sweet and spicy kozhukkatta

Ingredients:

• onion chopped-1/2
• green chilly-2
• mustard seeds-1tsp
• jaggery -1 cup
• grated coconut-1
• cardamom powder-1tsp
• warm water-1cup
• rice flour-2cup
• salt as per taste
• oil-1tsp
• mustard seeds-1tsp
• curry leaves

Preparation:

1. Pour oil in a heated tawa and saute mustard seeds,curry leaves.
2. add onion,green chilly and stir till its golden brown.
3. Prepare a soft dough with rice flour,salt,warm water and fried onions.
4. In another plate make a sweet mix with coconut,jaggery,cardamom.
5. Make small rice balls and fill sweet mix inside the balls.
6. steam the balls in an idli maker for 7 mins.
7. you can serve when it cools.
8. You can try the sweet version without the spicy onion part too.

vazhakka/raw banana bajji

Ingredients:

• raw banana-1
• rice flour-1 cup
• gram flour-1cup
• corn starch-3tsp
• jeera powder-1/2tsp
• chilly powder-1tsp
• asafoetida-1/2tsp
• salt-1tsp
• oil for deep frying

Preparation:

1. cut banana into thin slices longitudinally.I prefer with skin.
2. make a thick batter by mixing all the ingredients with enough water.
3. heat oil in a kadai.dip and coat each banana slice with the batter and deep fry in oil till its golden brown.

corn-spinach pakoda

Usually I will use sweet corn only with salads or soups.Swetha prepared corn pakoda in a potluck party,that was so delicious.So I tried corn with spinach.

Ingredients:

• Gram Flour-5tsp
• corn starch-3tsp
• Green chilly-2
• spinach-1cup
• sweet corn-1 cup
• turmeric powder-1/2tsp
• salt as per taste
• ginger-1 inch crushed
• water
• oil for deep frying

Preparation:

1. In a bowl mix gram flour,cornstarch with enough water.
2. Add all other ingredients to it and mix well with ur hand.
3. Deep fry small pakodas in the oil and have it with ketchup.

Chicken bread pakoda

Ingredients:

• Bread- 5 slices
• 1 cup gram flour
• 3tsp corn starch
• 3tsp-rice flour
• asafoetida-1/2tsp
• cumin powder-1/2tsp
• coriander leaves
• chilly powder-1/2tsp
• garam masala-1/2tsp
• turmeric powder-1/2tsp
• coriander powder-1/2tsp
• mashed potato-1cup
• 1/2 onion chopped
• mustard seeds-1/4tsp
• oil for deep frying and making masala.
• 1/2 chicken breast cooked(I cooked in oven for 15 mins with olive oil)
• ginger crushed-1/2tsp
• salt to taste

Preparation:

1. Heat a deep bottom kadai and saut mustards in 1 tsp oil.
2. Add onion and fry till its golden brown.Add ginger and fry.
3. Add 1/4chilly powder,coriander powder,turmeric powder,mashed potato and stir well.
4. Cut the cooked chicken piece to small,or u can take out thin pieces with ur hand.
5. Add this chicken pieces to the masala and mix well.Add gram masala and salt.
6. Mix well and ur masala is ready.
7. Now make a batter with gram flour,rice flour,corn starch,asafoetida,cumin powder,1/4 chilly powder,coriander leaves,water.
8. Cut each bread to 2 equal pieces.
9. Keep chicken masala in between 2 bread pieces like sandwich.
10. Dip this sandwich in batter and deep fry in oil.
11. Have it with tomato ketchup.

neythappam

Ingredients:

• maida-3 cup
• ghee/oil-3tsp
• salt-1/2 tsp
• milk
• cardamom powder-1tsp
• water-1cup
• sugar-1cup

Preparation:

1. prepare a chapathi like dough with maida,ghee,salt,cardamom powder and milk.
2. Take chappathi size balls and roll it and make it like thin chappathis.
3. Cut each chapathi to 9 pieces lengthwise.
4. Take 3 pieces and paste the tip of that pieces together.Now weave it like ur hairplait.
5. After weaving cut this to smaller pieces and fry it in oil.
6. make sugar syrup and add all these fried pieces together.u can have this when cooled.

I got this recipe from grihalakshmi..This is similar to sweet diamonds,only shape is different.

manoharam

Ingredients:

• Rice-3 cup
• Green gram dal-1 cup
• Sugar-2cups
• Water-2cups
• cardamom powder-1tsp
• dry ginger(chukku)powder-1tsp
• Oil

Preparation:

1. Soak rice and dal for 1 hr.
2. Grind rice and dal together to a fine paste with water like dosa batter.
3. heat oil in a kadai,Pour batter to the oil thru a sieve so that it forms boondhis
4. Fry boondhis till it gets golden brown.Take it out from oil and keep in a paper napkin to remove the excess oil.
5. Repeat the above step to prepare more boondhis from the batter.
6. Heat another tawa and add 2 cups of sugar and water.Stir occassionally till the sugar syrup becomes thick like honey .
7. Remove the syrup from heat and add boondhis.
8. Add cardamom powder,dry ginger powder to the mixture and stir well.
9. Cool it and ur manoharam is ready.

murukku-Rice snack

Ingredients:

• Rice Flour-3 cup
• Gram Flour-1 cup
• Asafoetida-1/2 tsp
• jeera powder-1/2 tsp
• red chilly powder-1/2 tsp
• sesame seeds-1/2tsp
• salt-1/2 tsp
• warm water
• oil for deep frying

Preparation:

1. In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients with warm water to make a soft dough.
2. Add a part of the dough to the murukku seva press.
3. Press out in round shape to a paper napkin.
4. Heat oil in kadai and slide each murukku from the napkin to your hand and then to tava.
5. Deep fry till it becomes golden brown.Take it out from the oil to a napkin to remove the excess oil.
6. Remaining dough you can add to the press and repeat the same.You can make 20 murukku.

Pakkavada

Let this be my first post.I never liked this item in India.After coming here I was searching in all shops for snack items..Nothing I liked.Then I started preparing my own .My hubby liked this very much.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup rice flour
• 2 cup gram flour
• 1 tsp red chilly powder
• 1/2 tsp asafoetida
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp jeera powder(optional)
• Warm water
• oil

Preparation:

1. Mix rice flour with warm water to make a soft dough
2. Add chilly powder,asafoetida,salt,jeera ,gram flour and water to make the dough -dough will be very soft in this stage
3. Take a seva press with the tape shape lid and put the dough prepared to the seva.
4. Heat the oil in a tava, and press the seva in a circular fashion to fill the entire oil.Fry until golden brown.-You should be very careful ,otherwise it will become brown color.
5. Take out the entire circle piece from the oil to a tissue paper and break it into smaller pieces.The picture shows pakkavada before breaking into pieces.