About Me

Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Over the last few decades I've spent a number of hours cooking for my family of 5. My husband is a retired bank Manager and my 3 boys are IIT graduates. Now I'm sharing my knowledge and thoughts to the world through this site. Whether you are a busy mom or a student learning to cook, you will find this blog helpful for cooking simple and easy to make food for yourself and the whole family. Hope you enjoy my recipe blog! I also love listening to devotional songs. Please browse through my devotional blogs to know more about them. I am always looking for ways to improve my blogs. Please leave your comments. If you like to see recipe of any particular dish or lyrics of a devotional song, please also let me know. Thanks for reading my blog.

Sunday, 10 July 2011

Mexi Corn Salad

Ingredients
  • Red capsicum         1 cut into small pieces
  • Green capsicum      1 cut into small pieces
  • Tomato                   1 cut into small pieces
  • Sweet corn             1 cup
  • Onion                     1 cut into small pieces
  • vinegar                    2 tsp
  • Lemon juice            2 tsp
  • Pepper                   1/2 spoon
  • Salt to taste
Procedure
  1. Take all ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
  2. Its is very health and delicious food.

Dondakaya, Kobbari koru koora (Tindora with grated coconut)

French Beans, with Dry Coconut curry

Ingredients

  • Donakayalu (Tindora)            1/2 kg (cut  in round pieces)
  • Coconut grated                       1 cup            
  • salt to taste
Seasoning
  • Mustard                    1/2 tsp
  • Cumin                       1/4 tsp
  • Red chilli                   1
  • Green chilli                2  (chopped)
  • curry leaves               1
  • Oil                             2 tsp 
Procedure
  1. Take one cup water and tindora pieces in a pressure cooker and cook till they become soft. (3 whistles).
  2. Remove them from cooker and  drain the water. Keep them aside.
  3. Take a cooking vessel, seasoning with mustard, cumin, garlic and redchilli, green chili and curry leaves.
  4. Add  cooked tindora pieces and  salt and mix well,  fry for 5 minutes.  
  5. Add grated coconut and  mix well,  fry for  another 3minutes.
  6. Serve with rice or roti.

Saturday, 9 July 2011

Idli Chatni (Roasted Dalia split chatney)

 Ingredients

  • Roasted dalia split ( Gulla senaga pappu)       1cup
  •  Grated Coconut             1 cup
  • Green chili                       2 
  • Curd                                1\4cup
  • Salt to taste
For seasoning
  • Mustard seeds                ½  spoon
  • Cumin seeds                    ¼  tsp
  • Red chilli                           2
  • Curry leaves
  • Oil                                     2 tsp
 Procedure
  1.  Grind roasted dail split, grated coconut, curd, green chili, and salt into a smooth paste with adding sufficient water.
  2. Take it in a bowl and seasoning with mustard, cumin, red chili and curry leaves. Mix well.
  3.  Serve with iddli, dosa, vada, upma etc.


























































           

Thursday, 7 July 2011

Onion bajji, Pototoe bajji and Mirapaka bajji

Onion bajji

Ptotato bajji

Mirchi bajji

 Ingredients: 

  • For Mirchi Bajjis      10 nos. of  bajji  mirchis
  • Besan (gram flour)     2 cups                  
  • Rice flour                  2 spoons
  • Ginger, Garlic and 
  • Green chilli paste       1 tsp     
  • Oil for deep fry
  • Salt to  taste

Procedure : 

  1. Take gram floor, rice floor, ginger,garlic,chili paste and salt in a bowl.
  2. Add little water and stir to make it a medium thick paste.
  3. Heat oil in a frying pan.
  4. Dip chillies one by one in the besan paste and slowly release into the heated oil.
  5. Fry until they turn golden brown.
  6. Remove from the pan and serve hot with ketchup.

THE SAME IS THE PROCEDURE  FOR MAKING BAJJIS WITH ONION , POTATO, CAULI FLOWER, GREEN BANANA. (Onion and Potato are to be cut into round medium thick slices)

Mirapakaya bajji chat


Ingredients:

  • Mirchi Bajjis               5 nos. (procedure detailed earlier) cut into pieces as shown in the pic.
  • Onion                         1 no. peeled and cut into thin pieces
  • Tomato                      1 no. cut into small pieces
  • Carrot                        1 no. chopped and  finely grated 
  • Coriander  leaves 
  • Chat masala               1/2 spoon
  • Jeera powder (cumin) 1/2 spoon 
  • Lemon juice                1 tsp  

Procedure : 

  1. Take a bowl,  add all the above ingredients and mix well.  
  2. Add lemon juice before eating.