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A simple snack, for rainy evenings!. Ingredients: 1. Channa flour (Besan)- 1 cup 2. Rice flour- 2 tbsp 3. Ground mixture of Ajwain(1/2 tbsp), pepper (1 tbsp), cumin seeds (1/2 tbsp) 4.Chilli powder- 1 tbsp 5. Butter- 1 tbsp 6. Salt as required. Mix all of the above ingredients adding very lil water. The batter should be thick. Heat oil in a pan and make murukku with this batter. Crush the murukku into small pieces and kaara sev is ready.

I learnt this from my friend Jyotsna. Thank you Jyotsna, all loved it! This weekend was wonderful and we shared this with our neighbours too.:)- I have slightly modified her original recipe, as i did it without kesar and more of cardomom. Ingredients: 1 container (8 oz) Fat Free Cool Whip (if frozen, allow to thaw in refrigerator overnight) 1 can sweetened condensed milk (388 gms) 1 can full cream evaporated milk (410 ml) 3 tbsp finely broken almonds seeds from 10-15 pods of green cardamom How to make Kulfi? 1. Open up the cardamom pods and grind the contents finely, with 2-3 tbsp of almonds 2. Mix fat free cool whip, evaporated milk, condensed milk, cardamom and nuts mixture 3. Now, fill it in the kulfi cones and in a box with lid and freeze it overnight. The bestest Kulfi is ready!

A different type of pickle, using Mint. Grind a handful of mint leaves in the blender. Add 2 tbsp of oil in a pan, and add mustard seeds. When mustard starts splattering, add the ground mixture and add 1/2 tbsp of chilli powder and salt. Let this cook well. Add a small piece of jaggery and add 1 tbsp of gingelly oil. This will look like Gongura pickle in color (Brownish).

Ingredients: 1. Sour Butter milk- 2 glasses 2. Rice flour- 1 tbsp 3. Salt- as required 4. Green chillies -3 5. Omam- 1/2 tbsp (Ajwain). Procedure: 1. Mix butter milk, rice flour and salt and keep aside. 2. Grind Ajwain and green chillies in the blender. In a pan, add oil, add mustard seeds, urad dhal (1/2 tbsp), and a pinch of curry leaves. 3. Add butter milk and the grinded mixture, let this come to a boil. This is just an alternate version of the different types of more kuzhambu. Can be used for people, who cannot consume coconut.

This is a very famous sude dish for Idli/Dosa etc in S.India. It is a gravy that resembles Baingan Bartha. What I am sharing below, serves for 2 people. Ingredients: 1. Brinjal- (Long & Thin type)-1 2. Onion-1 3. Tomato-1 4. Coriander powder-1/2 tbsp 5. Turmeric powder-1/2 tbsp 6. Chilli powder- 3/4 tbsp 7. Channa flour- 1 tbsp 8. Salt as required 9. Mustard seeds-1/2 tbsp, channa dhal - 1 tbsp, few curry leaves, a pinch of hing for sauting How to make Gothsu: 1. Chop Onion and tomato in fine pieces 2. In a burner, keep the brinjal and let it cook on all sides. When the outside color changes fully black, let it cool and wash this under an open tap. Remove the outer skin completely and mash this nicely. Then, add the coriander powder, turmeric powder and chilli powder to this and keep aside. 3. In a pan, add 2 tbsp of oil and add the ingredients for sauting. When the mustard starts splattering, add onion and tomatoes and cook well. Add salt to this mixture and then add the brinjal m