Beetroot chutney | Beetroot pachadi | Chukandar ki chutney

Beetroot chutney | Beetroot pachadi | Chukandar ki chutney : Beetroot is a very healthy vegetable, it has lots of health benefits. Here we are presenting you with a very easy, tasty and interesting recipe called beetroot chutney | beetroot pachadi | chukandar ki chutney.

beetroot chutney | beetroot pachadi | chukandar ki chutney is a very healthy alternative to our onion/tomato chutney to serve with idly, dosa's. This chutney will go well with idly, dosa and I like this with hot rice along with a spoon of ghee. Doctor's always suggest us of healthy diet and beetroot is one among those healthy foods. Some people can't take raw beetroot and some doesn't like beetroot juice, for those this beetroot chutney | beetroot pachadi | chukandar ki chutney is a very healthy alternative.

Try some of our other recipe's too:

• Amla pickle
• Murukulu
• Stuffed puri

An important point to be noted is , don't over fry the beetroot pieces or else we will loose all it's nutritional values, just fry till the pieces turns soft and till the raw smell goes.

Below is the detailed video of beetroot chutney | beetroot pachadi | chukandar ki chutney.

Below is the procedure:

• Author : Annapurna 
• Type : Chutney 
• Cuisine : Indian 
• Serves : 1 Cup

Ingredients:

• Oil - 6 table spoons
• Chana dal - 2 table spoons
• Coriander seeds - 1 table spoon
• Cumin seeds - 1 table spoon
• Dried red chillies - 5 to 6
• Medium sized garlic - 1
• Some curry leaves
• Large size beetroot - 1
• Turmeric - 1 tea spoon
• Salt - 1 table spoon
• Mustard seeds
• Hing - Pinch

Procedure:

• Take a frying pan and add 2 table spoons oil, add 2 table spoons chana dal, 1 table spoon coriander seeds, 1 table spoon cumin seeds, 5 to 6 dried red chillies, and some garlic cloves.
• Roast all of them on medium flame for 5 mins and keep a side.
• Now again add 2 table spoons oil and fry the beetroot pieces till it becomes soft and till the raw smell goes.
• Now let it cool for sometime and combine all together as shown in the video and grind to a smooth paste.
• Now for tempering add 2 table spoons of oil and add mustard seeds, hing and some curry leaves and add this to the grind beetroot chutney.
• Tasty and yummy beetroot chutney | beetroot pachadi | chukandar ki chutney is ready serve with idly/dosa or hot hot rice along with some ghee.

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Egg curry | Egg drop curry | Poached egg curry

Egg curry | Egg drop curry | Poached egg curry : Sunday ho ya Monday roj kao "Ande"(Egg).Egg is one of the very essential food, it have lots of have health benefits and an egg is a very versatile food, can be prepared in many ways some of the easy and familiar recipe's are boiled eggs, poached eggs, omelette, and many more. Egg can be infused into many other dishes and it's taste is just commendable. I just love eggs and I always try to include a egg daily in my dishes. Here we are presenting you with the simple yet delicious recipe called egg curry | egg drop curry | poached egg curry .

Along with the egg we have included goodness of some other vegetables too like, tomato's, potato's , green peas and spring onions. It's a curry, juicy like texture along with the poached eggs. Firstly we have to cook all the vegetables adding the spices and then at last we have to drop the eggs to get them poached. In this way we give ample amount of time for vegetables to cook properly and as we are poaching the eggs in the last it will get all the spices and vegetables flavour to it. This dish is one of my favourite dish. It hardly takes any time to prepare. We can easily carry it to office , schools as our lunch. As it's a curry it goes well with both rice and roti.And don't forget to try our yummy and delicious Omelette Puri recipe.

Try some of our other recipe's too:

• Amla pickle
• Murukulu

An important point to be noted is , once we break and drop the egg inside the gravy we should't touch it till 5 to 10 minutes other wise eggs will get messy and will not poach in a shape.

Below is the detailed video of egg curry | egg drop curry | poached egg curry.

Below is the procedure:

• Author : Annapurna 
• Type : Curry 
• Cuisine : Indian 
• Serves : 2 people

Ingredients:

• Onions - 4 medium sized
• Ginger & garlic crush - 1 tea spoon
• Tomato's - 3 medium sizes
• Potato - 3 medium sized
• Spring onions - 4 to 5
• Green peas - 1 cup
• Salt - 1 table spoon
• Chilli powder(Mixed along with cumin, coriander and mustard powder) - 2 table spoons
• Eggs - 4
• Coriander - 1 cup
• Oil - 3 table spoons
• Water - 2 cups

Procedure:

• Take a pan and add 3 table spoons of oil .
• Once its heated add onions and fry till translucent.
• Further add the ginger and garlic crush and fry till the raw smell goes.
• Now it's time to add roughly chopped tomatoes and fry till they turn mushy.
• Now add salt and masala powder(which includes chilli powder, cumin powder, coriander powder , mustard powder and turmeric powder.) and fry for some 5 minutes.
• Further add potatoes, spring onions and green peas fry till they become soft and add 2 cups of water and cook till the veggies are done.
• Now it's time to poach the eggs, slowly break the eggs and drop it to the gravy and don't touch those for some 10mins or else eggs wont't poach to a good shape.
• After 10mins add coriander and egg curry | egg drop curry | poached egg curry is ready, serve hot with rice or roti.

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Puri | Stuffed Puri | Green Peas Puri

Puri | Stuffed Puri | Green Peas Puri who doesn't love puri and when a puri is packed with a super spicy green peas stuffing then it will just make your day.Here we are presenting you with a stuffed puri and the stuff is made out of green peas. Green peas are one of my personal favourite they tastes just awesome. This stuffed puri will be a perfect Sunday brunch.

These puri's are so yummy that you have to cheat yourself if following a any diet , a cheat day will be definitely worthy. Some important points to note are this dough should be bit harder or else it will absorb the oil while deep frying. And the peas mixture should be fried till all its moisture is absorbed then it will reside well inside the puri. For a single puri we have to take a lemon sized ball and the peas mixture should be half of the dough's size.We can also add all purpose flour along with wheat flour but here we have only used wheat flour. This goes well with curd and pickle or aloo dum will be a perfect combination.

Try some of our other puri and pickle recipe's:

• Amla pickle
• Omelette Puri

Below is the detailed video of Puri | Stuffed Puri | Green Peas Puri.

Below is the procedure:

• Author : Annapurna 
• Type : Breakfast 
• Cuisine : Indian 
• Serves : 10 Puri's

Ingredients:

• Atta / Wheat flour - 1 cup
• Salt - 2 tea spoon
• Water - As required for dough
• Oil - For deep fry
• Green peas - 1 cup
• Cumin powder - 1 tea spoon
• Coriander powder - 1 tea spoon
• Chilli powder - 1 tea spoon
• Ginger - half inch

Procedure:

• In a large mixing bowl take 1 cup wheat flour, 1 tea spoon salt and add little amounts of water in intervals and knead to a bit hard dough.
• Pressure cook green peas for 1 whistle.
• Further in a bowl take cooked peas, salt, red chilli powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, and ginger and grind to a smooth paste.
• Take a lemon sized wheat dough, make it as a well as shown in the video and add small amount of peas mixture, grease on both the sides and roll it to a circular shape.
• Heat oil in a pan for deep fry.
• Further drop the rolled puri in the heated oil and press gentle so that it puffs up then fry on both the sides till golden brown.
• Hot and tasty puri | stuffed puri | green peas puri is ready. Serve hot with curd and pickle or aloo dum/ potato curry

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Gulabi puvulu(rose flowers) | Rice flour fried cookies

Gulabi puvulu(rose flowers) | Rice flour fried cookies is an authentic sweet recipe of India, mostly prepared in south India. The shape of these cookies resembles rose flowers hence the name gulabi puluvu(rose flowers). The maker(mould) is made of aluminium and comes with a long handle. This maker/mould is easily available in online stores such as amazon.

These cookies/flowers are made of rice flour and all purpose flour(maida) and has an immense flavour of cardamom(elichi) which adds more taste to the cookies. These cookies are detached from the mould using any sharp object, we have used knife to detach it. Here we are presenting you with Andhra style rose cookies.Our video shows you the detailed steps of making rose cookies| gulabi puvulu. Try and enjoy them.

Try some of our other sweet recipe's too:

• Orange cake
• Chocolate pan cake

Below is the detailed video of making gulabi puvulu | rose cookies.

Below is the procedure:

• Author : Annapurna 
• Type : Sweet 
• Cuisine : Indian 
• Yields : 20 cookies

Ingredients:

• Rice flour - 1 cup
• Maida / All purpose flour - 2 cups
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Water - 2 cups
• oil - For deep fry
• Cardamom powder - 2 tea spoons

Procedure:

• Dissolve sugar in water and keep aside.
• In a bowl mix rice flour, maida(all purpose flour), cardamom powder and sugar water(point 1) and mix well to a creamy, flowing consistency batter.
• Heat oil in a pan for frying the cookies.
• Once oil is heated dip the cookie maker in the oil and let it sit for 5 mins.
• Now dip the heated maker in the batter as shown in the video and let it sit for 5 secs and place it immediately in the oil.
• After some 5 seconds slowly de mould/detach the cookie from the mould using a sharp object like knife as shown in the video.
• Fry till golden brown on both the sides.
• Crispy and tasty gulabi puvulu | rice flour fried cookies ready.

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Omelette Puri | Egg Puri

Omelette puri | Egg puri is all about Omelette inside the puri, this can be enjoyed as breakfast, brunch , tea time snack or dinner. We all love egg and the dishes made out of it and many of us are very fond of puri's and fusion of this two will result in a simple yet very delightful delicious item. And a dessert followed by this Omelette puri will just make our day, you can try our Almond kheer and Chocolate pan cake

Omelette puri | Egg puri requires a very less amount of time for preparation with very less number of ingredients, anyone who is less familiar with cooking can also easily make this recipe, only thing we need to keep in mind is the puri dough which should be bit hard. And this can be served with tomato ketchup or green chutney.

Below is the making of Omelette puri

Below is the detailed recipe:

• Author : Annapurna 
• Type : Snack 
• Cuisine : Indian 
• Serves : 2

Ingredients:

• 1 cup wheat flour
• 1 tea spoon salt
• Water as required(for dough)
• 2 eggs
• Pepper powder
• oil

Procedure:

• Take one cup wheat flour and add a pinch of salt and knead it to a soft dough.
• In a pan add little oil and break an egg prepare a half boiled omelette.
• Once that's done place it in a plate.
• Now make two puri's of equal size.
• Place this half done omelette on one puri and cover it with another puri.
• Now heat oil in a pan for frying the puri's.
• Once heated fry the omelette covered puri.

Delicious omelette puri | Egg puri ready.

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No Egg , No Butter , No Condensed Milk And No Oven Orange Cake | Orange cake | Pressure Cooker Cake

No Egg , No Butter , No Condensed milk and No Oven Orange Cake | Orange cake | Pressure cooker Cake is a simple cake made mainly with orange juice and orange zest. This cake is dominated with orange flavour which gives immense taste to the cake. We all like cake a lot but some times we step backward to prepare, as it requires lot of ingredients which are not so common ingredients in one's kitchen but this orange cake is very simple and all the ingredients are very easily available in one's kitchen.

Who doesn't love cake? and when we can easily make this at our home with all the simple ingredients which are easily available in our kitchen then it will be more fun to try these type of cakes and to make it more healthy we can add wheat flour and fruits too.

Try some of our other easy recipe's too:

• Omelette puri
• Chocolate pan cake
• Amla ka aachar

As already said orange flavour is the king of this cake and you can feel this in each and every bite, and kids will surely enjoy this cake. Below is the detailed making of the recipe, please watch and try.

Below is the procedure:

• Author : Annapurna 
• Type : Cake 
• Cuisine : International 
• Serves : 1 cake

Ingredients:

• Maida / All purpose flour - 1 cup
• Sugar - 3/4th cup
• curd - 1/4th cup
• oil - 2 table spoons
• Orange zest - 1 tea spoon
• Orange juice - 1/4th cup
• Baking soda - 1 tea spoon
• Ghee - 1 tea spoon
• Salt - 3 cups

Procedure:

• Beat oil, sugar, curd, maida, baking soda, orange zest and orange juice to fine creamy smooth texture with flowing consistency.
• Now fill pressure cooker platform with salt and preheat for 5 mins.
• Grease the cake tin with ghee and pour the batter in the tin.
• Now place it in the pre heated cooker and cook for 45 mins on low flame without using the whistle and gasket.
• After 45 mins check whether the cake is cooked or not by inserting a knife or tooth pick, if it comes clean that means the cake is perfectly cooked.
• Let it cool down for 10 mins and de mould it.
• Delicious and yummy orange cake is ready.

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Top 5 home remedies | natural remedies | kitchen remedies for glowing skin in winter season

Winter season is here and we all love winters as it is sweat free season but the main concern with this season is our skin which becomes dull, dry and dehydrated.But we can easily heal these problems simply with home remedies using all natural ingredients which are easily available in our kitchen.

We will be very choosy and careful when it comes to our inner health, but when it comes to our outer health that is our skin we use all kind of chemicals and other stuff on our face/body. Whatever we consume for our inner health should also be considered for out outer health. All I meant to say is our skin health should be enhanced by the products/ingredients from our kitchen in natural way trying these home remedies to make our skin glow.

In winter season our skin losses all it's moisture resulting in a dry and dull skin. We can easily repair our skin using simple winter skin care tips with the home remedies from our own kitchen. Here we will talk about all the ways to keep your skin healthy, glowing and itchy free(which often happens in this winter season). All you just need to do is try these home remedies | kitchen remedies for a glowing skin to pamper your skin.

Remedies:

1.Massaging with Sesame oil

Sesame oil is scientifically proven best for the skin care, it contains antioxidants which helps in the absorption of the oil which in turn makes our skin more smoother and softer.

Ingredients:

• Sesame oil

Procedure to apply:

Take 1 table spoon sesame oil, apply it all over the face and do a gentle massage for 5 mins in circular motion, let it pamper your skin all over the night, you will see the magic the next morning. Do this regularly throughout the winter season to get rid of dry and dull skin.

2.Milk cream | malai and turmeric pack

Milk cream | malai helps in healing the dry skin in very effective way and when it combines with turmeric the result will be just amazing. Coming to turmeric it has anti bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties which helps in pimple and any other scars reduction.

Ingredients:

• Milk cream | malai
• Turmeric

Procedure to apply:

Take 2 table spoons malai or milk cream and a spoon of turmeric, apply it all over the face and do a gentle massage for 5 mins in circular motion, let it pamper your skin all over the night or you can wash it off with warm water after 20 mins.Do this regularly throughout the winter season to get rid of dry and dull skin.

3.Replacing soap with gram flour milk paste

In this winter season let's replace our soap | body wash with simple home made body wash, unlike soap it won't make our skin dry, in fact it makes our skin smoother, softer and glowing. Gram flour is a great kitchen weapon to fight against the dead skin cells , it helps in exfoliating the skin and when it's combined with milk and turmeric it will be the best soap | body wash ever. Milk will help in making the skin softer and smoother.

Ingredients:

• Gram flour
• Milk
• turmeric

Procedure to apply:

Take 5 table spoons gram flour , 2 spoons turmeric, and some milk make it to a smooth, flowing consistency paste, apply it all over the skin/body.Let it pamper your skin for 10 mins after that wash with warm water.

4.Honey & milk face pack

Honey has numerous qualities to repair your skin, it's a great source of antioxidants which helps in prevention and cure of acne, not just that it's a complexion buster and makes skin smoother. When this is combined with milk it makes the skin more smoother and softer.

Ingredients:

• Honey
• Milk

Procedure to apply:

Take 1 table spoon honey , 2 spoons milk, mix well and apply all over face with the help of cotton ball. Let it pamper your skin for 15-20mins then wash it off with warm water.

5.Stay hydrated

Last but not the least, staying hydrated is the key for any health or skin related problems. Drink ample amount of water or fresh fruit or vegetable juices everyday. In winter we may not feel thirsty when compered to summer season but keep this in your to do list, have at least 8-10 glasses of water per day. This helps keeping your skin hydrated and glowing.

Precaution:

In case you are allergic to any of the above ingredients then please don't try those remedies or else you can first have a trail on you hand so that you will come to know wether it's suitable for your skin type or not.

With these all home remedies or natural remedies which are easily available in your kitchen you can get a very beautiful glowing skin in winters too. Enjoy your winter blues.

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Black split gram Murukulu | Minapapu Murukulu | Urad dal Murukulu

Janthikalu | Murukulu are one the most cooked savoury item of south India. Here we are presenting you with a bit different and easy process of these murukulu.
Black split gram Murukulu | Minapapu Murukulu | Urad dal Murukulu : In these murukulu our main ingredient is black split gram | urad dal | minapapu and we use a cooked one. This savoury item is mainly cooked in the festival times and can be enjoyed as a tea time snack or a times pass snack.

Black split gram Murukulu | Minapapu Murukulu | Urad dal Murukulu recipe 

• Author : Annapurna 
• Type : Dessert 
• Cuisine : Indian 
• Yield : 20 murukulu

Ingredients:

• 2 cups rice flour
• 1/2 cup black split gram(urad dal/minapapu)
• 1 table spoon cumin(jeera)
• 1 table spoon carom seeds(ajwain)
• 4 table spoon til
• 1 table spoon salt
• 2 table spoon hot oil
• water
• oil for frying

Procedure:

• Pressure cook black split gram(urad dal/minapapu) for 6 whistles.
• Once its cooked add rice flour, salt, cumin, carom seeds ,sesame, hot oil and mix well. 
• Now add little amounts of water to form a dough. 
• Then make a lemon sized ball of the dough.
• Put that in the murkulu machine and then move it in circular motion for 2 secs in the heated oil to form murukulu shape. 
• Fry till golden brown, crispy crispy murukulu/janthikalu ready.

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Dry fruit chocolate pan cake roll | Pan cake recipe

A healthy kids special recipe, with goodness of banana, dark chocolate, wheat flour and dry fruits. Kids will surely enjoy this recipe.

Ingredients:

• Banana - 1
• Wheat flour - 1 cup
• Sugar/jaggery - 1/2 cup
• Ghee
• Dark chocolate sauce
• Dry fruits of your wish

Procedure:

• Smash banana pieces , add wheat flour, sugar/jaggery and water to make smooth, flowing consistency batter.
• Heat pan, add ghee and pour the batter into the pan to make a pan cake and roast on both the sides.
• Once done, place the pan cake on a plate, apply chocolate sauce then add dry fruit pieces all over the pan cake.
• Yummy delicious dry fruit chocolate pan cake is ready.

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Amla ka achar / Gooseberry pickle / usirikaya uragay

Ingredients:

• Amla's - 20
• Oil - For frying
• Salt  - 3 tea spoon
• Jeera/cumin powder - 1 tea spoon
• Methi/ fenugreek powder - 1 tea spoon
• Chilli powder -  2 tea spoon
• Mustard oil - 4 table spoon
• Hing - 1/2 tea spoon

Procedure:

• Cut amla into pieces.
• Deep fry them for 5 mins.
• Take them into a bowl.
• Dry roast cumin and fenugreek and make it to fine powder.
• Make mustard powder.
• Add salt, powdered cumin and fenugreek and mustard powder and mix well.
• Heat mustard oil and add hing to it.
• Pour this to the amla mixture and mix well.
• Store it in a jar for 2 days.
• Amla/ gooseberry pickle ready.
• Enjoy this with hot rice/ roti.

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Almond Kheer

Almond kheer:

Almonds which are rich in protein , fibre , magnesium, vitamin E and lots of healthy fats when combined with richness of milk and creaminess of rice paste results in a delicious creamy kheer. Below are the ingredients and procedure , try and enjoy :) 

Ingredients:

• Rice 1 cup
• Almonds 1/2 cup
• Milk 1 litre
• Sugar 1 cup
• Pinch of cardamom powder
• Pinch of salt

Procedure:

• Soak almonds overnight, peel the skin and grind it to a smooth paste.
• Soak rice for 2 hrs and grind it to a smooth paste.
• Boil milk, once boiled add rice paste and stir continuously for 5 mins then add almond paste and again stir well for another 5 mins, add water/milk if it becomes thick.
• Then add the sugar and keep the kheer on low flame for 5 mins.
• Finally add cardamom powder and pinch of salt to enhance the taste.
• Add almond pieces for the crunchiness in the kheer.
• Delicious almond kheer is ready.

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