BISCUIT ROTI

Biscuit roti are nothing but its a puri which can be had as it is without any dip. This is also one of the recipe prepared by my mom when she visited here. Its very delicious and a good combo along with tea. Its basically a recipe from mangalore. My sisterinlaw is from here and she makes them most of the weekends. Inspired by her, my mom thaught me this delightful snack. Do try them guys its dam good.

INGREDIENTS.

1 Cup Wheat flour.

1/2 Cup Rava.

2 Green chillies.

2 Strings of Chopped Curry leaves.

Small piece of Ginger.

1 tsp Oil.

Salt to taste.

Oil for deep fry.

Water as per needed to make dough.

METHOD.

In a blender grind green chilli, ginger into fine paste using water.

In a mixing bowl, mix wheat flour, rava, the fine greenchilli ginger paste, curry leaves and salt. Make a dough using water as per needed. Allow to rest for a while.

Meanwhile heat oil to deep fry. Divide the dough into equal sized small balls and flatten it pressing into the extra flour. Roll it out into 4 to 5 inches round. Repeat the same process with rest of the dough. When oil is hot enough, deep fry the puries. It should take only a few second. Immediately flip it on to other side. Remove when its puff up both the side. Remove the excess oil using kitchen napkins. Serve hot.

Enjoy!!

APPLE CHUTNEY

''Apple Chutney'' will be perfect only when we are using green apples. Because this is less sweet and a bit sour in taste. Frankly speaking I did not liked it very much when I tasted for the first time neither my hubby nor my daughter. But it is very healthy and nutritious as it fight off symptoms of stress, strengthen immune system, improve digestion and many more. So decided to make it somthing different item which we could perfer having it without any hesitation. And thus my apple chutney was born :) I followed the same procedure of what I used to prepare with mango chutney. Its good to have when one falls ill with cold. Only at that time, people feel having somthing light like kanji and this chutney is a very good combination. Its a relaxing meal. What u say?

INGREDIENTS

1 Grated Green Apple.

5 Pearl Onions.

5 Dry Red chilly.

1/4 Cup Grated Coconut.

1 tsp Coconut oil.

Salt to taste.

METHOD

Grind all the ingredients into the blender without adding water into a smooth paste.

Transfer them into the bowl and drizzle them with coconut oil.

Ready to serve with hot kanji.

Enjoy!!

PAN PATHALI

This recipe was specially suggested by my fatherinlaw, to put it on my blog. He is very fond of sweets and he himself thaught me how to prepare this delicious treat. The preparation snaps shown below was made by him. I know what you guys would think right now. Yes, I proudly say I am lucky to have such a wonderful and caring inlaws. Coming back to recipe-

Pan pathali (Pan- Banana leaf , and Pathali - Thin) is another popular dish under konkani's cuisine. This is usually served on special occation or festivals. In kerala its known as 'ADA'. These are sweet wrappes, prepared with the riceflour dough spread on the banana leaf and is stuffed with the sweet mixture of coconut jaggery filling or chakka varatti ( jackfruit filling). Here we have filled with coconut jaggery along with beaten rice mixture. The banana leaf is then folded into half that finally goes into a steamer for about 10 to 15 min. It tastes heavenly.

INGREDIENTS FOR DOUGH.

2 Cups Rice flour.

1/2 Cup Maida.

Salt to taste.

Warm Water as per needed.

INGREDIENTS FOR FILLING.

3/4 Cup Jaggery.

1 Cup Grated Coconut.

1 Cup Beaten rice.

Pinch of Cardamom.

METHOD.

Mix rice flour, maida and salt in a wide vessel. Pour in some warm water to make a smooth dough. Keep it aside. Meanwhile clean the banana leaf too.

In another pan, mix coconut grated , jaggery and beaten rice along with a pinch of cardamom powder.

Keep the steamer ready. Make a small balls of a dough just like chappati and spread them on the leaf till it forms thin layer as much as possible.

Fill the stuffing in the middle and fold them in half. Repeat the same process with the rest.

Place each ada's on the steamer and cook for about 10 min.

When its done, unfold the leaf and serve it warm.

Enjoy!!

BIG HAI WITH TASTY CUCUMBER UNNIAPPAMS

A big hai to all my dear friends. I am back after a loooooooong break. Hope everyone are doing great. I truly missed you all very very much along with your tasty recipe. Will try to cover up those when I visit ur blog. Really friends, I agree from my bottom of my heart, its very nice to land in India. For few weeks we visited all our relative's places in Kerala. We were able to make out how they were also happy seeing smera after long . So soon after a long hectic journey, now we are in Mangalore and finally everthing got settled. Hey let me share with you all one good news. My little one started going to school. Firstly she was not interested as it was entirly a different atmosphere, sudden change of school so an so. As of now by god's grace she enjoys going there.

Its a moment of my great pleasure to be with my parents and inlaws and sidly tasting their delicious goodies. I had the previlage to taste one of the interesting sweet healthy ''Cucumber Unniappams'' prepared by the mom. These cuties have become my all time favourites and i just loved its each and every bite of it.Its healthy and nutrients for kids too. It tastes even good the next day. I suggest everyone to try out this unique unniappams.


INGREDIENTS.

1 Big Grated Cucumber.

1 Cup Wheat flour.

1 Cup Grated Coconut.

3/4 Cup Jaggery.

1/2 Cup Rava.

Pinch of Elachi.

Ghee as per needed.

METHOD

Remove cucumber skin and grate. Keep it aside.

In a pan add jaggery along with coconut . Let the jaggery melt. Keep on stirring so that the mixture does not stick at the bottom of the pan. Remove from fire and let it cool down . Add rest of the ingredients one by one except ghee.
Add water if needed. The consistency should be thick enough.


Take the unniappam pan and grease each holes with 1/2 spoon of ghee. When it become hot, fill those holes with the batter. Cover with lid and sim the flame to the lowest.

When its half cooked, turn the unniappams so that it gets cooked on the other side.

Remove when they are done.

Tasty cucumber unniappams are ready to eat.

Enjoy!!

100 TH POST AND 1 ST ANNIVERSARY OF MY BLOG PLUS A LONG BREAK.

Yuppyyyy...Here comes my century post, also celebrating my 1 st anniversary of my blog on a same day. Frankly speaking I really feel proud :). May 5th, the day I started my own food blog and entered blogging world. It had been soo exciting and fun year participating many events, visiting many talented blogs, etc etc. Through this, I earned lots and lots of love and support from many blogger friends. Blogging has become an important activity along with the other chores. With a great encourgement and positive feedback of one of my close blogger friend ''BHARATHY'' and a huge support from my loving hubby ''RAJESH'', I could possibilly start my blog. Later with sweet comments and appreciation from all you guys, my close friends which is a sole reason, motivated me to continue my blogging journey till today. Thanks all once again for your love and support and hope this will remain always. I truly appreciate. Special thanks and love to my ''AMMA'' too. Everytime when I post new recipe, she surly does suggest her comments while chatting :)

On this special day, I would like to treat you all with simple, delicious and delightful ''AAM RAS''. Its soo simple that at anytime, you can prepare within no minute. I am not giving specific measurement. You can add more or less depending on what you like. Try adding fruits into aam ras to make ''Mango Flavoured Fruit Salad''. Its very yummy.



INGREDIENTS
Mango pulp.

Sugar.

Milk.

Cardamom powder.

Saffron.

METHOD

Beat everthing into the blender for about 20 sec.

Serve chill. Make it more attractive garnishing with fresh strawberry.


AWARDS TIME.
''SUDESHNA'' have showred me with tons of awards. Thanks a lot dear. So happy to receive from you. They are ''BLOGGING WITH A PURPOSE AWARD'', '' FRIENDS AWARD'', ''YUM YUM BLOG AWARD'', ''360 FOODIE AWARD'', ''A PERFECT BLEND OF FRIENDSHIP AWARD'', ''KREATIVE BLOGGER AWARD'', ''GREAT BUDDY AWARD'', ''I'M A CHOCOHOLIC AWARD'', ''BUTTERFLY AWARD'' AND ''GOOD JOB AWARD''.
TAKING A LONG BREAK.
Friends, We are in process of moving to India permanently within next 2 weeks. So my upcoming days will be really hectic and busy with shopping, packing, selling my furnitures and mainly cleaning my apartments before we leave. On this special day, I am ending up my last post in US and will be back once I settle down in Mangalore. Till then, will miss you all and dont forget to miss me tooo :)

DIFFERENT NOTE:
Our friends organised one send off party for us last weekend. Thats soo sweet of them na? We truly enjoyed the day chatting, playing games, watching adorable kid's play together and finally the food, oh man! that was just heavenly. I would grade it as ''A PLUS''.
I did not get a chance to click on all the items together because, few of them were on process :). We all were soo tempted to taste the food that we already started digging into it. Luckily, I tried my best to have atleast one snap. Because I knew, if I waited further, then there wont be any use clicking a snap later. So herez the click of half menu items on the table. So now all can guess what a wonderful yummy feast I have experienced. Lucky me right?
Thank you soo much guys for making our day very special. You all are the best. It was a lovly evening.
Enjoy!!