Poorna Kozhukkattai

Ingredients:

• 1 glass of Raw rice
• 500g of Groundnuts
• 1 hand full of Jaggery
• Salt
• 2 tsp of Oil

 

First soak the raw rice in water for 30 minutes. Then allow it to dry in clean cloth without any water. Rice should be little bit wet but without water. At this condition make it as flour by using mixer grinder. Filter this flour.

Allow it to boil for 20 minutes in the idly cooker.

 

In between, take the groundnuts and just fry it deep. After that, remove the skins of the groundnuts. Otherwise, buy the fried and skin removed groundnuts from the provisional store. It will reduce our work.

 

Now make these groundnuts in to powder and add the sliced jaggery. Mix it well. Now the poornam is ready.

Take the boiled rice flour and add a little bit of salt. Mix it well. Now add 2 tsp of oil. Make it as dough by adding little bit of hot water. Use some stirrer otherwise it will be hot. Make it as soft dough.

Now make small round balls and press from the centre and make it as round shape. So that you can place the required pooram in the centre and close it well. Be alert that this shouldn’t have cracks.

Again keep this in the idly cooker and allow it to boil for 20 minutes. Place this in the sideways. It will stick if you place one above other while keeping it to boil.

 

Now your Poorna Kozhukkattai is ready…

Sarkari Pongal

 Ingredients:

• 1 glass of Raw rice
• ½ glass of Green gram
• 1 hand full of Jaggery
• 5 tsp of Ghee
• 10 Cashews
• 10 Dry grapes
• Salt

First soak the rice and green gram together for 30 minutes. Then place the vessel on the stove and pour nearly 3 glass of water and allow it to boil. After that, put the rice and green gram in the boiled water. Put a bit of salt. Overcook it. It should be watery. So that it will become little bit thick after getting cooled.

In between place another vessel on the stove and pour 1 glass of water. In this add the sliced jaggery. Allow it to boil. Now filter this and pour in the rice mix. Mix it well, so that the sweetness will spread.

Now place a small vessel on the stove and pour the ghee. Allow it to boil. First add the broken cashews. It should become little brown. Now add the dry grapes. This will bulge soon. Now pour it in the rice mix. Mix well.

Now your Sarkari Pongal is ready….

Cashews will take time to become brown, but grapes will bulge immediately. That’s why we should use cashews first and then grapes.

We have to use much amount of sugar to give sweetness. But, little bit of jaggery will give much sweetness. That’s why I used jaggery…

French Beans-Carrot Curry Recipe

 

 

Ingredients:

• 100g of Beans
• 2 Carrots
• 1 Small onion & tomato
• Chilli powder
• Salt
• Oil
• Mustard seeds
• Black gram
• Bengal gram
• Cumin seeds
• Fenugreek
• Turmeric powder
• Curry leaves

First chop the carrot and beans well. Without adding water, place this in the pressure cooker and allow it for 2 whistles. After 15 minutes, take these boiled vegetables outside.

Now slice the onion and tomato. Place the vessel on the stove. Pour the oil and allow it to boil. Then add mustard seeds and allow it to burst. Now add little bit of black gram, Bengal gram, cumin seeds, fenugreek and curry leaves. Add this sliced onion and tomato. Pour required amount of salt and little bit of turmeric powder. Now sauté them well. After that add required chilli powder to this mix.

Now add the boiled vegetables and again sauté them well. Check for taste. Now French Beans- Carrot curry is ready.

You can also add an egg to this while sauting. This will give you different taste. Kids will enjoy this as the vegetables are fully boiled and also egg is also their. We will be satisfied that we have given nice food to our kids….

Chicken Gravy Recipe

Ingredients:

• ½ kg Chicken
• Ginger-garlic paste
• 2 Onions & tomatoes
• Chilli powder
• Salt
• Chicken masala powder
• ¼ tsp Turmeric powder
• Cinnamon & Cloves
• Coriander leaves
• Oil

First prepare ginger-garlic paste along with cinnamon, cloves and 2 pieces of coconut. Then chop the onions and tomatoes. Cut the chicken pieces and wash them well.

Now place the pressure cooker on the stove. Pour some oil. After that, add some cinnamon and cloves. Now add chopped onions and tomatoes. Mix them well. Add required amount of salt and little bit of turmeric powder. Now sauté them well.

Then add the chicken pieces, ginger-garlic paste and also 1 tsp of chicken masala powder. Mix them well. Add required amount of water and chilli powder to this mix. Allow it to boil. Now check for taste.

Close the pressure cooker and allow it up to 3 or 4 whistles. After 15 minutes, open the pressure cooker and add some coriander leaves for smell.

Now your chicken gravy is ready. Try this…

Being a Mother…

One of my very happiest moments in my life was my son’s birth. I was the one who saw him first and also heard his voice first. It’s really a great gift from God. When I came out from ward, my hubby just ran towards me and gave a kiss on my forehead. Wow... What a moment...

I felt that I was the only luckiest in the world. I just realized that every woman will feel the same thing as I felt.

Now, he’s very naughty and also nearing his second birthday. Sometimes, I used to cry aloud to free from the troubles he used to cause me. He simply smiles at me or will stay calm. I can understand, you all were thinking that iam crazy. But what to do, sometimes we will loose our patience and get temper by our kids activity. As raising kids is the most difficult task according to me.

But, when iam angry with him, he realizes that. He will come to me and make me happy by laughing or calling me “amma or mummy”. As soon as I hear his voice, I will be forgetting all my pains.

I should thank by hubby in this time. Without him, I can’t manage our son alone. V are lucky to have him as husband/father….

Mother--- is the most difficult, happiest, proud position……

Finally I Stitched My First Chudidhar….

I took one of my old saree which has borders. So that I can use this borders to decorate my chudi.

I used my already stitched chudidhar which fits me well for marking purpose. Then without any disturbances, I folded the saree and marked with this chudidhar.

I used borders in my hands and also in the front inorder to look little bit grand. First I decided how the design will be and what are the things, I needed to do before attaching the shoulders of front and back piece.

I attached the designs in the front carefully. Then I stitched the side cuts. After that I stitched the neck. Now I attached the shoulders.

Then I attached the hands, after that I joined the sides of the pieces. Now my new chudidhar is ready.

All it needs is some creativity and to work peacefully. Try this…

My College Life …. Part 1

I just finished my schooling and got engineering seat in Electronics and Communication Engineering. Our class was my school’s first batch. So, obviously I didn’t have much exposure to outer world. My way was school to home and home to school. Imagine how it will be in the college.

After getting introduction, we are allowed to go to our classes. When I entered, it was like; I was in the middle of somewhere which is not at all familiar to me. Soon I heard languages which I don’t know.

In our class, mostly were Telugu students. Their fluency was excellent. Iam not that much fluent with my English. So I started to struggle. I don’t know to whom I should speak. They all look like strangers. I tried to find some who are like me.

I felt very shy, because they tried to talk with me. I was worried that whether they can understand my English or not. But luckily they became my very nice friends of my college life. Even they tolerated my English and taught me to speak fluently.

I completed my Engineering in 2005 with first class distinction. Now I got married and also a mother of a two years old kid.

I find this place to share my thoughts, memories, etc…

Hope this continues…