Masoor Dal

Ingredients (Translation)

1/2 cup Masoor Dal

1/2 cup Moong Dal

Salt to taste

1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder

1/8 tsp Red Chilli Powder

Ginger (grated) a small piece

2 Green chillies

1 Tomato (cut into small pieces)

1/2 tbsp Cumin seeds

1/2 tsp Ghee

Coriander leaves for garnishing

Wash both the dals. Add the tomato and water and cook it well. When cooked, add turmeric powder, red chilli powder, salt, grated ginger and green chillies.

Mix well and cook on medium flame for five minutes.

Heat the ghee in a small pan and add the cumin seeds. Add this to the dal.

Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves.

A simple and tasty dal is ready. It can be served with chapatis, dosas as well as rice.

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Tips for easy cooking

Ginger Powder-

During seasons for ginger when it is available at cheaper price, purchase them in large quanitities, clean them well under running water, grate them and dry well under sun. You can store it for long time and use in your everyday cooking. Its healthy too.

Amchur Powder-

Remove the skin of raw mango, grate it and dry well under sun. Crush it and store it for almost a year.

While making rasam, boil the tomato seperately, remove the skin and mash well with hands. Also extract the juice for tamarind and mash the dal well while making rasam. It turns out to be very tasty and also you can use it till the last drop.

Cover the vessel with a plate while mustard seeds splutter.It will not come out of the vesseland spread all over.

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Besan-Rava Ladoo

Ingredients (Translation)

1 cup Gram flour
1 cup Rava (roast the rava well and grind it to a fine flour)
1 1/2 cup Sugar (powdered)
1/2 tsp Elachi powder
1/4 cup Ghee (if required you could add more)
Cashews, raisin - 10 each

Roast the cashews and raisins in ghee. Melt the ghee and mix all the ingredients well. Form balls of the required size. If it breaks, you could add some more ghee to it to make balls.

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Groundnut balls

Ingredients (Translation)

2 cups Ground nuts
1 cup Grated jaggery
½ tsp Elaichi powder
Water

Roast the ground nuts and remove the skin.

Add some water to the grated jaggery and heat it till it gets thick. To check if it is of the right consistency, put a drop of it in some water and try to form a ball of it. If a soft ball turns up, it implies the syrup is of the right consistency.

Immediately take out from the fire and added the roasted groundnuts along with elaichi powder.

Blend it properly and make balls of it while it is warm.
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