Recipe: Shabudana

Ingredients:

Overnight soaked Shabudana

Cooking oil

Mustard

Cumin 

Chopped onions

Chopped chillies

Salt

Haldi

Lemon

Sugar 

Karipatta

Steps:

1. Soak Shabudana for 30 minutes in water and then drain the water. Cover the vessel with a lid and keep it overnight

2. Put oil in a pan and add Mustand and Cumin.

3. Add salt, haldi, lemon, sugar and karipatta, chopped chilles.

4. Add shabudana and close the lid for 3-5 minutes.

5. Add roasted ground nut powder 

6. Keep it on the stove for another few minutes. Keep stirring otherwise the Shabudana will stick.

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8. Add chopped dhaniya patta.

9. The dish is ready to be served.

Recipe: Sambhar (for idli / dosa / rice)

Ingredients:

Toor dal
Cooking oil
Jeera 
Mustard
Karipatta
Hing
Onion
Garlic
Tomatoes
Grated coconut powder

Steps:

1. Boil 1 cup of toor dal in a cooker for 2 whistles and put it aside.

2. Put cooking oil in a vessel and heat it. Add Jeera, Mustard, karipatta and hing

3. Add onion, garlic

4. Add salt and fry until the onions become transparent. Add vegetables such as carrots, potato, brinjal etc.

5. Add turmeric power and chopped tomatoes

6. After the vegetables are fried, add little coconut poweder (Grated)

7. Add sambhar masala

8. add little water, tamarind, and jaggery

9. Add the dal(toor dal) and let it boil

10. Taste and adjust the salt levels

11. You can eat the Sambhar with idly, dosa or rice.

Recipe: Pulav

Ingredients: 
Jeera
Mustard
Onion
Vegetables (carrot, cauliflower, potato,beans, mutter)
Salt
Turmeric

Steps:

1. Take oil in a cooker and heat it

2. Add Jeera and mustard seeds

3. Add onion, vegetables

4. Add salt

5. Fry it for a while and then add turmeric pwder

6. Add garam masala powder

7. Add 1 cup of rice (or quinoa) and 2 glasses of water

8. Add lemno juice

9. Close the lid of the cooker

10. Keep it until 1 whistle.

Recipe: Chutney Recipe for (Dosa / Idly)

Ingredients: 

Fried groundnuts
Putani (Roasted gram)
Desiccated cocunut medium
Salt
Lemon
Ginger
Garlic
Dhaniya patta
Sugar
karipatta

Steps

1. Fry the groundnuts for about 10 minutes.

2. Add the following in a mixer bownl:

 one handful of groundnuts, one handful of putani, one handful of desiccated cocunut medium, salt, lemon, ginger garlic, Dhaniya patta, sugar, karipatta

3. Add water and grind in a mixer

4. Check the taste and add salt if needed.

Recipe: Bread pizza Recipe

Ingredients:

Bread slices
Mozeralla cheese
Chilli flakes

Steps

1.  Take the pizza base (or bread slices).

2. Spread the pizza cheese (shreded)

3. Add the Mozerella cheese

4. Put it in oven for 12-15 minutes

Recipe: Bhendi Paratha

Ingredients:
Bhendi
Cooking Oil
Wheat Flour
Salt
Turmeric
Garam masala powder

Steps
1.Cut 15 bhendi into small pieces
2. Fry the bhendi in a pan with little oil (1-2 tsp for 5-8 minutes)
3. After the Bhendi has cooled down, add flour, salt, turmeric ,garam masala powder, chilli.
4. Add water and knead to make dough.
5. Make small balls of dough and make roll using a rolling pin
6. Take a pan and make parathas.

Memories

Time: When Aarush was around 5 years old

I was looking for things at home that could be donated or discarded. I found a giant Teddy bear that Aarush has had it for few years already. I asked Aarush if we could donate the Teddy bear to someone else since he was not using it.

Instead of getting upset, Aarush calmly replied: "Daddy, well,  it brings back memories...."

And now Aarush is 8 years old and the Teddy bear is still in his room.