Rava Kachayam

Ingredients :

• Rava (Suji) - 1 cup
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Maida or All purpose flour - 1 cup
• Ripe Banana - 1/2 (mashed)
• Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp
• Cooking Soda - a pinch (very little)

Method :

1. Soak the Rava in water for half an hour. 
2. Drain the excess water completely and add Sugar. Mix well until the sugar dissolvs.Then add Maida and mix well.
3. Add the Cardamom powder, Cooking Soda, Ripe banana (mashed) and mix well (no need to add water). 
4. The batter (mixture) should be thick in consistency.
5. Heat the oil in a pan for deep frying. 
6. Take a medium spoon full of batter and drop it carefully into the oil.
7. Fry both sides till it  turns golden brown color under medium flame.
8. Repeat the process for the remaining batter.
9. Now the sweet Rava Kachayam is ready to eat.

Tips :

• Banana is optional here.You can also make rava kachayam without adding banana.

Capsicum Rice

Capsicum

Ingredients :

• Rice - 1 Cup
• Capsicum - 1 (thin sliced)
• Red Chillies - 2 
• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp
• Coriander seeds - 1 tsp
• Urad dal - 1
• Peanuts (roasted) - 2 tsp 
• Curry leaves - 5 no
• Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp
• Butter/Ghee/Oil - 2 tsp
• Salt

Method :

1. Heat the pan and dry roast(without oil) the ingredients Red chillies, Mustard seeds, Cumin seeds, Coriander seeds, Urad dal in a medium flame until turns light brown and the good flavour comes from these spices. Finally add the roasted peanuts and combine with the other spices for few seconds and turn off heat. Once cool add the Garam masala to that and grind to a coarse powder (not fine powder).
2. Heat the butter in a pan and add sliced Capsicum. Dont over cook them, lets the capsicum retains their crunchy texture. Add salt to taste and combine well and cook for few minutes.
3. Add the dry roast powder and let it cook for another 1 min and turn off heat.
4. Add the cooked rice and mix it well till all the masala coated well with rice and  garnish with coriander leaves.

Serve with Yogurt or Chips or Papad (appalam)

Tips :

• You can use any color(red ,yellow) of Capsicum or you can use mixed color of capsicum.

Coriander Rice

Ingredients :

• Coriander Leaves - 1 bunch
• Rice (basmathi / sona masoori) - 2 cups
• Green chillies - 3
• Coconut - 1 1/2 tsp (grated)
• Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Urad dal - 1 tsp
• Channa dal - 1 tsp
• Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Curry leaves - few
• Asafoetida - little
• Red chillies - 2
• Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Onion - 1 (chopped into thin slices)
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Salt - to taste

Method :

1. Remove the stems from the coriander bunch. Wash the coriander leaves and chopped finely.
2. Grind the Coriander leaves, green chillies and coconut to coarse paste.
3. Cook the rice separately.
4. Heat the oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, urad dal, channa dal, cumin seeds, red chillies, curry leaves, asafoetida and ginger garlic paste.
5. Then add sliced onions to the fry until it turns brown. Then add the ground paste and salt. Fry until the raw smell disappears.
6. Then add the cooked rice and mix well.
7. Serve with raita or chips or papad.

The flavour will be a true delight for coriander lovers !!

Note :

• You can also add green peas to the coriander rice