Vaalaka/ Plantain Bajji

Ingredients:

Besan Flour - 1 cup

Valaka/ Plantain - 1 Sliced into thin pieces

Garam masala - 1/2 tbsp

pepper or chilli powder - 1 tbsp

salt - as required

• Make a paste of all the above except the plantain. Make sure its a little thick in order to stick well to the plaintain.
• Coat the plaintain nicely in besan paste and deep fry in oil.
• Fry all the pieces in the same way.
• Interesting and easy snacks ready in less than 15 mins. Enjoy hot !!!

Samba Puttu

Ingredients:

Samba/ Chemba Puttu Flour - 2 cups

Salt - 1 tbsp
Water - as required

Shredded coconut - as required

Sugar - as required

For Puttu:

• Wet the flour with water,add salt and keep aside for 5 mins.
• In Puttu Kolal, add 2 hand full flour, then 1 hand full coconut, repeat the same till you reach the end of the puttu (kolal )vessel.
• Place it on top of the pressure cooker, and steam it.
• Puttu will be ready in 5 to 10 mins.
• Transfer to plate, add sugar and enjoy with Green gram dhal ( cooked and sugar added) and papad.

Tips:

1. If you dont have a puttu kolal/ vessel, spread the puttu flour with the shredded coconut on a tray and steam it by placing inside the cooker.
2. Pressure cook the green gram dhal in cooker, and use the pressure outside to steam to Puttu... All in one !!! ..
3. Follow the same steps for 'White Puttu' as well..

Good for an ideal breakfast !!! Tastes Yummy yummy .... Enjoy

Delicious Rasagullas

Ive been thinking....are there any recipies with less ingredients !!! and yeah ....these are a lot of delicious recipies we can get out of just 5 or even less than 5 ingredients. So to start of with ....this is my first '5 Ingredients Recipe' ...Less than 5 indeed :))

Ingredients:

Milk - 5 cups ( will make 10 to 12 balls)

Lemon juice - 1 tbsp

Sugar - 5 cups

water - 3 cups

For Rasagulla:

• Boil the milk. Once the milk is boiled, turn off flame, and add the lemon juice to it.. stirring slowly. The milk will slowly start cuddling and you will soon see the separation of water and cheese. Once you see the greenish water separated from the cheese, strain it in a light muslin cloth or paper towel.
• Now you have your cheese in your cloth. Let some cold water to flow over them to remove the lemon flavour. Squeeze out all the water and place on work surface and kneed it like a dough.
• Make small 1 diameter balls out of the fresh cheese.
• Meanwhile, in a pressure cooker add water and sugar and let it turn into a nice sweet sugar syrup. Keep the flame in High to Medium. When the syrup is boiling, add the balls, and pressure cook for 10 mins.
• Let it cool. then refrigerate it ..and serve cold !!!

Tips:

• Do not over cook the cheese, or they might harden.
• Remember, the balls will become bigger and bigger once you cook them, so leave more space for them to grow while pressure cooking.
• Once you cool them they ll become even more bigger.
• The thinner your syrup is , the better your rasagulla is ....

Thats it !!! A Delicious sweet with less than 5 ingredients !!! Cooking time is less then 20 mins.

Sweet Treat yourself !!!

Tempting Caramel Custard...

Reposting this for my '5 Ingredient Recipes ' Event!!!

Yummy and delicious Caramel Custard ...My mother used to make this for me when i was a kid:) Havent had it in a long time...so i asked my mother how to make caramel custard.. and made it today!!! It was very very delicious ....
I actually set 4 caramel custard's in the freezer. When i took out the first one on my plate, it was so very tempting, i did nt wait to get a picture of it or did i think i should keep a share for my husband.. I just eat it to the last bit. And so with the second and so with the third ...:))) I had only one more left in the freezer... and thought i should keep this one atleast for my husband... But, what can i say ...I could only wait till a clicked a snap of it :)) ))))))


Ingredients:
Whole Milk - 4 cups ( 4 to 5 servings)
Egg - 1
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Vanilla Essence - to taste

Note: If you are using Reduced Fat milk, boil the milk to make it a little thick and let it cool. If you are using Whole Milk, you can use it as it is..

For The Pudding:
Mix Cold Milk, Egg, sugar ( 4 to 5 tbsp) and vanilla essence in a bowl or beat them in a blender/food processor, and keep aside.

For the Caramel:
Heat a pan, and add sugar ( 10 tbsp). Don't add anything else. Let it get heated up. The color changes to slight brown. Keep stirring till add the sugar has melted. Pour it immediately into Caramel Pudding Dishes. Let the caramel cool and settle down.
Once the caramel is set, pour the pudding mix and steam cook it in pressure cooker for 10 to 15 mins. Let it cool down.
Then Place the caramel custard's in the freezer for at least 3 to 4 hours, for it to get set.
Transfer it to serving tray and enjoy Caramel custard Cold !!! ...

Treat yourself with Caramel Custard !!!