Plaintain Chips

Ingredients:
Plantains - 3;
Refined oil;
Salt to taste;
Pepper powder - 1 tsp.

Preparation:

• Mix salt with a little water and keep it separately.

• Scrap of the skin from the plaintains.
• Cut into two halves.

• Heat enough oil in a kadai.
• Then, using the chips grater, directly grate the plaintain into the oil(one plaintain can grated each time)

• Now add a few drops of salt water to it. (Take care while you add the salt water).

• When the chips is done, remove it from the oil.
• The crispy plaintain chips is ready.

This plaintain chips occupies a main part of our family's food.

Puplose! It's a Garlic Sambar

Ingredients:
Tuar dhal - 1 cup;
Garlic - 2(full);
Red Chilli - 3 or 4;
Sambar powder - 1 tbsp;
Tamarind - a small lemon size to be taken and soaked in water for 1/2 an hour;
Salt to Taste'
Oil;
Curry leaves and coriander leaves.

Preparations:

• Boil the dhal, with enough water, till it is completely cooked.

• Squeeze and extract the tamarind with enough water.
• Peel the skin from the garlic and then slightly smash it
  

• Heat oil in kadai,put mustard seeds, asfoetida, red chilli and few curry leaves.
• When the seeds began to splutter, add the smashed garlic and saute it for somtime.
• Then, add the dhal, sambar powder, enough water and salt and let them boil.

• After sometimes, add the tamarind extract to the mixture, and let them boil for ten more minutes.
• Transfer the puplose(sambar) to a serving dish.

• Garnish it with curry leaves and coriander leaves.
• Serve it hot with plain rice, accompanied with appalam and pickles.

Roasted Tiny Potatoes

Potatoes are favourite food of many people, especially children. Here, we go with small potatoes, to make the Roasted Potatoes. The small potatoes are very attractive and the recipes made out of this vegetables is really tasty and delicious.



Ingredients:

Small Potatoes - 1 cup;
Curd - 1 tbsp;
Salt to taste;
Oil for shallow frying.

To be grinded:

Onions - 1(big);
Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp;
Dhania powder - 1/2 tsp;
Ginger - 1/2 inch;
Garlic - 6 pods;
Turmeric powder - 1 pinch;
Pepper - 1/2 tsp;
Cloves and cinnanom a little;
Curry leaves a few.



Preparation:

• First, we have to boil the potatoes.

• Then, peel of the skin and poke it with the fork spoon, to make tiny holes.
• Mix these potatoes with the grounded paste, curd and enough salt.

• Set them aside for atleast two hours.
• Heat oil in a kadai, put the entire mixture into it.

• Saute it well, taking care to see that it does not get burnt.
• When the raw smell goes out, the potatoes are done.
• Your Roasted Tiny Potatoes are ready.

• Serve it with rice or chappatti.

Bitter (Better) Gourd Chips

Bitter gourd juice is highly beneficial for treating blood disorders like blood boils and itching due to toxemia. Mix 2 ounces of fresh bitter gourd juice with some lime juice. Sip it slowly on an empty stomach daily for between four and six months and see improvement in your condition.
Young immature bitter gourds are the best for cooking: the skin is bright green in color, the flesh inside is white, and the seeds are small and tender. The vegetable is ridged, and the skin is pebbly in texture. Avoid eating bitter gourd if you are pregnant or nursing.


Bitter gourd contains vitamin A, B1, B2, and C. It also contains minerals like calcium, phosphorous, iron, copper and potassium. It helps purify blood tissue, enhances digestion, and stimulates the liver.

The high beta-carotene and other properties in bitter gourd makes it one of the finest vegetable-fruit that help alleviate eye problems and improving eyesight.

Since, this vegetable has many medicinal values, it has to been taken by all.
We can try out a nice recipe of this vegetable.It' very simple to do.





Ingredients:
Bittergourd - 1/4 kg;
Oil - to deep fry;
Chilli powder - 1/2tsp;
Salt to taste.

Preparation:

• Wash well and cut the vegetable into thin slices.

• Heat the water in a vessel, when the water starts boiling, add the vegetable with enough salt, and cook them until it becomes soft and tender.
• Strain off the water, and allow it cool.
• Squeeze of the extra water from the vegetable with your hands.
• Heat oil in a kadai, and then deep fry the vegetable slices.
• Lastly, add the chilli powder to it and mix well.
• Really it would be a better, bitter chips.
• The black chips goes well with sambar rice and curd rice.

Do try this recipe, I think surely everybody would like.

Egg Curry

This recipe is for those who are fond of eggs. This egg curry goes well with the chappattis, rice or rotis. This recipe nearly takes time to cook, but the outcome would be really fruitful. It would really be of different taste. Come lets look into the recipe.

Ingredients:
Eggs - 6;
Refined oil.

To Be Grinded:
Small onions - 10 to 15;
Tomatoes - 2;
Coconut - 1/2 cup;
Green chillies - 2;
Cashews - 10;
Ginger - 1 inch;
Garlic - 8 pods;
Chilli Powder - 1 tsp;
Turmeric powder;
Cloves, cinnanom and cardamom(optional) - few;
Salt to taste;
Pepper - 1/2 tsp.



Preparation:

• Boil the eggs, remove the shell and cut them into thin slices.

• Heat a pan, add oil to it.
• Put the grounded paste into the pan and saute them till the raw smell goes out(it takes around half an hour ina low flame).

• When you get a pleasant flavour, add the tomatoes.
• Saute them well. When the tomatoes are cooked, add enough water and bring them to a boil.
• When the gravy thickens, put the egg slices into them.
• Take care, while sauting, or you'll collaspse the eggs.
• When the gravy is done, convert them is a serving dish.

• Sprinkle finely chopped coriander leaves on top of it for garnishing.
• Serve hot with rotis.

Tangy Banana Slices

A very simple and quick recipe, using the nendran bananas. Even your kids could try it out.

Ingrdients:
Bananas(nendran) - 2;
sugar;
ghee.

Preparation:



Simply cut the bananas into two equal halves. Put them in a microsafe bowl, sprinkle little water over it. Microwave it for 3 min.


Let them cool.
Peel of the skin. Cut them into thin slices and serve it with ghee and sugar.


The banana could also be steam-cooked like the idli and puttu.
This banana recipe with its tangy taste could be taken as a breakfast, and it rich content of protein. Surely, yours kids would love it.
Try out the recipe and post your feedbacks.

Banana

Edible bananas originated in the Indo-Malaysian region reaching to northern Australia. Bananas are grown in every humid tropical region and constitutes the 4th largest fruit crop of the world. Bananas will grow in most soils, but to thrive, they should be planted in a rich, well-drained soil. The best possible location would be above an abandoned compost heap. The common names of banana are Banana, Bananier Nain, Canbur, Curro and Plantain .



In Tamilnadu, these bananas occupies a main place in the offerings to God.

Poovan Bananas

Bananas are a valuable source of Vitamin A, Vitamin B6, Vitamin C, and potassium. It is reported that in Orissa, juice is extracted from the corm and used as a home remedy for the treatment of jaundice. In other places honey is mixed with mashed banana fruit and used for the same purpose.




Red bananas are variety of banana with a reddish purple skin.This red coloured banana is mostly cultivated in the southern region of kerala, especially in the higher elevations. Red bananas are eaten in the same way as yellow bananas, by peeling the fruit before eating. They are most frequently eaten whole raw or chopped and added to desserts or fruit salads. Red bananas are eaten in the same way as yellow bananas, by peeling the fruit before eating. They are most frequently eaten whole raw or chopped and added to desserts or fruit salads.

Attractive Red Banana

The best and tasiest variety grown in Kerala are the Nendran Bananas. It is otherwise known as "Ethakai". This variety requires a very good sunlight and a rich irrigation. In the ripened stage these bananas would be fo golden yellow colour with red patched on it. The bananas are used for dual purpose as dessert and for cooking. The fruit also is the best preparation for the banana chips.

Nendran Banana

A Bunch Of Bananas