Spinach Pakodas

Ingredients:
Chopped Palak (Spinach) 1 cup
Besan (chana/gram flour) 1cup
Rice flour 1/2 cup
Green Chilli-2 chopped
Salt to taste
Chilli powder- 1 tsp

Oil To fry

Method

1. Wash palak, drain water and chop coarsely.

2. Boil spinach. When cooked drain throughly and grind.

3. Add besan and rice flour, green chillies, redchilli powder&salt.

4.Mix well in cooked spinach and make small balls of the mixture.

5.No water to be added at all since the batter can be mixed in the juice of palak itself.

6.Make small flat vadas out of this dough and fry them in oil on medium heat.

7.Till the pakodas are of light brown colour.

8.Make vadas flat so that they are crispy and fried inside out

9.Palak pakodas are delicious and can be eaten plain or with tomato sauce

Kothamalli thogayal (cilantro chutney)

Thogayal is a Tamil word for Chutney. Thogayal is common in most South Indian households specially when you need something tasty and need it fast. I used to prepare thogayal of different kinds… thogayal with dals, coconut, vegetables like pumpkin, peerkangai ( ridgegourd ), brinjal, karuveplai(curry leaves), coriander etc,. Kothamali (coriander)Thogayal is of one kind. Thogayal last longer unlike other curries.

Ingredients

Kothamalli............. 1 bunch

Urad Dal.................1/4 cup

Chana Dal..............1/4 cup

Red Chilli..................8 to 10

Asafoetida...............small piece

Tamarind.................small lemon size

Salt to taste

Method

1. Wash the coriander(kotthamalli) leaves(take only the leaves & discard the stalks)- wash well & drain. Keep aside.

2. Fry the dals, chilli asafoetida with 1tsp oil in kadai. fry till grolden brown & a nice aroma arises -

3. Add salt, tamarind & corriander leaves & toss nicely.

4. Now put the mixture into a blender & grind to a smooth paste. Do not add water. Make into small balls& store it. Whenever needed add water and use it.

5. Serve this chutney/thokayal for dosa, idli and curd rice.

6. Unlike uncooked chutneys, this can be refrigerated and used for a few days.

Biscuit Chaat

5 min quickies
Ingredients:
1-packet savory biscuit
1-cup besan boondi
1- cup daal moth
1-cup sev
1-tomato (chopped)
1 onion( chopped)
2-3 green chillies
salt to taste
1-tsp jeera (ground)
1-tbsp lemon juice
1-tbsp corinder leaves(chopped)
cheese grated

Method:
Break the biscuits into small pieces.
Mic all the ingredients properly decorate with cheese & corinder leaves and serve at tea time.


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