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.

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.