Bonda

Bonda is a easy and authentic recipe , it doesnt need lots of ingredients. Sometimes when i want to make vada in auspicious days, it will not comes out well , during that time Ill jus add some pepper and curry leaves and make is it as bonda.

Ull Need :

1. Urud dhall - 2 cups
2. Greenchilly - 1
3. Pepper - 10 - 12
4. Curry leaves
5. Salt
6. Oil for frying

Method :

1. Soak Urud dhall in Hot water for 20 min.
2. Drain all the water and transfer it to a mixie jar.
3. Add salt and green chilly and grind well to a smooth paste.
4. Add water only if necessary. When u take a small portion it must drop like a ball,
5. Put this mixture in a bowl and mix it with pepper and chopped curry leaves.
6. Heat oil in a kadai.
7. Take a small portion from the mixture and drop it in the kadai.
8. You can take the mixture from the bowl with your hand or a spoon.
9. Turn both sides and fry till golden brown.
10. It will taste very good when served with Coconut chutney.

Birds Nest

This is another recipe which my son likes very much mainly due to its appearance and name. When you tell birds nest it will open your ears jus to know what this dish is all about, but its actually a easy and tasty dish .
It will be crunchy out side due to the semiya and soft inside due to the potatoes. The peas which is in the middle will look like eggs in the nest. This is a very attractive starter for a party and you can also have it as a snack.
Let do this interesting recipe.

Ull Need :

1. Potatoes - 3

2. Peas - 1 cup

3. Coriander - 1/2 cup
4. Pudina - 1/2 cup
5. Dhania powder - 1 tsp
6. Garam masala - 1tsp
7. Jeera powder -1 tsp
8. Finely chopped green chilly
9. Roasted Semiya - 1 cup
10. Maida Flour - 1 tbsp
11. Salt
12. Oil for frying

Method :

1. Boil peas seperately and drain the water.

2. Boil Potatoes in cooker and mash well.

3. Add Chopped Pudina and coriander, Dhania Jeera , Garam masala and mix well

4. Then add green chilly and salt mix evenly

5. Pinch out 2 small ball from the potato and make a hole in the center of 1 ball as shown in pic

6. Drop few peas and close it with the other ball.

7. Make three or four and keep it aside

8. Spread semiya in a plate 

9. Mix maida in water. 

10. Drop the ball in maida mixture and roll it over the semiya.

11. See to that the semiya ia covered fully on the ball.

12. Heat oil in a pan and fry these balls

13. Cut these balls in the middle.

14. It will be as if there are green eggs in a nest.

Moong Bread

This is one recipe which i do in my home when my refrigerator is out of vegetables .Its very easy receipe  and nutritious too. It will be a filling dish for your kids lunch as it is a mixture of dhall and bread. My son generally likes any bread varieties so I pack this often for his school with a fruit.

Ull Need :

1. Bread slices
2. Split yellow moong dhall - 2 cup
3. Coriander Leaves - hand full
4. Ginger - 1 inch
5. Green chilly - 1
6. Grated carrot - 1 cup
7. Chopped Onion
8. Ghee for toasting
9. Salt

Method : 

1. Soak Moong dhall in water for half and hour.
2. Drain the water and add moong dhall, coriander leaves, green chilly, ginger, salt and grind.
3. Do not grind them into fine paste. One or two dhalls must be seen.
4. Transfer it to a bowl add chopped onion, grated carrots and give a good mix.
5. Take a bread slice spread the moong dhall mixture in one side of the bread.
6. Heat the dosa pan drop few drops of ghee and place the bread.
7. The side in which the mixture is applied should be on top
8. After a min turn the bread so that the applied side faces down and gets cooked and becomes little brown.
9. Apply some ghee if needed .
10. Serve with Tomato sauce.

Cheese Balls

My son is a great fan of cheese. When ever he feels like eating he will open the fridge and eat a slice of cheese. And this cheese ball is his favorite. As soon as I fry he ll take it and run away. My son will dip the fried balls again in the white sauce filling and eat. Your kids will surely like it as it will be less spicy and it will taste yummy. This recipe will be a good starters for dinner also.

Ull Need :

1. Potatoes - 5
2. Pudina - 5 to 6 leaves chopped
3. Coriander - 1/4 cup
4. Green Chilly - 1 (Chopped)
5. Salt
6. Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
7. Cornflour - 1 tblsp
8. Bread crumbs

For Filling : 

1. Wheat Flour - 1 tsp
2. Butter - 2 tsp
3. Milk - 1/2 cup
4. Cheese - Grated 2tsp
                Or
     Cheese slice - 1
5. Salt

 

Method :

1. Boil the Potatoes in Cooker and mash it well.
2. Add Pudina , Coriander leaves, green chilly, salt and asafoetida and mix well.
3. I am avoiding chilly powder and Masala powder as it is for children. If you want you can also add Chilly   and Garam Masala powder.
4. To make the filling Heat a kadai and melt the butter.
5. Add the wheat flour and stir continuously without any lumps
6. Add milk little by little till it becomes thick.
7. Add salt and cheese.
8. Please make sure that the sauce is thick as this filling will melt while frying.

9. Now pinch 2 lemon size from the potato mixture and make it into 2 cups as shown above.
10. Drop a very small amount of filling in 1 cup.(Little amout is enough as this will melt)
11. Close the filled cup by placing the other cup on top. See to that the filling is tight packed inside.
12. Now roll this into a ball and keep it aside,
13. Mix water to the cornflour
14.. Heat oil for frying
15. Roll the Potato balls in the cornflour mixture
16. And roll it again in the bread crumbs(The balls must be fully covered with bread crumbs)
17. Fry these balls and serve it with sauce.

Corn Tikki and Balls

Corn Tikkis are very easy, innovative and healthy dish. If there is a surprise guest in your house and if you do not have anything to give them, please try this out.  Give them a juice or a coffee and then start doing Corn tikki's. Including preparation time this will take jus 15 min. But the main thing is that you must have sweet corn at home. I generally have a extra packet of sweet corn as it stays for a longer time. Come lets try this quick recope now

Ull Need :

1. Sweet Corn - 2 cups
2. Coriander leaves (chopped) - 1 cup
3. Fried channadhal(Pottu Kadalai) - 1/2 cup
4. Green chilly - 1 or 2
5. Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
6. Jeera - 1 tsp
7. Garam masala -1 tsp
8. Maida (all pupose flour) - 1tblsp
9. Salt
10. Oil

Method : 

1. Thaw or wash sweet corn
2. In a mixie jar add chopped Coriander leaves, jeera, Fried channa dhall, ginger garlic paste, greenchilly and grind them coarsly.
3. Now add the sweet corn to the jar and grind very little coarsly.
4. Shift to a bowl and add salt and garam masala.
5. Add little maida mix well and see if you are able to make balls or tikkis(add more maida if reqd)
6. For making Tikkis
7. Heat Non stick tawa
8. Take a small pinch from the mixture and flatten it in your hand and place it in the tawa
9. Jus pour few drops of oil around the tikkis. Do four or five at a time.
10. Wait for 2 min and turn the tikkis and again grease the tikkis with oil
11. The tikkis are soft turn it carefully so that it doesnt break.

                                            

1. To make balls jus roll mixture into small balls and deep fry them.My son loves it when its deep fried as it will be crispy outside and soft inside.
2. This goes well with chilly sauce as corn have a sweet taste by nature.

Mysore Bonda

One day when we went to a Hotel , in the menu card I saw Mysore Bonda and I ordered. It was very good, looked like our normal Bonda but tasted differently. I wanted to know the recipe of this and on of my neighbour told me how to do and came out very well.

Ull Need :

1. All purpose Flour (Maida) flour - 1 Cup
2. Rice Flour - 1/4 cup
3. Buttermilk - 1 cup(without adding salt)
4. Coconut pieces - 2 ts
5. Jeera - 1 tsp
6. Ginger - 1 tsp (Cut into small pieces)
7. Greenchilly - 2 (Cut into small pieces)
8. Cooking soda - 1/4 tsp
9. Oil
10. Salt

1.            

Method :

1. In a bowl mix Maida, Rice Flour, Buttermilk and salt
2. Make to a vada batter consistency
3. Now add Coconut pieces, jeera, ginger, green chilly and cooking soda.
4. Add water if necessary and keep it aside for 45 min
5. Heat oil in a kadai.
6. Now take a small amount of this batter roll it in your finger like bonda and drop it sowly in the kadai.
7. Do not over heat the oil , then the bondas will not be cooked properly
8. Turn the bondas till it becomes golden brown in all sides
9. Serve Hot with Coconut Chutney. 

Gobi 65 And Gobi Manchurian

I had one big cauliflower in my refrigirator and it was a sunday so I thought Ill make Gobe as snacks. When I made it was lots for us , then i decided to make Gobi manchurian as sidedish for night chapathi Cauliflower is one of my favorite vegetable. I like anything made out of cauliflower. But I do not prefer cauliflower items outside because I doubt if they wash the florets properly as it contains worms in between. So I prerare at home so that ill be confident that its cleaned properly. Now lets do this 2 in 1 dish.

For Gobi65

Ull need :

1. Cauliflower - 1 Big (Cut into smalll florets)
2. Tomato sauce - 1 Tblsp
3. Chilly Sauce - 1 Tblsp
4. Soya sauce - 4 drops
5. Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
6. Chilly powder - 1 tsp
7. Cornflour powder - 1 1/2 cup
8. Rice flour - 1/2 Cup
9. Salt
10. Ajinomotto(optional)
11. Oil (for frying)
12. Chat Masala - 1/2 tsp
13. Black salt - 1/2 tsp
14. Spring onions

Method:

1. Mix all the above 10 items and refrigirate for 2 hours
2. Heat oil in a pan and fry the florets till its crisp
3. Strain the oil
4. Sprinkle chat masala and black salt and spring onion and serve
5. Easy tasty snack is ready......

For Gobi Manchurian

Ull need :

1. Gobi 65 (Made as above)
2. Onion - 10 (Cut into thin strands)
3. Capsicum - 1 (Cut into thin strands)
4. Gingier - 1 inch
5. Garlic - 3 cloves
6. Green chilly - 2 (sut into small pieces)
7. Spring onion - cut into small pieces
8. Spring onion leaves - 1 cup (cut into small bits)
9. Chilly sauce - 2tsp
10. Tomato sauce - 2tsp
11. Soya sauce - 4 drops
12. Tomato puree - 1cup(if you need in gravy form)
13. Ajinomotto (optional)
14. Oil - 2 Tblsp

Method :

1. Heat oil in a kadai and add both the Onions and fry well till its golden brown
2. Add Ginger, garlic, green chilly.
3. If you want a gravy state add tomato puree  and fry till raw smell goes.(you can skip this step if you need a dry manchuri)
4. Add capsicum and half of spring onion leaves and cook for 5 min.
5. Now add chilly sauce, tomato sauce and soya sauce
6. When its cooked well add the gobi 65 to this gravy and mix well.
7. Pour it in a serving bowl and sprinkle rest of the spring onion leaves.
8. Yes hotel your manchurian is ready.

Tip :

When you add onion add little salt so that onion will turn brown.
When you do gravy do not add water to the tomato puree until the raw smell of the tomato goes
You can add water after you add the sauce and before adding gobi 65