Onion chutney

ONION CHUTNEY
INGREDIENTS
Onions                    - 5 medium sized
Garlic                      - 6 cloves
Tamarind               - 1 lemon sized
Chilly powder       - 4 tsps
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Cumin powder      - a pinch(for flavour)
Oil                            - 2 tbsp
Salt                          - to taste

METHODS
1. Clean and chop the onions and keep a side.
2. Heat the kada with oil. Add garlic and saute well.
3. Then add onions,cumin powder and tamarind and saute till the onions become transparent. Add salt as required so that the onions will be cooked faster.
4. Add turmeric powder and then add chilly powder and saute well without burning the chilly powder.. saute till the oil seperate from the onions.
4. Now your ingredients are ready for chutney.. Let the sauted items cool for few minutes.
5. Grind it into a fine paste. A spicy tasty onion chutney is ready to serve.. (you can store it in refrigerator for 2 days.)

Bread Halwa

BREAD HALWA:
INGREDIENTS:
Bread                  : 20 slices
Sugar                  : 1 cup
Cardamom        : 4
Cloves                 : 2
Ghee                    : 1/2 cup
Rice flour           : 1 tsp
Cucumber seeds: 3 tsps(optional)
Cashews             : 20 nos.
Almonds             : For seasoning
Rose essence      : 2 drops(optional)

METHODS:
1. Heat a flat pan with 2tsp ghee. Take the bread slices and make it to a small pieces and saute to golden brown without burning it in the ghee.. then keep aside.
2. Now take a pan,add 1/4 cup of water and add sugar. Make a sugar syrup. Along with add crushed cardamom and cloves so that it flavours good..
3. When the sugar syrup is ready add the sauted bread and mix well..
4. By the side roast the cashews, almonds, cucumber seeds and rice flour in the ghee and keep a side..
5.. Now add the remaining ghee in every 1 min to the bread and mix well.. the flame should be in medium..
6. When you added the complete ghee add rose essence and give a single mix.
7. Finally mix all the roasted nuts and stuffs with the halwa.
8. Season with few crushed almonds.. now you are done with the Bread Halwa with fabulous consistency, flavours and taste. Happy eating 😊

Sweet green gram(toddler's special)

SWEET GREEN GRAM
INGREDIENTS:
Green gram        : 1 cup
Palm jaggery      : 1
Cardamom         : 3 nos.
Salt                       :  1/4 tsp
Grated Coconut : 1/4 cup
Ghee                    : 1 tsp
Cashews              : 5 to 6 nos.

METHOD:
1. Wash the green grams and add salt with it. Add 2cups of water to Pressure cook.
2. Now pressure cook the green grams to about 3 whistles.
3. At the same time extract the plam jaggery syrup and drain it.. so that the dust particles from the jaggery will be removed.
4. Add the cardamom and cooked green grams in the jaggery syrup and cook for 5 mins.
5. Now cool and take the cooked items in a mixer and add the grated coconut. Give a single grate for partly coarse.. for toddlers can make it to a complete paste..
6. Now the sweet is ready.. serve sweet with ghee and roasted cashews.

FRIED RICE (HOMEMADE)

 

FRIED RICE

INGREDIENTS
Baasmathi rice         : 1 cup
Carrot                        : 1
Beans                         : 5-6 nos.
Chilli                          : 1
Ginger garlic paste : 1.5 tsps
Butter                        : 3 tbsp
Salt                             : as required
Water                         : 2 cups
Cashews                    : 10 nos.
Dried grapes             : 10 nos.
Cinnamon                 : 1

Cardamom                : 1

Cloves                        : 1

METHODS
1. Clean and soak the rice for 20 minutes in the  ratio 1:2 of water

2. Chop the veggies evenly as per your wish.. Chopping lengthy is better.
3. Heat the pan with 1.5 tbsp of butter. Add Cardamom, cloves,Cinnamon and saute slightly.
4. Add the chopped veggies one by one and add chillies finally. Cook the veggies for some times and add ginger garlic paste.
5. Saute till raw smell disperse. Then add rice and salt.
6. Add the water which you have used for soaking the rice.. no need to add excess water since the rise is soaked well.. 
7. Pressure cook the rice for 1 whistle. And switch off the flames..
8. Add the remaining 1.5 tbsp of butter in a pan and roast the Cashews and dried grapes and garnish the rice.. Sprinkle the butter above the rice that remains after roasting nuts.. Happy appetite.. Keep supporting *Ferdin'skitchen*

Sukku coffee

SUKKU COFFEE
INGREDIENTS:(To prepare coffee powder)
Dried ginger(sukku) -100 gms
Corriander seeds      - 150 gms
Pepper corns             - 1 hand full
Cardamom                 - 3 pieces
Cumin seeds              - 2 tsps
Indian long pepper  - 2 small pieces (optional)

METHODS:
1. Grind the above mentioned ingredients to a fine power.
2. Store it in a well drained jar for future use.

INGREDIENTS: (To prepare sukku coffee)
Sukku coffee powder -2 tsps
Palm jaggery                -1 medium sized
Water                             -6 cups

METHODS:
1. Heat the pan with water.
2. Add palm jaggery and dissolve completely.
3. Add 2tsps of sukku coffee powder and allow it to boil. The complete process will take to about 15 to 20 mins.
4.Drain the coffee and hot serve.. A best refreshing coffee for head aches, cold and cough..

Tips: Those who feels hard to drink coffee without milk can add little milk along with this coffee. It will be quite tastier... A traditional sukku malli/sukku coffee.. never late.. better to have this coffee as a remedy instead of medicines.. happy drinking coffee ☕