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Hello friends 🙏🏻Welcome to the blog.. Today I am sharing an easy recipe of curd rice. Curd rice doesn't means simply mixing leftover rice and curd and making a tempering and adding to it. It involves a step by step process.

Curd rice is a popular recipe of south india and is mostly prepared as prasadam in temples.Today I will share the exact recipe of curd rice with same taste. In tamilnadu it is called: Thayir sadam, in telugu:Daddojanam, In malyalam : thaiyir chore ( choor),and in Marathi : Dahi bhaat. In south indian households, it is commonly eaten a s curd mixed with rice and pickle on daily basis.

Lets begin the recipe.. Lets get started.

Preparation:( Time taken: 25 -30 mins)-Serves 3-4 people

Ingredients reqd:

1.Rice( your choice)-1 cup

2.Water-2.5 cup,Curd-2 cups

3.Salt- as per taste.

4.Veggies: carrot-1( chopped finely), Beans-1( chopped finely),Green chili-2(finely chopped ), ginger-1 inch( finely chopped),curry leaves-10-12

5.For tempering : oil, chana dal-1 tsp, urad dal-1 tsp, mustard seeds-1 tsp, jeera seeds-1 tsp, dried red chilli-2,cashew nuts-3-4

5.coriander and mint leaves for garnishing.

Steps :

1.Soak the rice for 20 mins and then pressure cook it. Add 2.5 cup water and just make it like khichdi.

2.Let it cool down completely. Now add curd to the boiled rice and mix it well till creamy texture.Add salt.

3.For tempering : Add oil in a pan, add, urad dal, chana dal, curry leaves, cashew nuts, dried red chilli. Fry it till golden brown. Add chopped ginger and green chilli and saute it well. Now add chopped onion, carrot and beans. Fry it till golden brown and our mixture is ready.

4.Now add the fried mixture to to the curd rice mixture.

5.Our curd rice is ready to eat. Top it with some pomogranate seeds/ grapes.Garnish it with coriander and mint leaves.

6.You can even make basic version of curd rice by simple tempering.

7.Enjoy curd rice on a summery afternoon.

Note :

1.For 1 cup rice, the curd should be 2 cups otherwise it won't taste good.

2.You can add boiled milk also but I don't like, so didn't add.

3.Enjoy it with pickle.

Youtube( curd rice recipe)

Hello readers🙏🏻Welcome to Plates of flavours. I am sharing an easy snacks recipe which you can make in evening or when hungry. If your kid doesn't like veggies, this recipe is for her/ him. Ok lets begin the recipe without much talking😜.

Ingredients we need:

1.Wheat flour:1 cup

2.Oil -2 tsp and oil for shallow frying

3.Veggies: potato-1 ( medium size and boiled) just for binding, Carrot, Radish, onion,cauliflower -1/2( all finely chopped), green chilli-2( finely chopped), ginger( finely chopped)-1/2 inch, lemon juice -2 tsp for taste, coriander leaves- for garnishing

4.Masalas: salt( as per taste), Chilli flakes, garam masala and the masalas which you like red chilli powder, chat masala.

5.Baking soda -2 pinch

Preparation :( Time taken: 20-25 mins) ( Serves 2-3 people)

1.Take a bowl, add wheat flour, salt and baking soda. Add 2 tsp oil and mix well. Now take boiled potato and mash it completely (pieces should not be seen). Add the potato in flour mixture. Now knead the dough softly.

2.Keep the dough aside for 10 mins. Now take another bowl, add veggies( cauliflower, onion, carrot, radish, green chilli, ginger and coriander leaves). Add salt. Add masalas of your choice like chilli flakes, oregano, chat masala and garam masala.

3. Mix the veggies well. Now check on the dough and smoothen it by kneading it again.

4.Take the dough and separate it into 2 parts and make 2 big dough balls.

5.Now spread the dough ball into a rectangular sheet. Add lemon juice to the veggies mix.

6.Take the veggies and place and spread on the rectangular sheet of dough. It should be spread evenly.

7.Now roll the dough into a log shape.

8.And cut the pieces. Now take one piece and press it in between and make it flat.

9.Do it with other pieces too.

10.Take a non- stick pan, add oil and fry the pieces from both sides well till golden brown.

11.Our veggie wheels are ready. Serve ot with green chutney/ ketchup.

12.Its healthy as its shallow fried and made with wheat flour and lots of veggies.

Note:

1.You can make it with refined wheat flour ( maida).

2.You can deep fry it.

3.Add veggies of your own choice like bottle gourd, cabbage, beetroot, boiled green peas and many more.

4.Fry it on medium flame as it should cook properly from inside.

Thats it for today friends. Try this recipe and comment it below. Have a good day!

Youtube link for this recipe. Click on blue word underlined.

Hello readers..welcome to new food blog.

As summers are here and winters are almost gone but spinach is evergreen.

As we all are familiar that children dont like spinach,I tried a different recipe of palak which kids will surely love.

Ingredients we need:

1.Spinach-1.5 cup

2.Rice flour-3/4 cup

3.Gram flour-1/4 cup

4.Wheat flour-1/4 cup

5.Onion-1( medium size)( chopped finely)

6.Green chilli-2-3( chopped finely)

7.Carrot-1( grated)

8.Ginger-1/2 inch( grated)

9.Masalas:salt( as per taste), Red chilli powder -1/2 tsp, turmeric powder-1/2 tsp,

Carrom seeds( ajwain),jeera seeds, fennel seeds,peppercorns( crushed), cinnamon powder-a pinch, Asafetida-a pinch.

10.Oil - for frying/ baking

11.Veggies of your choice( bottlegourd/beetroot/Potato/radish/cabbage)

12.Coriander+ mint leaves for garnishing.

Preparation-20-25 mins( serves 3 people)

1.Firstly take a bunch of spinach, wash it well and chop it finely. And chop all the veggies finely and keep it aside.

2.Now take a bowl, add spinach, chopped onion, green chillies, mint and coriander leaves, grated carrot.

3.Now add the masalas like salt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, ajwain seeds, jeera seeds, heeng and then add the rice flour, gram flour and wheat flour and mix it well. Now add water and knead it soft as like paratha.

4.And apply oil to the dough and keep it aside.

5.Now take a butter paper and take a dough ball and spread it round on the butterpaper but with using hands and fingers like we make akki roti.

6.Now spread it round and make a hole at the centre.

7.Make all the dough balls and keep them.

8.Now take a non-stick pan, add oil to shallow fry.

9.Now slowly remove the paratha / thalipeeth from the butterpaper with hands and place in the pan.

10.Add additional oil in the centre so that it gets cooked from both sides well.

11.One side will take 3 mins and then flip till its golden brown from other sides.

12.Our palak thalipeeth is ready.

13. I served it with vegetable rayta, you can make coconut chutney.

14.Make in breakfast or lunch.