Kerala Style Unniappam

Dear Friends

Unniappam(sweet rice appams) is the most favorite sweet recipe as we are keralites and we used to make it for Krishna Jayanthi Celebrations or other occasions.My mom will always make it whenever the festivals are nearing.It is the most favorite sweet for me and my brother.I asked my mom for the recipe and she gave it to me.I had followed the method and made it.It tasted the same as exact as my mom had prepared it since my childhood days!!Now she still made appam for my daughter and loved all her grandmother's recipes.

Here it is

Recipe Source:My mom

Ingredients:

• 2 cups rice flour or raw rice.
• 1 cup Jaggery
• 3 Plantain bananas or small bananas ripe ones
• 3 to 4 Cardamom pods or 1 Tsp crushed cardamom
• 1 cup Coconut tiny bits 
• 1/2 Tsp Black Sesame Seeds /Ellu
• 1 1/4 cups Water for jaggery
• Coconut Oil and Ghee for frying

Method:

1. If you are using the raw rice,Soak the raw rice for about 2 hours and drain the water 
2. Take a paper or big plate,spread the drained rice and keep outside the balcony or sunlight and allow it to dry 
3. Once dried go to the mills and grind it for smooth fine powder.
4. If you are using store bought rice flour,then lightly roast the rice flour in the frying pan.keep aside
5. Take a saucepan,add the jaggery and water and allow it to boil till the jaggery gets dissolved on medium heat.
6. Drain out the impurities of the jaggery syrup.
7. Add 1 Tablespoon of Ghee into the medium frying pan,Roast the coconut bits and allow it to cook till brown in color Keep aside
8. Add the sesame seeds in the same ghee frying pan and roast lightly.
9. Chop the bananas into small pieces or mash the bananas if you like.
10. Take a wide bowl,Add the rice flour,drained jaggery syrup one by one till you get the batter consistency.
11. Add bananas,cardamom pods or crushed cardamom powder 
12. Finally add the coconut bits and sesame seeds to it and mix thoroughly
13. Allow the batter to sit for about 1 to 2 hours.Cover it with lid.
14. Take appam mold (cast iron mold),Add a spoon of coconut oil and ghee to it.Once it is heated,add a spoonful of appam batter to it
15. Allow it to cook till it gets bubbly and sides are cooked till it gets golden brown in color
16. Flip the side of the appam and let it cook and both sides gets brown in color.
17. Repeat the process from 14 to 16 steps.
18. Drain the appams with the tissue paper
19. Serve warm. 

Enjoy!!!

Happy Cooking !!!!

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Thai Style Deep Fried Bananas!

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I am making this because my parents visited Asia Pacific country during their trip  and she got it and tasted and said me It was so different from Kerala Style Deep fried plantain fritters.Here I have made Keralite recipes for Plantain Fritters last time and during childhood days along with my bro my mom used to make it as a snack and I want to try out differently and it tasted so  different and adding coconut is amazing. I made Thai Style Deep fried Plantains and go for it..Thank you mom for giving very delicious dessert recipe :)

It goes great with a Cup of Tea  or it is a Snack Time.

Recipe Source : My mom.

Ingredients:

• 1 Cup Flour (1/2 Cup of All purpose Flour plus 1/2 cup Rice flour)
• 1/2 up Sugar
• 1/2 Cup  unsweetened coconut flakes or freshly grated coconut.
• 3 Ripe thinly Sliced Plantains(Not too ripe) Atleast yellow skin with green color on the bottom.
• 1/2 Tsp Baking soda
• Warm Water to adjust the medium consistency batter.( I used 1/4 to 1/2 cup water)
• 1/2 Tablespoons of Sesame Seeds
• 1/2 Tsp salt.
• Oil for frying

Method:

1. Heat the oil in the deep frying kadai/pan and make sure the oil is hot on medium heat.
2. Cut the bananas into lengthwise at least 1/4 inch slices.
3. Mix the flours, baking soda,salt and sieve it once in a bowl.
4. Pour the warm water to it till you get the medium consistency batter
5. Add the grated/unsweetened coconut and sesame seeds
6. Finally dip the sliced bananas to the batter and put it in the heated oil frying pan and allow to cook until it gets brown in color on both sides.
7. Wrap the fried bananas with the tissue paper.Allow it to absorb the oil.Repeat the batch till the plantains gets dipped over and fry.
8. Serve warm along with cup of tea or goes well with ice-cream once the fried plantains is set cooled. or garnish it with chocolate sauce if you like.

Enjoy!!!

Happy Cooking!!!

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Sooji Matar Dhokla -Potluck Event

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Here I have made dhokla using microwave method since I didn't have steam support plate for holding the dhokla/dhokla stand.I had decided to use in Microwave Method...My dhokla has turned out red because of microwave method and used baking soda since I didn't get ENO fruit salt. I had adjusted it to get an exact dhokla.

I had followed the recipe of Jagruti's Sooji matar dhokla...You can follow her blog and here I made it for potluck event!!!

Recipe Source : Sooji Matar Dhokla by Jagruti.

Here are the ingredients:

• 1 cup Sooji/Semolina
• 1 Cup sour buttermilk(Used 1/2 cup curd plus 1/2 cup water)
• 1/4 Tsp Turmeric powder
• 1/4 cup lightly mashed green peas boiled.
• 1 Tbsp Besan flour
• 1 Tbsp Rice flour
• 1 Tbsp ENO Fruit salt( Since I didn't get it. so I had used 1 /2 Tsp baking soda and 1 Tbsp Lemon juice)
• 2 to 3 Tbsp Freshly grated ginger and green chillies puree(about 4 to 5 or depends on your spiciness)
• Salt to taste
• 1 Tbsp Oil

Tempering Tadka Ingredients:

• 2 to 3 Tbsp Oil
• 1 Tbsp Mustard seeds
• 1 Tbsp Cumin Seeds
• Few Curry leaves
• 2 to 3 Slit green chillies
• 2 Tbsp grated Coconut
• Water
• Handful of Chopped Coriander leaves
• 2 to 3 Red chillies
• Asafoetidia(Optional)

Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients except Tempering in a large bowl.
2. Whisk well until no lumps are found.Keep aside for 10 minutes.Add the mashed green peas to it and mix well
3. Keep aside for 5 minutes
4. Grease the oil in microwave safe bowl and transfer the batter to it.
5. Allow it to cook on High heat for about 1 to 3 minutes.Each minute check once.
6. Insert the tooth pick/knife into the bowl once it is cleaned or microwave it for about 1 min or 30 seconds or so.
7. Once it is done,
8. Take a frying pan ,add all the tempering ingredients except coconut and coriander.
9. Pour into the dhokla bowl on the top.
10. Garnish it with coconut and coriander leaves
11. Cut into desired shapes as you like,
12. Serve it with mint chutney.

Enjoyy!!!

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Spinach Thoran by non blogger friend Bini

Dear Friends

Here is the spinach thoran made by non blogger cum sweet friend Bini ..She has done her lovely and healthy recipe called Spinach Thoran. She has done her sweet note about her mom in my hosting event and Jagruti's event Celebrate Series -Love for Mum.

Letz start with a small introduction about my mom..My mom's name is Nadeera Basheer.. I call her ummachi...She is a doctor by profession..My mom is the most busiest person i have found in my life...She is a very active person...She is a normal cook...she doesn't know about baking and all..But which ever normal dish she makes, is capable of satisfying our taste buds to the maximum...She is very fond of sweets and non veg recipes...Nowadays, she seems to be lazy when it comes to cooking...I think her plan is to make me a very good cook as my marriage is also approaching....So she is making me to take the in charge of kitchen most of the days...Blush..Love my mom...I am so happy to cook for my family...All girls dream about having  their own kitchen for the culinary trials...na.....That is all about my sweet mom..

This is one of my mom's favorite vegetarian dishes...She loves this recipe very much..She is a big fan of easy to cook recipes...He have a garden of both red and green spinach at our home..Terrace gardening.....My father and mother loves gardening and cultivating...

The basic ingredient is an inevitable one in Indian kitchen...RED SPINACH...So the name of this dish is RED SPINACH THORAN....Of course, u can try this using green spinach too....A very common dish to keralites....The same gravy can be used for many other vegetables like pea,drumstick etc.....So letz start...

INGREDIENTS

1) red spinach/chuvanna cheera - 1 bunch ( finely chopped)

2) coconut (grated) - 1 cup (tea cup)

3) garlic - 2 pods (chopped)

4) green chilly - 2 (chopped)

5) shallots/cheriya ulli/chuvannulli ) - 2 pods (chopped)

6) cumin seeds - 1/4 tspoon (small)

7) turmeric powder - 1/4 tspoon (small)

8) mustard seeds - 3/4 tspoon

9) curry leaves - 1 stalk

10) red chilly/vattalmulaku - 1

11) black gram dal/uzhunnu parippu - 3/4 tspoon

12) oil - 2 tspoon

13) salt - for taste

PROCEDURE

1) Wash the leaves well....drain it and chop well...

2) Grind ingredients two to six in a grinder and keep it aside.

3) Heat oil in a kadai and put mustard seeds..let it splutter

4) add red chilli, curry leaves and saute for 2- 3 seconds

5) Add black gram dal and saute well for few seconds

6) Add the grinded mixture and saute well till it becomes light brown.

7) Now add chopped spinach leaves and mix well.

8) Add salt and stir well.

9) Cover the kadai with a lid and cook for some minutes in low flame..

10) Off the flame and serve with hot rice....

Enjoy!!!

Happy Cooking!!!

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JackFruit Kheer by Non blogger friend Bini

Dear Friends

Here my non blogger friend cum sweet friend posted her recipe in my mail for Celebrate Series - Love for Mum :) Here it is. She has done beautiful and lovely notes about her mom and gave wonderful recipe called Jackfruit Kheer. Am sure it is keralite style :)

Letz start with a small introduction about my mom..My mom's name is Nadeera Basheer.. I call her ummachi...She is a doctor by profession..My mom is the most busiest person i have found in my life...She is a very active person...She is a normal cook...she doesn't know about baking and all..But which ever normal dish she makes, is capable of satisfying our taste buds to the maximum...She is very fond of sweets and non veg recipes...Nowadays, she seems to be lazy when it comes to cooking...I think her plan is to make me a very good cook as my marriage is also approaching....So she is making me to take the in charge of kitchen most of the days...Blush..Love my mom...I am so happy to cook for my family...All girls dream about having  their own kitchen for the culinary trials...na.....That is all about my sweet mom..

Now letz come to our dish..I completely adapted this recipe from my mom...Infact a very delicious dessert...My mom used to prepare this...She is very fond of Jack fruit especially the type "THEN VARIKKA"....Yesterday, One of our neighbors gave us  a jack fruit..I planned to surprise my mom with this delicious dessert when she comes from hospital...and I was so happy  to see her satisfied with my dessert...She didn't left a single drop of milk..Actually my love for her made me to prepare her favorite dessert for her....This dessert is actually made from a very common South Indian fruit called "Jack Fruit"...So Jack fruit itself is the main ingredient...All the ingredients has got its own nutritional value too...So letz start without wasting anymore time...

  INGREDIENTS

1)  Jack fruit (roughly chopped)  -  2 cups

2)  Sugar - 1 tablespoon

3)  Salt -  1 pinch

4)  Milk - 1 glass

5)  Ghee - 1 teaspoon (small)

6)  Raisins - 5

7)  Cashew nuts - 5

8)  Cardamom powder - a pinch

9)  Water - Very little

PROCEDURE

1)  Pressure cook the jack fruit with very little water and a pinch of salt

2)  Off the flame after three whistles and let the pressure release by itself

3)  Boil milk. Add sugar and cardamom powder to the milk and mix well..

4)  Add this milk to the pressure cooker and mix well.

5)  Transfer the mixture in the pressure cooker to the serving bowl..

5)  Roast cashew nuts and raisins in ghee in a pan/kadai

7)  Pour this cashew nuts and raisins along with ghee over thee jack fruit mixture in the bowl...

     Serve hot or after refrigerating it for a while..

My mom came from hospital after 15 minutes after i prepared this for her...So ii got some time to slightly lower the hotness of the dessert...She love to have this dessert in slightly hot stage which is the most tastiest form of this dessert..

  Hope u all liked this delicious sweetish recipe...Each and every ingredients has high nutritional value...and hope u all guys will try it also...


Enjoy!!!
Happy Cooking :)

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Authentic Sweets Event Giveaway

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