Aachi Samayal

Serve it after cools down.

Serving per recipe : 15

Calories per serving : 350

INDIAN TIFFIN SAMBHAR

When it is dosai i always think of this Tiffin sambhar, One of my favorite sambhar what my mom used to make. It is simple and easy but with those crispy dosai when you dip inthis sambhar and eat it will be like heavenly. When i was a kid when my mom used to make this sambhar i wont know how many dosa's i eat.  It will taste really good and i used to lick till the last drop :) The taste of the tomato, little tangy and the green chili to add little spice to the dish and few chopped onions that will add texture and crunchiness here and there. I will have this for all three meal. The taste buds will be so excited:)

It is very simple and easy thing to do. You can make it in less than 10 mins. This will be a good choice when you are in a hurry in the morning or dinner. Kids must be super hungry and you ave dosai batter then this sambhar will be a good choice to make. It saves you time and tastes really good. My kids love this. They used to say "Mommy can i have that sauce, it is to yummy" I will be blushing when they say so :) !!! 

Cuisine : South Indian

Preparation time : 5 mins

Cooking time : 5 mins

Course : Side dish

Main Ingredient : Tomato and besan Flour

Ingredients :

Besan Flour - 5 tbsp

Tomato - 2 cubbed

Onion - 1 cup chopped

Green chili - 4 slit

Red chili powder - 1 tbsp

Turmeric  - 1 tsp

Curry leaves

Salt as required

Preparation :

• Itis time to make my favorite recipe, Ok first thing you have to do is grind Tomato, a chili(according to your spice intake) and besan together. The besan is the key to make the dish nice and thick. IT gives that thickness to the sambhar so it is not watery. 
• Now in a Pan, add 1 tbsp of oil and add mustard, urud dal , when it starts to crackle you can add the curry leaves. I love to add curry leaves to all my south Indian dishes, its the taste and the smell that enhances the recipe. 
• After the curry leaves are done, now add the onion to add the crunch to the recipe, saute really good. It has to turn nice and brown. Till then you can keep sauteing. 
• When the onion is done, add the tomato, chili, besan paste to the pan. With little water, or the besan will immediately thicken when it starts to cook. So while add the mix, add with little water so it is not too thick. 
• Now you can add red chili powder and turmeric. Turmeric is added to all my South Indian dishes. It is good to add.
• You can turn the heat down and wait for it to cook or coming to a boil.
• Add salt to the dish as required. 

Enjoy my favorite sambhar and i have lot more sambhar recipe you can have a look. Happy Eating!!

SPINACH CHAPATHI WITH PANEER STUFFING

I love this recipe so much. It is so healthy and yummy too. Made with Chapathi flour and Spinach. I first ate this dish in a restaurant, they make very nice Spinach chapathi. I really loved it. Then i wanted to make them at home and serve my family for dinner. Then guessed the ingredients and it came out well. It was exactly the same as they did. Might be they added little of All purpose flour for the softness and the texture but i didn't add All purpose flour.

My kids hope add the kids hesitate to eat green spinach if it is cooked as such and served with rice or Flat bread. So this was kind of easy and at the same time very healthy too. They don't know what was added init to make green, so when i give them i say "Today's dinner is green chapathi" They are excited to eat a different thing and also excited about the color. So i am happy to make it once in two weeks. Paneer of-course everybody loves it, so these two combo is a great hit in my house. Yippee!!!

Ingredients :

Preparation :

• For the stuffing what i made was, Took a pan, turned on the heat and added little oil, may be around 2 tbsp of oil. When the oil gets hot i added little onion and then some garlic chopped. When they are done you can add some capsicum if you want or just ignore it. Then add the paneer (Indian Style Cottage cheese), but instead of making them into cubes you can crumble it and cook them with the onion and garlic. Now add some salt, chili (Paprika)powder, turmeric and keep sauteing. When it is done keep it aside. The stuffing is ready. 
• Lets make the dough for Spinach chpathi. To make the dough first you have to cook the spinach. In a large wok or a pan you can add litlle oil and turn on the heat.
• Then now when the oil is hot enough you can drop the washed spinach leaves and close it with the lid by adding little salt for taste. The spinach will be done in no time, after it is done you can cool it for a minute and then grind them in a grinder. It should be a fine paste, no need to add water to it. 
• Mix all the ingredients with the dough, as seen in the picture.

• And make a nice soft dough, it will look like this.

• Now heat a iron tawa or a skillet, when it is hot enough, make small balls out of the dough and start rolling them and start making chapathi. 

BASUNDHI

It is one of my fav dish, i love this sweet very much. Tried making a couple of times, this time it was nice. Just milk and sugar with some nuts gives a excellent taste.

Cuisine : Indian

Preparation time : 5 mins

Cooking time : 1 hour

Course : Sweet

Main Ingredient : Milk

Ingredients :

Milk - 4 cups

Sugar - 2 cups

Cardamon - 2 crushed

Saffron - 4 to 5 strings

Nuts - Pista or Almonds chopped

Preparation :

MAAVIZHAKU

It is done for some functions.
இது  ஒரு பிரசாதம், கடவுளுக்கு படைக்க வேண்டும் .

Cuisine : South Indian

Preparation time : 5 mins

Cooking time : 10 mins

Course : Main dish

Main Ingredient : Rice flour and jaggery 

Ingredients :

Rice flour - 2 cups

Jaggery - 1 cup crushed

SPINACH / KEERAI PORIYAL

Spinach can be handled in so many different ways, you can make it as a salad, as a sauce add them in curry, in sambhar or as a chopped and cooked poriyal. I have also made spinach chapathi by cooking the spinach and grinding it and adding with the Wheat flour.  I always want them to be added to some part of my meal. It is rich in iron and good for kids at their growing age. Its a very yummy and healthy food.

When I was in my childhood age, we had a lot of Spinach dishes in our meal. My grandma used to make  variety of dishes out of spinach and also we had so many varieties in spinach too, not just the salad spinach. As i am here in California i don't find many kinds. So when ever i go to India i try few of those Spinach dishes always. 

Cuisine : South Indian

Preparation time : 15 mins

Cooking time : 10 mins

Course : Side dish

Main Ingredients : Spinach and coconut

Ingredients :

Spinach - washed and chopped 5 cups

Coconut - 1/2 cup shredded

Red chili - 2 nos

Mustard and Split urud dal - 1 tbsp

Salt to taste

Curry leaves few

Preparation :

Serve it with some rice

Serving per recipe : 2

Calories per serving : 50 approx