Ragi Idli

You will need:

• 1 cup whole ragi/ragi flour
• 1 cup rice
• 1 cup cooked rice(optional)
• ½ cup urad dhal
• 1 tsp fenugreek seeds
• 2 tsp salt
• oil to grease the idli tray

Step 1:

Soak urad dal separately in water.

Step 2:

Soak rice, ragi, fenugreek seeds together in warm water.

Step 3:

I prefer overnight soaking. Should soak it for minimum 6 to 8 hours .

Step 4:

Grind urad dal separately till it become very soft and attain paste like texture.. Add less water when grinding urad dal.

Step 5:

Grind the rice, ragi, fenugreek seeds together. Add cooked rice to this mixture if you are adding it.. Grind it to a fine paste.

Step 6:

Mix this rice, ragi mixture to the urad dal mixture. Add salt and mix it with your hands. Allow it to ferment overnight or minimum 5 hours inside the oven or in a warm place.

Step 7:

Allow water to boil in the pressure cooker or idli cooker. Grease the idli trays with oil and pour this batter onto the idli trays.



Place these trays in the cooker and cook it for 10 mins . Do not use whistle.

Serve it with idli chutney powder, lamb curry, spicy chicken curry.

Marble Cake

You will need:

• ½ cup butter (1 stick)/ olive oil (room temp)
  
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 ½ cup All purpose flour
• 3 eggs
• 3 tbsp yogurt/curd(you can substitute with buttermilk too)
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp vanilla essence
• pinch of salt
• ¼ tsp red color
• ¼ tsp green color
  
• ¼ tsp yellow color
  

Step 1:

Preparing dry ingredients:

Preheat the oven to 350 F

Sieve together flour, baking powder and salt and keep it aside.

Step 2:

Preparing wet ingredients:

In another mixing bowl, beat the eggs using an electric mixer on medium for 2 to 3 minutes. Then add sugar, butter/oil , and vanilla essence to it and mix it for 1 min. Finally add curd/yogurt and mix it for a min.

Step 3:

Mixing wet and dry ingredients together:

Now add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients little by little. After that using a spatula fold the flour very well with the dry ingredients.

Step 4:

Making marble cake:

Divide the dough into 3 equal amounts. Better to use 3 mixing bowl . In one bowl add green color and in the other add red color and in the other add yellow color.

Step 5:

Now take a loaf pan and grease it with oil/butter.(In this way you can avoid the batter sticking on the bottom.

Step 6:

Pour 1 tbsp yellow color mixture in the greased loaf pan as shown in pic.


Step 7:

Next pour 1 tbsp green mixture as shown in pic.


Step 8:

Then build red mixture as shown in pic on top of the yellow mixture.


Step 9:

Repeat the step 6, 7 and 8 till you get over with all the cake mixture.


Step 10:

Finally using a tooth pick just draw lines on the batter and it will look like this. This step is purely optional. By drawing lines using tooth pick will give very good marble design. You can use tooth pick/ table knife (or wooden skewer) through the batters in a swirling motion to get a marble deisgn.

Step 11:

Transfer the cake mixture in the oven and bake it for 35 to 45 mins or till you get a clean tooth pick. Same old technique.




Cut and serve with whipped cream on top or as it is..

Note:

Can substitute the colors with cocoa powder for chocolate lovers. Can mix your favourite colors like pink, orange like that..

Dal Rice

Today tot of posting some recipes which is simple and tasty. After making this rice few months back, this became our favorite recipe. So those who love dal can definitely try this recipe. Very simple to make and comforting food too..



You will need:

• 1 cup rice
• ½ cup moong dhal
• ½ cup toor dhal
• 1 tbsp whole garam masala(cardamom, cinnamon, star-anise)
• 5 clove garlic
• 1 medium onion(finely chopped)
  
• 1 tomato (finely chopped)
• 3 green chillies
  
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• 3 red chilies
  
• salt for taste
  
• 1 string curry leaves
• ½ cup coconut milk(optional)
  
• 2 tbsp oil/ghee(clarified butter)
  

Step 1:

Heat oil in a pressure cooker and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, whole garam masala and curry leaves to it one after the other. Add chopped onions to it along with chopped green chillies, red chili and garlic. Saute it for 2 mins and then add chopped tomato.

Step 2:

Now add the washed dal to it along with 2.5 cups of water and pressure cook it till its overcooked. Pressure cooking time differs for each brand.

Step 3:

In the mean time cook the rice separately till its overcooked.

Overcooking rice is purely optional. If you don't like overcooked rice, then cook the rice as per your desired consistency.

Step 4:

When the dal is ready mash the dal using a spoon . Then add the coconut milk and salt to it.



Step 5:

Now mix the cooked dal mixture with the cooked rice. Check for salt. Dal rice is now ready to serve.

Enjoy with appalam/pappadam, fish fry. Very delicious and satisfying weekend brunch for dal lovers..

Egg Gravy

One busy day i dint get time to boil the eggs. As you know boiling eggs takes minimum 10 mins, then again taking the shells out of it will take 5 more mins, then again making a gravy 10 mins. So just tot of making egg poached gravy. It took less than 15 mins and it was tasty too. So simple and tasty. For those of you who don't have time to boil the eggs can follow this recipe.


You will need :

• 5 eggs
  
• 2 onion(finely chopped)
• 2 tomato(finely chopped)
• 2 tsp ginger garlic paste
  
• 3 green chillies
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• 2 tsp coriander powder
• 1 string curry leaves
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• ½ cup coconut milk
• ½ cup water
• 3 tbsp oil
• salt for taste
• ½ tsp amchoor powder(mango powder).. purely optional
  

Step 1:

Finely chop onions, tomatoes and green chillies and keep it aside.

Step 2:

Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds and then the cumin seeds. Now add curry leaves, onions and green chillies and saute it till it turns light golden brown color.

Step 3:

Now add the ginger garlic paste and saute it for a min and then add tomatoes to it and close the lid for 3 mins. Then add red chilli powder and coriander powder. Saute it for 2 mins.

Step 4:

Add water , amchoor powder and salt to this and allow it to boil just for a min.

Hint:

For additional taste you can add one raw in the gravy egg at this time and stir it well. Then do the next step. So that you will have some scrambled egg also in the gravy.

Step 5:

Now open the eggs one by one and pour it directly on the gravy carefully. Do not stir it after adding the eggs. Close it with a lid for 10 mins keeping the flame on medium heat.


After 10 mins just check whether the egg is fully cooked inside. If not allow it to boil for few more mins. Now add the coconut milk and switch off the heat. Add ½ tsp lemon juice on top of it and serve it with chapathi, poori.



You can make this gravy using boiled eggs too..

If you like a dry egg poached gravy just avoid adding the coconut milk and add less amount of water. Can add scrambled eggs with this gravy to get extra taste and extra richness..

If you don't like whole poached eggs, you can stir the egg gravy mixture after pouring the egg on the gravy. Very simple right.

Spicy Fish Fry

This is the easy recipe specially for fish lovers . No need for marination. You can start frying fish as soon as you finished coating it. But people who have time for marination can marinate this for 20 mins. This is purely optional. I haven't notice any difference between marinated fish fry and the other one.

So i prefer to make this dish whenever there is dal rice. It goes well with dal rice and rasam rice.

• ½ lb King fish
• ½ tsp red chilli powder
• ½ tsp pepper powder
  
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 1 string curry leaves(finely chopped)
• pinch of turmeric powder(optional)
• 1 tsp vinegar/lemon juice
• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
• ½ tsp salt
• 2 tbsp oil

Step 1:

Clean the fish and cut into pieces.

Step 2:

In a bowl mix all the ingredients together except fish. Finally add the fish pieces and coat the fish with the above mixture.

No need for marination. You can start frying fish as soon as you finished coating it. But people who have time for marination can allow this to marinate for 20 mins. This is purely optional. I haven't notice any difference between marinated fish fry and the other one.

Step 3:

Heat a non-stick pan and fry the fish pieces in medium flame for 4 min. After 4 min flip it to the other side and fry it for 3 mins.

Note:

No need to add oil when frying fish,because we have already added oil during first stage itself.