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Jeedipappu paalu posina Gravy / Cashew Milk Gravy

Ingredients

  • Cashew nuts – 1 cup
  • Khova – ½ cup, unsweetened
  • Cow’s Milk – ½ cup
  • Onion -2, Medium size, finely chopped
  • Ghee – 2 tbsps
  • Dry grapes / Raisins – 10

To temper/Popu/Talimpu

  • Patta/ Cinnamon –

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Biyyam Upma/Rice Upma

Ingredients

  • Boiled rice- 1 cup
  • Menthulu /Fenugreek – 1 tsp
  • Small Onion – 10
  • Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
  • Dry red chillies – 1, broken into two
  • Sugar – 1tsp, optional
  • Curry leaves – 2 sprigs
  • Oil – 1

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Healthy Pongali

Ingredients

  • Raw rice – 1cup
  • Pesara pappu/ moong dal – ¼ cup
  • Tomato – 1, medium size, optional
  • Green chillies – 3, slit lengthwise
  • Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp

To Temper/Popu/ Tadka/ Talimpu

  • Mustard seeds – 1

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Mixed Vegetable Cashew Halwa

Ingredients

  • Cashew nuts – 1 cup
  • Milk – 3 cup
  • Carrot – 1 cup, grated
  • Beetroot – 1 cup, grated
  • Coconut – ½ cup, freshly grated
  • Khova – ¼ cup
  • Sugar – 2 cups
  • Cardamom powder – 1 tsp

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Sapota/ Chikkoo Milk Shake

Ingredients

  • Sapota/Chikkoo – 2 cups, peeled, deseeded
  • Milk – 4 cups
  • Crushed Ice – 2 cups
  • Ice cream essence – 2 tsps
  • Yellow food color – ¼ tsp
  • Fresh cream – 1 tbsp

Preparation Method

  1. Give a

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Pulusu Atukulu/ Atukulu Pulihora/ Gojju Avalakki

Ingredients

  • Thick Atukulu /flattened rice/ Poha – 1cup
  • Chintapandu/Tamarind paste – 4 tbsps
  • Jaggery – 4 tbsps
  • Turmeric - 1/4  tsp
  • Pallilu/Groundnuts – 2 tbsps
  • Salt to taste

To Roast & Grind

  • Pepper – ½ tsp
  • Menthulu/Methi –

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Beauty Tips

For Clear skin

  1. Take wide thick bottomed vessel. Add a teaspoon of turmeric powder and neem leaves. Boil this till it starts boiling. Then remove from the stove and place in comfortable position, where you cover yourself with a

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Household Tips

  1. Thermo flask will smell a lot if it is cleaned properly. Cut paper into small pieces, soak this with water in the flask for half an hour and wash the flask. The smell and the coffee/tea color would have

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Andhra Tomato Thokku

Ingredients

  • Ripened Tomato – ½ kg
  • Garlic – 4, finely chopped
  • Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
  • Tamarind paste – 2 tbsps or to taste
  • Salt to taste

To Roast & Grind

  • Mustard seeds – 1tsp

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Apple Pumpkin Halwa

Ingredients

  • Apple – 1 cup
  • Pumpkin – 1 cup
  • Pistachio nuts – ¼ cup, coarsely crushed
  • Milk Powder – 150 gms
  • Sugar – 1cup or to taste
  • Cardamom Powder – 2 tsps
  • Ghee – 1cup

Preparation Method

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Corn Fritters

Ingredients

Corn  – 1

Maida – ½ cup, sifted

Egg – 1, beaten

Milk – ¼ cup

Baking powder – ½ tsp

Butter – 1 tbsp, melted

Sugar a pinch

Salt to taste

Oil for frying

Preparation Method

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Ghee Senaga Pappu / Masala Bengal Gram

Kara Senaga Pappu

Ingredients

Senaga pappu / Bengal gram / Channa dal – ½  kg

Cashew nuts – 25 gms

Red chilli powder or

Pepper powder – 2 tbsps or to taste

Ghee – 1tbsp

Curry leaves – 4 sprigs

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Allam Thokku Pachadi/ Ginger Pickle

Ingredients

  • Allam / Ginger – 250 gms, chopped
  • Dry Red chillies – 250 gms
  • Jaggery – 250 gms
  • Tamarind paste – 500 gms
  • Garlic – 100 gms
  • Salt to taste

Preparation Method

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Nooni Vankaya Pulusu/ Stuffed Brinjal Gravy

Ingredients

  • Vankaya/ Small Round Brinjals8
  • Onion – 2, medium size, finely chopped
  • Tomato – 2, medium size, finely chopped
  • Tamarind paste – 1 tbsps
  • Patta/ Cinnamon   – 1” stick
  • Lavanga/C loves – 4
  • Red chilli powder –

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Spicy Paneer Chicken Curry

Ingredients

  • Chicken – 1 kg
  • Paneer – 200 gms
  • Onions – 4, big size
  • Tomato – 4, medium size
  • Ginger – Garlic paste – 2 tbsps
  • Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
  • Dry red chillies – 8 to 10
  • Patta/

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