Reader's Album

I have got some of the pics taken by my Friends & Readers who have tried out my recipes.Thus I have created  Reader’s Album.

I  am very much happy to know the outcome of my recipe and your words keep me motivating. Thanks for all your supports & encouragements. 

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Sameena Yusuf on Rava Kesari

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Rava Kesari | Semolina Pudding | Cream of Wheat Indian Dessert

Rava Kesari  | Semolina Pudding | Sooji Kesari  | Kesari Bath  is an Indian desert made with semolina, sugar, little ghee and few  nuts. It is very easy to prepare and I suggest this recipe as a ‘must to learn’ for those new to the kitchen. It is a handy recipe that you can utilize in many difficult situations like when a guest shows up unexpectedly, when we are left with little time to prepare a dessert, when we desperately want to satisfy our sweet tooth or  sometimes for Neivedyam too.  I am sure that we can make everyone happy  with this simple dessert if it is done to perfection.

Ingredients:

• Rava  (Semolina) – 1 cup
• Sugar – ¾  cup
• Water – 3 cups
• Ghee – 2 to 3 tbsp
• Cardamom powder – 1 tsp
• Cashew nuts, raisins – few
• Kesari colour – a pinch.

Method:

1. Dry roast rava in simmer until you get a nice aroma. Keep it aside.
2. In a heavy bottomed kadai, pour a tbsp of ghee, and fry the cashew nuts and raisins until they turn golden brown. Drain them from the ghee and keep it aside.
3. In the same kadai, add water and bring it to rolling boil.
4. Now add rava little by little while continuously stirring water. Don’t let the rava lump. This is to be done in high flame. Allow the rava to get cooked completely.
5. Then add sugar and kesari colour (Red), and mix everything. By this time when the sugar gets melted in the heat, the mixture should be watery. When the mixture becomes thick, simmer the fire, add cardamom powder and ghee and stir it continuously.
6. When the mixture leaves the sides of the kadai, switch off the stove. Add the fried cashew nuts and raisins, mix everything well and transfer the contents to a serving bowl.

Your yummy, hot rava kesari is ready to be enjoyed. I love the taste when it is hot!

Note:

• The given water measurement will give you a soft, mushy  kesari  when it is hot. You can reduce water to 2 ½ cups as well.
• Sugar can be increased to 1 cup if you want it sweeter.
• Red colour is optional. If you want to serve only to your family and they are not concerned with the colour rather than taste, then you could avoid this.

Tags: Rava kesari recipe, semolina pudding, sooji kesari  recipe, Easy sweet recipe, how to prepare soft rava kesari, restaurant style kesari recipe, Cream of wheat dessert, Cream of wheat pudding, 

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Wheat Rava Upma | Broken Wheat Upma | Cracked Wheat Upma | Sambha Godhumai Rava Uppuma

Wheat Rava Upma | Broken Wheat Upma | Cracked Wheat Upma is  a healthy, filling breakfast and can be made in minutes. Normally I go for this when I don’t have idli batter or feeling bored of making something laborious. I prefer white rava upma over Samba Godumai Rava Upma but the latter is healthier and hence I changed my mind to make this once in a while. This is very good for diabetic people as it helps to start the day with a filling breakfast and those who are on diet can also go for this recipe since the sambha godhumai is rich in fibre.

Ingredients:

Broken Wheat Rava – 1 cup

Water – 2 ½ cups

Onion (finely chopped) – ½ cup

Ginger (finely chopped) – 1 tbsp

Salt to taste

For seasoning:

Oil – 2 tbsp

Mustard – 1 tsp

Bengal gram dhal (Kadalai Paruppu) – 2 tbsp

Red chillies – 2 to 3 Nos

Curry leaves – few

Method:

Dry roast the rava in a kadai in simmer  until you get a nice aroma and keep it aside.

In a heavy bottomed kadai or Non-stick pan, pour oil and season the items given one by one “for seasoning”.

Then add ginger and sauté for a while. Add onion and sauté till it becomes translucent.

Add water and bring it to rolling boil.

Then add roasted rava and cook in high flame until the upma thickens.

Mix well, simmer the flame and cook for about 5 minutes by covering with a lid and stirring in between.

Open the lid and cook until you get the upma consistency as shown in the pic.

Your healthy breakfast is ready to serve with any chutney of your choice! I like Coconut chutney with this Godhumai Rava  Upma.

Note:

• The water measurement I have given above will give a non-sticky upma and this consistency tastes the best for Wheat Rava Upma unlike the regular white rava upma. If you like it mushy, you can add 3 cups of water.

Tags: Broken wheat rava upma recipe, samba godumai ravai upma, udaitha samba godhumai ravai uppuma, cracked wheat rava upma recipe, cracked sambha rava upma, recipes with broken wheat, Healthy breakfast recipes, Diabetic friendly recipes, high fibre diet          

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In the Media...Malligai Magal-Chapathi Recipes

Friends! My Chapathi recipes got published in Feb’2014 issue of Malligai Magal along with the recipes from Chef Damu & Kalaichelvi Chokkalingam. I want to share this to you all!

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Chicken 65 (Dry)

Chicken 65 is a “quick to make” starter with many interesting stories behind its origin. The 65 at the end of the name has many explanations. Some claim that this chicken dish is named after 1965 – the year it first appeared on Buhari’s menu. This trivia even features in some of the famous quiz programmes!

Today, I thought of making this dish for lunch as it had been a long time since I made this at home. I did not make this dish for a long time as we happened to go out for dinners frequently and whenever  we went out, we used to consume a lot of fried foods. So I have avoided even frying appalam | vadam at home. Otherwise, I feel it is always better to prepare the fried items at home once in a while  because the home-made dishes will be healthier since we use our regular masalas and not adding any harmful ingredients like food colour, ajinomotto, etc. So,  I made this for 2 reasons, one for  blog post and other,  my son. He is a fan of Gobi 65 as well as Chicken 65 and hence he thanked the blog!

Here  we go for the recipe of making Chicken 65  starter at home.

Ingredients:

• Boneless chicken  – 1/2  Kg.
• All purpose flour (Maida) – 4 tbsp
• Corn flour – 3 tbsp
• Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
• Red chilli powder – 1 tbsp
• Pepper powder – ½ tsp
• Garam masala powder or chicken masala powder – ½ tsp
• Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
• Thick curd – 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying

Method:

1. Wash chicken in running water and cube it into desired size. Squeeze out the water completely from the chicken pieces and keep it aside.
2. Take a large bowl,  mix all the above ingredients given above except oil. To this add chicken pieces and mix everything well. Mix until all the chicken pieces get  coated with the marinade. Allow to stand for about 30 minutes.
3. Heat a deep bottomed kadai, pour required oil for deep frying. When oil is heated, take out the marinated chicken pieces  and spread one by one in the oil.
4. Cook in medium flame, after some time when you find the bottom layer got cooked, turn to other side and cook until done on all sides.
5. Continue the process for rest of the batch.

Your hot, spicy, juicy  Chicken 65 is ready to serve.  It can be served as a starter or as a side dish for rice, pulao or rotis.

Note:

• I didn’t add any food colour in this recipe but in restaurants, they do. I got the colour as shown in the pic, so I feel that there is no need to add any colour.
• I feel the chicken breast suits the best for the recipe. You can also use chicken with bone.
• Don’t add water before adding the chicken pieces to the marinade because chicken will also leave out some water. Decide whether to sprinkle some water after mixing everything.

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