Beef Gravy

You will need:

• 1 lb beef(cut into small cubes)
  
• 2 tsp coriander seeds
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 4 Dry red chillies
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 cloves
• 2tsp cumin seeds
• 1 big onion(2 medium onions)
• 5 pearl onions(chopped roughly)
  
• 5 garlic cloves(minced finely)
  
• 1" ginger(minced finely)
  
• 2 green chillies(chopped)
• 1 tomato (chopped)
  
• ½ tsp turmeric powder
• 1 cup water
  
• 1 string curry leaves
• ½ cup chopped coriander leaves
• Oil and salt as reqd (Use coconut oil for good flavour)

Step 1:

In a non stick frying pan add pearl onions and fry for 1 min. After that add cinnamon, cloves, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, black pepper and red chillies one by one. Fry all these till nice aroma comes and keep it aside. In a mixie grind all these fried ingredients together.

Step 2:

Pressure cook the beef with some salt, turmeric, and with these ground mixture till the beef is cooked. You can go for baking also.

If baking, bake it at 350F for 1:30 hours. Better to add 1 cup water to this. Cover it with an aluminum foil. Make some slots/holes in the aluminum foil when covering.

Step 3:

After the beef is fully cooked take another non stick pan and add some oil in it. Fry the onions along with green chillies, curry leaves, chopped ginger and garlic. When the onion turns translucent or light golden brown color add tomato and saute it 2 more mins. Then add the cooked beef (along with the juice which you got after baking/ cooking the beef)and saute it till you get your desired consistency.

Garnish with chopped coriander leaves(cilantro) and serve hot with variety rice or Indian roti like naan, chapathi.

Pal Urundai/ Rice flour balls in milk sauce

You will need:

• 1 cup puttu flour
• ¾ cup grated coconut
• pinch of cardamom powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 tbsp sugar(optional)
• 1 cup milk or coconut milk
• 2 cup water + 2 tbsp water
  
• ¼ cup boiled water

Step 1:

Boil 2 cups of water in a pan. In the mean time take a mixing bowl and add puttu flour, grated coconut, salt and sugar,boiled water and mix it with a spoon.




Step 2:

When the dough is still warm just shape it as small balls. The size of the ball should be smaller than golf ball. Smaller the ball size it taste better.



Step 3:

Just drop the balls into the boiling water one by one and allow it to cook for 5 mins. After 5 mins just add the milk and cardamom powder along with this mixture and allow it to boil for few more minutes(5 to 7 mins) till the urunda is fully cooked inside. Add salt and sugar at this stage if needed.

Step 4:

Mix a tbsp of puttu flour with 2 tbsp cold water and then pour it to the boiling(water, milk, puttu balls) mixture. This will thicken the sauce. By mixing the puttu flour with water you can avoid lump formations.

Step 5:

Pal urunda is now ready to serve. You can serve this for breakfast.

Note:

You can make this urunda only with sugar too. Even that will taste good.

Don't press it too hard to get the ball shape. This will harden the balls and will take more time to cook

Banana Payasam

You will need:

• 2 ripe bananas(mash it nicely)
  
• ¼ cup sugar(can increase or decrease according to your taste)
• ¼ cup sago(javvarisi)
• 1 cup milk
• 2 cup water
• 1 tbsp custard powder(optional)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract(optional)
• ¼ tsp cardamom powder
• 2 tbsp clarified butter(ghee)/butter
• 2 tbsp chopped nuts(cashews and almonds)
  
• 2 tbsp golden raisins
• pinch of salt

Step 1:

Heat water in a pan and add sago to it. Let it cook till it become tender.It took more than 20 mins in medium heat.

Step 2:

In a non-stick pan heat ghee. When its hot add nuts and saute it till it become brown color. Using a slotted spoon take the nuts when its ready and keep it aside. In the same ghee saute raisins till it become balloon structure and keep it aside with nuts.

Step 3:

In the same ghee add mashed bananas and saute it till it become nice brown color. Now add milk, cardamom powder and sugar to it and allow it to boil. Let it boil for 5 mins in medium heat.

Step 4:

Take some cold milk in a cup and add custard powder to it and mix it nicely. Then add this custard liquid to the above banana mixture. In this way you can avoid formation of lumps.

Step 5:

Check for salt and add the cooked sago along with the water to it and allow it to boil till you get your desired consistency.

When its warm add vanilla extract and check for sugar. Finally garnish with roasted nuts and raisins. Super fast dessert is ready..



Note:

If you like very liquid consistency you can add more milk /water. I like thick consistency, so i boiled it till i get nice thick consistency. Its purely your choice!!!!!

You can make this payasam without sago also. Or you can substitute sago with vermicelli too..

Spinach Pasta

You will need:

• 2 cup of uncooked pasta
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• 1 tsp gala jeera(black cumin)
• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
• salt as reqd
• 1 tsp mango powder(amchoor powder)
• 2 tbsp oil
• 2 tbsp curd/Yogurt
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 3 garlic cloves
• 1 inch ginger(finely copped)
• bunch of spinach
• 2 green chillies

Step 1:

To make spinach paste:

In a non stick pan just put a few drops of oil. When its hot add chopped ginger,green chillies and garlic to it and saute it till it turns golden brown color. Now add spinach and close with a lid. After 2 mins you can see that the spinach is fully cooked. Now add amchoor powder and allow it to cool for few minutes. Then grind it to a fine paste using blender/mixie. Use one cup of paste to make spinach pasta. You can make palak sausage gravy or palak paneer gravy or spinach chapathi with the remaining paste.

If you don't have amchoor powder add ½ tsp tamarind paste when you make spinach paste.

Step 2:

Cook pasta as per packing directions. Better to add few drops of oil and lemon juice while cooking pasta to avoid sticking. When pasta is fully cooked filter it and keep it aside.

Step 3:

Take a non stick pan and heat oil in it. When its hot add gala jeera to it. After it splutters add ginger garlic paste and then chilli powder. Now add the spinach paste and mango powder to it. Just saute it for 1 min. Now add the cooked pasta to this and saute it for few minutes. Add salt, curd and lemon juice to it and stir it well.

Step 4:

Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve it hot. Non-Veg lovers can garnish with a scrambled egg too.

Turkey Pasta

You will need:

• 1 lb ground turkey(If you don't have minced turkey blend it using blender to get minced meat)
  
• 12 ounce pasta
• 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 1 tbsp chilli powder
• 1 tbsp coriander powder
• 1 tbsp garam masala powder
• 2 tsp cumin powder
• 1 tsp fennel seeds
• 1 tsp black cumin seeds(gala jeera)
  
• 2 tsp salt(can increase or decrease according to your taste)
• 1 onion(very finely chopped)
• 4 tomatoes(can substitue with ½ cup pasta sauce or tomato sauce too)
• 2 bread slices
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 2 tbsp oil
  

Step 1:

Finely chop the onions and add it to the ground turkey. Along with that add chilli powder, coriander powder, ginger garlic paste, salt, cumin powder, fennel seeds and black cumin and mix it well. When everything is blended take a loaf pan and place 2 bread slices in it as shown in pic.. (So that the meat wont have contact with the bottom of the loaf pan. In this way you can avoid watery meat.). Then transfer this whole mixture on top of the bread slices.


Now place the loaf pan in preheated oven(350 F). Let it bake for 1 hour.

Step 2:

When the meat is ready (after 1 hour of baking) allow it to cool for few minutes. Then crumble the meat using hands or knife and keep it aside. Discard the bread slices.



Step 3:

Cook the pasta as per instructions given in the package. When cooking pasta it is better to add few drops of lemon juice and a tsp of oil to avoid sticking. Better to save ½ cup pasta water when filtering.

Step 4:

Take a heavy pan add oil to it. When its hot add tomato's and saute it till it ooze out the oil. If you are using pasta sauce just saute it for few second. Then add the crumbled meat to it. If you want more spiciness just add some chilli powder at this stage.

Now add the cooked pasta to it along with that ½ cup of pasta water. Check for salt. Finally add lemon juice and serve it when it hot.. You can garnish this dish with chilli flakes and finely chopped coriander leaves.. Enjoy!!!!!!

Can do the same process with chicken meat too..
You can slice the baked meat and make it as sandwich/burger too. It will taste yummmmy with a touch of Mayonnaise.!!!