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Bisi bela bath

Bisi bela bath :-
  Ingredients :-
        Rice - 1cup
        Toor dal - 1/2 cup
        Tamarind - small lemon size
        Onions - 1 small
        Green chillies - 4
        carrot pieces - 1/4 cup
        Beans - 1/4 cup
        Green peas - 1/4 cup
        Capsicum - 1/4 cup
        Tomato pieces - 1/4 cup
        Radish - 1/4 cup
        Drumsticks - 2
        Ladies finger - 1/4 cup
        Cauliflower pieces - 1/8 cup
        Hing - 1 pinch
        Salt - to taste
        Turmeric powder - 1 pinch
        Oil - 3 tsp
For seasoning :-
        Curry leaves - few
        Mustard - 1/2 tsp
For powder :-
        Broken cashew nuts - 2 tsp
        Cardamom - 2
        Cinnamon - 1 inch piece
        Cloves - 3
        Coriander seeds - 1 tsp
        Chana dal - 1tsp
        Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
        Dry red chilies - 4
        Mustard - 1/4 tsp
        Urad dal - 1 tsp
Preparations :-
        Cut all the vegetables and kept them in a plate

        Dry roast the all ingredients for powder and let them cool

        Soak the tamarind in water
        Soak the rice and dal in water separately

Process :-
       Take a heavy bottomed pan and oil
       Let the oil heat and then add mustard seeds
       Let them splutter and then add curry leaves
       Then add green chilies and onions and fry for 2 min
       Then add vegetables one by one and let them fry for 10 mins
       And then add turmeric powder and mix well
       Now wash the soaked rice and dal
       Then add washed rice and dal to the pan
       Now add water and salt to the pan
       Allow it to boil until the rice and vegetables cooked well
       Then add already prepared spices powder and tamarind juice also
       Be careful when adding water to the tamarind
        If the tamarind juice is too juicy, the recipe is look like sambar rice

       Make sure when adding water
       Finally add coriander leaves and switch off the flame

Serve hot with bundhi
    You can add brinjal also

Jilebi

Jilebi :-
  Ingredients :-
        Maida - 1 cup
        Urad dal paste - 1 cup
        Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
        Sugar - 1 cup
        Oil - for deep fry
        Lime juice - 1 tsp
Preparations :-
        Mix the urad dal paste and maida like a thick batter
        If you need water, you can add water during preparation of batter
        Add 1 tsp of warm oil to the batter, it helps in fermentation
        Leave it 24 hours for fermentation
        Before fermentation the batter looks like this

        After fermentation batter looks like this

        The batter with air spaces
        Next day before starting preparation of jilebi, prepare the suger syrup
        Take sugar into the wide vessel and then add water to the suger
        Let it boil until it gets the single thread consistency

        Once it get the single thread consistency switch off the flame and add lime juice

       It prevents the recrystalisation of syrup into sugar
       Heat the oil for deep fry
Process :-
       Prepare cone with a plastic cover
       Mix the batter well with hands before filling the cone, to reduce air spaces

      Then fill the cone with batter
      Then make rolls in oil like this

      Fry them until golden color (don't fry them until brown)

      Remove them from oil and place them in sugar syrup

      Leave them for 1 min to absorb the sugar syrup into them
      Then remove them from syrup and transfer them to plate

   Enjoy with your family members when they are hot

Muffins

Muffins :-
         All purpose flour - 2 cups
         Sugar - 3/4 cup
         Salt - 1/2 tsp
         Baking powder - 3 tsp
         Egg - 1
         Milk - 1 cup
         Veg oil - 1/4 cup
Preparations :-
         Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl & keep it aside
         Beat the egg, milk and oil well in a separate bowl
         preheat the oven at 205
Process :-
        Mix the dry ingredients and beaten mixture well
        Do not beat the mixture
        Then pour the mixture in baking cup cake pan

        Place the tray in oven and bake it for 25min

Variations :-
        There are number of variations in muffins
        For raisin variation - add 1 cup of raisins to the mixture
        For berry variation - add 1 cup of cut blue berries
        For dates variation - add 1 cup of dates
        I used raisins in my muffins
All you need to do is think in different manner for different variations

        enjoy eating muffins

Ugadi pachadi

Ugadi Pachadi :-

Ingredients :-
         Neem flowers (vepaputha) - 1 tsp

         Bananas - 6 no
         Tamarind - medium lemon size
         Jaggery - 250 gm
         Mango (raw) - 1/2
         Coconut - 1/4 of half coconut
         Fried chana dal - 5tsp
         Salt - 1/4 tsp
Preparations :-
         Soak the tamarind in 1 cup water for 1 hour
         Then squeeze the tamarind Juice from tamarind pulp
         To this add grated jaggery  and mix well
         After jaggery melting in tamarind juice, strain the mixture
         Then mash the bananas (not completely, leave some pieces)
         Clean the neem flowers ( I usually add neem flower petals to this)
         Cut the coconut into small pieces
         Peel the mango and then cut into small pieces
         pulse the fried chana dal on mixie
Process :-
         Take a large bowl and add mashed bananas to the bowl
         To this add tamarind juice and jaggary mixture
         Then add all the ingredients one by one to the banana mixture

         If you want you can add little more water

       
    This is my favorite traditional food 
    Enjoy my recipe with your family members