Saffron Oats Peda

Oats Peda!! yep am very glad to say that this saffron oats peda is one of my own creation which i prepared in microwave oven with ricotta cheese, milk powder and rolled oats with a teaspoon of butter and two pinchs of saffrons..This quick and easy peda takes approximately 25 minutes in microwave oven and tastes marvellous also can definitely say that its quite healthier coz of the oats i have used in this peda..Even people doesnt like to have oats will definitely love this tempting and delicious pedas..I was really happy to see that all my oats pedas vanished within few minutes and everyone at home loved it..I didnt want to prepare my pedas with food colours instead of those food colours i used two pinchs of saffron which also turned out those fabulous pedas more tasty and rich with mild yellow colour..

1cup Ricotta cheese(full fat)
1/2cup Rolled Oats
1cup Sugar
1cup Milk Powder(low fat)
2pinch Saffron
1/4cup Pistachios pieces
1tbsp Butter+1tsp butter

Take a microwave bowl, add the ricotta cheese, sugar, milk powder, saffron n butter, stir them continously until the cheese gets well mixed, this may looks as creamy paste.. microwave in high temperature for 5 minutes cook this milk mixture, they may doubled their volume, stir them once..meanwhile in a another microwave bowl add a tsp of butter and rolled oats, cook everything for 5minutes in high...add cooked oats to the cheese mixture,cook again in high temperature for 15 minutes in microwave oven..

Keep an eye while doing this, u may see the milk mixture might have turned slightly brownish colour at the edges..now transfer to a flat plate.keep aside n let them cool..once they r slightly cooled shape them as pedas, arrange pistachios pieces over them and serve.

Eral Kuzhambu

Eral kuzhambu without coconut paste but making out with a variety of vegetables like drumstick,raw banana n potatoes..goes well with Plain rice, papads or else with boiled egg.. For seasoning, i used vengaya vadagam which give a special aroma and replace very well the mustard seeds and split black gram we usually used to temper while making out tangy gravies prepared with tamarind juice.Vadagam is usually made by the elders of the family who know very well. They make it every year in summer when the sun is hot and the onions are cheap. Its serves for a whole year. Vadagam was made basically with onions,garlic,curryleaves n spices.It gives a special aroma to kuzhambu when tempered with this aromatic vadagam...

20nos Prawns

1no Tamarind (lime size)
1noTomato(big)
20nos Shallots
5nos Garlic cloves
1cup Potatoes(cubed)
1cup Raw banana (cubed)
5nos Drumstick pieces
2tbsp Dhania powder
1tsp Red chilly powder
3tsp Gingelly oil
1tbsp Vengaya Vadagam
Salt (as per taste)
5 nos Curry leaves

Grind the tamarind with tomatoes with 1/2 cup of warm water...make it as thick paste,strain this grounded paste and add enough water...heat oil in a kadai n splutter vadagam..add the garlic cloves,curryleaves and shallots, fry it until it turns transparent, add drumsticks,raw bannana pieces to the sauted shallots..finally add the prawns put the stove in low flame..this will cook the prawns...

Add salt, dhania powder and red chilli powder to the tamarind n tomato juice ,now add this spiced juice to the cooking veggies and prawns,cook everything in high flame..once its boil for the first time add the potatoes pieces to this gravy..cover n let it cook for 10 minutes...put off the stove..

Serve hot!

Spicy Cumin-Barley Cookies

I have bookmarked cumin cookies at Sunita's space..her cumin cookies tempted me a lot and i was really pulled to try out this weekend, but i didnt completely prepared this cumin cookies, i have deduced the quantity of all purpose flour as the original recipe goes for and i have used whole wheat flour and barley flour along all purpose flour to make out this cumin cookies, also i have used pepper powder and crushed cumin seeds to make out this cookies a bit spicy and we enjoyed having this healthy and spicy cookies with cheese spread for our snacks which suits incredibly when its rainy outside.For my surprise, my lil ones loved this spicy cumin and barley cookies with cheese spread and this cookies vanished within few minutes, we loved these cookies when they were still warm..

1cup Whole Wheat flour
3/4cup Barley flour
1/4cup All purpose flour
1tsp Pepper powder
2tbsp Crushed cumin seeds
1tsp Baking soda
1tsp Salt
1/2tsp Sugar
1/4cup Olive oil
1/2cup Milk

Preheat the oven to 350F, line a baking sheet over a baking tray..Mix the flours, sugar, salt, crushed cumin seeds, pepper powder and baking soda in a bowl, add gradually the oil and turn everything as crumbly mixture, now add slowly the milk and knead everything as a dough, dont need for a long else the cookies will turn hard.

Springle few all purpose flour and roll the dough as large disc with rolling pin, with a cookie cutter cut the dough as circles and arrange over the baking sheet, repeat the process until u finish the dough completely as cookies..Bake for 20-25minutes in middle rack..Serve warm..

Enjoy!!

Nippattu

Snacks are really very important for kids after having a long day in schools and colleges, during those evening time snacks, most of the kids goes for biscuits with chocolates or rarely for savouries, when i was kid my mom used to make out many savouries, and the aroma of frying those savouries makes us hungry once we enter our home after a long hectic day, now life is running like anything and its kinda hard for us to make out savouries or sweets atleast twice a week, i usually make out or plan during weekends for our evening snacks where i used to prepare many savouries in small quantity, after seeing Latha's Nippattu (We call as thattais), my plan for making out onion pakodas changed immediately and went for her nippattu, which was quite easy to prepare where she prepared her nippattu with rice flour, maida and gram flour, adding maida was completely new for me coz my mom used to make out thattais with rice flour and gram flour, u can check my thattais here which is completely different from Latha's nippattu, i didnt used peanuts and roasted gram in this deep fried beauties else i have followed each and every step from Latha's nippattu wents for..Thanks a lot Latha for sharing this delicious, crispy and prefect evening snacks..We loved it.

2cups Rice flour
1/2cup Maida
1/4cup Gram flour
3tbsp Channadal (soaked in hot water for half an hour)
1tbsp Sesame seeds
1tsp Red chilly powder
1/4tsp Asafoetida powder
2tbsp Hot Oil
Salt
Oil for deepfrying

Take together the flours in a large bowl, add the hot oil, salt, asafoetida powder, chilly powder and mix well..Add the soaked channa dal, sesame seeds and knead everything as soft dough..Take a small ball from the dough also take 2 zip lock bags, grease both ziplock bag with oil...place dough ball as sandwich in between the greased bag and place them inside the poori press...i used poori press to make my nippattus easily..its quite easy to make them fast n quick..prick the disc with fork to prevent it from puffing while frying, deep fry in hot oil and fry until they turns golden brown..

Enjoy with hot coffee..can stay for a week in an air tightened box..