Tadka Times

  • Wheat Flour Dosa

    – Add finely chopped pearl onions, ginger, green chillies, curry leaves, cumin seeds, crushed pepper, asafoetida powder, salt to 1 cup wheat flour and 1/2 cup rice flour – Add oil and sauté mustard and urad dal – Add this to the batter and make it to a watery consistency

  • Tawa Chicken Fry

    – Cut boneless chicken into cubes, soak red chillies in hot water and grind it to a fine paste, deep fry curry leaves in oil, crush it and chop garlic into fine pieces – Mix all the above with coriander powder, pepper powder, egg white, curd, lemon juice, salt and marinate for an hour –…

  • Beetroot Halwa

    – Add ghee and sauté 2 cups of grated beetroot till the raw smell goes – Add 2 cups of milk and cook till the beetroot becomes soft and the milk evaporates – Add 3/4 cup of sugar, little ghee, cardamom powder, grated almonds and cashew nuts – Cook till the sugar dissolves for few…

  • Coconut Cookies

    – Sieve 1 cup wheat flour or all purpose flour and 1/4 tsp baking soda – Add 4 tbsp coconut oil and lightly mix the oil with the flour – Then add 1/4 cup desiccated coconut, 1 tbsp rava, 1/2 tsp cardamom powder, 1/4 tsp dry ginger powder and 1/2 cup powdered jaggery – Mix…

  • Orange Popsilces

    ORANGE POPSICLES – Add 1/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup water in a pan and boil till sugar is melted. Set aside to cool down – Add 2 cups orange juice and 1 or 2 tbsp lemon juice in a bowl and add the cold sugar syrup – Pour it in to the popsicle mould…

  • PARUPPU ADAI UPMA

    – Make paruppu adai and break into small pieces. – Add oil in a pan and sauté mustard, curry leaves, red chilly powder, tamarind juice, jaggery, salt and broken pieces of adai.

  • RASGULLA

    – Boil 1 litre of milk in a milk pan. – Add 2 tsp of lemon juice with1 tsp of water into the boiling milk and simmer it. – Keep on stirring the milk until the whey water and the milk comes separate. – Drain the whey water and keep it aside for the sugar…

  • SWEET CORN CAPSICUM PULAO

    – Soak rice for sometime and boil it in a pan by adding salt, cinnamon, cloves and bay leaf. – Then strain the water and remove the cinnamon, cloves and bay leaf. – Cook sweet corn by adding salt in a boiling pan. – Add oil in a pan and sauté chopped ginger, garlic, onion,…

  • Vegetable Chapathi

    – Boil potatoes, carrot, beans, green peas and smash to a coarse paste – Mix atta, vegetable mixture, cumin seeds, finely chopped onion, coriander leaves, ginger garlic paste, red chilly powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, curry masala powder, oil, water and salt – Make small thick chapathi’s and cook in dosa tawa

  • DRUMSTICK SOUP

    – Cut drumstick into pieces and pressure cook for 4 whistles. – Once the pressure subsides, scoop the pulp with a spoon and keep it aside. – Pressure cook broken green gram and smash it well. – Add oil in a pan and sauté cinnamon, cloves, bay leaf, cardamom, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, pepper corns…