Raisin Cookies

Ingredients:

Maida or purpose flour 2 cups

Canola oil or Liquid ghee 1 cup

Powdered sugar 1 cup

(adjust accordingly)

Baking powder ½ teaspoon

Raisins or Kismiss ½ cup

Vanilla essence 1 teaspoon

Preparation:

1. Add maida, baking powder, sugar and mix well.

2. Blend oil till becomes smooth. Add raisins and vanilla essence and mix well.

3. Blend the dough in a processor or mixie for about 3 minutes. If the dough is hard add little warm milk or warm water spoon by spoon and knead it. 

 4. Make the dough into even sized balls, place the dough balls on a greased cookie baking tray and flatten the dough by hand. Use a cookie cutter or mould make them into the desired shape.

5. Bake the cookies in oven at 350 Fahrenheit or 180 Celicus for about 10 to 15 minutes. The cookies will turn color slightly and will feel soft on touch. After cooling they will become hard. If you over bake they will be very crunchy or hard.

Bread Pongal Toast

Kids are very fussy about rice some times …. In general they like bread toast .. so we can a combo they will enjoy it ….

Ingredients:

Bread slices 2

Pongal 1 cup

Ghee or oil 2 teaspoons

Preparation:

1. Spread pongal on the bread slices.

2. Heat a pan or griddle. Roast bread slices on it in medium flame. Gently flip it over to the other side.  Spread 1 teaspoon of oil or ghee along the edges of the bread slices.

3. Cook for about 2 minutes and serve lot with ketchup.

Cabbage Moong Sprouts Curry

Ingredients:

Cabbage 1 pound or ½ kg

Pesalu or sprouted green gram dal 1 cup

Urad dal or Menapa pappu 1 teaspoon

Chana dal or Senaga pappu 1 teaspoon

Mustard seeds 1 teaspoon

Jeera ½ teaspoon

Milk 1 teaspoon

Onion 1 (optional)

Red Chillies 2

Green chillies 3

Ginger 2 inch piece

Hing or inguava 1 pinch

Curry leaves 1 bunch

Tumeric powder 1 pinch

Oil 1 table spoon or 3 teaspoon

Salt as needed

Preparation:

1. Cut the cabbage into small size pieces. Cut onions into small pieces.  Heat a skillet or deep vessel with 2 cups water and cabbage pieces and pesalu or sprouted green gram dal, tumeric powder and milk. The milk will retain the white color of cabbage.

2. When the cabbage and pesalu or green moong dal is fully cooked switch off the stove. Strain the water completely.

3. Heat a skillet or deep tawa add oil after oil is heated add mustard seeds, chana dal, urad dal, jeera, curry leaves, red chillies cut into 3 or 4 pieces and hing. (Add onions and fry them until they become soft and translucent). Add cooked cabbage and pesalu or sprouted green gram dal and mix well cover a lid and keep in medium flame . Mix well in between.

4. In a mixie or blender make a soft paste of ginger and green chillies and mix well. When the curry is fully cooked add salt and mix well and switch off the stove.

Tomato Dosa

All kids like tomatoes ... they love this dosa. I have not added ginger and green chillies as I made these for my kids...

Ingredients:
Tomatoes 2
Coriander powder ½  teaspoon
Dosa batter 4 cups
Ginger finely chopped 1 inch piece
Green chillies 2 small pieces

Preparation:
1. Cut the tomatoes and grind the mixie or blender and make into soft puree.

2. Add all the ingredients to dosa batter and mix well. Heat a tawa and spread the batter into 6 inch round shape.

3. When is cooked on one side gently flip it over to the other side and after 45 sec to 1 minute. Serve lot with chutney or pickle.

Sooji Punukulu or Umpa rava punukulu or Sooji Pakoras

Ingredients:

Sooji  or Upma rava  2 cups

Curd ½ cup

Onions 1 finely chopped into small pieces

Green chillies 3 finely chopped

Ginger 1 inch piece finely chopped

Baking soda 1/4 teaspoon

Salt as needed

Preparation:

1. Mix sooji or upma rava, curd and  little water for 15 minutes. The batter should not be thick or thin.

2. Add onions, green chillies, ginger, baking soda and salt to the sooji mixture.

3. Heat a kadia or skillet or deep frying pan add oil when the oil is hot add the teaspoon full of batter into the hot oil. Reduce to medium low flame.

4. When the punukulu are uniformly fried on all sides and turn to golden light brown color. Remove them from the pan and transfer them on a tissue paper. 

5. Serve them with peanut chutney, coriander chutney or allam chutney.

Besan Ladoo

Ingredients:

Ladoo Besan  4 cups

Sugar 3 cups

(adjust accordingly)

Cardamom powder ½ teaspoon

Ghee 1½ cup

Rasins handful

Pistachios 2 teaspoons

Preparation:

1. Heat a skillet or kadia and turn to medium low flame. Add ghee to it. Use ladoo besan it is slightly coarse besan which is used for making ladoos.

2. After the ghee is melted add ladoo besan powder to it. For about 10 to 15 minutes in medium low flame stir it. Nice smell will come and the color changes slightly .

3. Add pistachios and raisins. Mix well.

4. Add the powdered sugar, cardamom powder and mix well ,switch off the stove. Let is cool for a while.

5. Apply ghee to to hands and make them into ladoos. They are very tasty and can be made quickly.

Pulihara Avakaya

Ingredients:

Big Sour Mango 1

Red chilli powder 1 cup

Mustard powder or Ava podi ¾ cup

Menthi powder ¼ cup

Tumeric powder ½ teaspoon

Urad dal or Menapu pappu 2 teaspoons

Chana dal or Senaga papu 2 teaspoons

Curry leaves 2 bunches

Mustard seeds or Avalu 1 teaspoon

Red chilies 6

Oil 2 cups

Hing or Inguava 3 pinches

Salt ¾ cup

(adjust accordingly)

Preparation:

1. Cut the Raw mango in to very small pieces or use food proccesor in pulse mode to cut mango into very small pieces.

2. Add salt, turmeric and mix well. Add red chilli powder, mustard powder and menthi powder. Mix well.

3. Heat a pan and add oil when the pan is heated add urad dal, chana dal,mustard seeeds, red chillies cut into 2 or 3 pieces, curry leaves and hing. When the dals change color and mustard seeds start to splutter.

4. Add the above tadka to the pickle bowl an mix well.

5. If you want to store longer add more oil and mix every day for 2 to 3 days. Store it in bottle and refrigirate for longer shell life. Very good with rice, dosa, vadas and upma also.