YUMMY TUMMY

Carrot Rice / Seasoned Carrot Rice – Lunch Box Ideas / Leftover Recipes

2012-02-27T20:10:00.000+05:30

This is a simple rice preparation that needs only minutes to make..I means only few minutes..It can be made from start to finish in less than 15 mins and ofcourse you should have your rice cooked readily for this..You can use up left over rice from the previous batch too..

And if your kids are not eating any vegetables then this is the perfect recipe to sneak your carrots in..They will totally love it, because both of my sister loved it..I used ghee as a base for this, but you could use oil if you are in a diet.Ghee will give nice aroma to this..

Hope you like it and let me know what you think..Hope you like it and let me know what you think..I am sending this recipe to BM Day 5 under the theme Seven Days of Rice…

Ingrediants:

Rice – 3 cups cooked (any rice)

Carrot – 3 medium size grated

Onion -1 finely chopped

Curry leaves – 1 spring

Green Chilli – 2 chopped

Channa Dal / Kadalai Paruppu – 1 tsp

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1 tsp

Cumin seeds / Jeerakam – 1tsp

Sesame Seeds / Yellu – 1 tblspn

Peanuts / Ver kadalai – 1 tblspn

Dry Red Chilli – 1

Cinnamon / Pattai – 1 inch piece

Cardamom / Yelakai - 4

Salt to taste

Ghee – 2 tblspn

Method:

Heat ghee in a kadai. Add mustard, cumin, peanuts, sesame seeds, channa dal, cinnamon, cardamom, dry red chilli. Fry this for a min untill they turn golden.

Now add onions, green chilli and salt and fry for 1 min.

Add grated carrots and toss well..Stir fry this for 5 mins..

Add in cooked rice and toss well..

Serve with any side dish or papad..

Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

Prep your veggies

Rice is cooked perfectly..I used basmati

heat ghee

add mustard and cumin

add peanuts and sesame seeds

add channa dal

cinnamon and cardamom

dry red chilli

and fry for few minutes

add onion, green chilli and curry leaves

add salt

and fry well

add carrots

and mix well..Cook for 5 mins

add rice and toss well

tossed

Serve

I have two other blogs too..

"Colours of my Life" which is about me and my life... http://coloursofmylife-aarthi.blogspot.com

"Aarthi's Collections" which is a food blog.. http://aarthiscollection.blogspot.com

Puliyogare / Puliyodarai / Tamarind Rice – My Style / How to make Pulikaichal (Step by Step) – Lunch Box Ideas / Leftover Ideas

2012-02-26T13:29:00.000+05:30

Thinking of puliyogare reminds me about my friend eshu, I have mentioned about her in my lemon rice recipe post..She loves lemon rice, puliyogare a lot, she can eat it all day…So I dedicate this recipe to her…I know she will like this a lot..

Now talking about puliyogare..It is my favorite too..Amma makes it often for lunch and what she makes to accompany this is some lovely potato roast and papad..You can check here for the recipe of my favorite potato roast..

I have given step by step recipe for puliyogare kulambu which you can store it fridge for a couple of weeks..I think you can store more than that, but in our house it won’t last that long..If you have pulikaichal in your fridge then making puliyogare is a breeze..This can be put in lunch box for kids they will surely love it..

So hope you like it and let me know what you think..Hope you like it and let me know what you think..I am sending this recipe to BM Day 4 under the theme Seven Days of Rice…

Ingrediants:

For Puliyogare Kulambu:

Tamarind – 1 lemon size / around 4 tblspn of thick tamarind paste

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1 tsp

Urad dal / Ulundu – 1 tblspn

Channa Dal / Kadalai Paruppu – 1 tblspn

Fenugreek Seeds – ½ tsp + ½ tsp(for making spice powder)

Peanuts / Verkadalai– 4 tblspn

Oil – ½ cup / 100 ml (try to use Indian gingelly oil, Nala Ennai)

Dry Red Chilli – 8 + 3 ( for making spice powder)

Salt to taste

For Puliyogare:

Rice – 2 cups cooked (any rice)

Gingelly Oil- 1 tblspn

Method:

Dissolve tamarind in 1 cup of water and sqeeze of the pulp and set aside.

Heat ½ cup of oil. Add mustard, peanuts, channa dal, urad dal, fenugreek seeds and mix well. Fry this on a low heat for 2 mins.

Add dry red chilli and mix well. Fry for a min.

Pour in the tamarind water and mix well.

Add salt and bring it to a boil. Boil it for 10 mins and then Simmer it till oil separates..It will take around 10 mins. Switch off the flame and cool it down.

Now make the spice powder..Take 3 red chilli and ½ tsp fo fenugreek in a dry pan and roast it till you get nice aroma..Now cool it down and grind into a fine powder.

Now make puliyogare..take rice and drizzle it with gingelly oil..Add as much puliyogare gravy you like and a tsp or two of spice powder and mix well.

Serve hot or put in lunch box..

Notes:

If you are storing this in fridge, add the prepared spice powder in the gravy and mix well.. You can store this in a air tight bottle in fridge..

Adjust the spice level as per you taste..

I have two other blogs too..

"Colours of my Life" which is about me and my life... http://coloursofmylife-aarthi.blogspot.com

"Aarthi's Collections" which is a food blog.. http://aarthiscollection.blogspot.com

Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

Dissolve tamarind in water ans set aside

heat oil and add mustard seeds

peanuts

Channa dal

urad dal

fenugreek

dry red chilli

and fry for few minutes

add tamarind water

salt

and bring it to a boil

boil till oil separates

done done

now roast some dry red chilli and fenugreek seeds in a dry pan

till light golden

crush it and make into a powder

like this

Now take rice and drizzle some oil over it

add some pulikaichal to this

and mix well

now sprinkle some powder

and mix well

This what makes it

Serve

LOOK AT THAT..

Punjabi Samosa / Samosa with Spicy Potato & Peas Filling – Celebrating One Year Anniversary

2012-02-26T12:27:00.000+05:30

Wow…Its been amazing that YUMMY TUMMY has completed one year..I almost forgot about that, just now I saw that on feb 24, 2011 I started this blog and now its two days late I am telling you this..HE HE…I have been posting all day without skipping a single day(may be I have missed it for 2 or 3 days) in this blog which is quite amazing..I wish that I should do this continuously..I take this opportunity to thank all of you my readers who supported me and all of my friends who made this happen..Thanks guys..

Now to celebrate this special day..I am giving you a special recipe which is my favorite one..Its SAMOSA and the special thing is it’s the king of all samosas, It is PUNJABI SAMOSA…This crispy deep fried pastry has a spicy peas and potato masala in it..Wow each bite it heavenly..I thought there is no special way to celebrate a occasion without a samosa and a cup of chai..

You can stuff this yummy samosa with any of your favorite stuffs..You can stuff it with paneer, chicken, fish, vegetables or anything that floats your boat..I have given you a awesome outer pastry recipe which stays crispy for a long time..I made samosa sundal which is a famous street food out of this and i will post this in one of my post soon..You can serve this with any of the chat chutneys like green chutney, tamarind chutney..

I hope you like it and let me know what you think..

Ingrediants:

For Dough:

All Purpose Flour / Maida –1 cup / 250 gms

Ajwain / Omam – 1 tsp

Oil- 3 tblspn

Sal to taste

Water as needed

For Filling:

Potato – 2 large boiled & mashed

Peas -1 cup cooked

Ginger & Garlic – 2 tblspn crushed

Onion – 1 finely chopped

Green Chilli – 1 finely chopped

Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam- 1tsp

Cumin Powder/ Jeera podi – 1 tsp

Chilli powder -1 tsp

Coriander Powder / Malli Podi -1 tblspn

Turmeric Powder / Majal podi -1 tsp

Garam masala powder -2 tsp

Chat masala powder – 2 tsp

Coriander leaves – 3 tblspn chopped

Oil- 1 tblspn

Salt to taste

Method:

Start by making the dough. Take flour, ajwain, oil, salt in a bowl and mix well. Pour in water and knead into a stiff dough. Keep kneading it for 5 mins till the dough gets smooth. Cover with a plate and leave it rest for 30 mins.

Now make the filling. Heat oil in a kadai. Add cumin seeds and sauté well.

Add crushed ginger & garlic, green chilli, onions, salt and saute for 3 mins.

Add in peas and all the spice powders and mix well.

Add in mashed potatoes and mix well. Garnish with coriander leaves and leave it to cool down.

Now divide the dough and filling into equal parts.

Take one part of the dough and spread into a thin circle. Cut in half so that you get two semi circle.

Take one semi circle in front of you with the widest part facing away from you, Apply some water all over the sides.

Take a portion of potato filling and place it in the middle and take one side and press it over the filing. Take the other side and press it over the folded side. Seal every edges and press the top so that you get a pointy tip. (REFER PICTURES)

Now make everything like this and fry them in hot oil for 10 mins untill they turn crisp.

Drain and serve with green chutney or tamarind chutney.

I have two other blogs too..

"Colours of my Life" which is about me and my life... http://coloursofmylife-aarthi.blogspot.com

"Aarthi's Collections" which is a food blog.. http://aarthiscollection.blogspot.com

Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

Take flour in a bowl

add salt

ajwain

oil

and mix it up

all mixed

add water

and make a stiff dough

cover and let it rest

Take all your ingrediants for filling

potatoes and peas are cooked

mash potatoes up

add cumin to oil

add crushed ginger and garlic

green chilli

onions

salt

and mix well

add peas

add chat masala and garam masala powders

add turmeric and coriander powder

cumin and chilli powder

mix well

add mashed potatoes

coriander leaves

and mix...filling done

Divide the dough and filling into equal portions

take one portion

roll it

cut in half

apply water in the sides

time to fill

place it in the center

fold from one side

now from the other

perfect

seal all side and stand it upright

all done

heat oil

fry it

till golden

done done

Serve

Looks crispy right

Taste great hot

Can you see the samosa sundal at the back..will post that soon

Check out Tapioca Samosa Recipe also..Click on the Image for Recipe

Medu Vada / Medu Wada / Ulundu Vadai / Urad Dal Vada / Uddina Vada / Thootu Vada – Pongal Recipes

2012-02-25T15:37:00.000+05:30

Vadai is my favorite evening snacks..These medu vadai is so crispy on the outside but wicked fluffy in the center…Dipping this in chutney and sambar is heavenly..I love it with hot idli, sambar,c hutney..We make this combo often mainly during Sundays..

We often make this at home and if there is any special occasion in our house, then this is the one of which occupies the table..Everyone think that this is complicated , but I can tell you that it is so easy peasy..The trick in this is you should grind the urad dal mixture till it is fluffy and smooth, but add very less water so that you will be able to shape it properly.

Hope you like it and let me know what you think.

Ingrediants:

Whole Urad Dal / Vellai Ulundu – 250 gms

Rice ( uncooked ) – 3 tblspn

Onion – 1 finely chopped

Green Chilli – 3 finely chopped

Ginger – 2 tblspn finely chopped

Curry leaves – 1 handful finely chopped

Salt to taste

Oil for deep frying

Method:

Soak Urad dal and rice together for 4 hours. Now drain it and grind in a blender to a very smooth paste. Add little water as needed to make a smooth paste. Tranfer this to a mixing bowl and set aside.

Now add onions, green chilli, ginger, curry leaves in this and mix well.

Take a small portion out of this and flatten it with your hands. Make a small hole in the center and drop in hot oil. You can also use a plastic sheet to make this (refer picture)

Fry this till golden brown and drain in a paper towel.

Serve with chutney and sambar.

I have two other blogs too..

"Colours of my Life" which is about me and my life... http://coloursofmylife-aarthi.blogspot.com

"Aarthi's Collections" which is a food blog.. http://aarthiscollection.blogspot.com

Pictorial:

Soak urad dal and rice together

soak it for 4 hours

drain and put in a blender

make into a fine puree

it should be smooth

transfer it to a bowl

take all your other ingrediants

cut them into managable sizes

add it to a food processor

and pulse it

add it in

add salt

and mix well

all mixed up

take a plastic sheet and apply oil

take a small portion of this and place it over that

flatten and make a hole in the center

You can use your hand to make this

drop in hot oil

and fry till golden

drain and set aside

Serve

Egg Rice / Tomato Flavoured Masala Rice with Spiced Up Eggs – Leftover Rice Ideas / Lunch Box Ideas

2012-02-25T13:21:00.000+05:30

This rice can be made within 20 mins..But it has full of flavour, I love it with some onion raita and my lunch will get filled..This is a great recipe to put in lunch box…Kids will love it…Since the egg is spiced first it has some flavour too instead of bland plain eggs..

This is a great recipe to use leftover rice from the previous batch..You can add any vegetables in this like corn, capsicum, peas and anything..

Hope you like it and let me know what you think..I am sending this recipe to BM Day 3 under the theme Seven Days of Rice…

Ingrediants:

Rice – 2 cups cooked (any rice)

Onion – 1 sliced

Tomato – 3 chopped

Green Chilli – 2 slit

Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tsp

Fennel Seeds / Sombu / Saunf – 1 tsp

Coriander Powder / Malli Podi – 1 tblspn

Chilli Powder – 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil- 3 tblspn

For Spicy Eggs:

Eggs – 4 boiled and cut in half

Chilli powder – ½ tsp

Coriander powder / Malli Podi – 1 tsp

Salt a pinch

Method:

Heat 1 tblspn oil in a kadai. Mix eggs with chilli powder, coriander powder and salt. Drop this in oil and fry it for 2 mins. Remove this to a bowl and set aside.

Now in the remaining oil add the cumin and fennel seeds and mix well. Add in onion, green chilli and for for 3 mins.

Add in salt, chilli powder, coriander powder and mix well.

Add in tomatoes and mix well. Cookf or 5 mins till the tomatoes turn mushy.

Add in cooked rice and toss well. Fry for 5 mins.

Now add the fried eggs on top of the rice and cover with a lid and simmer for 5 mins.

serve with raita.

I have two other blogs too..

"Colours of my Life" which is about me and my life... http://coloursofmylife-aarthi.blogspot.com

"Aarthi's Collections" which is a food blog.. http://aarthiscollection.blogspot.com

Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

Slice the eggs

add spices

and toss well

heat oil

add eggs

and fry a little

remove and set aside

in the same oil..Add cumin and fennel

add onion and chillies

add some salt

chilli and coriander powder

saute well

add tomatoes

and mix well

cook till everything turn mushy

add rice

and mix well

add eggs

cover and simmer

untill everything is cooked

Serve

Serve with raita

Stir Fry Paneer with Spinach & Bell Pepper / Paneer Masala with Spinach & Capsicum – Quick Stir Fry / Side Dish for Roti / Curry in a Hurry – Less than 15 mins

2012-02-25T08:35:00.000+05:30

How many of you like to cook dishes that take only few minutes to make, but taste as if you are slaving for hours..Then this is one of those dish..It is so fast to make, but you don’t have to sacrifice flavour for that..One of my reader named Niveditha requested me to do recipes using greens, so this is for her…I hope you will like it and let me know if you have any doubts..

Ingrediants:

Paneer – 1 cup (Click here for Homemade Paneer Recipe)

Spinach – 2 cups chopped( I used Palak )

Capsicum / Bell Pepper – 1 cubed

Onion- 1 sliced

Garlic – 3 cloves sliced

Chilli Powder – 1tsp

Garam Masala Powder – 1tsp

Tomato Ketchup – 2 tblspn

Salt to taste

Sugar – 1tsp

Oil- 1 tblspn

Method:

Heat oil in a kadai. Add garlic and mix well. Add in onions and cook till it gets translucent.It will take around 2 mins.

Add in sugar, salt, chilli powder and garam masala powder. Mix well.

Add in spinach and capsicum and mix well. Cook for 3 mins.

Add in paneer cubes and toss well.

Add ketchup and give everything a mix..

Serve with rice, roti, poori or dosa.

I have two other blogs too..

"Colours of my Life" which is about me and my life... http://coloursofmylife-aarthi.blogspot.com

"Aarthi's Collections" which is a food blog.. http://aarthiscollection.blogspot.com

Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

Prepare everything

Heat oil

add garlic

onions

and saute for 2 mins

add salt and sugar

add chilli and garam masala powder

and mix well

add spinach and capsicum

and mix well

add paneer

and mix well

add ketchup

and toss well..

Serve

Vegetable Fried Rice (Indo Chinese Style ) / How to Prepare Vegetables for Fried Rice (Step by Step) – Lunch Box Ideas / Leftover Rice Recipes

2012-02-24T22:30:00.001+05:30

Fried rice is my favorite dish to order in any restaurants..I love having fried rice with gobi manchurian or gobi 65..Chicken is also my favorite combo with fried rice..I can have it with chicken manchurian, dragon chicken, chilli chicken or any chinese style recipes..

Near our place there is a small portable café where they serve fried rice, it was so good..They use a huge wok to cook this fried rice..If we order a plate of chicken fried rice, They throw ginger & garlic in hot oil and add lots of shredded cabbage..I have never seen them using carrots or onions, Then they add cooked rice from the pile of rice the have near by..And throw in fried chicken 65 pieces and season it with salt, pepper, ajinomoto and soy sauce..Finally they add tons and tons of spring onions…They pile this up in a disposable plate and give to us, this one is less than 30 rs and the taste was heavenly..OK now I crave for this..

This one is totally different from the one which I had...This recipe has lots of vegetables which are beautifully sliced and prepared and throwed together.They look and taste so good…I have given step by step pictures to prepare those veggies..This is a great recipe to put in lunch box or even to use up leftover rice..Fried rice is best had piping hot…So have it as soon as possible..

Hope you like it and let me know what you think..I am sending this recipe to BM Day 2 under the theme Seven Days of Rice…

Ingrediants:

Rice – 3 cups cooked (any rice as you wish)

Onion – 1 sliced thinly

Carrot – 2 large cut into matchsticks

Beans – 10 cut in diagnols

Ginger – 1 tblspn minced

Garlic – 1 tblspn minced

Green Chilli – 3 cut in lengthwise

Soya Sauce – 2 tblspn or to taste

Ajinomoto – 1 tsp (optional)

Sugar – 1 tblspn

Salt to taste

Coarsely Crushed Pepper to taste

Oil- 2 tblspn

Spring Onion for Garnishing

Method:

Heat oil in a wok till it smokes..Add ginger, garlic and green chilli and mix well.

Add in onions and fry for 2 mins. Add in all the vegetables and toss well.

Add sugar and ajinomoto(if using) and mix well. Cook on high heat for 10 mins .

Add rice and toss well. Add in salt, pepper, soya sauce and mix well.

Fry on high heat for 3 mins.

Garnish with spring onion and serve hot..

I have two other blogs too..

"Colours of my Life" which is about me and my life... http://coloursofmylife-aarthi.blogspot.com

"Aarthi's Collections" which is a food blog.. http://aarthiscollection.blogspot.com/

Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

Start to prepare your veggies

Peel some carrots

cut the top and bottom off

cu them in half

slice them lengthwise

then cut them into matchsticks

Do exactly same to everything

Now take your beans

cut the top and bottom off

and slice them in diagnols

all done

peel your onion

cut in half

flip them over

and slice thinly

separate them

now to chillies

slice them

peel ur garlic

and cut them lengthwise

peel ur ginger

slice them

cut them lengthwise

mince them

rice is cooked

heat a wok till it smokes

add ginger, garlic and chilli

and saute them

add onions

and saute them

add veggies

and toss them

add sugar

and mix well..Cook till the veggies are done

add rice

and fry them

add salt and pepper

add soy sauce

and mix well

all mixed up

a close shot

Serve

YUMMY RICE..

For Chicken Fried Rice Recipe, Click on the Image

Chicken Fried Rice

Simple Beetroot Pulav / Beetroot Rice – Lunchbox Ideas

2012-02-23T19:24:00.003+05:30

Ok another week of BM has arrived and I am into the theme seven days of rice..Cooking with rice is really easy for me because rice is a staple diet of we southindians…Throughout this week I will show you all kids of quick rice dishes and some special rice recipes too..

Beetroots are such a interesting vegetable to be added in rice, because it gives rice its natural colour so you don’t have to worry about adding any colours to it..When beets are combined with rice, they give a natural sweetness to the rice and that what makes this dish a real hit..This is a very simple pulav that can be made in less than 30 mins..A perfect recipe to put in lunch box..

I hope you like it and let me know what you think..I am sending this recipe to BM Day 1 under the theme Seven Days of Rice…

Ingrediants:

Basmati Rice – 250 gms / ¼ kg

Water – 500 ml

Beetroot – 1 large one grated

Onion – 1 medium size sliced

Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tsp

Cinnamon / Pattai – 1 small piece

Cardamom / Yelakai – 4 pods

Chilli Powder – 1 tsp

Coriander Powder / Malli Podi – 1 tblspn

Green Chilli – 1

Salt to taste

Oil- 2 tblspn

Method:

Soak rice for 30 mins. Drain it and set aside.

Heat oil in a pan. Add cinnamon, cardamom, cumin seeds and mix well.

Add onions and sauté for 2 mins. Add salt, chilli powder, coriander powder and mix well.

Add in grated beetroot and mix well. Now add in soaked rice and mix well.

Pour in water and bring it to a boil. Cover and simmer for 15 to 20 mins untill the rice has absorbed all water and cooked.

Turn off the heat and let it rest for 10 mins covered. Open the pan and fluff it with a fork.

Serve with raita.

I have two other blogs too..

"Colours of my Life" which is about me and my life... http://coloursofmylife-aarthi.blogspot.com

"Aarthi's Collections" which is a food blog.. http://aarthiscollection.blogspot.com

Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

Grate your beets and slice your onions

heat oil

add cinnamon, cumin and cardamom

add onions and chilli

salt

chilli & coriander powder

saute well

add beets

and mix well

add rice

and mix well

add water

bring it to boil

cover and simmer

till done

Serve

I served it with beetroot raita

No Bake Eggless Chocolate Tutti Fruity Biscuit Fudge Brownies – For 500th Post

2012-02-22T19:11:00.002+05:30

“500”..That is really huge…YES YUMMY TUMMY reached 500 recipes…Its quite amazing because its not even a year since I started this blog..But you my lovely lovely friends made me reach this level…I am really happy about that…Without you all this blog is nothing…I am really really thankful to you all guys..Keep this going and motivate me to reach another decade soon…This recipe is for you my lovelies…

You can browse all my recipe through this well organized RECIPE INDEX…

To celebrate this happiest moment, I have a simple fudge recipe that makes all your parties a real rock..It is so easy peasy to make..Calls for very less ingrediants too..It can be whipped up in minutes…Kids love it a lot, since my two little sister loved it..

I hope you will try it and let me know what you think..

Ingrediants:

Marie Biscuit – 15 Pieces Powdered

Cocoa – 2 tblspn

Butter – 50 gms

Milkmaid – 200 gms / Half a Tin

Vanilla - 1tsp

Tutti Fruity – ½ cup / 125 gms

Method:

Line a square baking tray with parchment paper or foil and butter it slightly. Crush marie biscuit in a blender to a fine powder.Set this aside.

Take a Sauce pan. Add butter, milkmaid, cocoa, vanilla and heat it up in a very low flame.

When it starts to melt. Take it off the heat and add the powdered biscuit and tutti fruity and mix well.

Tranfer it to the tray and flatten it slightly. Put it in the fridge for about 2 hours.

Take it off and cut into squares.

Serve with a cup of milk or give as presents.

I have two other blogs too..

"Colours of my Life" which is about me and my life... http://coloursofmylife-aarthi.blogspot.com

"Aarthi's Collections" which is a food blog.. http://aarthiscollection.blogspot.com

Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants...The thing which is in that steel container is TUTTI FRUITY..

Take butter in a sauce pan

add condensed milk

add cocoa

vanilla

and heat it

stir to melt the butter

now take marie biscuit in a mixer

and powder it

add that to the sauce pan

and mix well

add tutti fruity

and mix well

line a tray with parchment and butter it

tranfer the content in that

and press evenly..Chill it

Cut it into squares

Serve

Now this will hit the spot for sure..

Sweet Potato Fries / Fried Sweet Potato – Quick Snack

2012-02-22T18:46:00.000+05:30

I love sweet potatoes..And it is quite amazing that I don’t have a single recipe in my blog with sweet potato..That is because we usually have only steamed sweet potato in our house and don’t cook it often..But I have bookmarked certain recipes to try out.So you can see some sweet potato recipe soon..

This is a simple fry that can be had with any drinks..This taste amazing with a cup of cold lemon tea..That is my absolute favorite..I hope you will try this and let me know the results..

Ingrediants:

Sweet Potato – ½ kg

Salt to taste

Chilli Powder – to taste

Oil for Deep Frying

Method:

Peel Sweet Potato and wash them well. Cut them in the shape of French fries lengthwise.

Heat oil for deep frying on medium heat. Drop few potatoes at one time and fry on low heat for 5 mins. Don’t crowd the pan, if you do so you won’t get crispy fries.

Now increase the heat and fry for 5 more minutes till you get nice golden colour. Do the whole batch like this.

Drain them in a colander.Sprinkle some salt and chilli powder and toss well.

Serve hot..

I have two other blogs too..
"Colours of my Life" which is about me and my life... http://coloursofmylife-aarthi.blogspot.com
"Aarthi's Collections" which is a food blog.. http://aarthiscollection.blogspot.com

Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

Sweet potatoes

Peel em..

cut them

halve them

and cut into strips

heat oil

add a small batch in

and fry till golden

Drain

sprinkle salt and chilli pdr

toss em

Serve

So crispy right..

Homemade Orange Jam without Preservatives / Orange jam using Fresh Orange Juice / Orange Jelly – Jam Recipes

2012-02-21T19:08:00.000+05:30

Making jam is so much fun, I love doing it..It gives you immense pleasure if you make your own stuffs at home..Because you know it is healthy and preservatives free, since you know what is inside that.. oranges are in season right now, Ok I know a little late..I made this couple of weeks back..But still oranges are available here..Its so cheap right now..So go get some fruit and whip up this stuff.

It seems a little complicated, but once you start making this, you will know how easy and cheap it is..yes it is very cheap compared to the orange jam that is available in those labeled fancy jars. I added lemon juice as a preservative here, to freshen it up and save it for a long time..But you do need to put this in the fridge as a precaution.

This jam won’t be thick when it is in the stove..Actually you should take it off the heat once it starts to thicken up, because it will get so thick as it cools down. So be careful…This taste great when spread on toast..I have half a jar of it leftover in my fridge , I am planning to make some nice jam filled cupcakes or cookies out of that..Will let you know the results.

Hope you like it and let me know if you have any doubts..

Ingrediants:

Orange – 2 kgs

Sugar – 500 gms

Salt – 1 tsp

Lemon Juice – 3 tblspn

Method:

Peel oranges and separate the individual fruit out of it. Take this in a blender and puree it.

Now take a colander place over a large bowl. Pour this orange juice over this and mix using a wooden spoon.

Mix constantly so that every juice gets from the orange and you are left with the pulp and see alone..

Now pour this fresh juice in a large kadai. Bring this to a boil.

Simmer this for 15 mins untill the juice has reduced in half.

Add sugar and salt and mix well. Boil till you reach a thick flowing consistency. It won’t be so thick, but as it cools down it will get thick.

Switch off the flame and add lemon juice to it and mix well.

Let it cool completely before tranfering into a clean container and put in fridge..

Enjoy it with warm toast.

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Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

Nice fresh oranges

Peel off the skin and separate it

take it in a blender

and puree it

Place a colander over a mixing bowl

Pour the juice over that

and start mixing

untill you are left with the pulp

fresh orange juice..I can drink just like that

Pour it in a kadai

and bring it to a boil

boil till it reduces in half

add sugar

and mix well

add salt and mix well

boil..boil..boil

till it gets thick and darkens in colour

see it is a kind of thick and flowing consistency

switch off the flame and add lemon juice

and mix well

Let it cool ..then store in a container

Enjoy..