Easy Appam & Masala Curry

Easy Appam

Ingredients 

White Rice               2 cups
Urad Dal                  1/4 cup
Fenugreek Seeds      2 pinch
Sugar                      1 Table Spoon
Rice/Poha               1/4 cup
Grinned coconut      1/4 cup
yeast                       11/2 T Spoon
water                      1 cup only  - use 3/4 for rice and 1/4 other
Salt 

Preparation Method

Clean and Soak Rice , Urad dal and fenugreek seed for minimum 8 hrs .
Then grind all ingredients without Yeast .. after grinding keep it in a steel or aluminum or mud pot vessel(don't use plastic ) after all sprinkle yeast and mix with hand.Only at the time of cooking add salt .
For starters : give 1/2 of the vessel free to rise the batter .
In cold place it will take time to batter soaking .
if some time the batter comes very thick at cooking time add little water ( not more )

Masala curry 

Ingredients :

Potato                                3 Medium or Big

Carrot                                2

Green Peas (optional)       1/4 Cups (soaked dry green peas or frozen or fresh)

Water 

Salt 

Oil

Ginger                               small piece chopped 

Garlic                                3 cloves chopped 

Curry Leaves                    1 spring 

Chilly                                2 chopped 

Onion                                3 medium thin 

Turmeric                           1 T Spoon

Pepper Powder                  3/4 T spoon

Preparation method :

Cook well potatoes,carrots and Green peas in pressure cooker with 1/2 T spoon Turmeric powder and salt .  

In a pan put oil add ginger, garlic curry leaves, chilly, onion and pinch salt.

when the onion turns to transparent and raw smell of ginger and garlic gone add turmeric and peeper powder . salute till the raw smell of pepper gone.After that add cooked potatoes green peas and carrots and mash well and make it dry .... After that had it with Dosha or Appam or Chapathi or poori ..... Enjoy the taste 

JACK BALLS (CHAKKA APPAM)

Ingredients

1. Jack Fruits'                       10 Pieces
2. Maida /All Purpose Flour   5 Table Spoon
3. Baking Powder                 1 pinch
4. Salt                                 1 pinch
5. Turmeric Powder               1 pinch
6. Egg                                  1
7. Sugar                               3 Table Spoon
8. Curd                                1 Table Spoon
9. Coconut Pieces                 3 Table Spoon
10. Cumin Seed                      1/2 Tea Spoon
11. Oil                                    For Frying

Preparation method: 

Mix 1 to 8 ingredients and make a batter and keep it aside for blooming for 30 minutes.

Take a pan add oil add coconut pieces and cumin seed fry slightly . Mix it with batter .

Take batter little and make it in round shape and fry it and eat with hot tea  ....

Idilly Pepper Fry

Ingredients:

    1.  Idilly/Mini Idilly   2 Cups
2.  Oil                      2 T Spoon
3.  Ghee                  1  T Spoon
4.  Cumin Seed         1/2 T Spoon
5.  Mustard Seed       1/2 T Spoon
6.  Urid Dal               1/2 T Spoon
7.  Onion                   1 Large thinly chopped    

      8. Salt
9.  Green Chilly         4 No.s
10. Curry Leaves        2 Springs
11.  Pepper Powder     1 1/4 T Spoon
12. Lemon                 
13. Coriander Leaves

Preparation Method: 

Prepare Idilly and keep it aside .

Take a pan make it hot and add oil and Ghee and wait till it become hot.

Then add 4  to 10 one by one consequently ... Salute it till the onion become transparent. then add pepper powder and stir till the raw smell gone. 

Then add idilly(Big Idilly need to cut into 4 pieces) and put in low flame and stir for 5- 10 minitues and give to well stuffing with masala and idilly .

Then off the flame and serve it hot with showered lemon juice and decorate with coriander leaves