Rava dosa

Ingredients:
Semolina 1 cup
All purpose flour 1/4 rth cup
Rice flour 1/4rth cup
Cumin seeds 1/2 tspn
Ginger 2"
Green chillies 2
Salt
Curry leaves 5
Coriander leaves 2 Tspn
Water
Oil




Method:


Take a bowl mix semolina, flour, salt, rice flour. Mix well.
Mix water to prepare like a dosa batter.
Set this batter for 1/2 - 1 hour.
If you see the batter it will become thick because semolina sucks the water.
Now add more water to the batter. Consistency should be like dropping.
Paste the ginger and green chilles and mix it in the batter.
Heat the tawa, pour the dosa  batter and spread this using tawa handle.
Add oil on the edge of dosa and roast till the dosa gets crispy stage.
Serve hot with different types of chutneys.

Mysore bonda

Ingredients:


Curd 2 cups
All purpose flour 11/2 cup
Green chilli paste 2 tbspn
Salt
Cumin seeds 1 tspn
Baking soda pinch
Chopped corainader 3 tbspn
Curry leaves 6
Oil

Method:


Take a bowl mix flour, soda, salt, cumin seeds. Mix well.
Now add sufficient curd to make thick batter. (You can also add extra curd if you required, but the batter shouldn't be like dosa or idli batter.)
Next add green chilli paste, coriander leaves and curry leaves.
Heat oil in a kadai, and slowly drop the batter as round balls in the oil.
Deep fry them.
Tastes good with coconut chutney.

[Hint: Wet the hands if the batter is too sticky]

cake with orange juice

Ingredients:

Self raising flour 1 cup
Eggs 3
Sugar 3/4rth cup
Butter melted 3/4rth cup
Orange juice 1 cup
Baking powder 1 1/2 tsp
Baking soda 1/2 tsp
Salt pinch
Vodka(orange flavor) 2 drops
Orange essence 2 drops(You can also use vanilla essence)

Method:

Sieve the flour,baking powder,baking soda, salt and sugar powder.
Beat the eggs till they form like mountain peaks.
Now slowly add melted butter to it.
Next add the sieved flour to the egg mixture.
Finally add essence and vodka to it and mix well.
And finally pour the orange juice in the batter and mix well.
Grease the cake pan with butter and reheat it.
Pour the batter in cake pan and bake for an hour.(If you don't have oven you can even cook on the stove by using cake cooker)
After cooking let it be cooled for a while.
Yummy yummy............. and tasty tasty........... orange cake is ready to eat......

Homemade Oats biscuits

Ingredients:

self raising flour 1 cup
oats 1 cup
ghee
baking powder 1/4 tspn
salt pinch
icing sugar 1/2 cup


Method: 

Powder the oats.
Take a bowl and add self raising flour,oats powder, baking powder, icing sugar and salt. Mix well.
Add ghee slowly till you know the right amount of ghee to be added. Knead with your fingers . 
As it becomes sticky use your palm and fingers to roll into a single ball. 
Keep addding a little ghee as you knead till no atta sticks to the vessel and you have smooth ball.(Note: Please be careful, it will be delicate to handle)
Roll the dough like big pulka, but it should be 1.5inch thick. 
Now cut the biscuits with your favorite shapes.(If you don't have shapes you can also use bottle caps or any thing else)
keep a tawa on stove, let it be heated.
Place these biscuits carefully on tawa, otherwise it may break. Roast them.
Turn another side carefully by using two wooden sticks.
After roasting place them on a plate, let it be cooled.
Tasty tasty and crispy crispy oats biscuits are ready to eat................

Sambhar.......

Ingredients:


Baby onions 6
Green chillies 5
Carrot 2 medium
Drumstick 1
Bottle guard pieces 1 cup
Ginger 1inch piece
Toor dal 1/2 cup
Oil 4tsp
Mustard seeds 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds 1/2 tsp
Garlic crushed 2
Curry leaves 6-10
Coriander leaves 1/2 cup
Tamarind paste 3-4tbspn

Sambar masala powder:

Toor dal 1 cup
Coriander seeds 1 cup
Fenugreek seeds 1/4 cup
Cumin seeds 3/4 cup
Rock salt 2 tbspn
Dry roast all the ingredients separately and make a fine powder.

Method:

Cook toor dal in a pressure cooker.
Take a kadai, add oil. Let it be heated.
Now add mustard seeds,cumin seeds, asafoetida and crushed garlic. Sauté for 2 mins.
Next add onions, green chillies, half of the curry leaves,drumstick pieces, bottle guard pieces and Sauté for 5-10 mins.
Now add 4-5 cups of water. Add salt, turmeric powder and cook till all the vegetables get soft by keeping lid.
Next tamarind pulp and red chilli powder should be added.
Now add cooked dal, crushed Ginger piece and cook for few mins.
Finally add 2-3 tbspn of sambar powder.( Remaining powder can be stored in a fridge).
At last coriander leaves and curry leaves should be added.

Baby corn masala

Ingredients:

Baby corn 8
Onions 2big
Green chillies 5
Cashew 7-10
Tomatoes 3 medium
Capsicum 1 small
Ginger garlic paste 2tsp
Red chilli powder 2tsp
Garam masala powder 1/2tsp
Turmeric powder pinch
Coriander powder 2tsp
Coriander leaves 1/2 cup


Method:

Cut the baby corn according to your required size.
Paste the cashew nuts and onions separately by adding some water.
Now take a kadai and add 4tbspn of oil.
Add onion paste,Ginger garlic paste and green chillies. Cook till onion paste leaves the oil.
Now add baby corn, tomatoes and cook for sometime by keeping lid.
Next cashew paste should be added.
When corn turns soft add capsicum pieces,salt, red chilli powder,turmeric powder, coriander powder and Garam masala powder. Cook for 5 mins by keeping lid.
Finally garnish with coriander leaves.

Sesame rice with carrot

Ingredients:

Boiled rice 4 cups
Sesame 1 and 1/2 cup
Dry red chillies 10 to 15
Grated carrot 1cup
Coriander seeds 1 tbspn
Mustard seeds 1 tspn
Bengal gram 2 tsp
Green chillies 7
Turmeric powder pinch
Curry leaves 10
Oil 6 tbpn


Method:

Dry roast the sesame, coriander and red chillies separately and powder them.
Heat oil in a kadai. Add mustard seeds, Bengal gram and curry leaves, sauté for a minute.
Now add slitted chillies and sauté for a min and add grated carrot. Toss this for 5 to 8 mins.
Now add turmeric powder and all powders. Sauté for 2 mins.
Finally add rice and mix well.
Tastes good with raita.

Homemade chocolates

Ingredients:

Butter 2tbspn(unsalted)

Peanut butter 1/2cup

Icing sugar 1/2cup

Salt pinch

Dark chocolate 225gms

White chocolate 225gms

Paper cups

Method:

Place the butter,peanut butter and salt in a microwave safe bowl.

Microwave the contents till they are soft.

Now add icing sugar and stir. Microwave for 20 seconds.

Next double boil the dark chocolate and white chocolate till they melt. We get a thick chocolate sauce.

Now coat the sauce to paper cups and place the peanut butter content in it and again cover this with chocolate sauce.

Fill all the paper cups same as above procedure and refrigerate for an hour.

Semolina Idli

Ingredients: 

Semolina 2cups
Curd 3cups
Oil 3tbspn
Mustard seeds 1/2tspn
Cumin 1/2tspn
Ginger finely chopped 1tbspn
Curry leaves 5
Carrot grated 1/2cup
Salt  


Method:

Beat the curd till it become soft.
Keep a kadai on the stove. Add oil. Now add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, ginger. Fry for a minute. Now add grated carrot and fry for 5mins.
Next add semolina and fry for another 5mins. Mix this to the curd and leave for 5 to 10mins.
After 10mins place this mixture in Idli plates and cook same as like idlis.
Coconut chutney is good combination.