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Posts from ‘October, 2007’

Bendakaya Vepudu/ Lady’s finger fry

Ingredients

  • Bendakaya/Lady’s finger - 250 gms
  • Onion                                      – 1, medium size, finely chopped
  • Garlic                                      – 4-5 cloves, crushed
  • Turmeric powder                    – ¼ tsp
  • Red chilli powder                   – 1 tsp
  • Pallilu/ Groundnut                  – 1 tbsp, roasted
  • Salt to taste

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Making Curd /Perugu/ Yoghurt/ Buttermilk/ Majjiga

How to make a Perugu/Curd/ Yoghurt?

Ingredients

Curd/ Yoghurt       –             1/2   tsp

Boiled Milk           –             500 ml

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Brain Pepper Fry/ Brain Fry

Brain Pepper Fry

Ingredients

  • Goat’s Brain                 – 2
  • Onion                             – 1, medium size, finely

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Mukkala Pulusu/ Dappalam/ Bellam Pulusu

Ingredients

  • Koorakaya mukkalu/ Mixed Vegetables                     -           3 cups, cubed
  • (Pumpkin, Bottle gourd/ Sorakaya/ Anapakaya,
  • Drumsticks, Sweet potato, Lady’s finger, zucchini,
  • Carrot, chow chow, radish, brinjal, potato,
  • Thota kura, coconut pieces etc)
  • Small Onion                                                    -           10-12
  • Tomatoes                                

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Ulava Chaaru/ HorseGram Lentil Soup

Ingredients

  • Ulavulu/ Horse gram               -           250 gms, soaked over night
  • Small Onions                           -           10, skin peeled
  • Green Chillies                         -           5-6, slit in lengthwise
  • Tamarind paste                        -           2 tbsps
  • Turmeric powder                     -           ½ tsp
  • Jaggery                                    -           1 tsp, powdered

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Mammidikaya Annam/ Raw Mango Rice

Ingredients

  • Cooked Rice               -           2 cups
  • Green Mango              -           1 ½  – 2  cups, grated
  • Peanuts                         -           3 tbsps, roasted
  • Cashew nuts                 -           3 tbsps, roasted
  • Salt

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Kobbari Annam/ Coconut Rice

Ingredients

  • Cooked Rice                          – 1 cup (Leftovers can be used)
  • Coconut                                  – 2 cups (Freshly grated)
  • Cashew nuts                            – 10 ( Roasted and chopped)
  • Salt to taste

To Temper

  • Coconut Oil

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Nimmakai Annam/ Lemon Rice

Ingredients

  • Cooked Rice               – 1 cup
  • Lemon juice                – 2-3 tbsps
  • Peanuts(raw)               – 2 tbsp
  • Turmeric powder         – 1/2 tsp

To Temper

  • Gingelly Oil                           

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Bandar Laddu/Thokkudu Laddu

Ingredients

Besan/Chickpea flour/Senagapindi – 500 gms

Sugar – 500gms

Cashew nuts/Jeedipappu/Kaju – 10-15, chopped into small pieces

Cardamom – 4, powdered

Oil for deep fry

Ghee – 1 tbsp

Milk – 150 ml

Saffron- 5 strands

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Paalu Poori/ Paal Poori

Ingredients

  • Milk                                                       -              500 ml
  • Maida (All purpose flour)             -              500 gms
  • Sugar                                                     -              300 gms
  • Saffron                                                 -              8-10 strands
  • Ghee/Oil                                             -              250 ml
  • Cashew nuts, Almonds                  -              8-10, shredded for garnishing
  • Salt , a pinch

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Rawa Kesari(Suji Halwa)

Ingredients
  • Rava                            -           1 Cup
  • Sugar                           -           1 ½ – 2 Cups
  • Food color                -           a pinch
  • Water                          –           1 ½

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Daddojanam/ Curd Rice

Ingredients

  • Raw Rice – 2 cups
  • Curd – 2 cups
  • Milk – 1 cup
  • Salt to taste

To temper

  • Oil/Ghee -  1 tbsp
  • Mustard Seeds – 2 tspn
  • Green Chillies – 4 (finely chopped)
  • Red chillies

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