Rice - Household tips related to cooking rice

• To stop grains of rice from sticking together, add a few drops of cooking oil or a teaspoon of butter or margarine to the cooking water.
• For snowy white rice, add a few drops of lemon juice or vinegar to the cooking water.
• Rinse uncooked rice in a sieve under a cold running tap before cooking.This removes excess starch, so preventing the rice from becoming sticky.

Beans Curry

Ingredients :


Beans - 1/2 Kg
Ginger - 1" Piece
Green Chillies - 8
Salt - as required


For Seasoning :


Oil - 3 tspns
Chana Dal - 1 tspn
Urad Dal - 1 tspn
Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tspn
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tspn
Red Chilles - 2
Curry Leaves - 1 Spring


Method :

• First grind the ginger and green chillies with a little amount of water and make a fine past.
• In a pan heat 3 tspns of oil and do the seasoning.
• Add the chopped beans,salt and mix it well.And cover it with a lid.
• When the beans is half cooked add the grinded ginger & green chillies paste and mix it well and cook till it becomes soft.
• Serve it with Rice or Chapathi.

Mysore Rasam

Ingredients :

Ghee - 2 tspns

Chana Dal - 1 tbspn

Black Pepper - 1 tspn
Grated Coconut Powder - 1 tbspn
Rasam Powder - 1 tspn
Salt - as required

Tamarind - One Lemon Size Ball

Water - 2 Tumblers

Curry Leaves - 1 Spring

Cilantro Chopped - 1/2 cup

Turmeric - 1/2 tspn

Tomatoes Chopped - 1 cup

Toor Dal - 4 tspns

Hing - a pinch

Method :

• In a pan add 2 tspns of Ghee and roast the chana dal & black pepper for few minutes.
• When it gets cool down add 1 tbspn of grated coconut powder and blend it.
• Pressure cook the Toor Dal for 3-4 wistles and mash it.
• In another vessel boil tomatoes in the water along with turmeric powder and a littlebit of salt.
• When tomatoes become soft add tamarind juice and add 2 tumblers of water.
• When it comes to a boil add the blended mixture,Rasam  powder,hing,cilantro,curry leaves and the required amount of salt and bring it to boil.                                              
• When the Rasam mixture is boiling add the mashed Toor Dal and mix it well.
• Boil this for another 5 minutes.
• Transfer it to a vessel.        

                           

                                                                              

                                                               


Tasty Mysore Rasam is ready:-)))

Serve it with a hot rice.

Wheat Ravva Sweet

Ingredients :


Wheat Ravva - 1 cup
Jaggery/Sugar - 1 cup
Ilachi Powder - 1/4th tspn
Ghee - 2 tspns
Water - 2 cups
Cashews -10
Rasins- 10


Method :

• In a pan add a tspn of ghee and roast the Wheat Ravva until the raw smell goes.
• Remove the Ravva from the pan and add a tsp of ghee and roast the Cashews & Rasins.
• In a pan add 2 cups of water and let it comes to a boil.
• When the water is boiling add the Ravva and Jaggery and mix it well and put the lid on it.
• Keep stirring in between.
• Add Ilachi powder and mix it again.
• Cook the Ravva until all the water is evapourated.
• Take it into a bowl and garnish it with Cashews & Rasins.

Tasty Wheat Ravva Sweet id Ready:-)))


Note :
 If you are using sugar insted of jaggery use 1/2 cup of Milk when the wheat ravva is boiling in the water.It gives nice taste to the sweet.It will be very tasty.

7 Cups Sweet

Ingredients :

Besan - 1 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Ghee - 1 cup

Grated Cocount - 1 cup

Sugar - 3 cups
Ilachi Powder - 1/4 tspn

Method :

• First roast the Besan in a tspn of ghee in order to avoid the raw smell.
• Combine all the ingredients together in a heavy bottom pan and cook on a medium low flame.
• Cook stirring occasionally for about 20-25 minutes or until the mixture starts to get frothy. At this stage, you have to be hovering around the stove more often, stirring. Keep stirring frequently for another 15-20 minutes.
• After a while, the whole mixture starts to pull away from the bottom of the pan and starts moving with the spoon.
• Now add the Ilachi powder and mix it well.And stir it for another 5 mins.
• Remove the content onto a greased plate at this point and allow it to cool. 
• Now cut it into squares or diamonds when the mixture is slightly warm and enjoy the taste of this simple sweet.

Yummy 7 cup sweet is ready:-)))