Drumstickleaves upma

DrumStickLeaves Upma:(murungakeerai upma)


Ingredients:

Drumstick leaves - 11/2 cups

Rava  -  2 cups

Shallots(pearl onion)  - 6  or 8

Tomato  -  1(small)

Ginger - small piece

Green chilli  - 1(small)

salt   -as per taste
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Water - 3cups

Ghee- 1/2 tsp(optional)

For Seasoning:

Mustard  -  3/4 tsp

curry Leaves  - few

dried red chilli       -1

oil     -   limit to ur own

                        1. Dry roast rava for few seconds. when it gives light aroma,taken from flame.keep it aside.

                        2. Heat oil in pan,add pieces of dried red chilli,mustard  when splutters add curry leaves ( if u like  to add bengal gram dal ,add 1/2 tsp of  bengal gram dal- My kid doesnt like bengal gram dal as a whole so we are not  interested to add bengal gram dal in our dishes).

                         3. Add  chopped small onions,chopped tomato and chopped ginger,everything should be finely chopped.saute well.Add halved grrn chilli.

                         4. Add turmeric powder,drumstick leaves,salt and cook for 2 minutes. Add water and when it turn boils,keep flame in slow,add roasted rava.Add ghee for enhance the flavour atlast.When rava fully absorbs water ,close the lid.Keep simmer for  few minutes.   Serve  hot with coconut chutney or  curry leaves idli podi.      
                         
                       
                     It is quite easy  receipe to prepare for breakfast tiffin and slight different to make from normal upma. Its one of my kid favourite dish .I saw this receipe in TV show. This receipe is most  useful for working peoples who  want the dish healthy one.

  Benefits of Drumstick leaves::
                                                                            7 times of  Vitamin C of oranges
                                                     
                                                                            4 times of Vitamin A  of  Carrot
              Very tiny leaves      =====>>                      
                                                                            4 times of calcium of milk
                        
                                                                            3 times  of  potassium of bananas


                                                                            2 times  of protein of yogurt









                      

           

Rice Porridge

 Baby food-Rice porridge

RICE PORRIDGE(ARISI KANJI)


FOR 6 MONTH OLD BABY : FIRST SOLID FOOD



INGREDIENTS:

    RICE  -      2 CUPS
    FRIED CHANA DAL    -1/2 CUP (POTTUKADALAI)
    JAGGERY AS PER TASTE

1. Preferably buy boiled rice.  Boiled rice is good for tiny stomach and healthy too.
Soak Rice for 3 hours.

2. Dry it in sunlight .

3. Dry roast rice called it as poriarisi in tamil,which it splutters and turns brownish in colour.

4. Add fried channa dal with roasted rice.

5. Mixture to be grinded in mix-grind or in food mill.  Both gives good in fine powder. Store it in airtight jar at room temparature.  This mixture is ready to prepare porridge for small babies

6. Take 2 and half spoons of this powder mix with water.  Make sure it fo free of lumps.  Add a pinch of jaggery (boil in little water and filter it for removing dust particles) for iron content and for taste.  Cook for 5 mins and serve it in semi solid consistency.

Black Rice Payasam

Black Rice Payasam


Ingredients:


Black Rice - 1 cup
Salt - a pinch
Sugar - as per taste
Cinnamon - a small stick
Cloves - 2 pods
Cardamom - 4 pods
Water - 2 1/2 cup
Milk - 1 1/2 cup
Cashewnuts - 8
Raisins - 5

Oil / Ghee - 2 tsp

Black Rice’ is actually more purplish in colour than black; although when uncooked it is very dark in appearance.Its healthy breakfast and low calorie food.

1. Split the 'Black rice' using  mixie in one step Pulse mode.   
2. Put cloves ,cinnamon and cardamom in oil or ghee in pressure cooker,when it splutter add water, black rice and a pinch of salt.Pressure cook ' black rice 'for 3 whistle in medium flame.
3. In another separate pan,add little ghee, fry the cashewnuts and raisins.keep it aside.
4. Add sugar,milk ,cardamom powder to cooked black rice to make them in semi solid consistency 
5. Boil for few minutes
6. Decorate with cashew-nuts and raisins when serving.
7. Serve it Cool

Chicken Samosa

Chicken Samosa


Ingredients:


For filling:
Chicken - 200 gm.
Onion - medium sized - 6
Tomato - small-1
Green Chilli - 1
Carrot - 1
Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup
Pepper - powdered - 1 tsp.
Cumin - powdered - 3/4 tsp.
Turmeric - powdered - 1/2 tsp.
Cinnamon - small stick
Cloves - 2
Lemon - half a piece
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp.
salt
water

For Dough:

Maida flour - 1 cup

Oil       - 1 tsp

Salt

Water to knead

All main ingredients in place

For filling preparation:

You may need of  two separate frying pans,for cooking of chicken and onion masala.  Preferably use non stick cookware to avoid the excess amount of oil.

1. Chicken Masala preparation :

Cut chicken in to small pieces.  In a small frying pan, heat 2 tsp. of oil ,add 1/2 tsp of ginger                           garlic paste, chicken pieces, pepper pdr, cumin pdr, turmeric pdr, salt ,1/2 cup of water.  Keep the flame in     medium.  When water reduced  and chicken was fully cooked ,oil separates from the chicken.  Keep it aside.

2. Onion Masala Preparation  :

Cut onion, carrot, coriander leaves, tomato in to thin slices.  In a medium sized frying pan, heat 4 tsp of oil,add cinnamon,cloves.  When it splutters, add onion, 1/2 tsp of ginger garlic paste, green  chilli, carrot, coriander leaves, salt and saute very  well.  Dont add water and dont overcook the sliced   onion well. Somewhat crunchiness of onion gives more tasty when biting of samosa.  This mixture will make you feel Yummmmmmmmy...
          
Now, mix the chicken masala to the onion masala content, saute very well.  Squeeze lemon to make lemon juice, add lemon juice to filling mixture.  Now filling mixture is ready......keep it aside for cool down the temparature.

After mixing Chicken and Onion filling masala.  Doesn't look Yummy ???

 For dough prepartion :
                 
Sieve maida flour, add all ingredients except water.  Add little water to make pilable dough and make 12-15 small balls.  Apply little oil to all balls for moist.  Keep it aside.

For Samosa Preparation :

For rolling, use little dry  flour for dusting to roll easier.  After roll over, place 2 tsp of filling  as shown in below picture.

Filling the mixture into Samosa layer

Fold the samosa layer in triangale shape and slightly apply water in border for pasting.  Make sure filling doesnt come out from folded one.

Now we are in final step,arrange all samosa in plate separatly. Deep fry the samosas until it turns golden brown. This is great evening time snack one could have at the great taste.

Yummy Chicken Samosa for the tastebuds !!

Hope everyone enjoyed the receipe i've shared.  You don't believe me my husband will take six pieces!!
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