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Aloo tikki with fillings.

Baby corn and potato makes a great combination. Making tikkis out of it in a combination or making cutlets out of it along with a few other vegetables will be a best choice to make the kids eat a lot of vegetables. Ingredients: Potatoes - 4 nos Sweet corn - 1/2 cup Green Peas - 1/4 cup Red Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp Garam Masala Powder - 1/4 tsp Chat masala powder - 1/2 tsp Amchur Powder - 1 tsp Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup Mint leaves - 1/4 cup Salt to taste Corn flour - 1/4 cup Bread Crumbs - 1 cup Lemon Juice - 1/2 tsp Oil for frying Method: Boil and grate potatoes. Boil corn and green peas separately (if dry green peas is used, it should be soaked over night and then boiled). In a large mixing bowl, add the grated potato, salt, turmeric powder, amchur powder, red chilly powder, chat masala, garam masala, coriander leaves, mint leaves and mixed well. (Alternatively you can grind coriander leaves and mint leaves along with the other masala powders and salt and mix

Comprehensive Guide to Home Cooking and Kitchen Tips

How to make Chilly Oil at home  How to make brown stock at home How to make easy brown stock at home How to make soft chappatis How to make unsour curd at home How to make Tomato Sauce at home How to make bread crumbs at home How to make Khoya at home How to make caramalized onions How to make vegetable stock at home How to make basic tomato gravy How to make idly batter at home How to make processed rice flour at home How to make Tomato Puree How to extract coconut milk How to make Paneer at home How to make Instant Rawa mix How to make instant sambar How to instant idly mix How to develop healthy eating habits How to makeCinnamon Powder at home How to make Nannari Sherbet at home How to make fenu greek powder at home How to prepare Channa and Peas easily for cooking How to make Jaggery syrup at home How to make Pulikaichal at home How to make lowfat curd at home How to make white sauce at home How to cook Punarbagam for Pathiya samayal How to prepare peas and channa for cooking How t

Idly Milagai Podi types

Idly Milagai Podi, or Chutney podi can be made in different ways. * Idly/Dosai Milagai Podi  with sesame seeds * Easy Milagai Podi * Idly Milagai Podi without Sesame seeds * Garlic Chilly Powder * Black Urad Dal Idly Chilly Powder * Nalla Kaaram * Gujarathi Chilly Powder

Masoor Dal Soup

Ingredients: Masoor Dal - 1 cup Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup Mint Leaves - 1/2 cup Onion - 2 Tomato - 2 Ginger - 1/2 inch piece Green chillies - 2 nos Garlic - 8 pods Ghee - 2 tbsp Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp Saunf - 1/2 tsp Method: Cut onion and tomato into fine pieces. chop coriander leaves, mint leaves too finely. Heat ghee in a pressure pan add mustard seeds and when they splutter add cumin seeds, saunf and saute for a few mins. Slit the green chillies, crush the garlic, chop the ginger finely and add it to the pan. Add onions, tomato and saute well again. Add masoor dal and 2 cups of water to it and pressure cook it for about 3 to 4 whistles. When cool mash it thoroughly. If it is thick add another cup of water and serve hot. This is a wholesome soup for a cold evening.

Kitchen Utensils in Indian Cooking

We use different kind of utensils in our kitchen to cook different kinds of dishes. Here is a brief intro to such kind of utensils for the benefit of new weds, bachelors and also those who want to know about Indian cooking. * Anjari Petti or Masala Box *  Multi use Othappam Tawa * Tongs in Indian cooking * Rathna Stores for Kalyana Seervarisai and Utensils

Recipes that help in weight reduction diet

Many of us now plan to reduce weight. Here are a few recipes to begin with: Horse gram Porridge Horse gram powder Barley - Horse gram Porridge Raw Rice Rawa, Lemon and Ginger Porridge Dalia Porridge for weight reduction after delivery Healthy Snack Bag Tip to reduce weight

Instant Garam Masala paste

Ingredients: Ginger - 1 inch Black Pepper - 1 tbsp Cinnamon - 1 inch piece Cumin - 3 tsp Coriander seeds - 3 tsp Nutmeg powder - 1/2 tsp Cloves - 2 Method: Dry fry all the ingredients in a pan. Grind them together along with ginger and 2 tbsp of water to a fine paste. This can be used in Kormas and pulavs. Making it fresh and adding to the food will enhace the taste.