Chapathi

Ingredients

Aashirvaad Wheat flour - 5 cups
Salt - as per taste
Oil - 2 tsp
Water - almost 2 cups depends when we kneed

Method

Put all the ingredients and kneed with hand, when you start kneed don't pour all the water, once in a while pour the water and kneed the dough. The chapathi dough has to be soft not hard.

Second method to make chapathi dough is put all the ingredients into the food processor and press the dough button. Within 2 minutes soft dough will be ready to make chapathi. Here too don't pour all the water. Once in a while check the dough and pour the water.

Keep the dough in the bowl and put slight oil all over the dough and keep a side for half an hour - 1 hour. This is optional.

Now the dough is ready to make the chapathi.

Take the dough and make small ball size. Then take the ball and dust with the wheat flour and keep it in the chapathi rolling board and make the ball into a big circle. (The other method is make the ball into small circle and put small amount of oil and spread all over and fold it into traingle and now make that triangle into a big circle. This way the chapathi has layers when you make.)

Heat the chapathi pan and put the big circle chapathi and wait for a minute to see the bubble kinda all over now it's the time to turn the chapathi. Now press all over the corner of the chapathi and pour little bit oil and spread turn again. Now it's ready to take the chapathi. Like this do all the small ball into a good round chapathi.

Yummy chapathi is ready to eat.

Rava Upuma

Ingredients

Rava(Semolina) - 3 cups
Big Onion - 1/4
Green Chilli - 2 or 3
Ginger - very tiny piece(optional)
Yellow Channa dal - 2 tsp
Mustard seed & urad dal - 1/2 tsp
Oil - 2 tsp
Curry leaf - 1 stem
Water - 6 cups
Salt - as per taste

Method

Dry roast the rava and keep a side. Cut the onion into small pieces and slice the green chilli. Cut tiny pieces of the Ginger.

Heat the pan and pour the oil. Add the mustard seed & urad dal, once it sputtered add the yellow channa dal, ginger, onion, green chilli and curry leaf. Once the channa dal roasted and other items changed color add the water and salt and close the lid. When the water started boiling add the roasted rava and stir well. and close the lid for 2 minutes. After 2-3 minutes stir again once the rava cooked well turn off the stove and close the lid. After 5 minutes, fluffy yummy rava upuma ready to eat.

Semiya Upuma

Ingredients

Semiya(Vermicili) - 3 cups
Big Onion - 1/4
Green Chilli - 2 or 3
Ginger - very tiny piece(optional)
Yellow Channa dal - 2 tsp
Mustard seed & urad dal - 1/2 tsp
Oil - 2 tsp
Curry leaf - 1 stem
Water - 6 cups
Salt - as per taste

Method

Dry roast the semiya and keep a side. Thinly slice the onion and green chilli. Cut tiny pieces of the Ginger.

Heat the pan and pour the oil. Add the mustard seed & urad dal, once it sputtered add the yellow channa dal, ginger, onion, green chilli and curry leaf. Once the channa dal roasted and other items changed color add the water and salt and close the lid. When the water started boiling add the roasted semiya and stir well. and close the lid for 2 minutes. After 2-3 minutes stir again once the semiya cooked well turn off the stove and close the lid. After 5 minutes, fluffy yummy simple semiya upuma ready to eat.

Rasam

Ingredients

Tomato - 1
Tamarind - small lemon size
Salt - as per taste
Rasam powder - 3 tsp
Garlic - 3 cloves
Red chilli whole - 1
Curry leaf - 1 stem
Cilantro - as per you need
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Water - 6 cups
Asafetida  - a pinch
Oil - 1 tsp

Method

Rasam powder see the link under powders - how to make...

In a bowl take 6 cups of water and cut the tomato in to slices and the tamarind with salt put altogether and keep a side to soak after some time mash with your hand and taste it to check the salt and sourness level what you want then keep a side.

Take the garlic and mash it with the stone.

Take a pan heat and pour the oil, put the whole red chilli, rasam powder, turmeric powder, mashed garlic, asafetida and curry leaf. Once it saute pour the tamarind water in to, when you pour filter with your hand. Add the cilantro. once it come to the boil switch off the stove and move the pan. Yummy rasam ready to eat with rice.

Pasta

This pasta is my own way of cooking and my kids love it.

Ingredients

Pasta - 3 cups (any shape)

Tomato - 2

Garlic - 1 clove

Ketchup - 1 tsp

Egg - 1

Olive oil - 2 tsp

Unsalted Butter - small piece

Salt - as per taste

Method

Cooked the pasta with salt and one tsp olive oil and keep a side. Grind the tomato and garlic.

Heat the pan and put the unsalted butter and olive oil. Once it heat, add the grinding tomato garlic paste, after 3 minutes add the ketchup and stir well. Then add the egg wait for a minute and the stir well. After 2 minutes add the cooked pasta and stir well. My own way of simple pasta ready.

Optional:

You can add spinach, mushroom, basil leaf or cooked Chicken/vegetables

Egg Curry

Ingredients

Egg - 5

Onion - 1 Small size

Tomato - 1

Curry leaf

Cilantro

Mint

Cinnamon stick

Cloves - 3

Cardamon - 2

Kuskus -1/4 tsp

Fennel seed - 1/4 tsp

Black pepper - 3

Coconut - 2 tsp

Ginger - small piece

Garlic - 3 cloves

Oil - 2 tsp

Mustard seed and urad dal

Potato

Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp

Coriander powder - 3 tsp

Turmeric powder = 1/4 tsp

Masala Grinding

Grind well the below items and keep a side

Coconut

Fennel seed

Black pepper

Kuskus

Cardamon

Cinnamon stick

Cloves

Ginger and Garlic

Onion and Tomato

Method

Boiled(for about 20-25minutes) the egg and potato and keep a side.

Cut the onion and tomato and keep a side. Cut the potato with skin. Remove the egg shell.

In the pan pour the oil once it heat put the mustard seed and urad dal. And then add the fennel seed, cinnamon stick, cardamon, cloves and curry leaf. Then add the onions after 2 minutes add the tomatoes. After 3 minutes add the cut potatoes, cilantro and mint leaf. Now add the Red chilli, Coriander and turmeric powder and salt too. Add some water and put the lid on, once the water boiled add the grind masala and check the salt. Once the masala cooked add the boiled egg and simmer the stove for 5 minutes. Egg curry done. 

(Optional, You can add the egg in a different way, cracked the egg and put in the middle of the curry and close the lid for 5 minutes, half boil egg will be done in the curry it will be a good taste if you don't like the boiled egg.)

Simple Sambar

Ingredients

Toor Dal/Moong dal - 1 cup

Garlic -3 cloves

Asafetida - a pinch

Small Onion -  5-7 or Big Onion - One slice

Tomato - 1

Green Chilli - 2 or as per your spice

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Cumin powder - 1/4 tsp

Saute

Oil - 2 tsp

Mustard seed/Urad dal - 1 tsp

Red chilli whole - 1

Cumin seed

Curry leaf - 1

small onion - 2

Method

Cook the toor dal in the pressure cooker with Garlic, Onion, Tomato, Green Chilli and Asafetida. Once it cooked let it cool and then  add some water and mash the dal little bit. Add turmeric, cumin powder and salt. Aside saute with the above ingredients and add into the sambar. Very simple and yummy sambar ready for Idly, Dosai, Chapathi or even rice too.