Pepper Rice

This is a very easy , simple delicious and one of my favourite dishes. Ideal dish for winter. I learnt this recipe from my co sister Jyothi Kattinakere.
Give it a try and let me know how you liked it.

Preparation time: 10 min
Servings: 2

Ingredients: 

• 2 Cups cooked white rice ( left over will do)
• 1 cupe sliced Onion
• 1 tsp freshly crushed Pepper corns
• 1 and 1/2 tbsp Ghee / clarrified butter
• 1 tbsp Lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
• salt to taste

Method:

• Heat Ghee/Clarified butter in a pan. Add mustard seeds. Once mustard seeds splutter, add crushed pepper. Saute for 30 secs.
• Add  sliced Onion. Saute for 2-3 min until raw smell goes.
• Add salt, mix well. 
• Add cooked Rice, mix well for 2 mins.
• Finally add Lemon juice and mix well.
• Serve hot with Mild dal and papad. . 

Sprouted Moong - Corn Salad

Here is a healthy, simple, easy and delicious salad recipe. Give it a try.

Preparation time: 5-6 mins
Servings: 2-3

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Sprouted Moong
• 1 cup frozen or fresh Corn kernels 
• 1/2 cup grated Carrot
• 4-5 tbsp freshly grated Cocounut
• 2 tbsp Lemon juice (to taste)
• Salt to taste

Tempering:

• 1 tsp cooking Oil
• 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
• 1-2 chopped Green Chillies(to taste)
• 8-10 Curry Leaves
• Pinch of Asofoetida

Method:

• Take all the ingredients except tempering ingredients  in a large bowl. 
• Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, when the mustard seeds splutter add Green Chillies, Curryleaves and Asofoetida. Pour on the ingredients in the bowl.
• Mix well and serve.

Dill Leaves Dal / ಸಬ್ಬಸಿಗೆ ತೊವೆ

Yes, I am back to blogging after a very long break. Being a new mom, I have to go for healthy-easy to cook recipes now, this recipe is one of them. Dill leaves has lots of  health benefits. It is known to be a good source of folic acid, Vitamin A, Beta Carotene etc and also a good source of dietary fibers. Dill Leaves is belived to help in increasing lactation so every nursing mom should use this herb. My mom was here for 3 months, she used to cook this dish atleast thrice a week.

Healthy food-Healthy life. Enjoy cooking.

Preparation time:30 min

Servings: Enough for 4

Ingredients:

• 1 bunch Dill / Sabbasige soppu washed and chopped
• 1 large Tomato chopped
• 1 small Onion chopped
• 1 cup Moong dall washed 
• 5 cups water
• Salt to taste

for Tempering

• 1 tsp cooking oil or clarified butter ( I prefer clarrified butter)
• 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
• 2 Green Chillies chopped or 2 broken red chillies
• 1 tsp Jeera / Cumin seeds
• 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
• pinch of hing

Method:

• Heat Oil or Ghee/ clarifeid butter in pressure cooker pan. Add Mustard seeds, Green/ Red Chilli, Cumin seeds, Hing and Turmeric powder.
• Add chopped Onion and saute for 30 sec. Then add chopped Tomato and chopped Dill leaves. Saute for few sec. 
  
• Add washed Moong dal, mix well. Pour 4 cups of water and salt to taste ( you can add it latter if you like). Let it whistle for 5-6 times. Allow to cool.
  
• Then mix well. Adjust the salt if required. Serve with hot steamed plane rice.   

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Chakli ( Reposting)

 Happy Gowri Ganesha to everyone. As we all know, Chakli is one of the special dishes which will be made for Ganesha festival. I do not have to write much about Chakli. I am sharing here a simple recipe handed down from my mom.  I do not know how many of you use Milk while preparing chakli. If have not used milk before, try with milk this time :-).  I think 5 cups of flour is a lot, it really tested my patience..You can reduce the quantity of the flour if you do not have lots of patience!!.Hope you will enjoy.

Preparation time: 4 hrs( depends on quantity of flour you take)
Servings: may be 10-15 ( depends)

Ingredients:

• 5 cups Rice flour ( raw)
• 7 cups Milk
• 2 tbsp Butter
• 1/2 cup Hurigadale/ putani/ dalia/ roasted channa dal.
• 1/4 cup Urid dal/ black gram dal.
• 1 tbsp Cumin seeds crushed
• salt to taste.
• Oil for deep frying.

Other requirements:

• Chakli maker/ mould
• Muslin cloth

Method:

• Dry roast the Rice flour in a thick bottom pan for about 6-7 min on a low to medium heat with constant stirring. Do not burn the flour. Keep it aside.
• Dry roast the Hurigadale and Black gram dal separately until become light brown. Please roast both of them on a low heat. Hurigandale would take just 1-2 min. Do not burn..
• Then make fine powder of both hurigadale and Urid dal. Then mix with roasted Rice flour. 
• Add crushed Cumin seeds and salt to taste to the above mixture. Then mix well.
• In the mean while, take 7 cups milk in a wide mouthed griddle and bring to boil. Take out about 1 cup of milk and keep it aside. 
• Then add Butter, allow to melt.
• As soon as Butter melts, take off the griddle from the stove. Immediately pour Rice flour mixture. Mix well. Add some milk if required. Dough should not be very dry or watery. 

• Cover the griddle with a lid or a plate. Leave it for 10 min.
• Then take some( say 2-3 ladle full)  dough in a clean surface or a plate and knead very well into a soft dough.  You can sprinkle very little  milk or hot water if you feel the dough is dry. 

Needs little more kneading

                      

• Then fill  the dough into a chukkuli maker/ mould and press into coil shape on a wet muslin cloth.

• Then carefull transfere to hot oil and fry until light brown on a low to medium flame.
• Store it in a airtight box.

Note: Keep the remaing dough / griddle closed while kneading/ frying because dough gets dried if you keep it open.
I prefer wet muslin cloth so that it doesnt allow the pressed chaklis to be dried and breaking.
If the dough is not kneaded well, we can not give the proper shape and cant make desired size chaklis.