Sprouted Green gram salad (Molake Hesrukalu/Hesarukaalu salad)

   This is another calorie free recipe and rich in protein.
   Very good to have atleast once in a week.
   For Greengram salad,the following ingradients are required.

  1.Green gram - 1 cup
  2.Onion -1( medium sized )
  3.Tomato - 1
  4.Salt for taste.

  Method : Soak the green gram overnight.Drain all water and keep it in a white,thin    
  cloth for a day.Sprouted green gram is ready the next day.boil the gram in a cooker
  with little water.
  Chop onion and tomato into small pieces and add it to the cooked green gram.
Add salt and a spoon of lime juice.

Elephant Foot Yam curry(Suvarna gedde gasi)

I was bored with curries,saagus etc to have with chapathi.So I thought of trying this recipe which very well goes with chapathis and also rice.

Note: Chopping Yam is a difficult task since it makes the palms itchy.Using/applying buttermilk to the palms while chopping helps chopping Yam easy.
Here it is..


Ingradients :

1.Yam 1 cup - cubed into small pieces
2.Coconut - 1/2 cup(Grated)
3.Garlic - 2-3
4.Coriander seeds - 3 spoons
5.Tamarind - marble sized
6.Jaggery - 1 spoon
7.Dry/Red Chilli 2
8.Haldi -1 pinch
9.Oil - 2 spoons

Method :

Boil the chopped yam with tamarind ,haldi and salt and keep it aside.
Take a spoon of oil in a small pan and fry coriander seeds,red chillies and garlic.add it to the grated coconut and grind into smooth paste.Mix the paste with the boiled yam and add water according to the required consistency.Its good to be little thick for chapathis.Now add a spoon of grated jaggery and bring this to boil.

With 1 spoon of oil,add a mustard tadka along with curry leaves and now suvarna gedde gasi is ready.

While writing suvarna gedde,I just remembered that Gold rates have increased even more and its advisable to invest in E-Gold and Gold ETFs

Carrot kosambari (Carrot salad)

One of my friends wanted a fat free,calorie free tasty recipe..This is for all of you who are diet conscious.This is easy to prepare,faster and tastier also.

Ingradients

1.Carrot 2-3
2.Chillies 1-2
3.Salt
4.Corriender leaves
5.Lime juice - 2 spoons

Method :
Chop chillies,corriender leaves into small pieces.Grate the carrot.Mix salt,chopped items and carrot in a bowl.Add llime juice to it.
yes,its ready to eat now...if you are not diet consiuous, add 2-3 spoons of cocunut and give mustard tadka.It becomes even more tastier.

You can have it as snacks or serve as side dish with rice.

Kesaribath

Kesaribath is my favorite sweet.My mom often prepares and no doubt I hog it:).This weekend I prepared and it came out very good..even now mouth waters remembering it..So I thought of sharing the recipe on my blog. Its not at a rocket science,here we go ..

Ingradients :

1.Rava 1 cup
2.Sugar 1 cup
3.Ghee  1 cup
4.Cashew 3-4
5.Dry Grapes 4-5
6.water 3-4 cups
7.Kesari - colour(0.5 spoon)

Method : Take a frying pan and rost the rava until a nice aroma is felt.Allow it to cool for sometime by keeping it in a tray.Add a pinch of salt and the colour to the rosted rava. Mean time boil the water and keep the hot water ready.Now heat 3-4 spoons of ghee in a kadai(pan) and add the rava to it and fry it for 2 minutes on medium flame.Add hot water to the fried rava and let it cook for 3-4 mins(Add more hot water if it turns very dry and rava is still not cooked).once it cooks,add sugar and mix it until the sugar melts and mixes properly.Take it off the stove once its done.
Heat little bit of ghee with cashew and dry grapes and mix it with kesaribath.

Adding some pieces of pine apple or banana will be even more tastier.
Keasribath is ready...try this nowitself..and enjoy hot kesaribath..

Kokum rasam (Punarpuli Rasam)

This is another easy rasam recipe.

Kokum is a fruit thats available in Mangalore region of Karnataka and some parts of Kerala.The skin of this fruit has medicinal values.The skin is dried along with salt during summer and preserved through out the year.The juice extracted from this fruit is used in preparing rasam,juice etc.Its a very good medicine for giddiness,loss of appetite.One tumbler juice with jaggery in morning reduces giddiness.

Ingradients for Rasam :

1.Kokum - 5-6 skins(dried)
2.Chilli powder - 2 spoons
3.Garllic - 5-6
4.Jeera - 1 spoon
5.Mustard - 1 spoon
6.Jaggery - 3 spoons
7.Salt - as per taste

Method : Soak kokum overnight in water.Add the grated jaggery and salt into this and boil it.When it is boiling add chilli powder.Take it off the stove once it boils.Heat oil in a small pan, add garlic.When garlic is half cooked,add mustard and jeera.Heat it until mustard splutters.Mix this tadka with the rasam that you just boiled.Add more jaggery if its too sour.

Onion Tomato Salad

This is a simple recipe that I am writing for beginners in cooking.Even for guys who dont know how to cook and home alone will help.
Lets go for it.

Ingradients required :

1.Onion - chopped into small pieces
2.Curd - 1 tumbler
3.Tomato - 1 (meduim sized)
4.Green chilli - 1 or 2
5.Coriander leaves - chopped
6.Salt according to taste
7.Water - 1/2 tumbler.
8.Mustard and oil for tadka

Method : Add chopped onion,tomato, coriander leaves and chilli into a container.Then add curd and salt.Mix it well and add little water if its too thick.Take a small laddle for tadka.heat oil in that and add mustard.When mustard starts spluttering,mix it with the salad.

This tastes very nice with rice,pulav,lemon rice etc..Try this on weekend.

Golden News??

Golden news is all that I am hearing about Gold.I just read today that gold prices will reach new heights.So I believe its good time to invest in gold and silver.Gold has been consistently raising in 2 years.There are options to invest in E-Gold and Gold ETFs.

E-Gold is operated by NSE first time in India.One should have Demat account for this amd any time it can be converted to physical gold.It can be purchased in smaller denominations like 1gm,2gm etc

Gold ETF allows money to be invested in commadities.There is no conversion option to physical gold form.

I came to know that investing on gold jewelry is always better than gold coins or bars.While purchasing we should take care of modern designs which may lose its value.So always go for older designs which will have long life and less making charge.