Egg Kulambu (Diced eggs)

Yet another exciting recipe...very easy recipe and turned out yummy!
Recipe:
* Add 3 eggs(trash 2 yolks), little turmeric, 2 spoons milk and little salt. Beat well.
* Grease a flat vessel with oil and add the egg batter
* Double boil....add an inch height water in a vessel and place the above and close the lid
* Cook for 5mins, let it cool for 5mins and then cut into cubes..it will looks like the above
* Then you could add it to any kind of gravy...kara kulambu, tomato kulambu, palak paneer.
It was yum yum!!!!

Baadhusha

Was excited to try this one..quite simple recipe. More pictures..Baadhusha
Recipe:
* Mix well with a whisk -  1/4th cup melted butter, 1.5 tbsp oil, 1 tbsp sugar,
   2 tbsp curd, half teaspoon baking soda.
* And then add 1.5cups maida to the above and make a dough by adding very little water.
* Let is rest for 2hrs and then make small vadas and press the thumb in the middle.
* On a pan, add half cup sugar, 3/4th cup water, little elachi and saffron
* Boil and make the sugar syrup and finally add little lemon juice. (single thread consistency)
* Add oil to another tava and bring to boiling hot and start adding the vadas and turn off stove
* let it cook and when the bubbles start to slow down, turn on the stove and flip the vadas.
* Cook in medium flame and when golden brown, remove it and add it to the sugar syrup.
* After 5mins, take it out and you will see the syrup crystallizing!!!
* After it cools down, save it in a container for upto few days.

Baadhaam/Almond Halwa

 

Kind of rich sweet, have tried this few years back and have over cooked and messed it up into puttu!Now I have mastered it, so sharing the recipe from my mom that I tried today. More pictures...Almond Halwa
Recipe:
* Soak half cup almonds in boiling water, after an hr, peel the skin
* Grind the almonds with water enough to make it into a paste (do not add add water later on)
* Add the paste and equal amount sugar for the paste, little saffron to a non-stick pan
* Stir in low flame, initially it will feel dry and once sugar melts it will be semi liquid
* Stir in medium flame for 10mins and once it starts to tighten a bit like top right picture, turn off.
* U feel it will be half cooked, but turn off, add 2 spoons ghee and stir well.
* Keep adding ghee every few mins, U will start to see it thicken as in the detailed pictures.
* Bottom left picture in the above is like 10mins after I removed from the stove.
Key to this is: stop cooking when it is 3/4th done and keep stirring lots of ghee! In the detailed pictures you can see the ghee I used from the ghee container.

Coconut Burfi

People think I cook/eat healthy food, wonder what the definition is?
Fitness trainers think my food is unhealthy.
I think I include all food in moderate and workout!!!! Swim lessons is my recent adventure!
What I cook/eat includes oil, ghee, salt, coconut plus regular white rice, veggies, other grains and less of sweet as I dont have sweet tooth :-) But surprised to see myself eating some sweets better than what I was a decade ago. So started to try sweets in little quantities...this one is a quick recipe if you have coconut ready. But I used fresh coconut.
Recipe:
* 1 cup grated coconut (I used fresh and ground it in mixie)
* 3/4th cup sugar, half cup water
* Add sugar and water in a non-stick pan and boil for like 5mins
* Check for single thread consistency, by taking a drop of the liquid
* When ready, add coconut and cook for 10mins in medium flame
* Add elachi powder and stir well. Take a small peice to see if you can make a ball.
* If yes, then turn off and transfer to greased plate, cool and cut into diamond shapes.

Paalak Paneer

One of my recent favorites...thoroughly enjoying it when hot!!!
Here is the recipe: (Serves 3)
- sauté half onion, 2 pieces garlic, very little ginger, half tomato, 2 green chillies
- then add washed spinach - one Trader Joes pack (like 8Oz)
- just 2 minutes and turn off, cool down and grind
- add salt, let the gravy boil with little garam masala for 5mins
- then add fresh small Paneer cubes (like 2 handful cubes)
- Boil for 5mins and turn off, serve hot for rice/rotis.

Fresh paneer:
- Boil 2 quarts milk and when it boils well, add 3 spoons lemon juice, turn off as it curdles
- If not, add more lemon juice.
- Strain the water and tie in a muslin cloth and press it hard between 2 plates.
- I put 8lb dumbbell on top of the plate
- After 2hrs move to fridge or use it.

Pineapple Fried Rice

For those of U who enjoy in the Thai restaurant, this is one simple recipe and U will like it for the fact that it is from fresh pineapple. Some of U might be already making it. More pictures...Pineapple Fried Rice
Recipe
* Simple sauted rice recipe with veggies of your choice.
* I used 3/4th cup basmati rice, added it to rice cooker and cooked it separately.
* Add ghee to tava and then add 3 red chillies (broken into 2), few cashews
* Then add diced onions, saute for few mins and then add handful carrots and cauliflower
* Cook few mins and then add raisins, green bell pepper and chopped pineapple, salt
* Saute just 2 or 3mins, then add the rice and serve hot.
FYI, this recipe doesnt need a side, it is yummy by itself. I know lot of friends here will enjoy this recipe!!!
It doesnt taste just sweet, it will have the spice from red chillies.