Tagadu Pakoda

Saw this recipe some time back on a recipe show. A crispy and tasty savoury for tea time

Ingredients

2 cups maida
3/4 cup rice flour
Salt to taste
1 tsp ginger paste
Few curry leaves
Oil to fry

Make a soft dough of all the ingredients except oil and keep covered for 10 minutes. Make small balls of it and roll out the balls into medium thickness puri. Cut them into long strips and fry them on medium heat till light golden brown.

Serve as a snack during tea time.

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WYF:Kitchen Gadget event announcement

WYF:Kitchen Gadget event roundup

Kitchen Gadgets are the ones that make our life in kitchen easier, reducing the efforts and time involved in cooking. So, this month's theme for What's Your Favourite event is Favourite Kitchen Gadget..it could be your juicer, blender, grater, microwave, coffee maker, food processor, grinder or any other kitchen appliance(electrical as well as non-electrical). All you need to do is cook something with your favourite kitchen gadget and send it over to the event.

Please note that

1) After posting your recipe on your blog, please link it back to this announcement and add the logo if possible. In case you wish to send some dish that you have posted earlier, please repost it with the link to the event and the logo. Please restrict the number of entries to a maximum of 3.

2) Please post only vegetarian recipes for the event since this is a 100% Vegetarian blog. No eggs please. If you are a non-blogger, mail me the recipe and the picture.

3) Mail me the following details - Subject: WYF- Kitchen Gadget, your name, dish name and link to the post to easycrafts@gmail.com by 30th November '08. I will pick up the picture from your blog...you neednt send it. The roundup would be published during the first week of December.

Due to some personal reasons I may not able to post frequently on the blog and leave comments on your blogs as before for some more days..However, please do send in your entries as I want to keep the event going.

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Mixed dal payasam

WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS DEEPAVALI

This recipe is adapted from Priya's version at her blog Easy N Tasty recipes

Ingredients

1/2 cup Raw rice
1/4 cup green gram dal
1/8 cup Red gram dal
1/8 cup Masoor dal
1/4 cup bengalgram dal
1 cup Milk
1 cup Milkmaid
1 1/2 cups Sugar
1 tsp Cardamom powder
2 tbsp Grated Coconut
Few roasted nuts

Pressure cook all dals and rice with a cup of water and the milk till soft. Mash it well. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well. Cook for 3 to 4 minutes.

Serve hot or cold.

Sending it over to Aparna for her Blog anniversary celebrations.
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Whole Moong Rice

Ingredients

1 cup soaked and cooked whole moong
1 1/2 cups cooked rice
2 tsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp bengalgram dal
1/2 tsp blackgram dal
2 tsp vangi bhath powder
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
A bit of asafoetida
Few curry leaves
Finely chopped coriander leaves
2 tbsp roasted groundnuts.

Heat oil, add mustard seeds, bengalgram dal, curry leaves, asafoetida and blackgram dal. When it splutters, add turmeric powder and cooked moong to it. Mix well, add rice, salt, vangi bhath powder, roasted groundnuts and mix well for 2 minutes.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with raita of your choice.

Quick to make and easy enough to make in larger quantities for parties, Moong rice is my contribution to Srivalli's Rice Mela as well as my WYF:Party Food event.

Just 5 more days to go for the WYF:Party food event to end..Please rush in your entries as soon as possible. No late entries please
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