Rice koyakattais...---A handy anytime snack.

Take 2teacups of rice flour,add salt and grated coconut. Boil some water ,.now add boiling water to the mixture,little by little till the flour is soft and malleable so you can make small sausages out of it.

Meanwhile boil some more water in a vessel.. Once the water starts boiling add 1 tsp coconut oil to it and drop the rice sausages in it.

After a few minutes the sausages will rise.

Check if cooked by poking them.

remove and drain in colander.

In coconut oil vagar - rye, urad dal, kadipatha, hing,and one red chilli.

cut each sausage into 3 pieces and drop them in the vagar.

Add salt if required.

Eat with coconut chutney.

Wind up with a cup of strong coffee...

Spicy, Tangy, RASAM..

On some rainy days or particularly windy days, a cup of hot rasam, never fails to pep you up. NEVER !...!.... !. Boil three tablespoons of toover dall, till quite mashed.

Soak four pieces of tamarind (imli) in a cup of water. When the pieces are soaked properly, squeeze out the pulp. Cut a big tomato into one inch cubes.

Slit one green chilli lengthways.

Half a teaspoon haldi (turmeric)

Salt to taste

One heaped teaspoon RASAM powder (either MTR, or Eastern, or 777 or any other good brand)

Now put into the tamarind pulp, all above items except boiled dall

Next add two glasses of water and boil for 15 to 20 minutes.

Then you add the boiled, mashed toover dal, and mix well.

Let this boil for 15 to 20 minutes.

Close gas

Add chopped kothmir ( hari daniya)

Add 2 tsps. sugar..

Vagar (splutter) in pure ghee, half tsp rye, pinch hing, and one red chilli.

WOW ! what an aroma,,

you can drink clear rasam, taken from the top of the vessel...without stirring...

you can add one tsp pure ghee, to the rice and enough rasam after mixing it well. mix with your finger tips, and crush two appalams . Mix with fingers and start eating.Make sure you have rice, with rasam, and a piece of appalam all eaten together.

A tall glass of chaas, or buttermilk will complete the meal. Ah! what satisfaction...

Happy eating rasam rice.

or

drink a cup of hot rasam.

Do let me know how you enjoyed it.

Bye till my next post...

Methi, Malai, Mattar;

One of the most fabulously tasty dishes I have ever made or eaten... and so very simple to make!..

The ingredients we will need are,

One and a half cups peas, fresh or frozen.

Two onions chopped

One cup methi leaves chopped.

25 grams Kajoo (cashew nuts) - grind dry.

One teaspoon maida.

Amul fresh cream.

Two teaspoons ginger, garlic and one green chilli paste.

In a kadai put 2 tablespoons oil. Fry onions, 2 teaspoons ginger,

garlic and 1 green chilli paste. Add cut methi and fry for one minute,

then add peas and kajoo powder.

Next add malai to get proper consistency.

Add one teaspoon salt , three teaspoons sugar and half teaspoon garam masala.

Mix well - and eat.

With rotis, parathas, rice or bread.

Wind up with a hot cup of coffee.....

Tell me how you enjoyed it.

Till my next post, enjoy eating.