Wheat flour cake

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour  (Atta)            2 cups
• Grated coconut                 1 cup
• Sugar or Jaggery               1 1/2 cups
• Ghee                                 2 spoons 
• Pista badam

Procedure:

1. Take ghee in a pan and heat wheat flour for 2 or 3  minutes (not to become brown)
2. Remove from pan and keep it aside.
3. Take little water in the same pan and sugar/jaggery, heat until it becomes medium thick syrup.
4. Add grated coconut, wheat flour and mix well.
5. Take a plate and apply with ghee. Pour mixture in the plate. Spread it uniformly and cut into desired shapes. 
6. Garnish with pista badam and allow it to cool.
7. The wheat flour cakes are ready to eat.

Radish curry

Ingredients :

• Radish                      2
• Tamrind   pulp          1/2 cup
• Jaggary                    1\2 vup
• Rice flour                 2 tsp
• Turmeric powder      Little
• Salt to taste

For seasoning :

• Mustard seeds               ½  spoon
• Cumin seeds                  ¼  tsp
• Red chilli                         2
• Curry leaves
• Oil                                  2 tsp

Procedure:

1. Peel, wash and cut radish  into small pieces.
2. Take oil in a thick bottomed cooking vessel and seasoning with mustard seeds, cumin seeds, red chillies, curry leaves.
3. Add tamarind pulp, jaggery, turmeric powder, salt and one cup of water and mix well.
4. Add the radish pieces to the above mixture and cook until the radish pieces becomes soft.
5. Take rice flour in a separate container, mix with water to become a medium paste and add it to the boiled radish and cook for another 3 to 4 min.
6. Serve with hot rice.

Drum Stick Rasam

Ingredients:

• Drumsticks            3 pieces
• Til seeds                2 tsp
• Grated coconut      3 tsp
• Rice flour               2 tsp
• Red chili powder   1 tsp
• Garlic cloves          3
• Salt to taste

For seasoning

Mustard seeds                ½  spoon

Cumin seeds                    ¼  tsp                       4

Curry leaves

Procedure :

1. Peel, wash and cut drumsticks into 4 inches pieces.
2. Grind til seeds, grated coconut, little salt, chilli powder  and rice powder into a smooth past adding little water and keep it aside.
3. Take1spoon of oil in a thick bottom vessel and seasoning with mustard, cumin seeds and curry leaves. 
4. Add 3 cups of water, drumstick pieces and salt. Mix well.  Cook till the drumstick pieces become soft. 
5. Add the above paste, mix well and cook for 5 minutes. 
6. Serve with roti or rice.

Minapa sunnundalu (Urad Dal laddus)

Ingredients:

•  Black Gram (Minappappu)        1 cup  or
• Urad Flour                                   one and half cup (heat in microwave)
•  Sugar fine powder                     1cup
•  Ghee                                         ¼ cup
• A few cardamom seeds powder

procedure

1. Dry roast urad dal on a low flame until it turns golden brown in colour. 
2. Then transfer  it to a plate and allow it to cool down.
3. Grind the dal into a fine powder, add cardamom seeds powder and keep it aside.
4. (The powdered roasted urad called minapa sunni can be stored in an  airtight box  for a month or more if desired to prepare the sunnundalu as and when you like. Proceed with the following process)      
5. Heat and melt ghee.
6. Take dal powder, sugar powder and melted ghee in a bowl, mix well. 
7. Shape into small balls or laddus of desired size, using your palms.Allow it 30 minutesd to dry.
8. Sunnundalu are ready to eat.

(Don’t let the mixture stand for a long time as it tends to dry soon.).
(Laxmi brand  Urad flour available in Indina markets)