Egg In Appam with chicken curry

Egg In Appam with Chicken Curry:

Ingredients :

Raw rice or idly rice - 2 Cups

Cooked rice             -  1/4 Cup

Coconut grated        -  1/2 Cup

Urad dal                  -  3 tbsp

Fenugreek seeds      -  1/4 tsp

Crystal salt  or salt - as per taste

Oil - <as required>
Egg - <as required>

Method:

1. Soak rice, urad dhal, fenugreek seeds for 5 hrs.  Wash and drain it.
2. Grind them with grated coconut, cooked rice, salt  to be in dosa batter consistency in grinder or food mixer.
3. Ferment it for 10 -12 hrs  depend on your weather condition.
4. Heat Appam kadai or your dosa pan on full flame and Appam batter should be in semi liquid consistency, just to pour batter from sides of Appam kadai .
5. Pour ladful of Appam batter to sides of kadai in clockwise direction and hang Appam kadai in clockwise to anticlockwise motion, further batter fills  space of   Appam kadai.
6. Break the egg  in to centre of Appam with little oil and close the lid 5-7 mins.  Check whether white should be fully cooked.  Half boiled egg in Appam is almost done.  Serve hot with chicken curry or mutton curry.          

Egg-in-Appam; Half-boiled one!

Egg-in-Appam with Chicken curry!  Ready to relish !!

Thanks to my friend, Hisanah Kwaja for sharing this mouth-watering dish.

Hope you all enjoyed preparing my dish.  Share your views and comments on this.

Till then good bye from Nardeena.  

Introduction to Baby Food

Introduction to 6 month Baby food

                       Newly moms are really confused when they are in starting solids . Each baby and mom is unique.At ths same time,each baby food   is different depend upon baby consuming the  quantity of food ,texture,taste .After 6 months,introduce solids in every 4 days once with keep tracking of any allergic reactions in baby .Dont overfeed.The baby will judge the required amount of food,water,milk .
Dont force to eat food . Donot add sugar ,salt,colouring agents,preservative substance  to any baby food .
Its the right time to start solids otherwise baby doesnt have interest on solids .



1.  Rice porridge.   
               

2. Sprouted Ragi porridge.

3. Idli -          pour little hot water  for semi solid consistency when feeding.Tomato chutney and        coconut chutney is  preferrable for little babies without using  of  chillies when grinding of chutneys


4. Mashed Banana - add liitle milk to be blend for enhancing the taste .

5. Milk Rice   -   mash rice well then  add little milk (cows milk) and water .
                        for little babies.

6. Curd Rice  -   mash rice well ,then add little  curd and water ,Preferably buttermilk consistency is              

                        good, if  you want to enhance the flavour, go with seasoning .


7.Apple Juice    -   put pieces of apple ,milk and water to blended and filter it.(little milk and water)

8.Orange Juice  -  preferably buy contrast colour oranges .squeeze out juice and dilute with water.

9 .Dal Rice       -  mix rice and dal (1 /4 ),(cook dal with apinch of turmeric pdr,cumin pdr) and mash well,go with seasoning .

8. Potato Rice   -    mix small baked or boiled potatoes with rice and mash well.potato should be in well cooked.

9. Carrot Rice   -     mix  well cooked carrot  with mashed rice .


8. BeetRoot Rice-    mix well cooked beetroot  with mashed rice


9. Rasam Rice


10.Green Leaves Rice -Preferably buy amarnath leaves for 6 month old  and try palak leaves
       too

11.Pongal -  plain pongal is best for babies  without adding of jeera and peppers

12 .Upma

13.Dosai  with chutneys or any other vegetable stews .

14. Carrot Puree .

17.  Vegetable soups