Vegeterian Sandwich

Todays receipe  is Vegeterian Sandwich

Ingredients:-
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2 Slices of Whole grain bread slices
Eggless mayonise - 1 tbsp
Tomato - 1
Avocado - 1
Lettuce - 1
Sea salt or kosher salt as per taste

Method:-
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1. Toast the bread in the toaster.
2. Apply generously mayo on one side of each bread.
3. Cut Tomatoes and sprinkle some salt on it and keep aside.
4. Take the avocado , deseed the avocado. Remove the skin. You only need half avocado.
Sprinkle salt on keep aside.
5. Now take a bread side. Place the tomatoes on the side where you applied the mayo.
Now put a lettuce leaf on it. Now place avacadoes which are seasoned with salt and place the other bread piece on it and serve.

NanKatai/Maida biscuites/Eggless cookies

"One joy scatters a hundred grieves."

Ingredients

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Maida / All purpose flour- 2 cups

Baking powder - 1/2 tsp

Ghee - 1/2 cup

Sugar - 1 cup

Cardamom - 5 to 6 (Crushed into powder)

Method:-
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1. Mix all the above ingredients one by one and make a dough.

2. Preheat the oven at 350F. 

3. Meanwhile, make cookies out of the dough. Once the oven is preheated, set the time for 15 minutes. Place these cookies in the oven and bake. 

Note:-

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Check the cookies in between so that they wont get burn.

Spinach Pakora

"Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."

Todays receipe is spinach pakora. Its make a good appetizer.

Ingredients
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Spinach - 2 bunches (Nicely chopped)
Besan - 11/2 cup
Rice flour - 2 tbsp
Green chilli paste - as required
Salt as per taste
Turmeric power - 1 tsp
Cumin seeds
carom seeds - 1 tsp
water as required
Baking powder - 1 tsp
oil to deep fry

Method:- 
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1. Mix Spinach, Besan,salt, rice flour, baking powder, water, turmeric powder, carom seeds, green chilli paste and water together.
2. Heat Oil in a kadai. When its hot, make pakoras and deep fry under medium heat.
3. Once they are fried, place them on tissue paper to remove excess oil.

Note:- 
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1. I used green chilli paste instead of red chilli powder. This would enhance the taste of pakora.

Mirapakaya Bajji / Mirapakaya Bonda/Andhra mirchi bajji

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."

Ingredients:-
Chillies - 5 to 6
Besan or Gram flour - 1 cup
Rice flour - 2 tbsp
Ajwain - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1 tsp(optional)
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
red chilli powder - 1 tsp
Salt as required
water as required
Oil


For stuffing:-
Ground nuts - 2 tbsp
Sesame seeds - 2 tbsp
Tamarind paste - 2 tsp
salt
Method:-
1. First nicely roast ground nuts and sesame seeds without oil seperately. Grind into fine powder and add tamarind paste and salt. Keep this aside.

2. Take a bowl to make batter. Add besan, rice flour, red chilli powder, salt, ajwain,turmeric powder, baking soda. Combine well and pour water until you get consistency. It is not be too thick or too watery.

3.Meanwhile, you remove the seeds from the chillies. Boil them for 5 minutes. Now you stuff the above made stuffing.

4.Heat a kadai with oil. When it is medium hot, dip the stuffed chilli in the batter and dep fry until they are golden brown.

Note:-
1. I have not used baking soda instead i used hot oil. I poured hot oil in the flour batter and followed step 2.
2.If you dont like the chillies too hot, You can make the stuffing in the morning and in the evening you can fry them.

Chekkalu or Pappu Chekkalu or Karam billalu

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail". Harold R. McAlindon


Todays receipe is Chekkalu.  It is simple yet delicious. Its a nice tea-time snack.

Ingredients

Rice flour - 500 gms

Bengal gram - 2 tbsps (soaked for an hour)

Carom seeds - 2 tbsp 

Sesame seeds - 2 tbsps

Salt as per taste

Red chilli powder as per taste

Turmeric powder -1 tsp

Peanuts - 3 tsps(nicely roasted and chopped)

Water as required

Curry leaves - 2 strings (roughly crushed)

Oil for deep frying

Method 

1. Take a bowl add the rice flour. Add bengal gram, carom seeds, sesame seeds, salt, red chili powder, turmeric powder, peanuts and curry leaves. 

2. Boil some water and add to the above content slowly and make a dough. 

3. Rest the dough for half an hour. Place a damp cloth on the  dough so that it wont get dry. 

4. Heat the oil. Before its hot mean while make chekkalu on a plastic sheet each of 4 inch diameter and deep fry them.

Note

1. We use hot water for making a dough. This makes the chekkalu to puff a little. 

2. Before making the whole batch, make 2 or 3. Let them cool and check whether the salt and red chilli powder ratio proportions.  if necessary you can add. 

3.You can also prepare using besan or gram flour. You can add rice flour and besan in 1:1 ratio.

4.Always maintain the flame in medium so that you can have uniform color to all the chekkalu. 

Karamposa

Decide what you want ... believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it’s possible for you. - Rhonda Byrne

On occasion of diwali my mom used to prepare these festival foods at home. The one which i am telling today is a thicker version of a karamposa.

Ingredients

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Rice flour - 3 cups

Gram flour - 1 cup

Salt - as required

Red chilli powder - as required

Sesame seeds - 2 tbsp

Ajwain - 2 tbsp

Turmeric powder - 1 tbsp

Ghee (optional)

Oil for deep frying

Water - as required.

Method

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1. Mix the two flours. To this add salt, redchilli powder, turmeric powder, sesame seeds, ajwain.

2. Boil the water and mix this water in the flour and make a stiff dough.

3. Heat the oil. Once the oil is hot, place some dough in the poosa gottam and press the gottam for the desirable shape for the poosa.
4. Fry them nicely and place the korapupoosa on the paper towel to absorb the excess oil.