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Saturday, February 4, 2012

Harive Soppu Bendi(Curry)

Ingredients:
1 bunch of Tender Amaranth leaves / Ele Harive Soppu
2 cups grated Coconut
Pinch of Turmeric powder
1/2 tsp Chilly powder
Small lemon sized Jaggary
1.5 cups cooked Yellow Lentils / Thogari Bele
Salt to taste
1 - 2 Red Chilly pieces
1 tsp Mustard seeds
4 - 5 Curry leaves
1 tsp Oil

Recipe:

Clean amaranth leaves and chop it into small pieces as shown in the picture below. 

Put chopped amaranth leaves, turmeric powder, salt, chilly powder, jaggary, little amount of water in a vessel and cook them well. Add cooked yellow lentils and mix them well.
Grind grated coconut into smooth paste by adding sufficient amount of water. (If it is frozen coconut, use hot water while grinding.) Add this ground coconut to a vessel containing cooked amaranth leaves, mix them well and bring it to boil.
Put mustard seeds, red chilly pieces, oil in a pan and heat. Once it starts spluttering, add curry leaves and add it to curry. It goes well with Rice/Chapathi/Rotti.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Mixed flour Cookies

Ingredients:
2 cups All Purpose flour / Maida Hudi
1 cup Millet flour / Ragi Hudi
1 cup Wheat flour / Godhi Hudi
2.5 - 3 cups Sugar
5 - 6 Cardamom / Elakki
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
3 cups melted Ghee

Recipe:
Put sugar in a mixer, grind it to very fine powder and keep it aside.
Put all purpose flour, millet flour, wheat flour, powdered sugar, mashed cardamoms and baking soda in a vessel and mix them well. Add the melted ghee little by little, kneed and prepare the soft dough as shown in the picture below.

Preheat the microwave to 160 degree C in convection mode. Take lemon sized dough and make a round ball. Press it little bit to a round shape(1/4 inch thick) and place it over the microwave safe tray as shown in the picture below. (For oven, please follow the steps mentioned in Almond Cookies recipe.)

Place this cookies in a microwave (Lower shelf) and cook them at 160 degree C temperature for about 20 mins until the bottom part of the cookies turn light golden in color.

Take the tray outside from the microwave and once they are cooled to room temperature, store them in an airtight container. The above mentioned ingredients will serve around 60 cookies.