Award Again

This time its  Twin Awards.Thanks Sangeetha for thinking about me while giving the award.Its my second award for the month. 



One Lovely Blog Award

Stylish Blogger Award

Now its ur time to award rolling :)

Rules for Rolling:

1. Share 7 Things About Yourself

2. Award 15 Recently Discovered Great Blogger

3. Contact The Blogger and Inform Them of The Award

4. Thank the award-giver in ur post.

7 things about me...ummm...:)

1. Not too fat ,nor too lean.

2. Not too dark, nor too light

3. Not too silent, nor too talkative
4. Not too optimist, nor too pessimist
5. Not too tough, nor too soft

6. Not too friendly, nor too hostile.

7. Not too keen, nor too hesitant.;)

"Actually my rules are to pass on both these awards to my 15 co-bloggers but planned to pass on only 'Stylish award' as i have recently (Feb 2) awarded "One Lovely blog award" to my friends. Excuse me Sangeetha :)". copied the statements...;-)

15 nominees for award.

1. Reva

2. Jay

3. Ramya

4. Rachu

5. Satrupa

6. Satya

7. @SANGI

8. aipi
9.Sarah Naveen
10.Kavya's Kitchen

11.Kothiyavunu

12.Pavithra

13.Priya sreeram

14.Kurinji

15.Shilpi Bose



Sandwich

Bread slice-4
Tomato-1(sliced thin round)
Onion -1(minced)
Potato-1(boiled and mashed)
Cucumber-1(sliced thin round)
Pepper powder-1tsp
salt to taste
Butter
Cheese spread

Method Of Preparation: 

1. Toast the bread with butter on it.Toast it both sides.Butter on one side.
2. Apply little cheese spread on it.Keep aside.
3. Mix the potato,onion ,pepper powder and salt and make tikkis of medium thickness with it.Shallow fry it for 2 minutes approx.
4. Take a bread slice,place tomato ,cucumber and one potato tikki and then again cucumber,tomato and bread with buttered side down.
5. So sandwich ready for tea.Serve with tomato ketchup.

Tips:
1.If you want it a bit spicy you can add little chilly sauce on top of tikki while making the sandwich.
2. You can add any vegetable of your choice.

Chocolate Cake

Cakes have always been my all time fav.My mom makes them very nicely even in a pressure cooker.Until my marriage I never entered kitchen[never got time:)] So I dint bother to learn it from her.Now that I spend half of my day in kitchen and have an oven I wanted to prepare it.I called her and had noted the recipe long back and prepared it.No wonder it came up to be a utter flop...We could eat it but not like cake but as a biscuit/rusk.Then I just left the plan of making it...
          After long I again felt to make it.This time I was more careful and finally I got a quality product...A very soft and spongy cake....Finally I did it..
Dear friends I wont be writing any tips for this as it is my first successful attempt.Next time when I prepare cake I would write the tips because I would start experimenting then :).


All purpose flour-1/2 cup
Baking Powder-3/4 tsp
Salt-1/4tsp
Eggs-2 nd 1/2( lightly beaten)
Butter-1/2 cup(1 stick)melted
cocoa powder-3 tbsp
sugar powder-1 and 1/4 cup
vanilla extract-1/2 tsp

Method Of Preparation:
1. Mix the all purpose flour,baking powder and salt and keep aside.
2. Mix the butter and cocoa in a bowl and set aside.
3. Beat together the eggs, sugar and vanilla extract in a bowl.
4. Mix it along with cocoa mixture.
5. Sieve  over the flour and mix it along with the mixture.
6. Preheat Oven to 350F. Grease a cake pan with butter and dust it with little flour.Remove the extra flour after dusting.
7. Pour this mixture into the cake pan and bake for 20-30 minutes until risen.Insert a toothpick/skewer.If it comes out clear your cake is done.  Let it sit to cool.

8. Cut to desired sized piece and serve.

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Paal Vazhakka/Sago payasam

Paal vazhakka is my husbands fav recipe. When ever I speak something about payasam it ends in pal vazhakka from his side. I had never tasted this before.So today I thought why not prepare that...I rang my MIL and took down the recipe and made it.It was a great hit.
My husband loved it and I too am a fan of it now...

Sago/Sabudana-1/2 cup
Milk-4 cups
Sugar-1cup
Ripe plantain-1(Nendra pazham)
Raisins few
Ghee-2 tsp
Cardomom powder-pinch

Method Of Preparation:
1. Cook the sago with milk till it gets soft.
2. Add sugar to that and cook for some minutes.Add cardomom powder.Turn off the heat.
3. Fry the raisins in ghee and add that to the cooked sago.
4. Cut the banana to small pieces and add that to the payasam when it is still hot and mix well.
5. Serve hot.

Tips:
1.I cooked the sago and milk in pressure cooker for one whistle on medium heat but if cooking it in separate vessel add water and cook it to medium soft.once it is done add milk and cook completely.
2. See that you don't overcook sago.Keep checking it as there is only a small gap between cooked and overcooked.If overcooked it becomes too thick and sticky.You wont like it.
3. Sago increases in quantity once cooked.so use accordingly.

Puzhukku

Puzhukku is an authentic dish of Kerala/south.It is a mixture of various roots like taro,tapioca...It can either be eaten alone or as a dish for flatbread like chappati.It is very nutritious and personally I just love it.

 Tapioca-1 medium sized(cut to medium sized pieces)
 Green gram-1/4 cup(soaked overnight and cooked/pressure cook it till soft)
 Raw Plantain-1 Cut to medium sized pieces.
 Taro-2 no Cut roughly
 Green chillies- 3 to 4(according to your spice level.Don't add too much)
 Shredded Coconut- 2 cups(grated)
 Cumin seeds- 1 tsp
 Turmeric powder- 1/4tsp+1/4tsp to cook tapioca.
 Garlic pods- 3 to 4
 Curry leaves- 2 strands
 Salt,to taste
 Shallots- 6-7(cut finely)
 Oil- 4 tsp

Method Of Preparation:

1. Cook tapioca in hot boiling water with turmeric powder.
2. When cooked, drain the water from the tapioca and keep aside.
3.Cook the taro,plantain,turmeric powder,salt and green gram together till they become tender.Add the water that is just needed to cook them, not too much.If cooking like this see that the green gram was soaked earlier.
4. Grind together green chillies, coconut, cumin seeds and garlic pods.
5.Once everything is cooked, add oil in a heavy bottom pan sputter Splutter some mustard seeds, dry red chillies ,shallots and transfer the cooked stuff(tapioca,gram,plantain,taro) into it.
6. Add the ground mixture into it. Stir and mix well.And finally add curry leaves.
7. Serve warm.

Tips:
1. When cooking don't add too much of water.Add water just to cook it.
2. While grinding add very little water.Grind it to medium paste.Not too smooth.
3. To accelerate the cooking,cook tapioca in pressure cooker,wait for two whistle on high flame and then drain water.(Don't use the cooked water of tapioca).Same way cook the green gram and other things for one whistle .Then continue the other process.
4. The seasoning part can be omitted.In that case add 2 tsp of coconut oil and curry leaves and mix well.
5. Its not at all compulsory that you need to have all the vegetables and gram.You can make tapioca puzhukku also in the same way.

First Award!!! :)

Thanks Reva for sharing me this award and your lovely words :)

Passing this to some of my blogger friends who I feel do a great job in kitchen.
1. Jisha's kitchen
2. ! SIMPLY DELICIOUS !
3.Sarah Naveen
4.SOUJANYA MUPPA 
5.satrupa
6.satya
7.aipi
8.Jay
9.Yummy O Yummy
10.Kavya's Kitchen
11.Kothiyavunu
12.Pavithra
13.Priya sreeram
14.Kurinji
15.Shilpi Bose
Rules:1.Accept the award. Post it in your blog with the name of the blogger who has given u this award with a link to his/her blog.
2.Pass it on to 15 other blogger friends.... to keep the ball rolling.
3.Let the nominated blogger know about their award [leave a comment in their most recent post].

Aviyal

Aviyal is a dish that is made in southern part of India. It is a mixture of many vegetables in a paste of coconut and medium sour curd/yogurt.In Kerala it is prepared for any function...let it be marriage,festivals,birth ceremony and also just as a dish on a normal day.

1. Vegetables like: (cut lengthwise to medium size)-2cup

                         Carrot

                         Yam/elephant foot yam/Chena

                         White pumpkin/ellavan

                         French Beans

                         Drumsticks

                         Long beans/payar

                         Raw Banana.

                         Bitter gourd

2. Grated coconut-1/2 cup

3. Green chilly -2 no(roughly chopped)

4. Turmeric Powder- 1/2 tsp

5. Curry leaves, a few

6. Salt to taste

7. Curd/yogurt-1/2cup(medium sour)
8. Coconut oil-2tsp

Method Of Preparation:
1. Cook all the vegetables with little water till they become tender.See that they don't lose their shape and don't get overcooked.
2. Meanwhile grind together green chilly and grated coconut using little curd.The mixture should not be too smooth or watery.
3. Once the vegetables are cooked,see that there is little water only, add the ground paste into it. Mix well.
4. Let it boil once on low flame.Then add curry leaves to it and switch off the flame.After that add 2 tsp of coconut oil .
5. Serve with steamed rice.

Tips:

1.The vegetables must be cut evenly into long thin pieces;so that all the pieces cook evenly at the same time..

2.Water must be just enough to cook the veggies.If you feel that you need little gravy add little curd along with the ground mixture.Too much of water spoils the taste.
3.Do not overcook vegetables.

4.Some vegetables take longer time to cook compared to others...in that case cook them first and when half cooked add the remaining vegetables.

5.After adding the paste don't boil it long as the taste will change once curd gets boiled for long time.