Potato Bonda

•  3 Medium potato 
• 1/2 glass water
• Wash the potatoes and cook in cooker with water for 2 whistles. And wait until the pressure goes off.
• Drain the  potatoes, remove the skin and  mash them. Keep it aside.

• 2 tbsp oil
• 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
• few curry leaves.
• Heat oil in pan. Add mustard seeds and when it splutters add curry leaves.

• 1/2 chopped onion
• 1tsp chopped ginger
• 3 chopped green chillies
• salt
• Add chopped onions, ginger and green chilies
• Add salt and saute them in a medium flame.
• Let the raw smell go and reduce the heat.

• 1/2 tsp turmeric
• 1/2 tsp chilli powder
• Add the turmeric and chilli powder. Saute till the raw smell goes.
• Add the mashed potatoes and cook. Let it cook for 5 minutes
• Mix well and remove from the flame.
• Once cooled make small balls. Keep it aside.

• 1 cup gram flour
• 2 tbsp rice flour
• salt to taste
• pinch of asafoetida
• 1/4 tsp chilli powder
• Mix gram flour, rice flour, salt and hing well

• 1 cup water
• Now add water little by little and mix well. To make a batter.

• Oil for frying
• Heat a oil in a kadai.
• Once the oil is hot

• Deep the balls in the batter by rolling all sides.
• Drop them into the hot oil.

• Fry them in a medium flame and until its reaches the perfect golden brown color.
• Transfer them into a strainer.

Enjoy cooking

S

Air fry Pakora

• 2 Medium onions
•  Slice the onions very thinly and length wise.

• 1/2 cup besan
• 2 tbsp rice flour
• 1tsp chili powder
• 1/2 gram masala
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• salt to taste
• 1 tsp baking powder
• Add besan, rice flour, chili powder, gram masala powder, turmeric, salt and baking powder and mix well

• 2 green chilies
• few strands of coriander leaves.
• Add the onions, green chillies and coriander leaves. Mix well.


• 2 tbsp oil.
• Add the oil and mix well.

• Add water just enough to make a thick paste.

• Prepare your air fry with baking sheet paper and brushing it with oil.

• Scoop using small ice cream scoop the batter and lay them on the tray with space in between.

• Cook them at 185C for 10 to 15 minutes.

• If needed spray with oil and turn the side. Cook until it turns brown and crispy.

Enjoy Air frying

S

Thari pudding

• 1/2 cup semolina
• Soak in water for 10 minutes and then wash well.

• 1/2 litre milk
• 1/2 cup sugar
• Boil with semolina and add sugar into it.
• Reduce heat,  cook until it thicken.

• 2 strands of saffron
• 1 tsp of rose water.
•  Add saffron and rose water into it. Remove from heat.   
• Pour in a  flat bowl.

• 1 tbsp ghee
• 5 cashew nuts
• 5 kismis
• Heat ghee and then fry chopped cashew nuts int it. 
• once it turns golden brown add rasins. Remove from the heat.
• Pour over the  semolina mix.

• Keep in the refrigerator before serving.

Enjoy cooking

S

Kai Pola

•  Plantains(Kerala banana)  need to be ripe. Slice them twice, so you get four long pieces ( I always remove the veins(the black part) of this ) and then chop them into small 1/2 inch size.
• 3 ripe plantains

• Heat ghee in a pan. Fry the cashew nuts until light golden brown and keep it aside. Then fry the raisins until plump and keep it aside.
• 2 tbsp ghee
• 6 cashew nuts split into 2
• 6 raisins

• Add more ghee , Now add the chopped  plantains and fry until golden brown in color. 
• 2 tbsp ghee

• Beat the eggs and sugar well with a little pinch of cardamom.
• 3 eggs
• 3 tbsp sugar

• Mix the fried plantains with a egg mixture with a pinch of baking powder.

• Preheat a oven at 175C for 10 minutes.

• Brush the pan with ghee.

• Pour the mixture and put the nuts on top. Bake for 15 minutes until a tooth pick comes out clean.
• Flip it over a plate before serving.

Enjoy Baking 

S

Spring rolls

•  Heat oil, strir fry ginger and garlic till light brown. 
• 1 tbsp ginger chopped into small pieces.
• 1 tbsp garlic chopped
• 3 tbsp oil

• Add spring onion, cabbage and carrot. Stir fry for few minutes.
• 2 spring onions with leaves chopped
• 2 cups thinly sliced cabbage
• 1 cup thinly sliced carrot

• Add green chillies and chicken into it. Stir fry few more minutes.
• 2 green chilles sliced
• 1 cup chicken shredded or chopped in the chopper

• Add salt, soya sauce  and pepper into it. Stir fry for few minutes.
• salt to taste
• 1 tbsp soya sauce
• 1 tsp pepper

• Keep it aside to cool.

• Mix together egg, salt, cornflour and flour. Keep it aside for an hour.
• 1 egg
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup cornflour
• salt to taste

• Heat a pan and make thin pancakes by cooking only one side.

• Keep the filling on the cooked side. Fold the edge over and roll half way.

• Fold both sides towards the center. Roll further and seal.
• One can either fry directly or dip in beaten egg and roll over bread crumbs.
• And then fry.
• 1 egg beaten
• required bread crumbs.

• Deep fry the spring roll till brown. Drain the oil on  paper.

Enjoy Cooking 

S

Tomato Chutney

•  Heat oil. Add dry red chilies and fry few secs.
• 1tsp sesame oil
• 3 red dry red chilies 

• Heat oil , add sliced onion fry for minutes until the onions soft. Add chopped tomatoes and fry for sometime. Then add ginger, garlic, few curry leaves and green chilie and fry for few minutes. Fry few minutes and remove from heat, let it cool.
• 3 tbsp Oil/Sesame
• 2 sliced onion
• 3 big tomatoes
• 1/4 tsp sliced ginger
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 1 green chilies slice
• 1 spring of curry leaves

• Grind to paste.

• Heat oil , add mustard  and curry leaves. Add the paste with water and salt.
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• Few springs of curry leaves

• Boil once. Have it with dosa or idli.

Enjoy Cooking

S

Crab Roast

 

• Clean the crab well and keep aside. 
• 1 kg crab

• For the masala. Heat a pan.
• Add ghee/oil, then add coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fennel seeds,  pepper, fenugreek seeds, cloves and cinnamon and fry well.
• 1 tbsp ghee/oil  
• 1 tbsp coriander seeds
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1/4 tsp fennel seeds
• 4 pepper corns
• 1/4 tsp methi seeds
• 1 small piece cinnamon

• Then add garlic, ginger and dry red chillies(mangalore) and fry for few minutes.
• 5 cloves of garlic
• 1 inch of ginger cut into thin slices
• 15 dry chillies

• Once it is cooled , grind to a smooth paste with tamarind and turmeric.
• 1 small lime size tamarind
• 1/4 tsp turmeric

• Heat oil/ghee in a pan, add garlic, small onion and curry leaves and fry for few minutes.
• 5 tbsp oil/ghee
• 5 cloves garlic chopped into small
• 4 small onions chopped
• few strings of curry leaves.

• Now add the paste into it with water, roast until the oil bursts out.
• 1/2 cup water

• Add the crab with water and salt. Cook and then fry well.

Enjoy Cooking

S

Channa Masala

• Let us soak channa in water overnight or for a 5 to 6 hours.
• 1 cup Channa/Chickpea

• Make a paste of the following ingredients, grind well.
• 2 tomatoes
• 2 onions medium
• 4 garlic
• 1inch ginger
• 3/4 tsp cumin seeds
• 1/2 tsp gram masla
• 1 cardamom
• 3 cloves
• 1 tbsp coriander powder
• 1 tbsp chilli powder
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp kastori methi 

• In a pressure cooker add the paste, channa,  pinch of baking soda, oil and salt.
• 2 tbsp oil
• pinch of baking soda
• 2 tsp salt

• Close the cooker and cook for ten minutes and turn  of the fire. Wait until the pressure cools down.

• Once it cools, open the pressure cooker add garam masala and kastori methi.
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 1 tsp kastori methi

• Heat oil  and add green chilies and few slits of ginger. Pour it into the curry and mix well.
• 2 green chillies
• 1or 2 thin slices of ginger
• Finally, garnish  with coriander leave.

Enjoy cooking.

S

KattiPettiappam

• 2 cups flour
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup semolina
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
• 2 tbsp ghee

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Method:

1. Powder the sugar.
2. Beat the eggs with powdered sugar well.
3. Add the flour & semolina.
4. Add the baking powder & cardamom powder.
5. Add the ghee and mix well. 
6. Cover and set it aside for 20 minutes.
7. Take small portions, rolled out about 1/2 cm thick and cut into diamond -shaped pieces.
8. Deep fry in hot oil( on medium flame) till light brown.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Enjoy Cooking

S

Note:Tried out in air fryer it also came out perfect.

Easy Brownies

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3 eggs at room temperature
• 1 tsp vanille essence
• 3/4 cup oil
• 11/2 cup sugar

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Method:

1. Add oil, sugar and vanilla essence in a large bowl and mix together until well combined.
2. Add eggs and mix well.
3. Then add the dry ingredients into it and mix well. Do not over beat.
4. Line a square baking tray with parchment paper and pour the batter into it.
5. Preheat the oven to 175C for 10 minutes.
6. Bake for 20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
7. Allow the brownies to cool and then cut into squares.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Enjoy Baking

S

Adapted from https://www.lifeloveandsugar.com/