Recipe Fundas!-Simple,Tasty, Healthy Vegetarian recipes for a Vibrant Living!

This is an authentic home made recipe. Very delicious when served with Pepper cumin rasam and papadam. Take 1 cup of moong dhal and roast until there is slight change in the color and soak this moong dhal in water for half an hour. Drain the excess water completely and grind with 4 tbsp of coconut and 1 tbsp of cumin seeds. Add the necessary salt.

This is a very special sweet and can be prepared with less effort. Take 1 medium sized winter melon. Peel off the skin and the seed portions and grate it finely. Now,measure this grated winter melon and take equal quantity of milk and sugar. Take 1 pinch of food color; mix it with 3 tbsp of water and keep aside. Now, take a thick bottomed wok and add winter melon and milk and let wintermelon cook in milk in medium flame. Then add sugar and food color and mix well. Now add about 10 tbsp of ghee and keep mixing well. As you keep cooking, this mixture will turn to halwa consistency and the ghee will start separating. You can garnish with cashews and raisins and serve hot/cold. This halwa should be consumed within 1-2 days of preparation.

Colocasia is a type of yam and is also known as "Seppangkizhangu". Ingredients: 1. Colocasia- 1 kg 2. Tamarind paste- 1 tbsp 3. Coriander powder-1/2 tbsp 4. Chilli powder- 1.5 tbsp 5. Oil- 1 cup 6. Salt- as required. How to make Sembu Roast: 1.Cut colocasia as two halves each and Pressure cook colocasia for about 4 whistles adding 1/2 tbsp of turmeric powder. 2.Peel off and mix with tamarind paste, coriander powder, chilli powder and salt. 3. Now, let this soak for about 20 minutes 4. Add oil in a pan and add 4-5 pieces of colocasia at a time in high flame. 5. Let this roast on both sides to golden brown. This goes as excellent side dish for More Kuzhambu or Rasam.

Ingredients: 1. Raw Banana- 3 2. Chilli powder-3/4 tbsp 3. Turmeric powder-1/4 tbsp 4. Salt- as required 5. Mustard seeds-1/2 tbsp 6. Curry leaves- 1 handful Procedure: 1. Peel Raw banana or plaintain and cut into circular pieces and put in water. 2. In a pan, add oil, add mustard seeds, curry leaves. Once mustard starts splattering, add raw banana, turmeric powder, chilli powder. 3. Mix well, once the banana is cooked add salt. 4. You can add 1-2 tbsp of oil and cook simmer for 5 mins to get crispy curry.

Ingredients: 1. Urad dhal- 1 cup (soaked for 2 hours in fridge) 2. Pepper corn- 1/2 tbsp 3. Curry leaves- 1 handful 4. Grated ginger-1/2 tbsp 5. Salt- as required. Procedure 1. Grind Urad dhal with other ingredients, in grinder without adding water. 2. In a pan, add oil and take a small piece of banana leaf and make vadas. 3. Cook on both sides and serve hot with chutney. Medhu vada will be crisp, if you grind in wet grinder, without adding water.

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!