Quick And Easy Breakfast Recipe : Instant Rava Idli

Rava Idli is one of the famous South Indian breakfast dish, which takes very less time to prepare compared to regular Idli. Here goes the recipe of soft and puffy  Rava Idli.

Preparation Time: 60 minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Rava/Sooji
• 3 cups Curds
• 1 table spoon Cumin powder
• ½  table spoon Mustard seeds
• ¼ cup grated Carrot
• ¼ cup grated Coconut (optional)
• 2 – 3 Green chillies finely chopped
• ½ table spoon Ginger paste
• ½ table spoon Urad dal
• ½ table spoon Chana dal
• ¼ table spoon Baking soda
• Salt as per taste
• 6-7 Cashew nuts broken in to half
• A small bunch Coriander leaves finely chopped
• 1 table spoon oil

  Method:

• Heat oil in a kadai, fry cashew nuts and keep it aside.

• In the same kadai, heat ½ table spoon oil, add mustard seeds, urad dal, chana dal, green chillies, ginger paste and cumin powder one by one.

• When dal turns light brown, add rava and roast it nicely as shown in picture. Now add grated coconut and fry it for a while.

• Allow it to cool. After it cools, add salt, baking soda, cashew nuts, grated carrot and curd one by one. Mix it well without lumps. 
• Add water if required, to get the consistency of regular idli batter.

• Let the rava idli batter rest for 15-20 minutes .

• Pour it on greased idli moulds and steam cook for 10-15 minutes just as you do for normal idlis.
• Hot and tasty Rava Idli is ready. 

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Indian Sweets : Coconut Burfi With Jaggery | Kobbari Sweet | Konkani Soyi Khadi Recipe

Preparation Time: 60 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1 cup fresh grated Coconut
• ½ cup Crumbled Jaggery
• ½ table spoon Card
• Ghee to grease on the plate
• 8 – 10 coarsely fried and crushed Groundnuts

 Method:

• Heat a non stick pan. Place the coconut and jaggery mixture in it.

• The jaggery melts and stir the mixture well.
• Add the cardamom powder and groundnuts.

• Keep the medium flame and keep on stirring until it starts leaving the sides of the pan as shown in picture.
• Meanwhile grease a plate with ghee.

• Pour the above mixture in to the greased plate and spread it using greased cup.

• Let it cool.
• Now cut it into required shape.

• Yummy coconut burfi is ready.

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Indian Sweets : 7 Cup Sweet | Seven Cup Burfi Recipe

The name 7 cup sweet is because, 7 cups of ingredients are used to prepare this sweet.

Preparation Time: 60 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Besan/Chickpea flour
• 1 cup Ghee
• 1 cup freshly grated Coconut
• 1 cup Milk
• 3 cups Sugar ( But here I have used only 1 cup sugar. 3 cups makes the burfi tooo sweet.)
• 8 – 10 Cashew nuts and Almond 

 Method:

• Dry grind cashew nuts and almonds coarsely.

• Dry roast besan until the raw smell goes off. Do not roast too much till it changes color.

• Now add sugar, milk, grated coconut and ghee one by one slowly.

• Add coarsely ground cashew nuts and almonds, mix well.

• Keep the medium flame and keep on stirring until it starts leaving the sides of the pan as shown in picture.

• Meanwhile grease a plate with ghee.

• Pour the above mixture in to the greased plate and spread it using greased cup.

• Let it cool.

• Now cut it into required shape.

• Yummy 7 cup burfi is ready.

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Babycorn Masala | Babycorn Capsicum Side Dish For Roti

Preparation Time: 45 minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

• 15 Babycorns
• 2 medium Onion chopped
• 1 small Capsicum chopped
• 2 medium Tomatoes chopped
• 8 - 10 Garlic pods
• 1/2 cup Milk
• 1 table spoon Red chilli powder
• 1/4 table spoon Kasoori methi
• 1/2 table spoon Coriander powder
• A pinch of Turmeric powder
• 1/2 table spoon Cumin seeds
• 2 table spoon oil
• Salt as per taste

Method:

• Wash babycorn and cut them into small pieces as shown in picture.

• In a vessel put water and babycorn. Add a pinch of Turmeric and salt. cook till it becomes soft.
• When it is done drain the excess water and keep it aside.
• Heat oil in a kadai, and fry chopped onion and garlic pods, till the onion turns ligth brown.
• Now add chopped tomatoes and fry for a while.

• Put the contents of kadai in a mixer. 
• Add chilli powder, coriander powder and kasoorimethi. Grind it to smooth paste. 
• In a kadai, put cumin seeds. 

• When it starts spluttering, add coarsely choppod onion and capsicum. saute for 2 minutes.
• Now add the ground masala. Saute for some time till the gravy becomes thick.
• Now add babycorn and milk to the gravy.

• Let it cook for 5 minutes.
• Hot and spicy babycorn masala is ready to serve with hot roti.

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South Indian Style Rava Fish Fry | Konkani Style Fish Fry

Preparation Time: 60 minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

• Fish medium sized, 6 in number (I have Indian Salmon)
• 1 table spoon Tamarind extract
• 4 table spoon Red chilli powder
• 1 table spoon Turmeric powder
• ¼ table spoon Garlic paste (optional)
• 1 cup Rice Sooji/Rava
• Oil for frying
• Salt as per taste

 Method:

• Clean and wash the fish neatly. Cut it in small pieces as shown in picture.

• Prepare a marinade, by using all the above ingredients except oil.

• Apply marinade to fish and leave it for around half an hour.

• Heat non stick tava, dizzle oil.

• Roll the fish in sooji so that it gets a coating of sooji all around.

• Now fry the fish on medium flame on all the sides.

• Use oil if required.

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• Fish fry is ready.

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