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Sunday, January 26, 2020

BREAD CHEESE SANDWICH | CHAAT ITEMS

BREAD SANDWICH

INGREDIENTS:-
Bread Slices - 6 nos
Green Sauce - 3 tsp
Pizza Sauce - 3 tsp
Cheese slices - 3 nos.
Ghee/ Oil - for smearing on both sides of bread

FOR MIXED VEGETABLES:-
Mix everything together....
Boiled Potato - 1 tbsp
Grated Carrot - 1 tbsp
Finely chopped Capsicum - 1/2 tbsp
Deseeded Tomato, finely chopped - 1/2 tbsp
Finely chopped Onion - 1 tbsp
Chat masala - 1 tsp
Finely chopped Green chillies/Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp ( or as per taste)
Salt as required

METHOD:-

Smear oil/ghee on both sides of the slices of bread and set aside.

On one side of the bread smear, pizza sauce and spread 1 tbsp of the vegetable mix; then place a cheese slice above it. Take another bread slice and smear green sauce and cover it above cheese slice.

 



Similarly, prepare the remaining bread cheese sandwiches.

We can have as it is. or we can toast both sides.

Heat a dosa tawa, and place the bread sandwiches. Cover with lid for 2 minutes, keep the flame in sim. 
Flip the other side, cover it for  2 minutes in sim flame.

BREAD CHEESE SANDWICH IS READY...











Friday, January 24, 2020

DHANIYA COCONUT THUGAIYAL


DHANIYA COCONUT THUGAIYAL
INGREDIENTS:-
Dhaniya / Coriander seeds - 1/4 cup
Urid Dal - 1/4 cup
Coconut roughly chopped - half coconut, cut into pieces
Dried Red chillies - 8 to 10 nos.
Grated Jaggery - 1 tsp
Tamarind - 2 inches
Salt to taste
Oil - 3 tsp

For Tampering:-
Oil - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - 2 leaflet
Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp 

METHOD:-
(1) Heat a Kadai with 1 tsp of oil and roast red chillies and urad dal. Roast until urad dal changes to golden colour; replace it in the mixer jar.
(2) In the same Kadai, add 1 tsp of oil and roast the coriander seeds, till nice aroma arises. Coriander seeds tend to burn. So, roast in sim/low flame; replace it in the same mixer jar, where urad dal & chillies were added.
(3) Now roast the tamarind, till it softens; remove it and add to the above jar.
(4) Add 1 tsp of oil, and roast coconut pieces. Keeping the flame in low/sim, and cover the kadai with a lid and roast it until it turns a golden colour. Allow it to cool completely.
(5) Add required salt to the jar, using the pulse mode,
grind all the roasted ingredients except coconut.
(6) After grinding, add 1tsp of jaggery and roasted coconut and again grind it in pulse mode. Check for salt and spice. Now add water little by little, to make a coarse paste.
(7) Remove it in a bowl. Heat 1 tsp oil in the kadai for tampering and add mustard seeds. Allow it to splutter, then add curry leaves and asafoetida.
Add the tampering to the Thugaiyal.

Tastes better with Tamarind Rice, Curd Rice, Aappam, Dosai



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Kara Kuzhambu