Banana Nutella Icecream

An easy Ice cream with just two ingredients

Ingredients

• Banana(robusta) - 2
• Nutella - 3 tbsp

Preparation

1.Peel and slice the bananas and freeze it in an airtight freezer safe box or in a ziplock.

2.Once completely frozen, take it out from freezer, grind it with nutella until creamy.

3.Transfer to an airtight freezer safe box and freeze it for 4 hours before scooping and serve.

Rava Dosa

Ingredients 

• Rava/semolina - ½ cup, unroasted
• Rice flour - ½ cup
• Wheat flour - 2 tbsp
• Green chili - 1, finely chopped
• Onion - 1 medium , finely chopped
• Curry leaves - 5 to 6 , chopped
• Ginger - ½ inch , finely chopped
• Water
• Salt

for tempering

• Oil - 1 tsp
• Mustard seeds - ½ tsp
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Oil or ghee

Preparation

1.Take the rava, rice flour, all purpose flour, green chilies, ginger, onion,  in a mixing bowl.

2.Heat 1 tsp oil in a small frying pan. crackle the mustard seeds first. the mustard seeds should pop before you add the cumin seeds. then add the cumin and curry leaves. saute for a few seconds till the cumin browns.

3.Add this tempering mixture along with the oil to the other ingredients in the bowl. add salt.

4.Pour water and make a thin batter without any lumps. the batter should be of medium consistency. keep aside for 15 to 20 minutes.

5.Heat the tava or non-stick pan. smear a bit oil.with a ladle pour the dosa batter from the edges towards the center.

7.sprinkle 1 tsp of oil from the top. 8.let the base becomes golden and crisp. flip and cook the other side. when both the sides are cooked, remove the dosa from the pan.

9.Serve the onion rava dosa hot with coconut chutney or Sambar.

Coconut Chutney

 Ingredients

• Coconut - 1/2 cup (grated)
• Green Chillies - 3
• Fried Gram -1 tbsp (also known as pottukadalai)
• Ginger - 1 small bit
• Salt to taste

Preparation

1.Grind coconut, green chillies, fried gram, ginger together with needed water and salt.

2.Heat a tsp of oil, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add urad dal.

3.When dal turns golden brown, add curry leaves and pour it over the chutney.

Aviyal

Ingredients 

• Vegetables -  3 cups
• (Carrot, Yam,  Cucumber, Yard long beans, Snake gourd, Raw banana, Drumstick )
• Green chilly - 3
• Curry leaves - 2 strings
• Coconut grated - 1/2 cup
• Cumin seed - 1 tsp
• Curd - 25 ml
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
• Shallots - 5

Preparation

1. Clean and cut all the vegetables lengthwise of 1/2 inch thickness.

2. Take a pan add  vegetables turmeric powder, red chilly powder, salt, water and 1 tbsp. of coconut oil. Cover and cook till the vegetables are almost cooked.

3. Grind coconut, cumin seed, green chilies, shallots in a blender.

4. Add this coconut mixture and curd to the cooked vegetables and cook for few minutes.

5. Finally add coconut oil and curry leaves to the vegetable mixture.

Papaya Apple Juice



Ingredients

• Ripe Papaya -  1
• Apple - 1
• Sugar - To Taste
• Water - 1.5 Cups
• Cardamom - 1
• Ice Cubes - Few, if required

Preparation 

1. Peel, de-seed and chop papaya. Core and chop apples.

2. In a blender or mixer add papaya, apple pieces, 1 cup water and blend until smooth around 1-2 minutes.

3. Add sugar, more water, cardamom (if using) and blend for a minute.

4. Chill and serve or add ice cubes before serving. Enjoy the your juice.

Bread Upma

Ingredients 

• Bread - 5 slices
• Onion- 1
• Tomato - 2
• Green chilli - 2 slit
• Ginger -1/2 tsp finely chopped
• Turmeric powder - a pinch
• Sambar powder - 1 tsp
• Ghee or oil - 2 tsp for frying bread
• Salt to taste

For the seasoning

• Oil - 2 1/2 tsp
• Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Curry leaves - few

Preparation 

1.Cut bread into small pieces or pulse it in mixer 2-3 times.

2.Heat 2 tsp of ghee and roast the bread until golden brown. Switch off and let the bread be in the heat of the pan.

3.Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add onions, ginger, green chillies, curry leaves and saute until onions turn transparent.

4.Then add chopped tomatoes, turmeric powder, sambar powder, salt needed and cook until tomatoes are soft.

5.Then add bread pieces and toss until bread is well coated with the masala. Serve hot.

Yam-Moong beans /Chena Cherupayar Curry

Ingredients

• Yam  – 1 ½ cup (bit size square pieces)
• Moong beans  – ¼ cup
• Green chilly – 3
• Turmeric powder – 3/4 tsp
• Cumin seeds, crushed – 1 tsp
• Garlic clove, crushed – 1
• Grated Coconut – 1/2 cup
• Whole Red chilly – 1
• Curry leaves
• Salt to taste

Preparation

1. Wash and cook moong beans with enough Green chilly, water and salt. When it is half done add Yam.

2. Grind coconut with little water, garlic, turmeric and cumin seeds.

3. Once it cooked, add grind coconut mix to cooked yam along with curry leaves.

4. Boil it in medium-low flame for 5 minutes.

5. Heat little oil in a pan and splutter Mustard and put 1 red chilly. Switch off flame and put ¼ tsp chilly powder in that. Then  pour it over prepared yam curry.

Bread Unniyappam

It is an easy version and here we are not using the unniyappam mould

Ingredients

• Coconut bits - 1tbsp
• Black Sesame seeds - 1 tsp
• Ghee - 1 tbsp

For Batter

• Bread slices - 6
• Small banana - 4
• Jaggery - 1/2 cup
• Cardamom (crushed) - 4
• Salt - a pinch

Preparation

1.Mix ingredients  to a medium thick batter. Consistency should be similar to that of an idli batter.

2. Heat ghee in a pan and fry the coconut bits and add it in the batter. Saute sesame seeds in the same ghee and add it in batter.

3.Take some water in a bowl and keep it aside.

4.Heat oil in pan, take a deep curved spoon(like ice-cream scooper) dip it in water and take batter using this spoon and put it in hot oil. Deep fry it in oil.