Rasam

Ingredients:
Tomatoes- 2 nos
Red chilly-3 nos
Coriander seeds- 1 1/2 tsp
Pepper seeds - 3/4 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Garlic- 3 pieces
Ginger small piece
Tamaraind water- 1 cup
Salt to taste
Jaggery- 1/2 tsp
Oil, Mustard seeds, Curry leaves, and Red chilly for seasoning

Method:
Grind red chillies, coriander seeds, pepper seeds, turmeric powder, garlic and ginger into paste by adding water. Mix it with the tamarind water and add jaggery. Add salt to taste and add cut tomatoes. Allow it to boil and season it. Garnish it with coriander leaves.

Tip:
If you like the taste of pineapple you can add cut pineapple instead of tomatoes. Really tastes very nice.

Lime Pachadi

Ingredients:
Lime - 3 to 4 (cut into small pieces)
Small Onion - 6 (cut into small pieces)
Green chilly - 2 nos
Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Asafeotedia powder - 2 pinch
Tamarind water - 1/2 cup
Oil - 1 tsp
Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves
Salt to taste, Jaggery

Method:
Pour oil in an pan put mustard seeds and curry leaves. Once it splutters add chopped onion fry for a while and add chopped lime & green chilly. Fry until the onion gets brownish. Then add chilly powder, turmeric powder, asafotedia, salt and add tamarind water. Allow it to boil and keep the gas in sim. Add jagerry for taste.

Carrot Shake

Ingredients:
Carrot - 2 big
Cold Milk - 2 cups
Sugar - 2 to 3 tsp (according to taste)
Crushed Elachi - 3
Vanilla Essence - 3 drops

Method:
Grind the Carrot in 1/2 cup water and take the juice from it. Add sugar, cold milk, elachi and vanilla essence. Blend all.

One of my favourite shake. Try this !!!!

Paal Ada Payasam

Ingredients:
Ada - 2 cups
Milk - 3 cups
Sugar - 1 cup (according to the taste)
Water - 5 cups

Method:
Pressure cook ada in water for 3 whistles. Remove ada from cooker and wash in water. Then take a pan add washed ada, sugar and 1 glass ofwater. Keep it in sim and cook until the sugar dissolves. In the meantime pour 3 cups of milk and keep it in sim for atleast an hr. Keep stiring to avoid burning. Once the sugar dissolves add the milk and add fried cashews, kismis, and elachi powder.

Mouthwatering payasam is ready. Try this and please send me the comments

Aappam

Ingredients:
Raw Rice - 2 cups
Coconut - 1/2 cup
Baking Soda - 2 pinch
Salt and Sugar for taste

Method:
Soak the rice for 4 to 5 hours. Grind rice with cocnut. After grinding add salt and sugar, and keep it to ferment. Next day before making appams add baking soda.
Now the appam is ready.

Tips:
For extra taste add 1/4 cup coconut milk before making appams

Dry Ginger Coffee (chukku kappi)

Ingredients:
Coriander Seeds - 1 cup
Jeera - 4 tsp
Pepper Seeds - 4 tsp
Dry Ginger (chukku) - 2 pieces

Method:
Take a pan and fry corainder seeds and jeera. Then mix this with pepper seeds and crushed dry ginger and powder it. Allow it cool and store it.

To make Cofee:
Boil one cup of water and add black jaggery (Karupatti). Then add one tablespoon of the prepared powder. Sim and allow it boil and stir it. Ginger coffee is ready!

Benefits:
This drink is especially suited as a medicine for cough, throat pain. Add tulsi leaves to increase the medicinal value.

Butter Biscuit

Ingredients:
Maida - 5 cups
Sugar - 3 cups
Besan flour (kadala mavu) - 1 cup
Oil -1 cup
Ghee or Butter - 1cup

Method:
Mix all the ingredients together. In the meanwhile pre-heat oven for 300 deg F. Make small balls of the dough and make it into desired shape. Bake this in oven for 20 to 25 minutes. Now the Butter Biscuit is ready.