CUCUMBER SALAD KOREAN STYLE

There are many salads. Today this salad is Korean style with simple ingredients. I liked the taste and it is a different combination of ingredients. This is very healthy recipes.

• English Cucumber……1
• Onion……1
• Garlic …..few pods
• Green onion…1
• Soya sauce….2 TSP
• Red chilli flakes….1 TSP
• Gingely oil….2 TSP
• Sesame seeds..2 TSP
• Sugar……1 tsp (optional)
• Salt….as required

Preparation

• Cut English cucumber diagonally first and then chop it.
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• Onion sliced finely
• Garlic finely chopped.

Method

Take a bowl and mix the ingredients well till sugar gets dissolved.

Can serve with rice or roti.

BREAD SANDWICH

There are different types of filling for bread sandwich.

Ingredients

Bread slices…….4

Onion……..1

Tomato……1

Green chilli…..1

Red chilli powder…..1/2 tsp

Salt as required

Coriander leaves.

Except bread mix all the other ingredients and keep aside.

Method

• If you are using bread toaster.Clean it with kitchen towel.
• Then apply ghee or melted butter.
• Keep one slice of bread first.
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• Then spread the prepared mixture on the bread.
• Then cover it with another slice.
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• Now close the toaster.
• Switch it on.
• Serve with sauce .
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Easy kozhukattai

An easy snack or breakfast .This can be made very easily if you have rice flour at home.

• Ingredients:
• Rice flour……..1 cup
• Salt as needed
• Oil
• Red chillies….few
• Curry leaves few.
• Urad dhal…..1/2 tsp
• Mustard seeds..1/4 tsp
• Coconut grated….1/4 cup

Method

• Take a bowl and put rice flour into it.
• In a kadai add little oil when it gets heated add mustard seeds when it splutters add urad dhal then add broken red chillies and then curry leaves when it gets fried add to the rice flour and keep aside.
• Add coconut scrapings.
• Now boil two cups of water with salt and 1 tsp oil.
• Add it to flour.
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• Now mix well with a laddle without any lumps.
• Make balls out of it.
• Now keep it in a steamer and cook till it gets done.
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If this is not for neivedyam you can add chopped onions and fry with red chillies and then add to the flour.This has a different taste.If for breakfast can have with coconut chutney.

RAWA PAYASAM

Easy payasam recipe.can make this within few minutes.

Rawa…….1/2 cup

• Cashews few
• Raisins few
• Water…1 1/2 cup
• Milk….1 litre
• Sugar.. 2 cups
• Ghee…2 tbs
• Yellow food colour

METHOD

• In a tawa add ghee and fry rawa.
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• Add water, milk and sugar and boil.
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• When it gets cooked add sugar,cardomom powder,color and nuts.
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• Serve hot or cold.

KARAPOONDI RAITHA

There are different types of raitha. This poondi raitha goes well with both rice varieties as well as poori,roti and chappathi.Very easy to prepare.This is a North Indian raitha. Thisis prepared from crisp fried gram flour balls.Plain boondi is used for sweet like laddu this is salted ones.

Ingredients:

• Salted boondi…….1/2 cup
• Curd…..1 cup
• Salt as required
• Red chilli powder….1/4 tsp
• Cumin powder……1/2 tsp
• Chopped coriander leaves

Method:

• Keep water on stove and when it is warm switch off the stove.
• Soak boondi in warm water for 10 to 15 mts.
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• Then press the boondi to squeeze out water but do not mash it.
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• Whisk curd.
• Add salt
• Add cumin seeds powder and red chilli powder to curd.
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• Finally add whisked curd and chopped coriander leaves.
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• Option:Can add chat masala too.