Baby Potato Fry / Small Potato Fry - Side dish for Rotis and Rice

Simple South Indian recipe with baby potatoes. I often make this at home. This delicious and easy to make side dish with sambar or rasam makes a simple South Indian lunch.

Rice Cakes with Nutella and Banana- Kids Recipes

Nutella is becoming kid's most favourite thing these days. They are asking me to make Nutella Rice cakes, Nutella Sandwiches, Nutella bread sticks, Nutella popsicles the list is endless. They want everything with Nutella. Here is one of those easy peesy crunchy snack for the them. 

Curd Rice / Daddojanam - South Indian Rice Item

We South Indians can't end our meals without curd rice. In everyday meals, we just mix curd with rice and eat it with a pickle but when I make as an offering to God, specially on festival days I follow this recipe. 

You can beat the summer heat with this yummy curd rice. Some people also add pomegranate to this recipe but curd rice just with tempering and no fruit and vegetable also tastes heavenly.

Ingredients

1/2 cup Raw Rice

2 cups of Water

3 tablespoons Milk

1 cup Thick Curd

Salt to taste

3 tablespoons chopped Carrot

1 tablespoon Ghee

10 Cashewnuts

To Temper

2 teaspoons Ghee

1/4 teaspoon Mustard Seeds

1/2  teaspoon Urad dal

2-3 Green Chillies

1/2 inch Ginger 

1 Sprig Curry leaves

1. Pressure cook rice with 2 cups of water for 4 whistles. Let it cool, then mash the rice. Add milk, curd and salt. Mix it well.

2. Chop green chilli to small circles and chop ginger to small pieces. In a small pan, add 2-3 teaspoons of ghee , mustard, urad dal, saute for till dal turns to light brown. Then add green chilli, ginger and curry leaves. Saute for 2-3 minutes. Add this to curd rice. Chop carrot to small pieces. Add this to curd rice. Mix it well.

3. In a small pan, add a tablespoon of ghee, and cashews. Saute it till cashews turn to golden brown. Add this to curd rice. You don't have to follow this step in case you don't want to add cashews. Mix it well.  

4. Yummy,  heavenly delicious curd rice. Add water if required to make more smooth. Adjust salt accordingly. Have it with any Indian pickle.

Instant Crispy Rava Dosa - South Indian Breakfast Item

Ravva Dosa is another popular breakfast item and dosa variety from South India. This is crispy, delicious and almost instant. The batter for this doesn't require fermentation. This is the breakfast item I normally make when I am not prepared for any thing else and would like to have a dosa variety. Tastes excellent with Coconut chutney and sambar.

You can many varieties of ravva dosa by adding chopped onion, podis / powders on it or just have it plain with any podis.

Ingredients

1/2 cup Suji / Rava

1/2 cup Maida / All Purpose Flour

1 1/4 cup Rice Flour

3 Green Chillies

1 teaspoon Cumin Seeds

Salt to taste

Oil as needed 

1. Mix suji, rice flour, maida and salt in a bowl, add a cup of water, mix it well. Then add 1/2 cup of water to make a batter with consistency like water. Add more water if required. Add cumin seeds and finely chopped green chillies. Mix it.

2. Heat a flat pan. Check the consistency of batter every time before pouring it on the pan as suji absorbs water. Add more water if required. Pour batter from the edges of the pan towards the center. When the batter is light and is like water you can see more small holes on dosa. Dosa will be crispy and tasty if there are more small holes and gaps in it.

3. Spread a teaspoon of oil around and over the dosa. When the bottom turns golden brown (you can see through the pores) Fold it and remove from the pan.  

4. Serve it hot. 

Carrot Stir Fry / Carrot Poriyal Recipe

Stir fries / Poriyals are the simplest and quickest curries you can make. Carrot Stir Fry is a very tasty and healthy curry which liked by everyone even kids. You can make many variations in stir fries  by adding beans, cabbage or any other vegetable along with carrot. Coconut in this makes extra delicious. 

Carrot Poriyal with Rasam / Sambar makes a simple lunch.

Try out my other carrot stir fry curry recipe Grated Carrot Stir Fry. .

Ingredients

4 mediuem size Carrots

3-4 tablespoons of Grated Coconut

2-3 Green chillies

1 Sprig Curry Leaves

1 teaspoon Channa Dal

1/2 teaspoon Urad Dal

1/4 teaspoon Jeera

1/4 teaspoon Mustard Seeds

1 teaspoon Cumin Powder 

Salt to taste

1. Peel the skin and cut carrot to small pieces. Boil them in water 10 - 15 minutes. Drain the water and keep the carrot pieces aside.You can store bought grated coconut or you can make it at home by grinding few pieces of coconut for a minute.

2. Slice green chillies. In a pan, add oil, channa dal, urad al, jeera and mustard. Saute for a minute, add green chilli and curry leaves. Saute for another minute, add boiled carrot pieces, Cumin powder and salt. Stir fry for 5 minutes. Add grated coconut and fry for a minute.

3. Simple yet yummy curry.

Basil Pesto Pasta

My kids love, love pasta. Today when I told them I made the pasta with homemade basil pesto they were excited. Thumbs up for this yummy pasta. They liked it and gave me a suggestion to make it more and try Tomato Basil Pesto.   Sure, anything for my kids and to see smiles on their faces.

I used Basil pesto which was my last post to make this pasta. Pasta tastes so good with the freshly made pesto. Check the Basil Pesto recipe. Leftover Pesto can be used in sandwiches too.  

Click on the link for Homemade Basil Pesto Recipe.

Ingredients

1 cup of Pasta
2 cups of Water

1 teaspoon Salt

2 teaspoon Olive Oil

3 teaspoons Basil Pesto

1. Boil water with a teaspoon of salt. Adding salt to water while boiling pasta adds flavour to pasta. When you bubbles in water, add pasta and cook it till pasta becomes soft. Read the directions on the package for boiling pasta. It takes around 15 minutes. Drain the excess water.

2. In a pan, add oil and basil pesto, saute for 2 minutes, add boiled pasta saute again for 2 minutes.

3. That's it. Yummy basil pesto pasta is ready. Serve it hot.

Cabbage Fry

Cabbage Fry is a very easy, simple and quick curry which can be prepared with few simple ingredients and in just 10 minutes. Best for everyday cooking and tasty too. Kids will also like this. This curry with Sambar or Rasam and rice makes a simple easy lunch. 

Ingredients

1/2 Cabbage

2 teaspoon Oil

1 tablespoon Channa Dal

1/2 tablespoon Urad Dal

1/2 teaspoon Cumin Seeds

1/2 teaspoon Mustard Seeds

2-3 Green Chillies

1 Sprig Curry Leaves

Salt to taste

1. Finely cut Cabbage and slice green chillies. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds and cumin seeds, channa dal and urad dal. When dals turn to golden brown colour add green chillies and curry leaves. Saute for a minute. 

2.  Now add cut cabbage and salt. Mix and saute for 5-6.

3. That's it. Easy and simple curry is ready.