<Center> --------------------------- My Potpourri of Recipes-------------------------: March 2025 </Center>

Monday, March 24, 2025

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

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

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

Wednesday, March 05, 2025

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