Drumstick sambar / munakkaya sambar - andhra style

Drumstick sambar / munakkaya sambar - andhra style

Drumstick sambar / munakkaya sambar / Andhra style sambar

Ingredients:

1. Kandi pappu (Yellow lentils/ Toor daal ) : 1 cup
2. Drumstick : 3
3. Tamarind : lemon size
4. Onion : 1
5. Chilli powder : 2 tbsp
6. Salt : to taste
7. Oil : 2 tbsp
8. Tomato : 1
9. Sambar powder : 1 tbsp

 Procedure :

1. Wash Kandi pappu with water thoroughly.
2. In a pressure cooker, add Kandi pappu, 2 cups of water, Onion, sliced tomatoes, sliced drumstick and put it on stove.
3. Let it cook for 5 vigils to ensure that Kandi pappu is well boiled.
4. Add the tamarind in a 1/2 cup of boiled water to make tamarind juice.
5. Now put the boiled vegetables aside and smash the remaining stuff in the cooker well.
6. Put talimpu and add it to the pappu. If water is needed add some to the pappu and put it on stove.
7. Now add tamarind water, salt, Sambar powder and boiled vegetables and let it boil till you see the air bubbles popping out from Sambar.
8. Now have it with neyyi(ghee) along with rice.

cake - in oven

Ingredients:

1. Maida (All purpose flour) : 4 cups
2. Butter : 2 cups
3. Sugar : 2 cups
4. Baking powder : 1/4 tbsp
5. Eggs : 2
6. Milk : 1/4 cup

Procedure:

1. Mix the baking powder to Maida.
2. Make sugar powder using mixer grinder.
3. Mix sugar with butter. Now add maida mix thoroughly.
4. Mix 2 egg content thoroughly with the dough. Add litter amount of milk and mix well.
5. Apply butter to the inner surface of the baking pan and pour the dough into the baking pan.
6.  In the convection mode at 190, bake it for 25 minutes.

Goduma ravva Upma

Goduma ravva Upma

Ingredients:

1. Goduma ravva / normal ravva : 2 tea cup
2. Water : 4 tea cup
3. Mustered : 1/4 tbsp
4. Jeera : 1/4 tbsp
5. Minapappu(black gram) : 1/4 tbsp 
6. Onion : 1
7. Green chilli : 4
8. Ghee/Oil : 1/2 tbsp
9. Curry leaves : few
10. Lemon : 1/2 slice

Procedure:

1. Fry ravva with ghee on a pan till mild brown color. Keep them aside.
2. Put thalimpu with mustered,jeera,curry leaves and black gram. Fry chopped onions and chillies with thalimpu.
3. Add the water and boil it bubbles comes out.
4. On low flame, add ravva and lemon juice. Stir it well and quite often to ensure that ravva is evenly boiled.
5. Now serve it with either sugar,ground nut chutney or andhra avakaya.

Raagi dosa - healthy food

                     Raagi dosa - Andhra style

Raagi dosa - healthy food

Ingredients:

1. Raagi pindi () : 2 cup
2. Upma ravva (Upma/Bombay flour) :  1/2 cup
3. Wheat flour (Chapathi flour) : 1/2 cup
4. Salt : to taste

Procedure:

1. Fry the Upma ravva in a pan till light brown color.
2. Add fried Upma ravva,Wheat flour in Raagi pindi. Mix it thoroughly with water.
3. Now in a non stick Dosa pan, add pour it as like for Dosas. Fry on both sides of dosa.
4. You can have it either with ground nut chutney or with any pickle.

Carrot fry

Carrot fry

Ingredients:

1. Carrot : 5
2. Onion : 1
3. Chillies : 6 to 7
4. Garlic : 1/2 inch
5. Salt : to taste
6. Mustered : 1/2 tbsp
7. Jeera : 1/2 tbsp
8. Black gram : 1/2 tbsp
9. Coriander powder : 1/2 tbsp

Procedure:

1. Grate the carrot and ginger finely.
2. Put thalimpu with mustered,jeera and black gram.
3. Fry chopped onions and green chillies. Now add grated carrot and coriander powder, fry it on low flame.
4. If needed, add some water to let the carrot boil.
5. Once carrot is boiled well garnish it with coriander leaves and serve it.