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That sounds tasty too Kugan. I'll try it for dinner today :D

My grandson's( pre KG) teacher has sent a note asking him to bring a packet of nippet for the bhel puri party day after tomorrow. A country mouse that I am I couldn't figure out what that could be. Asking in the neighbouring bakery, chat corner, snack bar etc I come to understand it is nothing other than our thattai. But my son is not convinced. He & my dil suspect it might be some other product esp. made for bhel puri mix. Can anyone enlighten me?

[tscii]With due thanks to Mrs. Revathy Shanmugam.


Rice Nippet


Ingredients

Raw rice powder : 1 cup

Maida : ½ cup

Grated coconut : 2 tsp

Groundnut (fried) : ¼ cup

Split roasted gram : ¼ cup

Curry leaves : a few

Ginger : 1 small piece

Green Chilli : 12

Ghee : 1

Salt : 1

Oil : as needed

Method -

Grind fried groundnut and split roasted gram coarsely. Grind ginger, green chilli and grated coconut. Mix raw rice powder and maida in a bowl. Add the ground gram, coconut Paste, salt, ghee and curry leaves. Add water to form a dough. Heat oil in a frying pan. Take a small ball of dough. Flatten it into small circles and fry them in oil. Remove when cooked.



This recipe is taken from the book "Kara Vagaigal" by Revathi Shanmugam published by Kannadhasan Pathippagam


I hope you are clear now Mrs. Pavalamani Pragasam.

guys, how to make good spicy sundal?? :roll:

thanks for your help

Thanx, kugan98!

To vibinrajmani: My mil's recipe

Soak channa overnight & pressure cook it. Grind thaniya, jeera, red chilli to a paste. Heat a few tsp's of oil in the kadai, saute chopped small onion till brown, add masala paste, salt and channa. ( A little water may be sprinkled if the masala is very thick). Simmer it till thaniya gets a cooked smell, add coconut flakes and remove from fire.

Vibin : Soak channa overnight and pressure cook with salt. Grind a small piece ginger and two/three green chillies coarsely. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard, perungayam, curry leaves, then the cooked channa (without water). Mix, add the ground paste, mix well and serve. If you want, add some lemon juice, after removing from fire. Dried peas, channa dhal, green gram - all taste good this way.

Hey since is the SOS thread 'thot I might post a query here-
I'm going to make beans curry for the first time, moving from a steady diet of vendakkai/kovakkai (having jus these 2 for the last 1 year! :shock: :roll:)

So bought the 'slim' type beans (kotthavarung'kai?) and cut it...BUT jus then a doubt came in my mind- do we need to boil beans first in the pressure cooker before cooking?? :?
My mother would do tat whenever she cooks beans curry....

'grateful for ne guidance! :)

Can do it easily: put the vegetable pieces in the pressure cooker, add a little water, turmeric powder, jeera powder, chilli powder, salt, and chopped small onion fried with urad dhal tand cook for 2 whistle time!

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Wibha : Soak channa overnight and pressure cook with salt. Grind a small piece ginger and two/three green chillies coarsely. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard, perungayam, curry leaves, then the cooked channa (without water). Mix, add the ground paste, mix well and serve. If you want, add some lemon juice, after removing from fire. Dried peas, channa dhal, green gram - all taste good this way.

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akka ketadhu vibin :P

hehe anyway this is exactly how amma does sundal too :o SAME!!!!!! :omg:

endha vibin 8-)

So you want to make it differently and impress her ?

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endha vibin 8-)

So you want to make it differently and impress her ?

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endha vibin-ah :? :roll:

i don't wanna make sundal amma will make iit for me :P it's too easy for me :smokesmirk: en level-e vera :lol2:

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Can do it easily: put the vegetable pieces in the pressure cooker, add a little water, turmeric powder, jeera powder, chilli powder, salt, and chopped small onion fried with urad dhal tand cook for 2 whistle time!

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:ty: PP ma'm! 'will try it tomorrow as 'dont hav much patience/inclination to do it today....! :oops:

Dear all,

Which is the best method to make black/green tea?

a) To boil the tea bags along with water or

b) to boil the water and let the tea bags steep?

Which method retains more benefit?

I would be too obliged to receive answers at the earliest.

Thankyou.

1. bring water to almost boil (dont use boiling water) in a pan.

2. in a mug, place your tea bag and then pour the hot water.

3. let it rest for 2 mins max and then remove tea bag.

4. allow tea to cool down and then drink.

thanks nov.

I always let the tea bag boil along with water, until someone told me thats not the right way to do.

thanks again.

Hi,
can u guys help me cook for my 7 month old baby boy .
He is taking mother's milk and im providing him rice cereal and pureed vegetables but still he is very very thin...
i hav heard tht there r some grandmother's old and healthy recipes for children anybody hav anykind of recipes to post also general baby food recipes plllzzzzzzz??
from one desperate mom

try feeding ragi kanji once a day... preferably in the morning...

hi Swapna,

u can start giving him semi solid food, since it is a boy he need more than a baby girl. I have 2 sons, one is 7 1/2 yrs and another one 5 1/2 yrs. i started semi solid from the month of six. I used to give him sathu maavu kanchi once in a day. morning idli u can try with milk and sugar. Afternoon, lunch in a small pressure cooker, a small cup of ur cooking rice, 1/4 moong dhal, little carrot, little potato chopped , 1 clove garlic, 1 or 2 sambar onion, 1/4 tsp of jeera, 4 peppercorns, little salt, water may be 1 1/2 cups. cook nicely . then it will be very soft, u can add homemade ghee, while feeding. u can mash the food with the spoon and u can feed. Whatever u try for ur baby please try in the day time. Anyfood to get use it will take nearly a week, slowly u feed, basic is u need the patience. Night u can give him idli or like pongal(very soft). In between u can give fruit punch (made at home), soups, pureed veg. etc.
if ur baby is active that is well and good, donot think that baby is very thin.

Hi selviam ,
thanks a lot. can u plz giv me recipe for sathu maavu i hav heard of it but never tried it before. i will try dal rice and idly definetely.
also i dont hav any idea abt making fruit punch???

Hi dev,
thanks for ur response.i will also try raagi kanji.

hi swapna,
saathu maavu is very very good the babies, coz it contains all the saathu in that, if they take twice a day that is well and good.
Here is the easiest receipe for it:
1.Broken wheat (wheat rava)- 1 cup
2.G. moong - 1 cup
3.cooking rice (whatever u cook for the rice) - 1/4 cup
4.Cashews - 1/4 cup
5.Badham - 1/2 cup
6.Peanut - 1/2 cup
7.Pottukadalai - 1/2 cup
8.Elaichi - 1 tblsp
9.Sukku - 1 tblsp

Dry fry in the slow fire B.wheat,G.moong, rice one by one .
all these should be fried nicely.keep this in a big tray. peanut with its skin only dry fry and remove the skin, then only the taste will come. if u use the readymade peeled one that is not that much good for the babies. add the peanut to that tray. now u can either dry fry the other items or u can keep in the sun for 2 hours and add to the tray. all these items should be come to the room temperature and u can grind it in the mill. instead sukku u can use sukku readymade powder.
Now the basic powder is ready. For ur baby, u can take 1 tblsp of powder and add 1 1/2 tsp of sugar mix it with little water without any lumps and cook for 3 to min in the slow fire, now it will be like thick kanji. dilute with boiled milk and 1/2 tsp of ghee. this u can feed in the feeding bottle or u can feed like cerelac. This is very filling for the kids. u can increase the qty of the powder according to the age.
till i am giving to my younger one. Coz he is a poor eater, so i will give this one time daily.
u try and tell me .
Fruit punch:
i just make a combination of 2 or 3 fruits peeled cut and make a puree nicely with 1 tblsp of milk and give like a cerelac. I will use banana in my punch.
I normally use apple, pear, straw berry, papaya , cherries.
selvi

dry fry

Hi selviam, i tried sathu maavu and he is eating good. also im giving him dal rice.
thank you sooo much.

hi swapna,
thank u so much.
selvi

Hi,
I live in bloomington and we r running out of
Idly rice in indian stores...
i saw boiled rice in sams club
where the rice is not indian type ...
i just want to knw anybody tried making idle batter out of this sams club rice????
or is there anyother rice we get easily to make idly batter...
i also need ratio for rice and urad dal for making batter...

hi swapna,

u can try this ratio, whatever boiled rice it may be, rice - 4 cups and urad dhal - 1 cup (4:1)
so for that take 2 cups of boiled rice, 1 cup of basmati rice(if the basmati rice is motta, then go for it. it can be used for the batter purpose not for cooking), 1 cup of white thin rice flakes. so this comes for 4 cups of rice.
soak both the rice together overnight. rice flakes remove the dirt when it is dry and soak for 15 min before grinding.
Now urad dha1 - 1 cup.
first u have to grind urad dhal then remove the batter, then grind rice+ rice flakes together and mix dhal and rice, ferment properly and make idli. It really turns out very soft. try this.
selvi

Thanks a lot Selviam, for ur continues replies...
i will try today and tell you.

Can anyone tell me if I can use tofu like cheese (As in pizza topping of tofu instead of cheese) please?

thanks :)

Anou, tofu won't melt like cheese...so it wouldn't be a good substitute for cheese i guess...

thanks dev... I am still trying to find out where I can find vegan cheese!

Can anyone give me a recipe for a simple eggless and preferrably dairy free cake please?

I usually make chocolate cake and carrot cake and I want to try something different.

thanks in advance :)

Hi Anou,
Link to an eggless cake recipe
http://sunitabhuyan.com/?p=1946
I made it for a friend of mine for her birthday and it came out very well.

thanks dsath :) The recipe looks fairly simple, so will try that out today :)

Tried the cake dsath, used honey instead of sugar and added a chopped up pear to it. Came out ok, was a bit sticky for some reason and hubby dear thinks it should have cooked more or I should have mixed two different flours instead of just plain flour!

But Abhi loved it anyway :)

Any one knows how to make badam milk?

quite simple actually - soak almonds overnight (some ppl prefer to boil) . then peel skin and grind, adding water as necessary.
boil milk, add almond paste, sugar and colouring. you can add pounded Elakka for added taste.

Garnishing it with roasted 'saarai paruppu' will make it a more delightful drink! And a spoon of ghee added before swithching off the stove makes it yummy! :slurp:
'saarai paruppu' is that small paruppu( I don't know its name in English :( ) used to garnish milk sweets, son papdi, sohan alwa etc.

thanks NO & pp madam :) will try that for Abhi. Any of the badam milk mixes that I get here has milk solids in it, so can't use them. Now I can mke my own at home :)

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Can anyone tell me if I can use tofu like cheese (As in pizza topping of tofu instead of cheese) please?

thanks :)

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found a whole pile of vegan cheese at a health store today :)

happy for Abhi kutty...he can have cheese pizza now...:D

might sound like a silly question, but is sathukdi considered a citrus fruit?

reason for asking this question... I've been asked to avoid citrus fruits for Anou, but I know sathukudi juice is sooo good..

sathakudi is a citrus fruit.