Guava Jam

Guava jam is a delicious homemade fruit jam made with ripe guava.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Guava Jam.

Ingredients:-

Ripe Guava.                     - 3 big
Sugar.                                - 3/4 cup
Cloves.                              - 2
Ghee.                                 - 1tsp
Citric acid or lemon juice. - 1/2 tsp

Instructions:-

Wash guava and pat dry with a clean cloth and chop into slices.Chop and remove the seeds from guava slices.

Method:-

1). Boil guava slices in a pan adding little water and 2 cloves until soft. Switch off the flame and remove the cloves. Keep aside the boiled guava slices with boiled water to cool.

2). Grind the boiled guava slices along with boiled water into a smooth paste.

3). In a wide bottom pan add the ground guava paste.

4). Add sugar and 1/2 tsp citric acid or lemon juice into the pan and mix with the guava paste and boil on low flame.

5). Add 1tsp ghee into the pan and stir the mixture continuously without lumps till the mixture becomes thick .

6). Switch off the flame and transfer the jam to a bowl and allow to cool.Once cooled store the guava jam in a clean and dry glass bottle and close the bottle with lid.

Homemade Guava Jam is ready to spread on bread slices.

Coffee Pudding.

Coffee Pudding is an instant desert made with milk, instant coffee powder, sugar and corn flour. The following ingredients are needed to prepare Coffee Pudding.

Ingredients:-

Whole Milk.                - 1/2 liter
Sugar.                          - 1/2 cup
Instant coffee powder. - 2 tbsp
Corn flour.                   - 4 tbsp
Water.                          - as required

Instructions:-

1). In a bowl add 2 tbsp of instant Nescafe coffee powder and 2tbsp of water and mix well without lumps. Keep aside the instant coffee powder liquid.

2). In another bowl add 4tbsp of corn flour and 1/4 cup of water and mix well without lumps. Keep aside the corn flour mixture.

Method:-

1). In a pan boil whole milk. Add sugar into the boiling milk. Mix well and boil the milk sugar mixture for 10 minutes on medium flame.

2). Add the instant coffee powder liquid into the boiling milk sugar mixture in the pan and mix well.

3). Add corn flour mixture into the pan and mix well. Keep on stirring and cook for 5 minutes on medium flame until it thickens. Switch off the flame.

4) Transfer coffee pudding into a greased bowl and sprinkle few choco chips over pudding.Keep the pudding in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

A delicious Coffee Pudding is ready to serve chilled.

Soft Poha Idli

 Poha Idli is a healthy breakfast dish served with hot sambar. Soft Poha Idli is made with idli rice, thick poha and whole white urad dal.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Soft Poha Idli.

Ingredients:-

Thick Poha /flattened rice. - 1 cup
Whole white Urad dal.       - 1 cup
Idli Rice.                             - 2 cup
Salt.                                     - 1tsp

Instructions:-

1). Wash and soak whole white urad dal and thick poha in water together in a bowl for 4 hours and grind together to a smooth batter adding very little ice water.Pour the batter in a large vessel.

2). Wash and soak idli rice for 4 hours and grind to a slightly coarse batter.Pour the ground rice batter to the same large vessel.Mix both the batter in the vessel and keep aside to ferment for 10 hours.

Method:-

1). Mix the fermented idli batter with 1tsp salt.Apply little oil on idli moulds and pour the idli batter on each idli moulds.

2). Boil sufficient water in a steamer. Keep the idli moulds in the steamer.Close the steamer and steam the idlis for 12 minutes on medium flame and switch off the flame.

3). Remove the idli moulds from steamer and allow the steamed poha idlis to cool.Once cooled  demould the poha idlis from idli moulds.

Soft Poha Idlis are ready to serve with hot sambar.

Mango Ice Cream

 Mango ice cream is a very tasty and easy to make homemade ice cream made with ripe mango pulp.Homemade mango ice cream recipe is given below with step by step photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Mango Ice Cream.

Ingredients:-

Ripe mango pulp. - 1 cup
Sugar.                    - 3 /4 cup
Custard powder.    - 2 tbsp
Milk.                     - 1 and 1/4 cup
Milkmaid.             - 2 tbsp

Instructions:-

In a bowl add 2tbsp custard powder and 1/4 cup of boiled and cooled milk and mix well without lumps.Keep aside the milk custard mixture, ripe mango pulp, remaining 1 cup  of boiled milk and 3/4 cup sugar on a plate.

Method:-

1). In a wide pan add 1cup of boiled milk and add 3/4 cup sugar in it. Mix well and boil the milk till sugar dissolves completely.

 2). Add the custard mixture into the boiling milk and mix well. Stir continuously and cook the custard mixture on low flame till it becomes thick. Switch off the flame and allow the milk custard mixture to cool.

 

3). Once cooled add the cooked milk custard mixture, 1cup ripe mango pulp and 2tbsp milkmaid into the mixer grinder and blend it to a smooth paste.

 4). Transfer the mango custard milk paste to a closed container and keep it into the freezer for 6 hours.

5). Remove the container with mango custard milk mixture from the freezer and pulse it again in the mixer grinder for few seconds or till it becomes thick, creamy and slushy.

6). Transfer the creamy mixture into the closed container and freeze it again for 6- 8 hours or till the ice cream sets.

7). Remove the container from freezer. Scoop out the mango ice cream from the container with an ice cream scooper and transfer to serving bowls and serve immediately.

Try the recipe and enjoy the home made mango ice cream.

Rontos ani Dali Thoy / Rice Flour Puri and Dal Potato Curry

 Rontos ani dali thoy is a Konkani style deep fried puris made with rice flour and served with dal potato curry. Rontas and Thoy is a good combo dish and is usually prepared in Kochi GSB homes in Kerala on Holi celebration day in Kochi.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Rontos ani Dali Thoy.

Ingredients:-

Ingredients for Rontos / Rice flour Puri:-

Rice flour. - 1 cup
Hot water. - 3/4 cup
Oil.            - 1tsp
Salt.           - to taste.

Ingredients for Dali Thoy/ Dal Potato Curry

Tur dal.                - 1 cup
Potato.                  - 1 big
Turmeric powder. - 1/4 tsp
Green chillies.       - 3
Salt.                       - to taste
Coconut oil.           - 1tsp
Mustard seeds        - 1tsp
Cumin seeds.          - 1tsp
Dry Red chillies.     - 2
Curry leaves.           -1 sprig

Method for making Rontos / Rice Puri:-

1). In a mixing bowl add 1cup rice flour and little salt and mix well.Add 3/4 cup hot boiled water little by little into the rice flour and mix it with a spoon.Add 1tsp coconut oil into the bowl and mix the rice flour with your hands and make a soft dough.

2). Apply little coconut oil on your palms and make small lemon size dough balls and keep aside for half an hour to rest.

3). Keep one plastic sheet on a roti press maker and apply little oil on the plastic sheet.Place one rice ball in the middle of the plastic sheet.

4). Apply little oil on another plastic sheet and keep it over the rice ball.

5). Press the roti press maker to flatten the rice ball in between the oiled plastic sheets and make a medium thin round shape rice puri.Repeat the process and make medium size thin rice puris.

6). Heat oil in a deep frying pan. Once the oil is hot drop the flattened rice puris in hot oil and deep fry them utill crisp and little golden colour.

7). Flip the puris with a spoon and splash little hot oil over the puris to puff it up.

8). Remove the deep fried rice puri from hot oil with a slotted spoon and transfer to a plate. Repeat the process and deep fry the remaining flattened rice puris. Deep fried Rontas / Rice flour Puri are ready.

Method for making Dali Thoy / Dal Potato Curry.

1). Peel the skin of 1 potato. Wash and chop potato into small pieces. Wash and half slit 3 green chillies lengthwise.

2). Wash and pressure cook 1cup tur dal along with chopped potatoes, half slit green chillies, 1/4 tsp turmeric powder and 2 cup of water for 4 whistels or till soft.

3). In a wide bottom cooking vessel add the pressure cooked tur dal potato mixture along with cooked water and boil for 3 minutes.

4). Add required salt into the vessel and mix with tur dal potato mixture.Boil for 2 minutes on low flame and switch off the flame.

5). Heat 1tsp coconut oil in a small pan for seasoning and splutter 1tsp mustard seeds and 1tsp cumin seeds and saute well.Add 2 broken dry red chilly halves and 1sprig curry leaves into the pan and fry in oil for a second and switch off the flame.

6). Pour the above seasoning into the dal potato curry in the cooking vessel and mix well. Dali Thoy / Dal Potato Curry is ready.

7). Now a good combo of Rontos and Thoy / Rice Puri and Dal Potato Curry is ready to serve.

8). Transfer the deep fried puffed up crispy Rontas / Rice Puri on a serving plate and pour Dali Thoy / Dal Potato Curry over the crispy rice puri to soften it and serve with a cup of hot tea or coffee.

Try the recipe and enjoy the healthy combo dish.