Friday, October 16, 2009

Fruit Juice Cocktail

CREAM DREAM


Ingredients:
1 scoop vanilla ice-cream
1 glass orange juice


Method:


Mix in the mixer. Serve immediately

Fruit Juice Cocktails

ORANGE 'N' HONEY DEW
Ingredients:
2 cups milk
3/4 cup honey
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups of orange juice
1 egg white
1 tbsp. finely grated orange rind
Method:

  • Heat milk, honey, sugar and orange rind to boiling point.
  • Leave to cool.
  • Add orange juice to it.
  • Pour into freezer trays and freeze till mushy.
  • Remove into a bowl.
  • Beat
  • Fold in stiffly beaten egg-white.
  • Freeze till mushy
  • Stir in from the sides of the tray
  • Repeat twice
  • Cover, freeze and serve

JUICE COCKTAILS

FRESH FRUIT TANG
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups orange juice
1 1/2 cups lemon juice
1 1/2 cups black grape juice
1 1/2 cups apple juice
2 tbsp. chopped grapes
Juice of 2 sour limes
1/2 cup sugar
2 bottles soda
1 apple chopped with skin


Method:

  • Sprinkle lime juice and sugar on the chopped apple.
  •  Mix with all the juices.
  •  Serve chilled

KHEER OR PAYASAM

BASUNDI

Ingredients

Full fat milk : 1 litre
Sugar: 1/2 cup
½  tsp. Cardamom & Nutmeg powder
Almonds: 5
Pistachios: 3
Charoli – 1 tblsp
Saffron: 10-15 threads Soak saffron in 2 tspns for hot milk and keep it aside.


Method:

  • Boil the milk in heavy bottomed kadai. Keep on stirring continuously so that it thickens.  When the milk is reduced almost half add sugar and boil for another 6 to 7 minutes remove the kadai from fire.
  •  Put in nutmeg, cardamom powder saffron soaked in milk and mix well. sprinkle chopped pistachios, almond and charoli.
  • While serving, sprinkle a few petals of rose to make it attractive. It tastes lovely when chilled and served cold.
Note: A pinch of musk may also be added, specially if the basundi is prepared during the winter.








KHEER OR PAYASAM

Vermicelli Kheer Or Seviyan Kheer OR Semiya payasam


Ingredients
·       100 gms. Vermicelli or seviyan or semiya
·       6 cups milk
·       300 grms. Sugar
·       50 grms. Cashew nuts
·       2 tblsp. Ghee
·       1 tsp. cardamom, ground coarsely
·       2 tblsp. Raisins soaked in water

Method:
·       Heat ghee and fry vermicelli to golden brown color.
·       Add milk and cook over medium fire till vermicelli turn soft and the mixture thick.
·       Now add sugar, stir well and cook till sugar is dissolved.
·       Add cashew nuts and raisins.
·       Garnish with cardamom and serve hot.

Burfi

KAJU KATLI OR CASHEW NUT BURFI

Ingredients
2 cups of cashew nuts soaked in water for 2 hours 
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tbsp. ghee
1/2 tsp. cardamom powder
Silver foil (optional)

Method
  • Drain and blend the cashews to a fine paste.
  • Use as little water as possible when blending.
  • In a heavy saucepan put sugar and paste.
  • Cook on slow to medium heat.
  • Cook stirring continuously till a soft lump is formed.
  • Add ghee and cardamom powder and mix well.
  • Spread on a clean greased plate.
  • Cut burfis into pieces
  • Apply the silver foil.
  • Cool, cut into diamond shaped burfis.

Sweet

JALEBI

 Ingredients:
·        2 cups Maida [refined flour]
·        ½ tsp. baking powder
·        Ghee for frying
·        2 cups of sugar
·        A  big pinch saffron soaked in warm water or 4 drops of yellow color
·        1 tsp. cardamom, coarsely powdered.

Method:

Mix Maida with baking powder and water to make a batter of the consistency of thick cream. Put it aside in a warm place to ferment for 24 hours.
Dissolve 2 cups of sugar in 2 cups of water and boil till it becomes thick. Squeeze out 2 to 3 drops of the lime. Then lot of scum will collect on its surface. Remove it with a spoon So that the syrup becomes crystal clear. Add saffron soaked in warm water. See that the syrup is of one thread consistency. Add cardamom powder bring to one boil and remove from fire.
Now beat the previously prepared batter for few minutes and 
now heat ghee in a heavy bottomed wide frying pan and lower the heat.
Fill some batter in the thick square cloth, in which a small hole is made in the center. Gather the 4 ends of the cloth to make it in to a bag-type bundle.
Holds it right over the ghee in the pan and by pressing the bundle lightly move it in a circular motion. Thus drop 4 or 5 jalebis in the ghee. It depends on the size of your frying pan you use. When fried well in one side in light golden color turn the other side and fry like the same. Lift them on a steel knitting needle and hold over the pan for a while so that all the extra ghee drips down. Put them directly in the sugar syrup to soak. After 3 or 4 minutes, take them out of the syrup and drain and keep in a plate and serve hot.




KHEER

BADAM KHEER OR ALMOND KHEER


Ingredient:

  • 1 cup Badam [Almond]
  • 6 cups milk
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 pinch of saffron strands soaked in lukewarm water[kumkuma poo]
  • 6 crushed cardamoms
  • 2 cups water
Method:
  • Boil water in pan, add Badam [Almonds] while water is boiling. Cook for 2 mins and remove from the flame and drain the water.
  • Peel off the skin of Badam and grind to a fine paste using milk.
  • Boil the milk in a thick bottomed pan, while the milk started boiling, add the Badam paste and sugar. 
  • Cook for about 5 to 10 mins over a low flame stirring continuously. 
  • Remove from flame, Add the dissolved saffron and cardamoms.
  • Allow to cool and serve it chilled








PAAYASAM

PAL PAYASAM OR MILK PUDDING
1 cup rice
10 cups condensed milk
 2 cup sugar
1/4 tsp cardamom powder
a pinch of saffron[ Kumkuma poo ]
10 cashew nuts 
1/2 to 1 tsp ghee

Method:
1. Fry cashew nuts  in ghee. Keep aside.
2. Boil milk in a heavy vessel with 2 to 3 cups of water. 
3. Take half the milk in separate vessel. 
4. Fry the rice in a kadai for 4mins and add to the boiling milk and cook for 5 to 10 minutes stirring once in a while. 
5. Add rest of the milk gradually, stirring constantly. 
6. When the rice is cooked till soft and mashed well, add sugar and stir till it is dissolved. 
7. Remove from flame and add cardamom powder, cashewnuts and saffron.

For good taste add ghee to payasam, mix well and serve hot.
















Thursday, October 15, 2009

ItemAlternate Names
Mustard seedsKadugu,rai,avalu
Fenugreek seedsmethi,vendhayam, menthulu
coriander seedsdhaniya, daniyalu
mintpudhina,pudinakura
cumin seedsJeeragam,Jeera, jilakara
asafoetidaPerungayam,Hing,inguva
red peppersmilagai vathal, dried chillie, lal mirch, sigappu milagai, yendu mirapakayilu, vara milagai
hot green chilliesPachai milagai, pachi mirapakayilu
sesame seedsEllu,teel,til,nuvvulu
BasilThulasi, thulsi
Dry gingerSukku, sonth, sonti
OmamTymol seeds, ajwain, vamu, vaum
black pepperMilagu, miriyalu, kali mirch, kurumolagu
cinnamoncinnamon,dalchini, lavanga pattai
CloveLavangam, Kraambu
turmericManjal, haldi, pasupu, arasina
gingerInji,adrak,allam, shunti
TamarindPuli,imli, chintha pandu
red chillie powdermilagai podi,powdered dried chillie, mirapa podi
cardomomelakkai,elaichi
saffronkesari powder
aniseedSombu, Saunf, sopu
raw pepperpachai milagu
nutmegjathikkai, jaiphal, jhaji kayi
poppy seedskasa kasa, gasa gasa, khus-khus, gasalu


Glossary - Flour- Maavu


Item
Alternate Names
gram flour
kadalai maavu, besan
wheat flour
atta, chappathi flour
rice flour
arisi maavu, biyya pindi
maida
all purpose flour




Glossary


 
Glossary
English
Hindi
Telugu
Tamil
Kannada
Malayalam 
Marathi
Bengali
Gujarathi
Urdu
 Almond
 Badam
 Badam
 Badam

 Badam
 Badam
 Badam
 Badam
 Badam
 Asafoetida
 Hing
 Inguva
 Perungayam
 Hingu
 Perungayam
 Hing
 Hing
 Hing
 Hing
 Barley
 Jau
 Barli biyyam
 Barli arisi
 Barli
 Yavam
 Jau
 Job
 Jau
 Jau
 Beetroot

 Beetroot







 Bengal gram (Flour)
 Besan
 Senaga pindi
 Kadalai mavu
 Kadale hittu
 Kadala mavu
 Besan
 Beshun
 Besan
 Besan
 Bengal gram (Split)
 Chana dal
 Senga pappu
 Kadalai parippu
 Kadale bele
 Kadala parippu
 Harbar dal
 Cholar dal
 Chana dal
 Chane ki dal
 Bengal gram (Whole)
 Chana
 Senagulu
 Kothu kadalai
 Kadale
 Kadala
 Harbara
 Chola
 Chana
 Chana sabut
 Black gram (Split)
 Urad dal
 Minappa pappu
 Uluthem parippu
 Udina bele
 Uzhunnu parippu
 Uddachi dal
 Mashkalar dal
 Alad
 Maash ki dal
 Buckwheat
 Kootu

 Kotu

 Kootu
 Kuttu
 Titaphapur

 Gehoon ka bhoosa
 Cardamom
 Elaychi
 Ellakai
 Ellakai
 Yellakai
 Elathari
 Veldola
 Elaichi
 Elaychi
 Elichi
 Carrot

 Carrot







 Cashewnut
 Kaju
 Jeedi pappu
 Mundiri parippu
 Geru beena
 Parangi yandi
 Kaju
 Hijlibadam
 Kaju
 Kaju
 Chilli
 Mirch
 Mirapakaya
 Milagai
 Menasinakayi
 Molaku
 Mirchi
 Lanka
 Marchu
 Mirch
 Cloves
 Lavang
 Lavangalu
 Krambu
 Lavanga
 Krambu
 Lavang
 Labango
 Lavang
 Loung
 Coconut
 Nariyal
 Kobbari
 Thenga
 Thenginkai
 Thenga
 Naral
 Narkel
 Nariyal
 Nariyal
 Coriander
 Dhania
 Dhaniyalu
 Kothamalli
 Korthambari
 Kothamalli
 Dhane
 Dhone
 Dhania
 Dhania
 Cumin
 Zira
 Jeelakarra
 Jeeragam
 Jeerage
 Jeerakam
 Jira
 Jire
 Jiru
 Zeera
 Fennel
 Saunf
 Sompu


 Perum Jeerakam
 Sheopa


 Saunf
 Fenugreek
 Methi
 Menthulu
 Venthiyam
 Menthe
 Uluva
 Methi
 Methi
 Methi
 Methi
 Garlic
 Lessan
 Velluli
 Poondu
 Belluli
 Velluli
 Lasoon
 Roshun
 Lasan
 Lehsan
 Gingelly
 Til
 Nuvvulu
 Ellu
 Acchellu
 Ellu
 Til
 Til
 Tal
 Til
 Ginger
 Adrak
 Allum
 Inji
 Shunti
 Inji
 Ale
 Ada
 Adu
 Adrak
 Green gram (Split)
 Moong dal
 Pesara pappu
 Payathum parippu
 Hesara bele
 Cherupayar parippu
 Mugachi dal
 Moong dal
 Moong dal
 Mung dal
 Green gram (Whole)
 Moong
 Pesalu
 Pasipayar
 Hesarekalu
 Cherupayar
 Moong
 Muger dal
 Mug
 Sabut moong
 Groundnut
 Moong phalli
 Verusenagakaya
 Nillakadalai
 Kadalekayi
 Nilakadala
 Bhui moong
 China moong
 China moong
 Moong phalli
 Lentil
 Masur dal
 Misur pappu
 Masore parippu
 Masur bele
 Masur parippu
 Masurdal
 Mashroori dal
 Masur dal
 Masoor ki dal
 Linseed
 Alsi
 Avise ginjalu
 Alivirai

 Cheruchana vithu
 Juwas
 Tishi
 Alsi
 Alsi
 Mace
 Javithri
 Jayapathri
 Jathipatri

 Jathipatri
 Jayapatri
 Jayitri
 Jaypatri
 Jotri
 Maize
 Makkai
 Mokka jonnalu
 Makka cholam
 Kempu jola
 cholam
 Maka
 Bhutta
 Makai
 Makai
 Millet
 Bajra
 Sajjalu
 Kambu
 Sajje
 Kamboo
 Bajri
 Bajra
 Bajri
 Bajra
 Milo
 Juar
 Jonnalu
 Cholam
 Jola
 Cholam
 Jwari
 Juar
 Juwar
 Juari
 Mustard
 Rai
 Avalu
 Kadugu
 Sasuve
 Kadugu
 Mohori
 Sorse
 Rai
 Rai
 Nutmeg
 Jaiphal
 Jajikayi
 Jathikkai
 Jaijkayi
 Jathikka
 Jaiphal
 Jaiphal
 Jaiphal
 Jaiphal
 Onion (Small)
 Pyaz
 Ullipaaya







 Oregano
 Ajwain
 Vamu
 Omum
 Onia
 Ayamodak
 Onva
 Joan

 Ajwain
 Pepper
 Kali mirch
 Mirriyalu
 Milagu
 Karimenasu
 Kurumulagu
 Mire
 Golmorich
 Mari
 Kali mirchi
 Pistachio
 Pista
 Pista
 Pista
 Pista
 Pista
 Pista
 Pista
 Pista
 Pista
 Potato
 Aloo
 Aloo







 Radish









 Ragi
 Mundal
 Ragulu
 Kizhvaragu
 Ragi
 Muthari
 Nachni
 Madua
 Ragi
 Ragi
 Rice (Parboiled)
 Usna chawal
 Uppudu biyyam
 Puzhungal arisi
 Kusubalakki
 Puzhangalari
 Ukda tandool
 Siddha chowl
 Ukra chawl
 Ubla hua chawal
 Rice (Raw)
 Arwa chawal
 Biyyam
 Pacharisi
 Akki
 Pachari
 Tandool
 Atap chaal
 Chokha chawal
 Chawal
 Safflower
 Kardi
 Kusuma ginzalu






 Karar
 Semolina
 Sooji
 Rawa
 Ravai
 Rawa
 Rawa
 Rawa
 Sooji
 Rawa
 Sooji
 Soyabean
 Bhatmas






 Garikalai
 Soya ki binje
 Split gram
 Tuwar dal
 Kandi pappu
 Tuvaram parippu
 Thugar bele
 Thuvara parippu
 Tur dal
 Arhar dal
 Tuverni dal
 Arhar
 Sunflower
 Suriamukhi
 Poduthiru ginzalu
 Suryakanthi

 Suryakanthi
 Suryamuki
 Surajmuki
 Suryakanti
 Suraj mukhi
 Tamarind
 Imli
 Chinthapandu
 Puli
 Hunise
 Puli
 Chinch
 Tetul
 Amli
 Imli
 Turmeric
 Haldi
 Pasupu
 Manjal
 Anashina
 Manjal
 Halad
 Holud
 Haldhar
 Haldi
 Walnut
 Akhrot
 Nattua krot vitthu
 Nattua krot kottai

 Akrothandi
 Akrod
 Akrot

 Akrot
 Wheat
 Gehun
 Godhumalu
 Godumai
 Godhi
 Gothambu
 Gahu
 Gom
 Ghau
 Gehoon
 Wheat flour
 Atta
 Godhuma pindi
 Godumai mavu
 Godhi hittu
 Gothambu mavu
 Kaneek
 Atta
 Ato
 Gehoon ka atta
 Wheat flour (Refined)
 Maida
 Maida pindi
 Maida mavu
 Godhi hittu
 Maidamavu
 Maida
 Maida
 Maida
 Maida