Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Balekai Podi / Banana Pakoda / Banana Bajji

Ingredients

  1. Raw Banana / Balekai – 2
  2. Gram Flour – 1/2 cup
  3. Rice Flour – 1 tsp
  4. Red Chilly Powder – 1 tsp
  5. Asafoetida/Hing – pinch
  6. Salt to taste
  7. Oil for deep fry

Method

  1. Peel of the fibre from banana skin. Cut into 1/2cm thick and long slices. Keep them immersed in buttermilk
  2. Mix gram flour,rice flour,red chilly powder, asafoetida and salt. Add water and prepare a thick paste
  3. Coat this paste over banana slices. Meantime heat oil in medium flame
  4. Drop them into oil and deep fry till they turn golden brown
  5. Serve hot with ketchup or chilly/mint chutney

Banana bajji

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Timare Tambli / Ondelaga Tambli / Brahmi Tambli

Ingredients

  1. Timare / Ondelaga / Brahmi leaves – 1 cup
  2. Grated coconut – 3/4th cup
  3. Curd – 4 tsp
  4. Salt to taste
  5. Cumin seeds – 1 tsp

Method

  1. Grind all the ingredients with little water to a smooth paste
  2. If you want it to be thin, then add little buttermilk. Also can season it with fried mustard, cumin and curry leaves in ghee/oil
  3. Serve it with rice

Timare Tambli

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Ingredients

  1. White Rice – 1 cup
  2. Jaggary – 1 cup
  3. Coconut Milk - 2 cups
  4. Cardamom / Cashews / Almond

 

Method

  1. Soak rice for 3-4 hours in water
  2. Grind this to a smooth paste
  3. Transfer this to a pan. Heat this in low flame and keep stirring till it water content evaporates and becomes a thick dough
  4. Fill this into Chakli maker(a mould having different size and shapes of holes. Here use a thick noodle size). Else, you can even make small balls from this dough and roll using your palm to prepare  inches thick noodles with 3-4 inches in length. Keep this aside
  5. Add coconut milk and jaggary and 2 cups of water. Heat till jagger melts by stirring frequently
  6. Add the noodles. Mix them and cook for 10 minutes
  7. Add cardamom, cashews and almond
  8. Serve either hot or cold according to your preference

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