Dahi Idli

This can be done with fresh or leftover idlis.

Ingredients
1. 1 cup of sour curd
2. Quarter cup of grated coconut
3. 2 green chilies
4. 1 inch piece of ginger
5. 3-4 idlies

For Seasoning
1. Two spoons of oil
2. Quarter teaspoon of mustard seeds
3. A pinch of asafoetida
4. Quarter teaspoon Urud Dal
5. 4-5 Curry Leaves

How to make it
1. Grind coconut, chilies and ginger into a nice paste.
2. Add the above to curd.
3. Add salt as per taste.
4. Mix well.
5. Heat the leftover idlies in the microwave for a minute.
6. Cut them into square pieces and add into curd.
7. Mix well and leave aside for 20 minutes.

Before Serving
1. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds.
2. When they start spluttering add urud dal, asafoetida and curry leaves (in that order).
3. Garnish and serve. (This can also be served cold i.e. after refrigeration)

Crispy Stuffed Bread "Tasty evening snacks with leftovers"

Ingredients
1. 3-4 slices of bread
2.  1/2 teaspoon of red chilly powder
3. 1 1/2 tablespoons of curd
4.  a pinch of salt
5. Leftover vegetables
6. Oil to fry

How To Make It
1. Cut the bread into small pieces.
2. Add salt, red chilly powder and curd to the pieces to make a tight dough (it should not be in the consistency of a paste) enough to hold on and roll into shapes.
3. Make lemon size balls out of it, flatten it and place a little leftover curry inside and roll ti into any shape you want with your hand.
4. Heat oil in a kadai or fry pan and deep fry these till golden brown.
5. Serve hot with pudina and mint chutney or sauce and hot tea.

Aloo boondi cup - Cooking without fire

Ingredients
1. 2 large boiled potato
2. 1/2 a cup of boondi
3. 1/2 cup of sev
4. 2 spoons of finely chopped tomatoes
5. 2 spoons of finely chopped onions
6. 1 spoon coriander finely chopped
7. 1 spoon finely chopped
8. 1 green chilly finely chopped (optional)
9. 1/2 spoon lime juice
10. 2 spoons tomato sauce
11. 2-3 spoons of curd (optional) 
12. Groundnuts roasted 2 spoons

How To Make It
1. Peel the boiled potatoes, cut it into 2 pieces breadth wise and scoop the middle part out to make cups. Even the base by cutting a piece from the back so that the cup would sit.
2. Chop the scooped out potatoes into small pieces.
3. Add all the other ingredients except curd and sauce and mix well.
4. Fill the potato cups with this mixture.
5. Decorate using sev, curd and/or sauce.

Aalo Paratha (stuffed flat bread)

Ingredients

1. Whole Wheat Flour(atta) 1 cup

2. 1 large boiled potato

3. 3 spoons of finely chopped coriander

4. 1 spoon green chilly finely chopped

5. 1 spoon mint leaves finely chopped (optional)

6. Oil

7. Salt to taste

8. Water/milk

How To Make It

1. Take a bowl and put the whole wheat flour and add salt and three spoons of oil and mix evenly.

2. Peel the boiled potato, add coriander mint and a little salt and mash it finely.

3. Add this to the wheat flour and knead it into a fine dough adding water or milk.

4. Roll it into large lemon size balls and spread them into round flat bread.

5. Heat a tava/.fry pan and grease it with oil or ghee and cook he parathas or flatbreads till they are golden brown on both sides using oil or ghee.

6. Serve hot with boondi raita, green chutney and chole.

Green Peas Curry

Ingredients
1. 100 grams dry green peas (soaked overnight).
2. 1 medium sized onion chopped(optional).
3. 1 large tomato chopped.
4. 2 inch piece of ginger finely shredded.
5. Jeera( cumin seeds ) 1/2 teaspoon.
6. 2 bay leaves.
7. Black cumin seeds (kalonji) 1/4 teaspoon.
8. Methi ( Fenugreek ) 1/4 teaspoon.
9. Coriander seeds 1/4 teaspoon.
10. 2-3 tablespoons of chopped coriander.
11. 4 green chilies slit.
12. Sugar 1.5 tablespoon or as per taste.
13. Salt As per taste.
14. 1 large lemon/ 2 tablespoons of lemon juice.
15. Turmeric powder 1/4 teaspoon.
16. Water.
17. Oil 3 teaspoons or 2 tablespoons.

How to do it
1. Boil the green peas in a cooker for 5-6 whistles
2. Take a fry pan and heat oil in it. Add cumin seeds, black cumin, coriander seeds, fenugreek, bay leaves, turmeric powder, and sugar.
3. Add the chopped onions and fry till golden brown.
4. Then add the tomatoes and ginger and cook for a minute.
5. Add green peas, salt and bring to a boil after adding water.
6. Add the chopped coriander, green chilies and lemon.
7. Serve hot with roti.

Enjoy

Pizza Dosa

Ingredients
1. Dosa Batter
2. Capsicum
3. Tomato
4. Onion
5. Cheese (optional)
6. Corn (optional)

How to do it
1. Cut all the vegetables into round slices.
2. Heat a fry pan or a tava and pour some dosa batter and spread it into a thick, small uthappam.
3. Place the cut vegetables on top of the dosa and cover it with a lid and allow it to cook in a low flame after adding some oil for 2 minutes.
4.Serve hot with tomato chutni or coconut chutni.

Note: Add the cheese spread on top of the cut vegetables.

Spicy Easy Peas Pulao

Ingredients
1. Bunch of coriander leaves
2. Bunch of mint leaves(pudina)
3. 3-4 Pods of garlic
4. 5-6 green chilies
5. Two spoons of tamarind pulp or lemon juice
6. 100 grams of green peas (boiled)
7. 250 grams of cooked basmati rice
8. 1 spoon of cumin seeds (jeera)
9. 2 bay leaves (tej patta/biriyani leaves)
10. 3 spoons of ghee and 3 spoons of oil
11. 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric powder
12. Salt to taste

How to do it
1. Clean chop coriander leaves, pudina leaves, garlic and green chilies and grind them into a fine paste and add tamarind pulp or lemon juice.
2. Heat oil in a pan and add jeera and bay leaf.
3. Add boiled green peas, the paste, the turmeric powder, and the salt and cook till the oil starts to ooze out.
4. Add basmati rice, a little salt (for the rice) and ghee and mix well.
5. Serve hot with boondi raita and papad.

Note: you may prepare the paste and store it in a container to be used as and when required but do not add peas to the paste while storing it.

Coconut laddo- Sweet without using fire

Ingredients
1. Desiccated coconut / Grated coconut.
2. Milkmaid.
3. Kaaju (Cashew nut), Badam (Almonds) or any other nuts and dry fruits as per your taste.

How to do it
1. Finely chop the dry fruits and nuts.
2. Add this to the coconut and mix well.
3. Now add milkmaid or condensed milk little at a time and roll it into ladoos.
4. Coat it with grated coconut or finely chopped nuts as per preference.

Note: You may also add food color to the milkmaid while mixing to give the ladoos color.

Cheesy spicy toast(Cheese Chilly Toast)

Ingredients
1. 2 slices of bread
2. Cheese spread
3. Green chilly - 2 Finely chopped
4. Capsicum (Green and Red) - 2 spoons finely chopped
5. Butter
6. Salt

How to do it
1. Take 4 spoons of cheese spread in a bowl .
2. Add green chilly, capsicum and a pinch of salt to it and mix it well.
3. Spread this mixture evenly on one side of the slices.
4. Heat a tava or pan and grease it with butter.
5. Toast the bread slices on medium flame, with the cheesy side facing up, till they are nice and crisp
6. Serve hot with tomato sause

Tomato Onion Chutney

Ingredients
1. 2 medium sized onions
2. 3 medium sized tomatoes
3. 3 green chilies
4. 2 table spoons of fresh coriander finely chopped
5. 2 spoons of oil

How to do it
1. Chop the onions and tomatoes
2. Heat oil in a pan
3. Add onions and sweat them for a minute
4. Add tomatoes and cook till tomatoes become tender
5. Cool it
6. transfer it to a mixer jar and add the green chilies, coriander, and salt( and sugar optional)
7. Grind to a fine paste
8. Empty into a serving bowl

Note: If you don't want the onions Omit them

Healthy Veg. South Indian Dish- Vegetable Adai(multi pulses dosa)

Ingredients

1. 1 glass of rice

2. 1/4th glass of moong dal or green gram

3. 1/4th glass of toor dal

4. 1/8th glass of  channa dal

5. 1/8th glass of urud dal

6. 4 green chillies 

7. 10-12 Curry leaves 

8. 1 Table spoon of black pepper

9. 1/4th tea spoon of asefoetida

10. 1 carrot finely grated 

11. 1 onion finely chopped

12. 1 capsicum finely chopped

13. 1 table spoon of finely chopped coriander

14. Grated cabbage

15. Salt to taste

16. Oil

How to make it

1. Soak rice in water for 8-10 hours

2. Soak the pulses in water an hour before grinding

3. Put soaked rice and pulses, asefoetida, pepper,curry leaves, green chilly, and salt in a mixer jar and grind them to a fine consistency

4. Empty the batter in a bowl and add grated carrot, cabbage, onion, capsicum, and coriander

5. Mix well and set aside for three to four hours for fermenting

6. Grease a heated tava or a pan with oil, pour some batter and spread it into a circular dosa shape

7. Pour a little oil around it

8. After a minute flip the dosa over to cook it from both sides

9. Serve hot with coconut or tomato chutney

Instant cake without using fire

Ingredients
1. 6 Sweet Biscuits
2. ENO or any other fruit salt.
3. Sugar
4. Milk

How to do it
1. Soak the biscuits in milk.
2. Add sugar and mix well to form a nice and smooth batter
3. Add a teaspoon of ENO or any other fruit salt
4. The cake is ready

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