sepan kizhanghu Roast ( taro roast )

Ingredients:

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taro root ( sepan kizhanghu ) - 5
chilli powder - 2 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
salt
oil

1. Pressure cook taro root for 3 whistles.
2. Cut into thin slices.
3. Mix turmeric, chilli powder, salt
4. Roast in Oil

Ginger coffee ( For Cold, Flu, Sore Throat )

Ingredients:
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1. Ginger - 1 inch piece
2. Jaggery - 1/2 cup
3. Water - 1 cup
4. Pepper corns - 2
5. milk - 4 tsp

1. Boil crushed Ginger, crushed pepper corns, jaggery in water for 15 mins.
2. Finally switch off the flame and add milk.

Jeera Rice

Ingredients:
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Cumin seeds - 2 tsp
Rice - 1 cup
Butter or Ghee - 4 tsp
Green Chillies (chopped) - 4
mint - few
chopped coriander - few
salt - 1/2 tsp

1. In a saucepan, add ghee and cumin.
2. Once cumin splutters, add green chillies, mint and coriander.
3. Add water, salt.
4. Add rice and let cook.
4. Once the rice is 3/4th cooked, cover it and cook in simmer for 10 mins.

suyam

Ingredients:
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whole moong dhal - 1 cup
jaggery - 3/4 cup
Maida - 1 cup
Rice flour - 3 tsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
salt

1. Combine Maida, Rice flour, salt, Baking soda, water. Consistency should be like a bhajji paste.
Leave this for ~ 30 mins.
2. Pressure cook dhal and jaggery ( Add water just enough to cover dhal ).
3. Grind dhal
4. Make small balls, dip in maida paste and deep fry in oil.

Egg Fried Rice

Ingredients:

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Egg - 2

Vegetables ( diced carrot, peas, red and green peppers, cabbage)

salt

Aginomotto - 1/2 tsp

Vinegar - 1 tsp

Onion - 1/2

Oil

1. Cook Rice and refrigerate for atleast 30 mins so that rice wouldn't be sticky.

2. In a wok, add oil and saute onion till translucent.

3. Add egg and make scrambles

4. Add vegetables and stir fry

5. Add salt, aginomotto, vinegar

6. Mix rice and stir fry.

Aloo Chappathi

1. Boil potato and grate it.
2. Saute finely chopped onion, garlic, green chilis .
3. Add potato, salt, chopped coriander leaves and cook for 5 mins.
4. Flatten Chappathi by hand and stuff it with potato mixture.
5. Cover it and roll using a rolling pin
6. Cook on a hot cast iron skillet.

Onion Tomato Chutney

Ingredients:
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Onion - 1
Tomato - 1
Red chilli - 2
Tamarind - 1 small round
Salt

1. In a wok, add oil and saute Onion, tomato, red chilli and tamarind.
2. Add water, salt and blend well.

Idli/Dosa Batter

Ingredients:
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Idli Rice - 5 cups
Urad Dhal - 1 cup
Fenugreek - 2 tsp
Salt - 2 tsp

1. Soak Urad dhal and fenugreek.
2. In a separate vessel , soak rice.
3. Leave them soaked for ~ 5 hrs.
4. Grind Urad dhal and fenugreek for 10 mins.
5. Add rice to the above and grind for ~ 10 mins
6. Make sure the mixture is coarse in order to make soft idlis or crisp dosa.
7. Finally add salt and mix well.
8. Leave it in a warm place for fermentation.