EASY & QUICK MAAVILAKKU MAAVU IN MINUTES

Maavilakku is one of the most important and traditional prasadham for Tamil Goddess. Actually there is a procedure to make maavilakku from raw rice. But I used rice flour for quick and easy version. I will post the step by step procedure using raw rice soon. Aadi - tamil month is going on. Lot of prayers & worship goddess with this traditional prasadham. I think this is the right time to share this recipe.

Ingredients

Rice flour - 2 cups
Brown sugar - 2 cups
Cardamom powder - a pinch
Water - 2 - 3 tbsp
Thirinool (thread for lighting) - as required
Kunkum - a pinch for decoration
Match stick - for lighting
Ghee - as required

Method

• Add rice flour, cardamom powder, brown sugar and water together and mix well.
• Divide the mixed flour into 2 parts or 5 parts.
• Shape all the parts into ball and create a small pit on the top of the ball.
• Keep kunkum around the pit, add ghee into the pit, add thrinool and finally lighting up with match stick.

Note : Please don't add water more, it will go watery. This recipe won't give that much taste as like as prepare from raw rice, but it tastes good.

TASTY YUMMY CURD RICE - MOST POPULAR SOUTH INDIAN CUISINE

Serving size - 3

Preparation time - 15 minutes

Cooking time - 30 minutes

Curd rice is the most popular south Indian cuisine which always take at the end of the lunch menu. This rice keeps our body cool. It is especially more delicious during summer. I love garnished curd rice very much. Curd rice is also known as yogurt rice which is not only tasty and yummy but also harmless food for babies too. 

Ingredients

Rice - 1/2 cup
Curd - 1 cup
Cream - 2 tbsp (optional)
Milk - 1/2 cup
Salt - as required

For seasoning 

Green chillies - 3 (chopped)
Hing powder - 1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Oil - 1 1/2 tbsp
Urad dal - 1/2 tsp

For garnishing 

Cilantro - 2 tbsp Finely chopped
Carrot - 1 tbsp ( grated)optional
seedless grapes - few (optinal)
Pomegranate - few ( optional)

Method

• Wash rice, pressure cook the rice with 1/2 cup extra water than usual and keep 1 whistle extra for well boiled rice.
• Take the boiled rice and smash it well with large spoons. Add salt, curd and mix well. 
• Then add cream, milk and again mix well.
• Heat oil in a small pan for seasoning, add mustard seeds, once it cracked, add curry leaves and green chillies, then hing powder and urad dal. Remove it from the stove before it gets burn or darker.
• Add the seasoning to the curd rice and finally garnish with cilantro and fruits or carrot. But I din't use carrot or fruits, because my husband does not like those taste in the curd rice.
• Serve it with pickle or any side dish or as such. I enjoy this garnished curd rice as such. 

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THAI EGG FRIED RICE

Serving size - 1 or 2

Preparation time - 10 minutes

Cooking time - Less than 15 minutes (IF the boiled rice is ready)

Our most favorite food, other than Indian food is Thai food. Thai food is one of the tastiest food among all the foods. In that, THAI FRIED RICE is the most popular food. It is a variety of fried rice which is typical of central thai cuisine. IT is a stir fried rice with few ingredients like soy sauce, fish sauce, chilli sauce, etc.

Usually, they use any meat in this rice, but I din't use any meat today. I used basmathi rice instead of thai jasmine rice and crushed red pepper instead of chilli sauce.

Ingredients

Boiled basmathi/thai jasmine Rice - 2 cups
Oil - 2 or 3 tbsp
Garlic - 5 pods
Green chilles - 2
Crushed red pepper - 2 pizza hut packets
Onion - 1 cup (sliced half length wise)
Tomato - 1/2
Egg - 1
Salt - as needed
Sugar - 1 1/2 tsp
Fish sauce - 1 or 1 1/2 tsp
Soy sauce - 1 tbsp
Frozen Peas - 2 or 3 tbsp

Method

1. Crush green chillies and garlic. Heat oil in a pan, add crushed green chillies and garlic. Fry for few
seconds.

2. Add onions, salute until it becomes transparent.Add tomatoes,salute for few seconds.

3. Create some space for egg, by siding all the ingredients in the pan. Add egg, scramble it and mix with all the ingredients in the pan.

4. Add crushed red pepper, salt, sugar, fish sauce and soy sauce. Mix well and salute it for a minute.

5. Add peas, mix it well and allow it for 1 or 2 minutes. Add boiled rice and mix well with all the ingredients. Fry all the ingredients for 2 minutes.

6. Serve it as such or with cucumber slice & lime slice.

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EASY AND QUICK HOME MADE ALMOND PISTACHIO MINI KULFI - SUMMER SPECIAL

Serving size - 30 pieces 

Preparation time - 5 minutes

Cooking time - 10 minutes

Freezing time - 3 to 4 hours

I made these kulfi a month and half before. But I couldn't find time to upload this. Here almost summer is going to end. Though I thought of share this wonderful yummy Kulfis to my viewers before summer ends.

Kulfi is a popular frozen diary dessert which is from Indian sub continent. It is also known as traditional Ice cream of India. There are various flavors in Kulfi. I made easy & quick home-made mini kulfis with almonds and pistachio for kids. This is my hubby's favorite. WE din't get any good tasting kulfis in our place. So that I tried this in the home itself using microwave for easy preparation. This is not only summer special, also kids special. Lets see how to make quick and easy home made mini kulfi.

Ingredients

Milk - 2 cups
Milk powder - 3/4 cup
Sugar - 3 to 4 tbsp
Cardamom powder - a pinch
Almond - 4 (grated)
Pistachio - 5 (grated)

Method

• Mix all the ingredients well in the microwave safe bowl except grated almonds and pistachios.
• Microwave it for 2 minutes. Stir well.
• Again microwave it for 2 minutes, keep stirring for every 40 seconds.
• Again microwave it for 2 minutes, keep stirring for every 30 seconds.
• Again microwave it for 2 minutes, keep stirring for every 20 seconds.
• Once it will get thick, add grated almonds and pistachios. Mix well and allow it to get cool.
• Once it gets cool, pour it in the ice tray for mini kulfis. (I used banana ice tray)
• After 3 to 4 hours, remove it from the freezer and remove kulfi after half a minute or a minute.
• Serve it as cool.

Note : You can use kulfi moulds for get normal size kulfis. Pictures for normal moulds.

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MICROWAVE ACRON SQUASH / DANISH SQUASH KHEER / PAYASAM

Serving size - 2

Preparation time - 15 minutes

Cooking time - less than 10 minutes

I am happy to post this easy dessert recipe "Acron squash kheer" for my 125 th post of my blog. Acron squash is a winter squash or pepper or Danish squash. Acron squash is very good for health which is a dietary fibre and having vitamin c & B, manganese & magnesium.

The minutes I used for kheer in the microwave might be different from mine to yours. So be careful while cooking this kheer. The power of my microwave is 900 W high power.

Ingredients

Grated Acron Squash - 1 cup
Sugar - 1/3 cup or more( upto your taste buds)
Cardamom powder - 2 pinches
Milk powder - 2 tbsp
Milk - 3/4 cup
Water - 3/4 cup

To Garnish 

Almonds - 1
Pistachio - 2

Method

• Take grated acron squash in a microwave safe bowl and microwave it for 2 minutes.
• In the mean while, mix milk powder, milk and water in a separate bowl. Keep this mixture aside.
• Add sugar and cardamom powder, again microwave it for 2 to 2.30 minutes.
• Add the mixture which we kept aside, microwave it for 2 more minutes. Stir it for every 30 seconds or 45 seconds.
• Acron squash kheer is ready now. Garnish it with grated almonds and pistachios.

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