Ingredients:
• 2 cups Raw Banana (cut into small pieces)• ½ cup Grated Coconut• 2 Green Chilies• 1 Small Onion• 1 Garlic• 1 tsp Mustard Seeds• 2 Dry Red Chilies• ¼ tsp Turmeric Powder• Salt (to taste)• 2 stalks Curry Leaves• 2 tbsp Coconut Oil
How to make Raw Banana Thoran:
• Place the raw banana pieces in a pressure cooker, with enough water, turmeric powder and salt and cook.• In a grinder, place the grated coconut, green chilies, onion and garlic and grind them well.• Place a pan on fire and heat coconut oil in it.• Splutter mustard seeds and add red chilies and curry leaves.• Add the cooked bananas and coconut mixture.• Stir well and cook on low flame, for 2 to 3 minutes.• Serve hot.
Ingredients:
• 2 Cups boiled rice• 1 Onion, finely chopped• 2 Green chillies• 1/4 tsp Mustard seeds• 1/4 tsp Urad dal• 1/4 tsp Cumin seed• 1/4 Cup peanuts, coarsely pounded• 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder• 1 Stalk curry leaves• 1/2 tbsp Coriander, finely chopped• 1 tbsp Fresh coconut, grated• 2-3 Pinches asafoetida• Juice of half lemon• 1 tbsp Oil• Salt to taste
How to make Pulihore:
• Heat 1 tbsp oil in a non-stick pan.• Add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, and urad dal. Allow them to splutter.• Add peanuts and fry for two minutes.• Add finely chopped onions, curry leaves, green chillies, and asafoetida.• Fry until onions become light brown.• Add boiled rice, coconut, turmeric, coriander, lemon, and salt.• Stir to mix well.• Put a lid and cook till steaming hot.• Pulihore is ready to serve.
Ingredients:
• 1 litre Milk• 100 gms Wheat Rava• 200 gms Sugar• 1 tbsp Cashew Nut• 1/4 tsp Cardamom Powder• 2 tbsp Ghee• 1 cup Water• 1 tbsp Raisins
How to make Rava Payasam:
• Heat little ghee in a frying pan.• Fry cashew nuts and raisins in ghee.• Fry wheat rava in the remaining ghee until the raw flavor gets lost.• Boil 2 measures of water in a thick vessel.• Add fried wheat rava and cook. Add sugar.• Allow the mixture to boil for about 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from the flame.• Boil and add the milk to payasam.• Mix cashewnuts, raisins and cardamom powder.• Rava Payasam is ready to serve.
Ingredients:
• 1 raw Jackfruit /Panasa (fresh or canned)• 3 tsp Tamarind Pulp• 4 Green Chilies• 1 tsp Turmeric Powder• 2 tsp Oil• Salt (to taste)• 1 tsp Chana Dal• 1 tsp Urad Dal• 1 tsp Mustard Seeds• 4 to 5 Curry Leaves• 2 Dry Red Chilies• 2 tsp Groundnuts
How to make Raw Jackfruit Curry:
• Slice and cut the jackfruit into small pieces.• Place the pieces in water and add turmeric powder. Boil for 15 minutes, till they turn soft.• Heat oil in a large pan and add chana dal, urad dal, mustard seeds, curry leaves, red chilies and ground nuts.• When the mustard seeds start spluttering, add green chilies, tamarind pulp, jackfruit pieces and salt and stir well.• Let the mixture cook for 5 minutes.• Serve hot with rice.
Ingredients:
• 1 cup Rava (roasted)• 1 cup Sugar• 2 cups Whole Milk• 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder• Cashews and raisins to garnish• 3 tbsp Ghee• 2-3 Drops of Kesari Color
How to make Rava Kesari:
• Heat ghee in a skillet and fry cashews and raisins, set aside.• Add whole milk in the same skillet and bring it to a boil.• Add rava and mix slowly.• Add sugar when rava is half cooked in the hot milk.• Stir well, add cardamom powder and Kesari color, mix well.• Garnish with nuts and raisins and serve hot or chilled.
Ingredients:
• Ragi flour• 4 Onions, finely chopped• 1 Bunch coriander• 1 Cup grated coconut• Finely chopped green chilies• Finely chopped curry leaves• Salt to taste• Little sugar
How to make Ragi Roti:
• Combine onions, coconut, curry leaves, coriander leaves, green chilies and salt with little water.• Add ragi flour and some more water.• Mix well and knead to make dough. Set the dough aside for some time.• Apply little oil on a griddle.• Roll out chapattis from small portions of the dough.• Smear with oil and bake the roti at low heat till well done.• Serve the ragi roti with pudina chutney.
Ingredients:
• 2 cups Cooked Rice• 1 cup Tamarind Juice• 1 tbsp Sugar• 4 tsp Coriander Seeds• 2 tsp Mustard Seeds• 2 tsp Cumin Seeds• 4 tsp Seasme Seeds• 1 cup Grated Coconut• 1 tsp Hing• 2 tsp Urad Dal• 1 tsp Channa Dal• Jaggery (1 small piece)• 5 Red Chillies• 1/2 cup Oil• Few Curry Leaves
How to make Puliyogare Rice:
• Roast 1 tsp mustard seeds, 4 tsp coriander seeds, cumin seeds, 2 tsp sesame seeds, ½ tsp channa dal, 1 tsp urad dal one by one.• Grind it to make a fine powder.• Roast the coconut.• Mix the roasted coconut and powder.• Heat oil and add the remaining mustard seeds, sesame seeds, red chillies, urad dal and chana dal.• Add the tamarind juice and jaggery.• Mix salt and allow it to boil.• Add the powdered masala and boil till it turns thick.• Mix it with the cooked rice.• Serve hot.
