Farsi Papdi

Crispy Farsi Papdi, evening snacks 

This crunchy Papadi, best served with a cuppa tea make this easy Papdi & enjoy your evening snacks

My kiddo just loves kurkure (crunchy) snacks, so tried to make it healthy by making snacks at home....

Spicy & kurkuri evening snacks recipe

Ingredients:

Maida: 1 cup

redchili powder 1sp

Caraway seeds(Ajwain): 1/2sp

Ghee: 2sps

salt to taste

Oil for deep frying

Method

In a mixing bowl mix Maida & ghee make it crumbly then

Add salt, redchili powder & ajwain

Now add little by little water & make a dough (not very hard)

Then roll it out to make thin chapati & prick holes with fork.....

Cut to desired shapes. I have cut them with round cutter to small poori shapes

Deep fry in oil till it slightly changes colour, remove on absorbent

Kurkuri snacks ready.

Rainy season enjoy this crispy Papdi, store it in air tight containers

Rajma masala with Chapati & Aam Rass

Rajma masala is a North Indian side dish. Rajma masala/ gravy ingredients typically include onion, chopped tomatoes, coriander seed, garlic, chillies, ginger,  and garam masala. 
This is Spicy gravy can be combined with chapati or even Rice 
I Have served Rajma masala with Chapati & Aam Rass

Ingredients
Soaked Rajma: 2cups
Onion: 2
Tomato: 2
Gingergarlic paste: 1sp
Coriender powder: 1sp
Garam masala: 1sp
Redchili powder: 1+1/2 sps
or (Everest chole masala: 2sps optional)

Oil: 2-3 sps
Curry leaves: few
Mustard seeds: 1/2 spSalt to taste
Cilantro for garnishing

Procedure
Soak Rajma(Beans)overnite or 5-6 hrs
Then presurre cook it with little salt & water for 5-6 visels 

In a heated Pan, Add Oil & mustard seeds once splutters add Curry leaves, then add Onions chopped & saute till light golden
Add ginger garlic paste, fry add chopped Tomatoes fry till mushy

Add salt to taste & all Masalas or (else You can Omit these & add Everest Chole masala Instead)

Fry the masalas & Add cooked Rajma Mix everything add little water & cook 2-3 min

Garnish with cilantro....
Rajma Masala ready I have served with Chapati & Aam Rass

Aam Rass( Mango puree)

Summer Special dish Aam Rass or Mango puree sidedish which goes well with Chapati or Poori

Plenty of Mangoes in the Market make the most of seasonal fruit, easiest & simplest among the mango dishes is Aam rass, Also try Mango Frooti, Mango Icecream, Mango Sasam, Mango Falooda

Pure Mango, blended & sweetened according to taste, combine this with Poori & you have a stunning breakfast ready

Combine this Aam Rass with Chapati & sabji for lunch great side dish you will relish this

Try making this simple Aam Rass

Ingredients:

Ripe mango:1
Sugar:2-3 tbsp

Chop the Mango into cubes removing skin
Blend it to thick puree
Add Sugar if needed, and blend again

Remove & serve, Relish Aam Rass with Poori or as a Dessert

Crispy French FriesFries

Crispy French Fries
Easy french fries freeze it & use whenever needed, no need of thawing you get crisp french fries this way

Ingredients:

Pototoes: 2
Cold water
Oil for deep frying
For seasoning: Salt 

Tips & tricks
Wash & peel potato skin, then chop them lengthwise

Rinse potato chopped lenghtwise in water for 2-3 times so that the starch gets reduced

This way fries wont stick with each other

Boil water in pot add little salt, once it starts bubbling add the potato wedges
Cook for 3-4 min, just till its slight cooked

Drain & wipe dry the potatoes

Keep in a Ziplock bag or any plastic & freeze it for an hr

In a deep pan heat Oil once its hot turn to medium

Remove potato wedges from freezer dont thaw directly fry the potatoe wedges

Fry till crisp & brown drain on absorbent & sprinkle seasonings

Crispy French Fries ready to serve

Mango Frooti Fresh Juice

Mango Frooti Fresh Juice using king of fruits "Mango"

Relish this Mango season with Homemade Frooti without any preservatives, Try this Fresh Frooti Juice.

You will Love the taste & its so affordable, making at home saves buying so many Bottles of juice needed weekly for the summer

Mango season has just started, and at the start we get some sore Mangoes as well which doesnt taste good

Such Mangoes are perfect for this frooti, this recipe is a Savior as if we make direct juice we need more sugar to make the juice sweet, so Instead make this Frooti style juice all you need are these Ingredients mentioned below

Ripe mangoes(Sour ones): 2
Ripe mangoe(Sweet): 1
Sugar: 1cup
Water:1-2 glases

Method to follow:
Simple & easy procedure to make this tasty Frooti

Firstly make a small cut above the mango & check if its sweet or sour

Put the sour mangoes in a pressure cooker with little water
cook this for 1-2 visels then cool down & open remove & cool

This way the sourness will get reduced, remove skin of this mango
then extract the pulp & remove the seed, take this cooked pulp in a blender

Now add 1 Ripened sweet mango to this, just the flesh remove the skin, as shown above

Add sugar & blend well till sugar dissolves completely, you will get a thick Mango pulp

Add 1-2 long glasses of water & mix to dilute the juice as the pulp is very thick, after adding water it will look like this below

If you prefer very thick juice add 1 long glass water, check the sweetness if you want sugar you can add as per you prefernce of sweetness

Pour it in a Jug/Bottle, Serve chilled in Glasses & Enjoy the Frooti Fresh Juice

Dark Chocolate Fudge with Nuts

Mothers Day special Dark Chocolate Fudge with mixed nuts, tastes heavenly try this easy chocolate fudge recipe for this mothers day

All you Need is just three ingredients for your  dark chocolate fudge Enjoy this divine luxurious chocolate

Ingredients:
Dark chocolate: 150 grms
Condensed Milk: 150 grms(less than 1/2 tin)
Mixed Nuts: 1/2 cup
Butter: 3tbsp

Make this Rich Dark Chocolate fudge, follow this easy steps

Firstly Melt the Dark chocolate on a double Boiler

Keep the Bowl of chocolate on a boiling pot(water filled pot)
Stir & melt the chocolate on steam, once it just comes to melting stage

Add Condensed milk & butter & mix

Just when it melts, slow down the flame let it be on steam
Add the mixed nuts mix well & switch off

Dont cook the chocolate it must be just melting & runny

Take silicon Moulds & pour spoonfull in each moulds
Do this quick before the chocolate starts setting in

If the chocolate starts setting in before finishing all moulds just keep it again on the simmering pot & melt till its runny

Once all the Moulds are filled, keep these in a box with lid or cover with cling film
and refrigerate for an hour or two, these will be set

Indulge in this chocolaty fudge by removing it from the Moulds


Note: You can even set  by spreading the mix on a greased tray then after set cut it to desired shapes

Neer dosa with Jaggery(Goddu ravo)

Neer dosa  literally meaning Water dosa is a crêpe prepared from rice batter. It is light type of dosa, an Indian dish. Neer dosa is a delicacy from  Karnataka part of Udupi cuisine. 'Neer' is the word for water, Rice is soaked in water for 3 to 4 hours. It is then ground to make a runny rice batter. A thin layer of batter is poured onto a heated flat griddle (tawa) greased with oil. The batter is spread with the base of a ladle or bowl to form a pancake. It is flipped to heat both crusts and removed from the griddle when the crust becomes dry Neer dosa comes out soft It is served hot with chutney or Gravy

This is a popular Breakfast Item in Karnatakas Coastal belt, I grew up all my life eating this for breakfast....We call it Paan polo in Konkani & typical gravy which goes well with this is sprouted Moong Amti or Liquid Jaggery(Goddu ravo)

This is versatile dish can be had as Breakfast with chutney or Moong amti a Konkani sidedish or Can be served for lunch with Chicken curry...love these combo Here is the Recipe No fermentation Required

Try this Neer dosa/ Panpolo

For Neerdosa:

DosaRice :2 cups 

Coconut 1/2 cup

Just soak DosaRice for 4-5 hrsor leave it soaked overnite

Then grind in the Morning adding Coconut 1/2 cup to Rice with 1 cup water 

Grind to smooth paste add more water(1 to 1+1/2 cups) & make it thinner than Normal dosa 

Batter should be watery, add salt & MIX 

In nonstick pan grease with Oil...we usually grease oil using Onion for this to get flavour 

Then Pour Thin batter & keep Moving the pan in circles to form thin coating of Dosa

Or else sprinkler the batter like splashing it on hot griddle left & right side to form pancake

cook for a min each side with lid then turn around.....

Soft Paanpolo/Neerdosa Ready to be served with Liquid Jaggery(Goddu ravo) for Breakfast, Or as lunch with Chicken curry....Enjoy