chana sundal as prashad or naivedyam.

Palli Podi / Ground nut powder

Ingredients:

Coriander Seeds - 1 tsp
Cumin Seeds 1Teaspoons
Chilli powder 1/2Cup
Peanuts - Preferrably Without Skin 2Cup
1 Big Garlic Flakes 2 Cloves
Salt

Method:

1. Dry roast Cumin seeds and Coriander seeds separately till nice aroma comes out from it.
2. Dry roast Peanuts
3. Now add dry roasted coriander seeds, cumin seeds, chili powder, roasted peanuts, garlic, salt into a blender and blend it into a powder
4. now serve the powder in hot rice with ghee or with idly dosa