Chenna Samosa Chat

Chat items are really liked by all.I did it for a dinner party and all liked it.

Ingredients:

Chole
Samosa
Imli chutney
Corriander chutney.

Let us see how to make each of this.

Samosa:

You can buy frozen samosas and fry it.
Orelse you can make samosas

Ingredients for Samosa Filling:

Potatoes------------4 ( medium sized)
Peas----------------1 cup
Onions--------------2 (big)
Green chilli--------2
Cumin seeds---------1 spoon
GaramMasala---------1 spoon
Corriander powder---1 spoon
Chilli Powder-------1/2 spoon
GingerGarlic Paste--1 spoon
Turmeric Powder
Salt

Cook Potatoes and Peas .
Heat the pan and fry onions,cuminseeds,green chilli.
After it turned golden brown add the cooked vegetables.
Add the masala,ginger garlic paste and other powders along with salt and mix it well.
Now the filling for samosa is ready.

Samosa Cover:

Ingredients :

Maida-----------4 cups
Ghee------------2 spoons
Salt
Baking Powder

Mix the ghee with a pinch of baking powder.
When bubbles are formed add maida and salt and mix it together and make a soft dough.
Fold the dough like a triangle and fill it with the mixture and fry it.

For chole:

Soak the chenna for 10 hrs.
Cook it in cooker and allow it for 3 whistles.
After some time fry the cuminseeds,sombu,onion,tomatoes,garam masala,dry mango powder.After it is fried add the chenna and mix it thoroughly.
Chole is ready

Now let us make the chutneys.

Imli Chutney;

Imli-----------------2 spoons of imli paste.
salt-----------------1 1/2 teaspoon
sugar----------------3/4 teaspoon
black pepper powder---1/4 spoon

Mix the paste with water and make it watery.
Add the rest and mix it well.

Coriander chutney

Coriander leaves-----1 bunch
Garlic cloves--------2
Ginger---------------1/2 "
Green Chilli---------2

Grind all the ingredients and the chutney is ready.

Now we can arrange the chat

First put chole
Pour the imli chutney
Put the samosa pieces
Put the coriander chutney
Put chole and continue this .

For Garnishing

Put some chopped onions,coriander leaves and nylon sev.

Now the chat is ready and tastes yummy.

Pesaratu

My husband like this dish a lot.After eating in a restaurant,i tried it.It turned out so good.Here you go!

Ingredients:

For Dosa:

Dosa Dough------4 cups.
Onion-----------2 (medium sized)
Green chillies--3
Ginger paste----1 spoon.

For Upma:

Rava(semolina)----2cups
onion-------------1
green chillies----2
water-------------1 cup

Dosa dough

Put 4 parts of rice and 1 part of urad dhal and grind .

Procedure:

First prepare upma.

Heat the oil and add mustard seeds,green chilli,onions and let it fry.
Add semolina to it and fry till it turns golden brown.
Add hot water ,salt and let it cook.
Now our upma is ready.
Grind onion,green chillies and ginger paster together and add it with dosa dough.
Add salt and make the dough a little more watery than usual dosa dough.
Make dosas as usual.
Then in the front part of the dosa,keep the upma and let it cook for a few seconds.
Remove from heat .

It is so tasty with sambar and cocunut chutney.

Semiya Kesari

Semiya kesari is a very good desert.It is so easy to make and tastes yummy.


Ingredients:

Semiya------------2 cups
water-------------1 cup
sugar-------------1 1/2 cup
milk--------------2 cup

For garnishing
cashews
raisins
ghee.

Procedure

Fry the semiya in ghee till it turns golden brown.
Immerse the fried semiya in hot water.

Fry the cashew and raisins.
Take a deep vessel and add 1/2 cup of water and 1 1/2 cup of sugar and let it boil.
While it is boiling,add the immersed semiya and stir continuously.
Add the milk and continue stirring till it is cooked properly .
Add the cashews,raisins and a pinch of cardamom powder and take it from the vessel.
Transfer to a vessel after applying ghee in it.

Morkozhambu

This is a very famous kozhambu made during functions.It is quite easy and tastes good.

Ingredients:

Bengalgram dhal--------------2 spoons
Urad dhal--------------------2 spoons
Fenugreek--------------------1/2 spoon
Green chili------------------7
Grated Coconut----------------1/2 cup
Lady's finger or white pumpkin
Curd --------------------------1 cup

Procedure
Fry the dhals to golden brown.
At the final stage of frying add green chilly along with them and fry for a little while.
Grind all these with coconut as a paste.
In the vessel,pour water and allow it to boil for sometime
Add the vegetable either lady's finger or white pumpkin and cook.
Add pinch of turmeric powder and required salt.
Meanwhile add the paste with curd.
After the vegetable is cooked add the curd (mixed with paste) and allow to boil for some time.
After 10 min remove from fire.
Fry the seasonings like curry leaves and mustard and mix it with the kozhambu.
Mix it with rice and definitely you can enjoy the taste.

BrinjalCurry (EnnaiKathrikai)

This is a very famous dish in south india.People who do not like eggplant really start eating the vegetable after tasting this.


Ingredients:
Red Chilli---------3
Bengalgramdhal--1spoon
Urad Dhal--------1/2 spoon
Coriander seeds--2spoon
jeera -------------1/4 spoon
Smalleggplants----6

Procedure:

Fry all the dhals in little oil .
Add salt ,pinch of asafoetida and grind it.
Cook the brinjal in microwave for 5 min
Then cut open the brinjal to 8 pieces,do not cut into individual piece.
Stuff the powder in brinjal and fry the brinjal in oil.
The brinjal will turn black ,but definitely it tastes good.

You can also make it as a gravy.

Veggie Roll

Veggie Roll is a good evening time snack.It is so simple and delicious.

Ingredients:

Carrot-2
Potato-1
Peas---50 gm
beans--50 gm
Onion--1 cup (finely chopped)
Ginger Garlic Paste--1/4 spoon
Green Chilli
Garam Masala
Cumin Seeds
jeera
Oil for frying

Procedure

Heat the frying pan with oil.Fry the jeera and cumin seeds,the onion and chili till onion becomes golden brown.Meanwhile cook the vegetables in microwave.After the onion is fried ,add the vegetables ,ginger garlic paste and garam masala and mix it well.While you add potato smash them well and add.Mix it well so that the vegetables are well mixed with the masala.Add salt to it and remove from stove.

Now we can stuff this in pastry sheets and fry in oil.
If you would like to make the pastry sheets we can also make it.

Ingredients for Pastry sheets

Maida Flour (All purpose flour)----3 cups.
water -----------------------------3/4 cup
A pinch of salt.

Mix the maida flour with water .The dough should be flexible like we make it for chappathis
Spread it like chappathi .Now the veg stuff can be kept into it and can be closed well and fried.

This is really very good to health and tastes yummy.

carrot Halwa

Carrot Halwa is one of the most famous south indian sweet.This is liked by all.

Ingredients:
Grated Carrot---------4 cups
Sugar---------2 cups
Milk----------4 cups.
Ghee
Cashews

Procedure:

Grate the carrots and put it in the vessel.Pour the milk and allow the carrot to cook in the milk.It may take time but keep checking it often.After 20 to 25 min the carrot will be mostly cooked.Add the sugar by stirring continuously .When it looks like completed pour 2 table spoon ghee and take away from the stove.Fry cashews ,small bits of almonds over it .

A simple delicious sweet.