Recipe for White Pasta :
Ingredients :For Pasta: 3/4 cup pasta, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 4-5 cups of water
For Vegetables: 1/2 teaspoon oil, 1/4 chopped (carrot, green capsicum, red capsicum and broccoli), salt to taste
For White Sauce: 1½ table spoon butter, 1 tablespoon Maida/Wheat flour, 1 cup milk(250ml), 1/4 tablespoon oregano, pinch of black pepper/ red chilli flakes, if needed pizza seasoning like 1.4 tablespoon oregano.
Procedure :
- Heat the water for a minute on high flame Add pasta to it and little salt, heat it for additional 10 minutes on medium flame. Keep stirring in between so that the pasta doesn't stick to the bottom of the container. After boiling, drain out the water from pasta.
- Chop all the vegetables, Take a pan and add butter, now add onions in the pan and saute it for 2 minutes and add other vegetables one by one. keep them aside.
- Table another pan ass Maida/ Wheat flour, keep stirring for 10 minutes add milk.
- Keep stirring for 5 more minutes and add the boiled pasta along with the cooked vegetables.
- Garnish it with cheese and grill it for 5 minutes. Garnish with oregano seasoning and chilli flakes/ black pepper. Hot white sauce pasta is ready to serve. Enjoy!
Recipe for Vermicille / Semiya Payasam :
Ingredients : Serves 3- 3/4 cup of vermicelli / semiya ( non roasted)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/8 cup of cardamom powder or few strands of saffron
- 200 ml of water ( you could avoid water if you need thick payasam
- 2 teaspoon of ghee
- Cashew nuts and raisins as needed
- Take a heavy bottom pot and add ghee . Add cashews and sauté it till it turns brown and add raisins and saute it too . Keep them aside for garnishing.
- Add semiya / vermicille in the pot and roast it till it turns golden brown and keep it aside.
- Add milk to the pot and let it boil in the medium flake. Add the vermicille/ semiya to the milk and let it get fully cooked. Keep stirring from payasam get burned.
- Add sugar and cardamom / saffron and stir for 5 more minutes for the payasam to thicken.
- Garnish with raisins and nuts.
Recipe for Appalam Vathakuzhambu :
Ingredients : Tamarind , sambar powder, salt, asafodita, Musturd,Til oil , Red Chillies . fenugreek ,iyer's plain applam made into pieces and kari leavesProcedure : Heat 2 table spoon of til oil in the tawa, add mustard, asafodita, fenugreek,red chillies , broken pieces of iyer's plain papad, fry it for few seconds and then add sambar powder, salt , tamarind juice and kari leaves . Allow it to boil for 10 to 15 minutes in low flame . Delicious papad Vathakuzhambu is ready to eat with hot rice.
Note : You can also make delicious Sundakai / Manathakali/ Clusterbean vathal kuzhambu in the same way replacing papad with iyers sundakai vathal / iyers manathakali vathal / iyers clusterbean vathal . One can use vatha kuzhambu powder instead of sambar powder for the better taste.
Recipe for making Vatha Kuzhambu Powder :
Ingredients :- Coriander seeds - 3/4 cup
- Normal Dried Red Chilli - 20
- Kashmiri Dried Red Chilli - 20
- Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu - 1/4 cup
- Urad Dal / Ulundu Paruppu - 1/4 cup
- Whole Pepper - 2 tblspn
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tblspn
- Fenugreek Seeds / Methi / Vendayam - 1.5 tsp
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tblspnOil - 1/2 tsp + 1/2 tsp
Method:
- Heat 1/2 tsp oil in a heavy bottom kadai. Add in all the ingredients except dry red chilli and saute for a good 10 mins on medium heat till everything is nicely toasted. Remove it to a plate and let it cool down.
- Now in the same kadai. Add the remaining 1/2 tsp oil and fry the chillies for 5 mins till it is golden. Remove it to the same plate and let it cool completely. Now first take chillies in a blender and powder them coarsely. Then add the roasted spices and grind them to a fine powder.
- Remove that to a plate and let the powder cool.
- Store in a air tight container or store them in fridge.
Recipe for Masala Papad Chaat :
- Microwave or deep fry masala papad .
- Spread the chat on top of the papad and serve
Recipe for Gold Finger chaat :
Preparation :Similar way prepare the chaat masala with all the ingredients and stuff it into deep fried gold finger and serve immediately.
Recipe for Appalam Kootu / Papad dal curry :
Ingredients :
- Grind Fennel seeds and Coconut , Coconut – 3 spoons, fennel half spoon
- Grind into a fine paste by adding 1/3 cup of water
- Pressure cook the Channa Dal till nice and soft and keep aside. One cup channa dal
- Heat up a pan add in oil and fennel seeds
- Add in curry leaves. 8-12 leaves
- Add in onions and saute until the onions are translucent, 1 onion
- Add in tomatoes. 1 tomato
- Add in salt, as required
- Add in chilli powder and saute for 2 to 3 mins, as required
- Add in cooked channa dal and add in coconut paste.
- Add in water and cook for 5 mins and switch off the stove.
- DeepFry the pappad (plain papad, mini papad, sago sandige any flavor)
- Add the pappad and mix everything well and keep in simmer for 2 mins.