Tuesday 12 June 2012

Cornflakes mixture.

Ingredients:

Raw maize flakes
Avalaki (not the machine made thin one)
Peanuts
Channa dal pwder to prepare boondi or ready made boondi.
Oil
Salt
Red chilli pwder
Curry leaves

Heat oil, fry avalaki, raw maize flakes. You need to fry these in a steel stainer (something like this) and drain oil completely.

Fry peanuts in little oil and keep aside. Same for curry leaves. Smash the fried curry leaves.

Boondi preparation:
Mix channa dal powder in water well and make it as a soft free flow paste.
Heat oil, and take boondi spatula (something like this), pour little of the channa dal paste and allow the mixture to fall as droplets in to the oil with the help of normal spatula. once it is fried, take it and drain it from oil.

Now, add all the above in a vessel and add chill pwder, salt, curry leaves and mix well to eat!

Cashew masala

Here's one more recipe for fried rice/rotis. Health concious people can substitute cashew with channa or green peas...

Ingredients:

Fried cashew/ soaked and cooked green peas/channa or any other sprouts.
Onion - 2 big
Tomatoes - 4 medium sized (preferred country tomato to hybrid)

Til dal - 2 tbsp or coconut - 1/2 cup
Garlic -  2 pods.
Red chilli pwder
Salt to taste
Oil as needed.

Add little oil, fry chopped onion till golden brown. Add chopped tomato and let it cook.
Keep this aside and let it cool.

First grind the Til dal in dry jar and add the above mixture along with red chilli powder, garlic pods, salt.
Fry this mixture again till the water evaporates. Add pinch of garam masala if you like it.

Add fried cashew/ cooked green peas to the above and let it cook for 2 mins.