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Cooked moongfali Chatkari moongfali ready to serve :)

Ingredients:

  • Peanut (Moongfali)  : 1 cup
  • Tomato                     : 1 medium size
  • Onion                        : 1 medium size
  • Green chilly             : 1 small size
  • Salt                           : 1/2 teaspoon or as per taste
  • Chat masala             : 1/4 teaspoon or as per taste
  • Lemon as per taste
  • Coriander leaves for garnishing

Method:

  • Take a glass bowl and add peanuts to it.
  • Heat it in microwave for 2 and half minutes with settings at 900W.
  • Keep aside for cooling.
  • Chop green chilly, coriander laves, onion and tomato into small pieces.
  • Mix chopped vegetables into the cooked peanuts.
  • Add salt and chat masala and mix them well.
  • Add lemon juice to enhance the taste and serve as a simple to make starter. :)
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Ingredients

For preparing plain rawa idly

  • Curd                     :    1 cup
  • Rawa (Sooji)          :   2 1/2 cup
  • Salt                       :   1 1/2 tea spoon
  • Eno                       :   1 tea spoon
  • Oil for garnishing the idly plate

For preparing coconut fried idly:

  • Kadi pata
  • Rai                                :   1/2 tea spoon
  • Lemon juice                  :   1 teaspoon
  • Oil                                 :   1 table spoon
  • Salt                                :   1 1/2 tea spoon or as per taste
  • Water                             :   2 table spoon
  • Green Chilly                   :   2
  • Turmeric powder           :   1/4 tea spoon
  • Chat Masala                   :   3/4 tea spoon or as per taste
  • Grated Coconut

Method:

For preparing plain rawa Idly:

  • Mix the rawa well in curd for the batter and add water appropriately to make it a semi-liquid.
  • Add salt to the mixture.
  • Keep the batter aside for 30 minutes for rawa to get soaked.
  • Remove the idly plate from the stand.
  • Apply little oil to each cup on the idly plate.
  • Add eno to the batter.
  • Fill each cup with the above batter and place the idly plates on the stand.
  • Pour 4 cups of water in the idly cooker and heat to the maximum.
  • Now place the filled idly stand in the idly cooker  and close the lid. (If using the pressure cooker, do not use the whistle)
  • Cook for 6 minutes, open the lid and remove the idly stand after 2 to 3 minutes.
  • Remove the idly from the stand and cut them into 4 pieces.

For preparing coconut fried idly:

  • Chop green chilly in long and thin pieces.
  • Put oil in the pan on high flame and heat it for 30 sec.
  • Add Rai and Kadi patta to the pan and cook it for 15 seconds.
  • Add green chilly to the mixture and cook it for 5 seconds more.
  • Add turmeric powder to the mixture and mix it well.
  • Add idly pieces to the mixture in the pan.
  • Add salt, chat masala and grated coconut to the pan and mix well along with 2 table spoon water.
  • Cook it for 2 minutes on medium flame.
  • Spread lemon juice on the cooked idly and mix it well.
  • Serve hot with green dhaniya chutney. :)


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Ingredients:     (For 4 people)

For boiling pasta:

  • Penni Pasta/Macroni                  : 1 cup
  • Water                                         : 2 1/2 cup
  • Refined Oil                                 : 1/2 teaspoon
  • Salt                                            : 1 teaspoon

For preparing white sauce:

  • Mushroom                             : 8-10 pieces   (optional)
  • Baby corn                              : 4 big or 8 small
  • Butter                                    :  2 tablespoon
  • Oregano                                : 1 tea spoon
  • Onion                                    : 1
  • Capsicum                              : 1
  • Maida                                    : 2 table spoon
  • Milk                                       : 2 3/4 cup
  • Salt                                        : 3/4 tea spoon
  • Pepper                                   : 1/2 tea spoon
  • Red Chilly flakes                    : 1/2 tea spoon
  • Cream                                    : 1/4 cup
  • Cheese                                   : 100 grams

Method:

For boiling pasta:

  • Add water, oil and salt in a container.
  • Heat it for 1 minute on high flame.
  • Add pasta to it and heat it for additional 10 minutes on medium flame. Make sure that the pasta is boiled properly as sometime it may take some extra time.
  • After boiling, separate out the pasta from water with the help of chalni.

For preparing white sauce:

(Following cooking steps are performed in microwave with settings at 900 W)

  • Chop all the vegetables into small pieces.
  • Add butter in a bowl and heat it for 30 seconds.
  • Add onion in the bowl and heat it for 2 minutes.
  • Add mushroom, baby corn, capsicum, oregano and heat them for 5 minutes.
  • Add maida to the cooked vegetables in the bowl and heat them for 30 seconds
  • Add salt, pepper, red chilly flakes, milk and heat them for another 6 mins
  • Add cream and boiled pasta to the mixture and heat it for 2 minutes.
  • Garnish it with cheese and grill it for 5 minutes.
  • Hot white sauce pasta is ready to serve :)
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