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Saturday, October 3, 2020

Tips for making Batchanams

Ingredients:
  • If savories are prepared in a large scale, add salt and Vitis (Pirandai) to water .
  • Boil for a while, let the vitis cook well.
  • Filter and cool. Use this solution to kneading the dough.
  • This renders the savories crisp and prevents them from bursting.


Method:
  • If the ghee or butter is not enough for kneading, first add some backing soda
  • with ghee or butter.
  • Rub nicely till it froths up.
  • Now add this to the flour and make dough.
  • Fry Udad dal in a kadai and make powder by using mixer grinder.
  • Use this to make cheedai and thatai.
  • If it is excess after-wards make danger pachadi with that.

Magizhambu Thenkuzha - Manamkumbu

Ingredients:
  • 2 cups rice flour
  • 1 cup besan
  • 2 - 3 tea sp. sesame seeds (white or black)
  • a pinch asafoetida
  • 2 - 3 sp butter
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil to fry


Method:
  • Mix all the ingredients well and make soft dough.
  • Heat oil in a pan. Take Thenkuzhal achu and put the mullu muruku disc.
  • Now put one hand full dough in that.
  • Press on the hot oil, and make round magizhambu thenkuzhal/ manamkumbu/mulluhenkkuzhal.
  • Turn it once and wait for 2 min. or till it becomes golden brown.
  • Check the crispness by puting one piece on the floor.
  • Do all the dough and keep the Magizhambu Thenkuzhal in a air tight container.

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Mixture - Royal but Simple to make

Ingredients:
  • 500 gms corn flakes Plain
  • 150 gm cashew nut
  • 150 gms badam
  • 100 gms kis mis - dry grapes
  • 1 sp sugar
  • 1 sp red chilly powder
  • ½ sp salt
  • curry leaves
  • 1 – 2 tab sp ghee or oil


Method:
  • Cut cashew nuts into two pieces.
  • Soak badam in hot water for 15 min.
  • Remove skin and make it into two pieces.
  • Keep aside.
  • Wash ‘kis mis’ and dry them.
  • In a big pan pour oil or ghee.
  • Put kis mis, cashew nuts, badam one by one and fry well.
  • Add curry leaves.
  • Reduce the flam and add corn flakes.
  • Mix well. Switch off the stove. Remove from the fire.
  • Now add red chilly powder, salt and sugar. Mix well.
  • Your Royal Mixture is ready toserve.

Fried Corn flakes

Ingredients:
  • You will get corn flakes and sabudhana flakes in Madras. We have to fry them in oil.
  • Get them from shop.
  • 200 gms corn flakes - fry in oil and keep aside
  • 200 gms sabhdhana flakes - fry in oil and keep aside
  • 100 gms fried aval/ poha
  • 100 gms boondi
  • 100 gms omapodi
  • 50 gms roasted ground nuts
  • 50 gms roasted cashew nut
  • One hand full of fried wheat chips
  • salt
  • red chilly powder
  • sugar


Method:
  • Just mix every thing.
  • Enjoy the Mixture

Poha Chevda - Aval Mixture 2

Ingredients:
  • 200 gm Poha - thick varity - dry fry
  • 100 gm Roasted peanuts
  • 100 gm Puttu kadalai
  • 50 gm Cashew nuts
  • 50 gms Raisins / kis mis
  • 50 gm Sesame seeds
  • 25 gm Feenel seeds / sonf
  • 4 - 5 length red chilly
  • salt as per your taste
  • sugar as per your taste
  • Turmeric powder 1/4 sp
  • Mustard seeds 1 sp(optional)
  • L.G. Powder - hing
  • 2 sp oil


Method:
  • Place the Kadai in gas stove, pour oil, after the oil heated, put mustard.
  • Add red chilly, cashew nut, dry grapes, hing powder, turmeric powder and curry leaves one after another.
  • Now add balance ingredients, add salt and sugar.
  • Stir well for five minutes.
  • Now the poha chevda is ready.
  • Total cooking time is just 10 to 15 minutes. Easy to prepare.

Poha Chevda - Aval Mixture

Ingredients:
  • Thin poha 200 gm.
  • Thick Poha 50gm.
  • Potukadalai 50 gm
  • Groundnut 50gm. Roast and remove skin
  • Cashewnut 20 gm
  • kis mis 10gm
  • Green Chilly 1 or 2 chopped
  • Salt and Chilli as per your taste
  • L. G. Powder 1/4 teaspoon
  • Turmuric powder 1/4 teaspoon
  • Mustard seeds 1 teaspoon
  • Oil to fry 1-1/2 teaspoon
  • Curry leaves 1/4 cup
  • Sugar 1/2 tea spoon


Method:
  • Place the ingredients separate in Microwave Plate for one minute, better to cook half minute each to avoid over roast.
  • Place the Kadai in gas stove, pour oil, after the oil heated, put mustard.
  • Add green chilly, cashew nut, dry grapes, hing powder, turmeric powder and chilli powder, and curry leaves one after another.
  • Now add all roasted ingredients, add salt and sugar.
  • Stir well for five minutes.
  • Now the poha chevda is ready.
  • Total cooking time is 10 to 15 minutes.
  • Easy to prepare.


Notes:
  • If you are not having MW, Just dry fry poha and add it to the mixture.

Mixture - The real one

Ingredients:
  • This you can make by mixing all ingredients.
  • Ingredients:
  • 100 gm Bhoondi
  • 100 gm Omapodi / seve
  • 100 gm fried ground nuts
  • 50 gm fried cashew nuts
  • 50 gm fried ‘puttu kadalai’ / prossed channa dal
  • 50 gm fried poha / aval
  • curry leaves
  • salt to taste.
  • Red chilly powder to taste


Method:
  • Just mix all of them.
  • That is all. Your mixture is ready.
  • In this you can add ‘kara sev’ also.

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