Wednesday 2 February 2022

Flax seeds podi, అవిసె గింజల పొడి, flax seeds chutney podi

 Flax seeds podi, Flax seeds chutney powder with tips and video. Flax seeds also known as avise ginjalu in Telugu, aali vithai in Tamil, agase bijagalu in Kannada. We South Indians love to have different varieties of podi's , this flax seeds podi is one in that. It is very healthy, tasty and easy to prepare. Though we can prepare this podi in many ways, today I am sharing my version podi recipe,  which tastes good with breakfasts like idli, dosa, upma, roti's. I already shared this recipe in my channel, do check out by clicking below link... 

flax seeds podi. I have different varieties of podi recipes. I shared it end of this recipe. Do check out recipes ...


       In busy days we can also prepare quick rice item using this flax seeds podi. I regularly prepare  Flax seeds podi rice with masala aloo jeera fry for hubby lunch box. Whenever we have heavy breakfast or when we want prepare any simple rice item then flax seeds podi rice is the best option. I shared this recipe both in English and Telugu (అవిసె గింజల పొడి అన్నం )do check out.. 



 What other recipes do you prepare using flax seeds. I prepare this podi and flax seeds laddu recipes regularly. Also love to add fried and lightly salted flax seeds along with my salted dry fruits. If you prepare any new recipes, do comment I will try it 😀

Event : Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge


Taking this healthy and tasty flax seeds chutney podi recipe  to "Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge" fb group started by Priya, and taken further till date by Mayuri di ND Renu. I liked curried chickpea stuffed sweet potatoes recipe shared by Mayuri di. I also saved Renu's steamed broccoli vadi recipe to try soon. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it.

                                     


 This month theme Stick to seeds was suggested by Archana, who blogs at "themadscientistkitchen",  I like her style of sharing detailed informative in every post. I also bookmarked her  khubani ka meetha recipe to try,. This month I'm paired with Sasmita sahoo, who blogs at "firsttimercook", check out her space for authentic Odisha recipes. She shared Chana dal and red chili as secret ingredients, I prepared this tasty flax seeds podi. In turn I gave yogurt and jamun as secret ingredients, she prepared yummy Jamun smoothie with mixed seeds recipe.

                         Flax seeds podi

Preparation time : 15 minutes
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 250gms +
Category : Podi
Recipe Cuisine: Indian 
Main ingredients : Flax seeds

Ingredients

Flax seeds - 1 cup
Urad dal - 1/4 cup
Chana dal - 1/4 cup
Coriander seeds - 1/4 cup
Grated dry coconut - 1/4 cup
Cumin seeds - 2 tsp
Fenugreek seeds - 1/8 tsp
Byadigi red chilli  - 10
Guntur red chilli - 10
Garlic - 1 pod
Curry leaves - 1/2 cup or fist full
Tamarind- small lemon size
Oil - 2 tsp
Salt - as per taste

Instructions 

1)  Firstly dry fry coriander seeds on low to medium flames till you get nice aroma and then take it into plate.

2) Now dry fry both urad dal and Chana dal till they changes color and then take into same plate.

3) Later dry fry fenugreek and  cumin seeds on low flames till u get nice aroma and take into plate.

4) Now dry fry flax seeds on low to medium flames, when seeds starts popping out take it into separate plate.

5) Later add oil to this add both varieties of red chillies and fry for a minute and then take into plate.

6) Lastly fry curry leaves, garlic and tamarind and then take into plate.

7) Let all the ingredients cool to room temperature.

8) Later grind all the fry ingredients other than flax seeds and garlic to fine powder by adding required amount of salt.

9) Now add flax seeds, garlic and grind it coarsely.

10) Take prepared flax seeds podi into plate and let it cool to room temperature.

11) Later store this podi in dry and air tight container.
 

               

  That's it our flax seeds chutney podi is ready. Serve this with any breakfasts or even with hot steamed rice and dollop of ghee. D't forgot to check this recipe in our youtube channel Vasus vegkitchen.  

 Tips

** In order to increase shell life of podi, store it in dry and air tight container.

** Use good quality dry coconut to get good taste to podi. 

** Dry frying ingredients increase podi shell life.


Also check other podi recipes by just clicking the link below pic..

               Nalla karam podi

                          


                        
                 kakarakaya podi / bittergourd chutney powder
                                       
                                     Vangibath podi (video link)

                         
                                    Milagai Podi / Idli Dosa podi




       Peanut / ground nut powder


              Curry leaf powder

   Andhra kobbari karam podi

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Thursday 30 December 2021

Hot and sour vegetable soup

Hot and sour vegetable soup is super tasty, healthy and comfort soup recipe for this winter season. This soup gives good relief to throat and its very healthy too.  We use basic vegetables like carrot, beans, cabbage, sweet corn, spring onions, mushrooms etc.. sauces like soya sauce, red chili sauce adds good taste to soup. Purple cabbage was available in my pantry while preparing this soup, so i used it. It gave good color to my soup, instead of purple cabbage you can also use white cabbage too.

Do check out this hot & sour vegetable soup recipe in our youtube channel ..

        We add little quantity of sugar in order to balance the sour taste of soya sauce. I shared carrot soupspring onion, carrot badam soup, drumstick leaves soup, sweet corn soup recipes in my blog do check out...



Event : Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge

Taking this tasty and comfort and winter special hot and sour vegetable soup  to "Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge" fb group started by Priya, and taken further till date by Mayuri di. Do check her space for wonderful recipes. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it.

                                     


This month theme "healthy ideas" was suggested by our admins Renu & Mayuri di. I liked curried chickpea stuffed sweet potatoes recipe shared by Mayuri di. I also saved Renu's steamed broccoli vadi recipe,  do check out.This month I am paired with Preethi Tandon Shridhar, who blogs at cakesandcurry. I love all her cake recipes, they are super delicious and very unique to try too. I bookmarked her latest Blueberry lemon cake to try. For this theme she gave vinegar and carrot as secret ingredients, in turn I gave apple and thyme as secret ingredients. Preethi ji prepared very healthy Carrot apple ginger soup, do check out.

       Hot and sour veg soup 


Preparation time : 10 minutes
Cook Time : 15 minutes
Serves : 2 bowls
Category :Soup
Recipe Cuisine: Indian 
Main ingredients : veggies, soya sauce

Ingredients

finely chopped  👇
onions - 1/2 cup
carrot - 1/2 cup
beans - 1/2 cup
Spring onion greens - 1/2 cup
spring onion whites - 3/4 to 1/2 cup
roughly chopped capsicum  - 1/2 cup
shredded cabbage - 1/2 cup
finely chopped ginger - 1 tsp
red chili sauce - 1 tsp
soya sauce - 1 tsp
sugar - 1/2 tsp
corn flour - 1/2 tsp
pepper powder - 1 tsp(adjust)
garlic - 1 tsp(chopped)
ginger & green chili - 1tsp (crushed)
salt - as per taste
oil - 1 tsp

Instructions 

1) Cut all veggies as said and keep it aside.

2) Heat 1tsp of oil in a wide kadai, to this add finely chopped garlic fry it for few seconds.
 
3) Now add crushed ginger & green chili - fry it for seconds.
 
4) Later add finely chopped  onions, fry it for few seconds. 

5) Now add carrot, beans and fry it for few seconds. 

6) Later add cabbage, capsicum and mix everything well. Let veggies fry for a minute.

7) Then add required amount of salt, red chili sauce, soya sauce and mix everything well and cook it for a minute.

8) Later add 3 to cup of water(adjust), sugar, pepper powder, half of the spring onion greens,whites and mix  everything well.

9) Boil the above veggies mixture for 5 minutes.

10) Meanwhile prepare cornflour slurry, for this - take 1 tsp of cornflour in a cup, add 1/4 cup of water and mix everything well without forming any lumps. 

11) Add prepared cornflour slurry in soup and mix well. 

12) Boil soup for 2 more minutes, soup will become bit thick after boiling.

That's it our hot & sour soup is ready, garnish it with remaining spring onions greens and serve hot. Enjoy this restaurant style hot & sour soup with your family :)
 

 Also check other soup recipes by just clicking link below pic...

                                    


                  

               
                                   
                                  carrot soup



                                           
                                spring onion carrot badam soup

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Sunday 31 October 2021

Poornam bobbatlu || Pooranam holigalu || puran poli || Poornam bakshalu

Poornam holigalu || Poornam bakshalu || Puran poli with pics and tips. Happy Diwali - 2021 to all friends and family 🎆🎇Poornam bakshalu is Indian flatbread prepared by using different stuffings. Puran poli is also popularly known as bobbatlu or bakshalu in Telugu, holige in Kannada and poli in Tamil. This is one of the main sweet recipe prepared on special occasions in South India. Mainly in my home town Adoni it is prepared on special occasions like Ganesh festival, Vara Lakshmi pooja,Diwali, Lakshmamavayya jathara, functions like marriages, naming ceremony etc.., We can prepare different varieties of poli like puran poli, coconut poli, vegetable poli, karam poli, sooji poli. In all these Puran poli is very popularly, which is prepared by using sweet dal stuffing called as poornam in Telugu. We can prepare dough using all purpose flour or wheat flour or chiroti rava. Today I am using chiroti rava to prepare dough instead of maida. Let's start recipe..

 



Event : Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge

Taking this delicious puran poli  to "Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge" fb group started by Priya, and taken further till date by Mayuri di. Do check her space for wonderful recipes. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it.

                                     

This month theme "Diwali Dhamaka" was suggested by admins Mayuri & Renu. I bookmarked Mayuri di's kalakand and Renu's milk powder chocolate ladoo  recipes to try for coming Diwali. I am paired with Kalyani who blogs at "Sizzlingtastebuds", do check her space for different varieties of recipes from different regions. I gave saunf and powdered sugar as secret ingredients, she prepared air fryer makhana chivda recipe.In turn Kalyani gave me chiroti rava and toor dal as secret ing, both ingredients helped me to get tasty bobbatlu.

                             Poornam Bobbatlu

Soak time : 3 to 4 hours 
Preparation time : 20 minutes
Cook Time : 30 minutes
Serves : 15 poli
Category :Sweets/ Desserts
Recipe Cuisine: Indian 
Main ingredients : Chiroti rava, dal & jaggery

Ingredients

For dough 

Chiroti rava - 2 cups

salt - 1 pinch

turmeric powder - 1/4 to 1/2 tsp

oil - 1/2 cup(adjust)

For stuffing 

toor dal - 1 cup

chana dal -  1 cup

grated jaggery - 1&1/2 cup to 2 cup(adjust as per your taste)

elachi powder - 2 tsp

 Others:

ghee - 1/2 cup to fry poli 

Instructions

Dough Preparation

1) Take chiroti rava in a wide bowl to this add salt, turmeric powder and mix everything well.

2) Now sprinkle water little by little and mix everything well till get smooth dough.

3) Now add 1/4 cup of oil and knead it well till dough absorbs oil, later add remaining oil and rest it for 2 to 4 hrs by closing lid.  


 

 Stuffing/ poornam preparation 

1) Wash & soak both toor dal and chana dal in enough water for 1 hr.

2) Now take dal in pressure cooker and add 4 cups of water(for 2 cups of dal add 4 cups of water )  and pressure cook it for 2 whistles.

3) Let the pressure comes down naturally, strain dal and remove water completely. Let it cool to room temperature and becomes bit dry .

4) Now grind cooked dal by adding jaggery to smooth paste and take it into bowl. 

5) If prepared poornam is thick then add elachi powder and mix everything well and keep it aside to cool.

6) Otherwise take prepared poornam/puran in kadai, cook it on low to medium flames by adding elachi powder till it becomes thick and then let it cool. 

7) Now pinch some dal mixture, mold it as round ball and keep it aside.

Poli preparation  

1) Take poli paper which we used to prepare poli or butter paper or banana leaf or any thick cover like oil covers. Add some ghee or oil on it and spread it well, also apply ghee or oil to your hands.

2) Now pinch lemon size dough, spread it like small poori. Then place prepared dal stuffing/puran/pooram and close it without having any pleats as shown.


3) Now press the above with your fingers all the corner and give it round shape as shown.

4) Take the above prepared poli cover in one hand and reverse it on our hand and then spread it on hot tawa. If you are using butter paper or banana leaf then directly place it on tawa leave it for a second and then remove banana leaf. 

5) Add ghee on and around poli and fry it for few seconds, later turn it other side and fry till it changes color both sides.

6) Puran poli is ready, take it into plate. Repeat the same process for remaining, serve it hot by adding lots of ghee on it 😋😍.
 

Tips

** Instead of chiroti rava you can also use maida.

** you can also use either toor dal or chana dal.

** Make sure that puran or poornam is thick.

**Inorder to get delicious bobbatlu use ghee to fry poli.

Also check other sweet recipes by just clicking links below pic..


                           
Temple style chekkara pongali

                              Flax seeds laddu

                                         Maharashtrian narali bhatt

                                 
Pineapple rava kesari
                                  
Oats & nuts laddu

                              Rajasthani moong dal hal


               
                                                        Besan Ladoo      

         
                     Poha Badam Ladoo

                              
                     Ragi Peanut ladoo            


       Sabudana Coconut Ladoo




              Puffed Rice/Maramarala Ladoo


Ellu Bella Mix
                                
                               
                                                  bread gulab jamun



                          Sweet Pongal



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Friday 1 October 2021

Sweet corn pulao

 Sweet corn pulao is one of the tasty pulao recipe which is very easy to prepare and perfect for lunch box and parties. I made it healthy by adding veggies like carrot and beans. You can also add peas in this pulao or simply you can skip adding veggies. Who d't like pulao's and biryani's ?? kabuli chana pulaoHyderabd dum biryani are my favorite rice items. I made this sweet corn pulao bit spicy by adding freshly prepared masala mix, as corn taste sweet. And I prepared this pulao in electric cooker which I recently purchased, pulao came out very tasty with perfect texture.  We can pair this corn pulao with raita like pomegranate raita or simple cucumber onion raita. We can also have it with kabuli chana curry , Kaddu ka dalcha or with any paneer gravies. 


Event : Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge

Taking this tasty sweet corn pulao to "Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge" fb group started by Priya, and taken further till date by Mayuri di, I bookmarked her turkish bulgur pilaf to try soon. Do check her space for wonderful recipes. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it.

                                     


This month theme is "Exotic Biryani & Pulao suggested by Swaty, I bookmarked her Lucknow veg dum biryani to try soon . This month I am paired with Seema, she gave cloves and cumin seeds as secret ingredients. In turn I gave her yogurt and mint. She prepared very tasty and healthy South Indian one pot mushroom biryani using those secret ingredients. Do check out her space "mildlyindian" for yummy and tasty recipes. I also bookmarked her biryani achar to try soon.

                                 Sweet corn pulao

Preparation time : 15 minutes
Cook Time : 20 minutes
Serves : 2 persons
Category : Biryani/ Pulao
Recipe Cuisine: Indian 
Main ingredients : sweet corn
Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients

Sweet corn kernels - 1 cup
rice - 1&1/2 cup
onions roughly chopped - 1 cup
carrot - 1
beans - 5
oil - 2 tsp
ghee -2 tsp
cloves - 2
cinnamon stick - 1 inch
cardamom - 1
star anise - 2
cumin seeds - 1 tsp
biryani powder - 1/2 tsp
salt - as per taste
coriander leaves - 1 tsp(finely chopped)

For grinding

green chilli - 3
ginger chopped - 1 tsp
garlic - 5
black pepper corn - 1/2 tsp 

Instructions

1) Rinse basmati rice twice in water and soak it for 30 min in enough water.

2) Heat wide pan with oil and ghee to this add cashew nuts, fry till it changes color and then take it into plate.

3) Now add cardamom, cloves, cinnamon stick, star anise and cumin seeds and fry till you get nice aroma.

4) Now add roughly chopped onions and pinch of salt, fry it on medium flames till it changes color. 

5) Mean while grind all the ingredients mentioned in "For grinding" in ingredient list to coarse paste with out adding any water and keep it aside.

6) when onions starts changing  color then add sweet corn kernels, chopped carrot and beans fry it once. Close the lid and cook it for few minutes.

7) Now add prepared masala paste to the above and mix everything well, let it cook till its raw smell goes away.

8) Now add required amount of salt, biryani masala powder and mix well. 

9) Now transfer the above mixture in electric cooker bowl, to this add 2 glasses of water. Close the lid and press electric cooker button to cook mode.

10) It will take minimum 15 min to cook, when electric cooker button comes to keep warm mode switch of the cooker.

11) Let it set for sometime later add 1 tsp of ghee, finely chopped coriander leaves and fried cashew nuts and mix everything well gently.

That's it our sweet corn pulao is ready to serve :)

Tips

** If you are using basmati rice, for eg 1 glass of basmati rice then use 1&1/2 glass of water for cooking and d't forgot to soak it for 30 min.

** If you are cooking in pressure cooker, pressure cook it for 3 whistles for normal rice.

** As we are using green chilli and pepper corn paste, pulao tastes spicy so add biryani masala powder accordingly or skip adding pepper corn.

** You can skip adding veggies. 

Also check other related recipes by just clicking the link below pics...

                                   

                                 
                                             Pepper Rice / miriyala annam


                                     

                                                               Mango Rice

                                           

                                                             gongura pulihora

                             
                                        Pudina rice

                                              Green Peas Pulao

             Amla Rice/ Usirikaya Pulihora

  






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