Mix Veg Curry

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Ingredients:

• Boiled vegetables - 2 cup (carrot, cauliflower, beans, peas, potato, etc.)
• Tomato  - 1 (sliced)
• Coconut - 1/2  grated
• Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Green chilly - 3
• Sesame seeds - 1 tsp
• Mustard seeds - ½ tsp
• Cumin seeds - ½ tsp
• Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Lemon juice - 1 tsp
• Cloves - 2
• Cinnamon - 1"
• Ghee - 4 tsp

Method:

• Drain the boiled vegetables, keep aside.
• Grind together, coconut, chilly, sesame seeds, cinnamon and cloves.
• Heat the ghee, add mustard seeds, When the mustard starts to crackle add cumin seeds.
• Add ginger garlic paste.
• Stir fry for 3 to 4 mins.
• Add vegetables except tomatoes.
• Cover it and simmer for 5 minutes.
• Add salt, chilly powder, tomatoes and cook till gravy gets thick.
• Serve hot with parotha or chappathi.
• Garnish with coriander leafs.

Tamarind rice (puli Satham)

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Ingredients:

• Rice - 2 cup cooked rice
• Tamarind juice -  ½ cup
• Black gram - 50 gm
• Bengal gram- 50 gm
• red chilly - 4
• peanut - 4 tsp
• Garlic - 5 cloves
• Fenugreek - 1 tsp
• Asafoetida  - 1 tsp
• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp 
• Black peppercorns - 3 tsp 
• Turmeric powder - 1 tsp 
• Curry leaves - 10 leafs
• Salt - for taste
• Oil - 50 ml 

Method:

• Roast (Without oil) Bengal gram, black gram, Fenugreek and red chilly.
• Grind this into a fine powder. Set aside. (Or) use tamarind rice powder.
• Heat the oil and add mustard seeds, When the mustard starts to crackle add red chilly, garlic, peanut, peppercorns, Black gram, Bengal gram and curry leafs. 
• after 1 min add tamarind juice, grind powder,  asafoetida, turmeric powder, coriander powder and salt. 
• Cook till the water evaporates and the gravy gets thicker. 
• Add the paste into cooked rice. 

Rava kesari

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Ingredients: 

• Rava - 1 cup
• Sugar - ½ Cup 
• Ghee - 5-6 tsp
• cashews - 5-6 pcs
• Raisins -5-6 pcs 
• Water - 2 Cups 
• Cardamom powder – 1tsp(optional)
• Saffron powder – 1tsp

Method: 

• Take a pan Add 1 tsp of ghee.
• After ghee melted, Fry rava until golden brown. And keep aside.
• Take another pan and fry cashews and raisins until golden brown. And keep it aside.
• Take a heavy bottomed vessel and boil 2 cups of water. 
• Add ½ cup of sugar and 1 tsp of saffron/yellow food coloring.
• Boil until sugar dissolves.
• Mix the fried rava slowly with constant stir and Mix it well.
• Cook it in a low flame and stirring all the while until the mix get thicker.
• Add the fried cashews, raisins and little amount of ghee. Cook in low flame for 2 mins.
• Add the cardamom and saffron powder for garnishing. 

Pumpkin halwa ( Pumpkin pie indian style)

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Ingredients:

• red pumpkin – 2 ½ cup (chopped)
• Almond - 1 tsp
• Cashew - 5 tsp
• Milk - 2 cups
• Sugar - 2 tsp
• milk cream - ½ cup
• Raisins - 1 tsp
• Ghee - 4 tsp

Method:

• Heat some ghee in a pan.
• Fry the cashew, raisins until brown and keep aside.
• Cook pumpkin with 1 cup of milk.
• When it is half cooked, add remaining milk and grind it with almond, milk cream  and cashew nuts.
• In a heavy bottomed vessel, add some ghee, sugar and ground pumpkin.
• Cook it in a low flame and stirring all the while until the halwa get thicker and ghee floats on top.
• Then transfer it to greased plate and spread it.
• Garnish with fried raisins and cashews.

Spinach Soup ( Keerai kootu)

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Ingredients:

• Spinach 1 bunch
• Yellow Green Gram dhal – ½ cup 
• Red or green chilly – 4
• Tomato - 1
• Bay leafs - 5
• Garlic - 5 cloves (Big one)
• Mustard seeds- 1 tsp 
• Cumin seeds 1 tsp
• Onion – 15 to 20 small chopped
• Sambar powder- 1 tsp 
• Turmeric powder- ½ tsp 
• Asafetida – 1 tsp
• Coconut gratings – 3 tsp
• Oil- 4 tsp 
• Salt – ½ teaspoon
• Water  - 4 cup

Methods:

• Wash and soak the yellow green gram dal for 15 minutes. Drain and keep aside.
• Wash the spinach, cut the leafs and keep aside
• Boil spinach, onion, tomato, garlic and yellow green gram dal.
• Boil until gram dal and garlic get smashed.
• Heat the oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. Wait for mustard seeds start spluttering, add bay leafs, cumin seeds and chilly and fry.
• Mix the fried item into boiled spinach and add turmeric powder, asafetida powder, Sambar powder and salt. Cook for another 5 mins.
• Serve with rice or chapathi.

French Fries

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Ingredients:

• Potato (half boiled and peeled) 2
• Corn flour - 1 tsp
• Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Chilly powder - 1 tsp
• Pepper powder - 1 tsp
• Red food coloring 1 pinch
• Oil for frying
• Salt - ½ tsp

Methods:

• Cut the potatoes  like finger chips.
• Take a bowl add ginger garlic paste, chilly powder, corn flour, salt and food color.
• Mix well with potatoes and soak it about 10 mins.
• Take a heavy pan Add the oil.
• After oil heated fry the potatoes until golden brown.
• Have a tasty, crispy french fries.

Lemon Rice

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Ingredients:

• Boiled rice 2 cups
• Mustard seeds ½ spoons
• Urad dal 1 tsp
• Chana dal 1 tsp
• Bay leafs 7 pieces
• Peanuts 1 tsp
• Ginger 1 tsp
• Lemon juice 4 tsp
• Turmeric powder ½ tsp
• Salt to taste
• Red chili 2
• Oil 3 spoon

Methods:

• Heat the pan, Add some oil.
• Add mustard seeds, cook until its spluttering.
• Add Urad dal, peanuts, channa dal and fry it until its brown.
• Add ginger, Red chilli, Bay leafs and fry it for 2 mins.
• Add lemon juice, turmeric powder and salt. Mix it like a paste.
• mix the above paste with cooked rice.
• Have an wonderful simple lemon rice with pickles.