Tasty plantain dish/ethapazham-coconut sweet

 

Ingredients
1 ripe banana chopped

jaggery 100 gram

grated 1/2 coconut

cashew nuts & raisins to garnish
2 tbsp of ghee

Method
Cut plantain into small pieces and roast it in ghee for 5 minutes.Keep it aside.

Now roast cashew nut and raisins in ghee and keep it aside.
Meanwhile grate jaggery and boil it in water so that it gets diluted in water.
Filter the liquified form  of jaggery.

Add it into a pan,then into it add grated coconut and  1 tbsp of ghee.
Mix well with a spatula.
Then add the cooked plantain and close it with a lid after mixing well.
Let it cook in medium flame for 5 minutes.
The coconut and plantain will absorb the jaggery and the dish becomes more into a thick paste.
Garnish it with roasted cashew nut and raisins.

Homemade Tomato sauce

Ingredients
2 kg -Tomato
1/2 kg sugar/10 tbsp honey
2 tbsp salt
5 garlic cloves
5 ginger small chopped pieces
2 onions chopped
2 tbsp of vinegar
1 tsp garam masala
Method

First cut ginger,garlic,onion,tomatoes in 4 pieces.

Cook in medium flame for 5 minutes so juice come at bottom of dish.

Cover it with a lid.

Mix it with a spoon in between.

Later increase the flame and cook for 5 minutes .

Let cool down and grind it.

Grinded paste is filtered.

Now cook the pulp till it become thick and stir continuously.

When boiled add sugar in it.

Add salt,garam masala mix well.
Cook it till a thick paste is obtained. 

When it get cooled add vinegar.

Store it in a sterilized container and refrigerate it.

Cheera Thoran/amaranth(amaranthus) fry

cheera fry

Ingredients
red/green cheera chopped-250 gram
1 teaspoon ghee or oil
cumin seed-1/2 teaspoon
coconut grated-100 gram
salt 1 teaspoon
 a pinch of turmeric powder
Method

red and green cheera

Take washed and chopped red cheera in a pan and cook with 1 teaspoon ghee in medium heat for 5 minutes with a lid.No need of adding any water.You can use oil instead of ghee.But remember ghee adds more taste.Add salt.

chopped cheera

Meanwhile it is cooking,take grated coconut and into it add 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds.Grind it.

grated coconut and cumin seeds

Add the grinded mixer into the cooking cheera and stir for 2 minutes.The tasty dish is ready :)You can have this with cooked rice.

cheera fry

Healthy bread sandwich (mayonnaise recipe)

Ingredients
4 wheat bread
2 egg
50 gram cabbage chopped
2 green chilli chopped
1 tomato chopped (optional)
3 curry leaves
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoon mayonnaise(you can get this from any grocery shop)
Method
Mayonnaise is salty in taste.

 
Cook the finely chopped vegetables in 1 teaspoon oil in a pan,add 1/2 teaspoon salt to it while cooking.Then into the cooked vegetable,add 2 egg.

 Add 1/2 teaspoon of salt and mix well all the ingredients and make a big egg omelet in a non stick pan. Cook one side for 5 minutes and on top of omelet while cooking add 2 tablespoon of mayonnaise and spread evenly with a spoon.

Cut the omelet into small pieces and place in between two wheat bread and have it.Its so tasty and healthy too :)

Tasty Rice Flakes Ladoo/Aval ladoo/Poha Ladoo

rice flakes/aval/poha ladoo

Ingredients

1. 100 gram rice flakes
2. 3 teaspoon ghee
3. 5 tablespoon sugar
4. 5 cashew-nut
5. 5 raisin

Method

• Wash rice flakes with water.
• Roast rice flakes in 2 teaspoon of ghee for 5 minutes in medium heat.
• Grind the rice flakes in mixer well.Then add 5 tablespoon of sugar and grind it well with rice flakes.
• Roast the cashew-nuts and raisins separately  in 1 teaspoon of ghee for 1 minute in medium heat.
• Add the roasted cashew-nuts and raisins into the grind-ed mixer and mix well with hand.Make it into small balls.Tasty ladoo is ready :)

Healthy and Tasty Ivy Gourd(Tindora/Kovaka)

IVY GOURD

Normalize blood sugar level-Because of an essential liver enzyme contained in this particular food which standardizes the sugar metabolism within your body, by improving the glucose production. Therefore additionally it is of excellent assistance to the diabetic patients and is also strongly suggested for them.
 Healing certain diseases-Since times immemorial, the ivy gourd has been utilized like a cure for asthma, leprosy, bronchitis and jaundice. The plant of the veggie is additionally utilized for offering relief to the bowel problems. This particular veggie is additionally verified to be healthy in healing particular blood diseases and is particularly confirmed to reduce higher fever.
 Ivy Gourd as Health Food-It is promoted like a health food in several parts of India due to its high-content of Vitamins. Each one of these vitamins is essential for the body of a human, and helps reinforce the defense mechanisms. It is abundant with Vitamin C, which will help in conditioning the bones.

Cooked Ivy gourd

Ingredients
6 piece of Ivy gourd
1/2 teaspoon fenugreek powder
2 teaspoon of chilli,turmeric,salt, and coriander powder
Method
Cut Ivy gourd into small round pieces.

Ingredients for cooking Ivy gourd

Marinate with chilli,turmeric,salt,coriander and fenugreek powder and keep it aside for 1/2 an hour.
Cook it in a pan by adding 1 glass of water with closed lid for 10 minutes in medium heat on stove.When water disappears add 2 teaspoon of oil and cook for 5 minutes in medium heat and stir in between.Ivy gourd dish is ready.You can serve it with rice.:)

Fish Fry with Yogurt

Ingredients
2 teaspoon yogurt
2 teaspoon chilli,turmeric powder
salt 1 teaspoon
Method
Marinate fish with 2 teaspoon chilli,turmeric powder and salt(I prefer 1 teaspoon) as per taste.Keep it aside for 1/2 an hour.
Just before frying add 2 teaspoon yogurt in marinated fish pieces and mix well with hand.
Fry it in hot oil in medium heat in a pan.
Fry both sides for 5 minutes.
Remember to fry in a non-stick pan,so that the fish would not broke.