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.

Thursday, 15 September 2011

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.







Tuesday, 6 September 2011

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)






Sunday, 28 August 2011

Coconut Roti


Ingredients:

1.  Rice flour                :  3 cups
2.  Grated coconut       : 1 cup
3.  Green chilly paste    : 1 tbs
4.  Salt to taste
5.  Oil

Procedure:
  • Take rice flour in a bowl. 
  • Add grated coconut, chilly paste, salt together.  Mix well.
  • By adding boiled water little by little, make the mixture into a dough (like chapati dough)
  • Allow it to settle for 10 minutes min.
  • Make the dough into  equal balls. 
  • Take each ball and press it in a  oiled polythene paper into a round shape as shown in the pic.
  • Heat a tavva, apply little oil and fry the above pressed ball  until it becomes  golden brown on both sides.
  • Serve it with chutney, curry or ketch up.




FRUIT SALAD










  • Ingredients:

    •  Apple            :    One  cup  finely cut into small pieces
    •   Guava            :  One cup  finely cut into small pieces after removing the seeds
    •   Grapes          :   100 gms.  
    •  Orange          :  2 nos. peeled and cut into half pieces
    •   Pine apple      :  One cup finely  cut into small pieces
    •   Papaya          :  One cup finely  cut into small pieces
    •   Banana          :  4 nos. riped big size
    •   Sugar            :  One cup
    •  Colour           :  Orange colour one pinch
    • Any other fruits to suit the taste

    PROCEDURE :
    • Take peeled bananas in a big bowl and crush it into paste.  
    • Add sugar and color. Mix well.
    • Add to the mixture all the above fruit pieces, Mix well.
    • Keep it in fridge for a minimum of 30 minutes.
    • Fruit salad is ready and serve it in a bowl.



















    Tuesday, 23 August 2011

    Janaganamana Guinness Record and beauty of Europe

    Janaganamana Guinness Record  
    The overall 8,000 participants including scholl children( 6,527 ), teachers and parents made an attempt to break the Guiness Book record held by Pakistan (5,847 chiildren) in national anthem singing. 






    The overall 8,000 participants including scholl children( 6,527 ), teachers and parents made an attempt to break the Guiness Book record held by Pakistan (5,847 chiildren) in national anthem singing.





    beauty of europe

    beauty of europe