Potato Masala

Ingredients:-

• Boiled potato - 1/4 kg (smashed)
• Onions - 3 nos (cut into long thin slices)
• Tomato - 2 nos (chopped into small cubes)
• Green chillies - 4 or 5
• Turmeric power - 1/2 tsp
• Musturd, Urid dhal - 1/2 tsp each
• Refined Oil - 1 tbsp
• Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp chopped
• Salt to taste
• Water - 1 cup.

Preparation:-

• In a microwave bowl add musturd and urid dhal with one tsp of oil and cook in a micro medium high for 3 minutes. (cover the bowl half while cooking).
• When done, add the chopped onions, green chillies and tomatoes with one tbsp of oil to the bowl and cook them in a micro high for 4 minutes. (without covering the bowl and stir it in between once).
• Finally, add the smashed potatoes, turmeric power, salt, water and cook at micro high for 5 minutes.
• As a final touch, add coriander leaves and serve after 3 minutes.

As this potato masala is cooked in a unconventional way, it retains the flavour and goes well with chappathi and puri.

Apple-Bread Halwa

Ingredients:

• 1 cup peeled and finely chopped apples;
• 3/4 cup sugar;
• 1/2 cup ghee;
• 1 tbsp of black raisins;
• 3 slices of bread;
• a few drops of vanilla essence.

Preparation:

• Add sugar, apples and the black grapes in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave covered at 100% power for 5 min.

• Blend softened apple mixture and bread slices(soak it in water and then squeeze of the extra water) in a blender.

• Microwave (covered) this mixture at 60% power for 7-8 min.Stir in between.
• Add the ghee and the essence and microwave it for about 2 min.
• Your apple-bread halwa is ready.

Go for Greens: Beans Porial

Ingredients:
Beans (finely chopped) - 250 gms;


Coconut (scraped) - 1 tbsp;
Green Chillies - 2;
Oil - 1 tsp;
Salt to taste.

Preparation:
Smash the coconut with the green chillies and salt coarsely and keep it separately.


Put the beans in a microsafe bowl, sprinkle two tablespoons of water, cover it and place the bowl at 100% power for about 7 min.(Stir it one or two times)
Then add the coconut mixture with a teaspoon of oil and mix it well. Place the bowl in the oven uncovered at 100% power for about two min.
The greenish beans porial is ready.
Serve them after 2 min.

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.

Tickle your tongue kids! It's Apple Jam

I would like to present a favorite recipe of my kids. It goes very well with bread, cookies and cakes. It is a microwave recipe

Ingredients: 1 cup peeled and finely chopped apples, 3/4 cup sugar and 2 tbsp lemon juice.
Method:

• 1. Add sugar and apples in a microwave safe bowl and microwave at 100% power for 4-5 min.

• 2. Blend the softened apple and sugar mixture in a blender.
• 3. Microwave (covered) this mixture at 60% power for 6-8 min. Stir in between.
• 4. Stir in lemon juice, fill in prepared jars.
This recipe could also be done without a microwave oven. Just, we have to pressure cook the apples, blend it and then cook the apple mixture and sugar till it thickens and then we can add the lemon juice.

I think this recipe would be liked by all, especially the kids.