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.

Onion Chutni

Onion Chutni is very famous in South karnataka. It goes well with neer dosa,akki pundi, boiled rice ganji etc
Nowadays  mangalore style food is common in bangalore restaurants.
Here is the recipe

Ingradients :

1. Grated coconut - 2 spoons
2. Medium sized Onion -1
3.Bengal Gram - 1 spoon
4.Red Chilli - 2-3
5.Oil - 2 spoons
6.mustard
7.Tamarind - marble size

Heat a spoon of oil with Bengal gram.Add chilli and onion when gram turns reddish.Heat it for 1-2 secs.Then mix it with cocnut and grind into a smooth paste.Add salt according to the tatste.
Give a tadka with 1 spoon of oil and mustard.Onion chutni is ready to be served.

Tamarind Rasam(Tamarind Soup)

I tried tamarind rasam when I did not find any vegetables in my fridge.But it was very tasty and started making it often and having it royally with rice.
The ingradients and method to prepare rasam is below :

Ingradients :
1. Tamarind - size of a lemon
2. Green chillies
3.Jaggery - 2 spoons(Grated)
4.Mustard for tadka
5.Jeera -1 spoon
6.Curry leaves
7.Garlic - 7-8
9.Red chilli powder - 1 spoon
Method :

Soak Tamarind for about 15 mins and extract the juice.Add water to the tamarind juice according to the requirement of rasam.Chop green chillies and curry leaves into small pieces and add it to the liquid followed by jaggery.Boil this for about 10 mins and add chilli powder.

For tadka, take a spoon of oil and fry garlic until it cooks.Then add mustard,jeera and hold it on the flame until you get nice aroma.Add this tadka to the boiled liquid.
This can be served as soup.This goes well with Rice also.

Its good for health because it contains jeera,garlic and tamarind.

Akki Pundi (Rice Balls)

It was second time that I tried making pundi.It was a Sunday thinking about breakfast for Monday.My mind struck with Akki Pundi.

Ingradients :

Rice - 2 cups
Water - 3 cups
Salt - as per requirement.

Method :

Wash Rice and allow it to dry for 1-1.5 hrs.Then grind it into a coarse grain powder.Take a thick bottomed pan and add water and salt.Wait till it boils.Add the rice powder to the boiling water.Ensure there are no knots forming and keep stirring until water evoporates.It takes about 8-10 mins to be done.You should take it off the stove when it does not stick to your finger on touch.

Make it into round balls when its hot.Use cold water on your palm before making the balls.Pressure cook the balls for around 25 minutes and allow it to cool.Rice balls are ready and serve it with onion chutney.

My recipe 2 -Mixed Vegetable Saagu

Here is a tasty recipe for chapathi,poori and it can be a gud side dish with rice.
Its mixed vegetable saagu.

Ingradients :

Beans -cleaned and cut
Carrot -cleaned and cubed
Potato - cleaned and cubed
Coconut - 2 spoons
Cinnamon - 1 inch
Coriander seeds - 1 teaspoon
Hurigadale - 2 teaspoons
Corriander leaves - little
Green chilli - As required.may be 2-3
Salt -As per taste

Method : Grind coconut,corriander leaves,coriander seeds,cinnamon,hurigadale and green chilli with little water into a smooth paste.
Cook all the vegetables in a pressure cooker with salt.
Mix the ground content with cooked vegetables.Add water as per the quantity required and boil it for 3-4 mins.Now the saagu is ready to serve...its very delicious with hot hot pooris...

My recipe 1- Mango Onion Chutney

Is it a boring Sunday and don't feel like going anywhere and not even to your favorite restaurants like Barbeque?? In that case try this chutney which is very tasty and your taste buds will just start to work heavily.

This is Raw Mango and Onion chutney.

Ingradients required:
1.Raw Mango (Grated)- 1
2.Medium sized onion(Cut into small piece) -1
3.Dry/Red Chillies - 3
4.Jaggery (Grated)- 1 spoon
5.Mustard for seasoning- 1spoon
6.Jeera - 1/2 spoon
7.Oil- 1 spoon
8.Salt- As required for taste.

Method :
Grind the above ingredients except for no.5 and 6 in mixer to make a smooth paste with little water.Add salt according to the taste.For seasoning,heat little oil and add mustard seeds.As the mustard starts spluttering,add little jeera.Heat it until you get nice aroma and then add it to the ground  mixture.

Mango -Onion chutney is ready...It goes well with Rice,Dosa,Chapathi.
Let me know if you try and like it.

How to get a First Marriage Certificate

Yes,you may feel this a strange certificate as it happened to me.But it was one of the policies of the marriage hall(choultry) in my native.They wanted not child marriage certificate and the first marriage certificate.

The first one could be proved with your date of birth and the second one ...even the officials of the choultry did not know.Really Strange!!? These policies were done for a good cause which I too agree to some extent.They did not want to support child marriage and second marriage.

After a thorough research with a lawyer,got to know that there is no certificate like 'First Marriage Certificate' issued from Government offices.So,solution is to make an affidavit signed by both the bride and the groom.

Here are the guidelines on how to get first marriage certificate...

1.Get a stamp paper from any bank or sub-registrar office.

2.Print the content which states that you are a bachelor/spinster till now and you are going to get married.

3.State the  date and venue of the marriage.

4.Sign in front of the notary .Then the notary signs and puts a seal certifying you are bachelor/spinster.

Similarly,any affidavits can be done with notaries. For example, if you lose your original college certificates,you can just go to the civil court near Majestic Mysore bank.There are so many notaries who will help you do your tasks.They even take you to magistrates to get the application form signed.

At the end, I have a question...How far is this authorized? Any one can pay the lawyer's fees and get a certificate of first marriage even though he is married before.Please answer if any one knows..

How to use ATM

ATM means Any Time Money..You need not go till the bank and wait for the bank to open to withdraw cash.I know ATMs have come long back but still I see some people struggling to use ATM.Here are some tips to use ATM.These are generic usage guidelines  but usage may vary slightly based on the banks.

1. First step is to get an ATM card and a PIN.Its definitely not advisable to share the PIN with any one.Insert the ATM card and enter the PIN number when asked.


2.Its very important to select the language which you are comfortable.If the PIN you entered is correct,there will be an option to choose language.Select the button next to it or touch the option on the screen.

3.Next,select a transaction.Could be withdrawal,Balance inquiry,Deposit,Funds Transfer,Bill payment etc. You can opt to get the receipts for the transaction you made.If  its withdrawal,enter the required amount and press "correct" button.collect the money within the time out period.Else ATM will swallow the amount:)

4.If its a deposit,enter the amount you want to deposit and put the money in the envelope and insert it in the slot provided.Some banks may not have this option in that case you will have to directly go to bank and deposit the amount.

5.In some ATMs,you have option to set favorite transaction that will be 40% faster than the usual transaction.

6.Other than this,ATM centers have drop box facility for paying credit cards,deposits.


7.Nowadays you may see that password must be re-entered for every transaction that you make.This is to prevent the misuse of ATM cards by unauthorized people.

Withdrawal and balance inquiry are the usual transaction that we make,So I have explained only those.Hope this write-up is helpful.

Where to invest for saving money.....

This is the first question that we get in mind if we think to save money.Here are some investment options if you don't want to take risk investing in stock market.

1.Public Provident Fund:

Investing in P PF fetches 8% of interest compounding annually.The investment limit is from minimum Rs.500 to maximum Rs.70000.There is a lock.The term is for 15 years.There is lock-in period of 6 years and from 7th year onwards 50% of the credited amount can be withdrawn.The interest earned is tax exempted. 
This is a tax saver  since it comes under section 80 C

Note : Its good to invest before 5th of every month since the interest is calculated from 5th to 29th of every month.

Check this link for more detail.

http://www.bajajcapital.com/gss/ppf.html

2.Fixed Deposits : There are many nationalized banks which are giving good interest on fixed deposits.It starts from 45 days to 555 days and there is upto 9.75% of interest.

3.LIC : Its always good to have one policy of long term so that it will fetch good amount of money after the term closure.Even loan can be availed on the bond.

4.National Savings Certificate :In this case, interest is compounded half yearly.But the interest earned is taxable.This is a tax saver also since it comes under section 80 C

More details in this link 

http://www.bajajcapital.com/gss/nsc.html

5.Investing in Gold or Silver : As the price of Gold and Silver are soaring high,one can invest in Gold coins or Silver bars.In a year or two it definitely returns good profit.If buy jewelry,we don't sell and we always try to save it.so from investment point of view,buying jewelry may not be a good option.

Are there any other non-risky options?