Sabudana vadiyalu(small papad)

This recipe is very easy simple tasty and wonderful.

Ingredients
Sabudana (Saggubiyyam)
Salt
Green chillie paste (Optional - if you want them to be spicy then add this)

Method of preparation
1. Soak Sabudana for 4- 5 hours in water.
2. Drain Sabudana and add it to a hot kadai/vessel and let it become kind of soggy paste. You should be able to take it out with a spoon.
3. Switch off the stove and add very little salt to it. If you like you can add green chilli paste at this point. Mix all the above.
4. Take a tray (any tray but wide enough). Using spoon or spatula drop very small quatities on the tray (by maintaining enough distance between one drop and other).


5. Put the tray in sun light for a day or two by turning to other side once one side is dried out totally. These vadiyalu dries out very quickly if the heat is adequate. Your sabudana vadiyalyu are ready at this point.



Before you eat them, fry them in oil and they will become crunchy and big (similar to papad but not of that much big size). These vadiyalu are good to eat with rice and sambar or rice and rasam combination.
Note: I am going to post pics of this so that it will give a nice pictorial view and idea of how they look at every stage.

Sorakaya (Doodhi) Curry

This curry which my mom makes (ofcourse I do the same thing too) is simple curry which is a good combination with roti. It can also be had with rice.

Ingredients

Sorakaya - 1 - peeled and chopped

Onion - 1 large

Tomato - 1 large

Red chilli powder/green chillies - according to your taste

Salt to taste

Dhania/Coriander powder - 1 table spoon

mustard seeds - 1 small tea spoon

Jeera/Cumin - 1 small tea spoon

Turmeric - 1/2 or 1 small tea spoon

Oil

Coriander leaves

Curry leaves

Method of preparation

1. Take a kadai/pan. Add oil to it. Let it heat and then add mustard seeds. Let it splutter.

2. Add Jeera to it. Add curry leaves and green chillies (if any).

3. Add onions and fry till they turn translucent.

4. Now add Sorakaya(doodhi) to it. Add turmeric, red chilli powder, dhania powder. Cover and cook till the sorakaya is almost done.

5. Add salt, tomatos with very little water. After 5 minutes or till everything is cooked, turn off heat and garnish with coriander.

Summer Drink - Roohafza

My husband got Roohafza for the first time. So I wanted to try it out how it tastes. I always had a wrong impression on it, as it smelled a little of rose water. But after I try it I can say confidently that, people who like the falooda sev drink/icecream will like this too.

Just add Rooh-afza with cold water ice cubes. If you want, you can top it up some whipped cream.


The following picture is when I added Rooh-afza with a little cold milk, water, ice cubes. Mix them up and added a little fat free whipped cream on top.


The label on it says it can be used as topping on an ice-cream, too so try it out.

Halwa

I tried this recipe from plantainleaf. Here is the link of the recipe.
http://plantainleaf.blogspot.com/2009/04/maida-halwa.html

It came out really good. Planning to make it one more time.

Here is the picture of what it looks like when I tried it for the first time:

Blueberry Juice/Milk shake

I hate eating fruits. But if they are turned into something tasty then I can have it. Since fruits are very healthy, I generally make something out of fruits to add it into my diet for health reasons. My husband got this big box of blueberries this time. Personally I dont want to eat them. He asked me to make milk shake or juice out of it so that we all can have it and finish it faster without getting them wasted. Here is how I made it :

Wash and take blue berries in a blender.

Add sufficiant milk to it and blend it.

I then filtered it to get the total juice out of it.

Add honey according to your taste. and your juice is ready to serve or drink.

Raw Coriander chutney

This one was prepared by my cousin when she prepared cut mirchi. Both were awesomely made. In some places it is also called kothimeeru uppu (Coriander Salt). The preparation of this chutney is so easy that I decided to post the recipe here for everybody. This chutney can be used as green chutney while making chat and also can be accompanied with all tiffins or chat items. So here it goes:

Ingredients

Coriander (kothimeeru)

Green Chillies

Salt

Garlic (optional)

Method of preparation

Grind all the ingredients in a mixie and serve it as side dish for anything. Thats all. Easy right?