Mrs.Mano's Tamilnadu Delicacies

Dear Ammu!

I am posting here a few recipes on Ragi flour.

RAGI PUTTU:

Ingredients:

Ragi flour-2 cups
Mashed jaggery or powdered sugar- 1 to 1 1/2 cups
Shredded coconut- 1 cup
Cardamom powder- 1 tsp
Ghee-1tbsp
Water and salt to taste

Procedure:

Sieve the ragi flour. Boil 1 to 1 1/2 cups of water. Sprinkle 1/2 tsp of salt on the flour. Sprinkle the hot water little by little and mix well the flour. If you pick up some flour and close tightly with yr fingers, it must give you a shape. Then if you open yr fingers, it must slip down from the fingers. That is the right consistency for any puttu recipe. Cover the bowl with a white muslin cloth and steam the ragi for 10minutes. When cooled, mash it well. You can run it in a mixi for a split of second. Add the jaggery or sugar with the cardamom powder and mix well. Then add the ghee with the shredded coconut and mix well. You can add the jaggery according to yr taste.

RAGI DOSAI:

Ingredients:

Ragi flour- 4 cups
Black gram- 1/2 cup
Lentils- 2 tbsp
Boiled rice- 2 tbsp
Salt to taste

Procedure:

Soak the black gram with the rice and the lentils in enough water for 5 hours. Then grind them to a fine batter like dosai batter. Add the sieved ragi flour to it and mix well with enough salt and water. Keep it covered for 4 hours and then you can make delicious dosais.

Dear Inimai!


My iyengar friend who is staying with me now gave that recipe for Puli Pongal. She says that some people use small onions. You can take it as optional.
Jaggery makes the cheedai soft. We cannot make the vella cheedis very crisp.

Dear D!

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation on Tofu.

Dear Pr!

Thanks a lot for the feedback on Kuska Briyani. I feel happy to know that every body loves this recipe. Credit goes to my son who gave this recipe to me some years back. My heartiest thanks to y husband for the appreciation he has given on this recipe.

Dear Mrs.Mano,

Can you please post the recipes of Cheese Paratha & Onion Paratha?It seems my husband had it at a party & craves it.My attempts in trying some web recipes were not satisfactory.So I would really appreciate your help?Thanks a lot.

Hi Mrs. Mano/Fellow hubbers,
Can u repost the recipe for Chettinad chicken gravy. Thanks.

Dear Mrs. Mano,

I made Kuska biryani last night and it turned out very good. The aroma was excellent. Thanks for sharing your recipe.

Dear Mrs. Mano,
Can u post the recipe for Urulaikizhangu pal curry.

Dear Mrs.Mano,
Thanks for the ragi recipes.I will try them and let you know the feed back. I have got a plenty ( almost like more than 4 kg) of green chillies from the near by farm. I stored some in freezer and also I put some in the buttermilk and dried( mor milagai) . If you can give me some kind of recipes which I can make with it.THank u .
regards
ammu

Dear Mrs.Mano !
Thank u very much for posting cucumber recipes.i tried Jeeraga rasam and it was very tasty.i also made thakali milagu rasam and vegetable omelette from arusuvai .com.We liked it a lot.Thanks for the recipe.
Regards foodlover.