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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Bread Toast with Egg


This recipe is well known as 'French Toast' and world popular break fast recipe, but now
I made it in a different way  by adding green chilly, curry leaves, cilantro and pepper powder.

Ingredients :

Bread  4 slice
Eggs 2
Milk 1 tbsp
Butter  1-2 tsp
Green chilly  2
Curry leaves 4
Cilantro few sprigs
Salt as per taste
Pepper powder 1 pinch (optional)

Preparation :

Chop green chilly, curry leaves and cilantro very finely.

Take a wide and shallow bowl and take milk in it, add very finely chopped green chilly, curry leaves,
cilantro, salt and mix it well. Now break eggs in it and stir the mixture finely.

Heat a skillet or griddle on med-low flame, now spread butter as thin layer.
Take one bread slice and dip it in the mixture, turn to other side and let the slice get
coated with mixture both the sides.

Now put it on the skillet and toast both the sides, till it gets golden brown colour on low-med flame.

Sprinkle pepper powder, if you want more spicy and flavour.

It makes only one serving.

It  hardly takes 10 Min's to prepare.

Friday, July 29, 2011

Cucumber Pulusu

Dosakaya Pulusu

Ingredients :

Cucumber 1 big (yellow Dosakaya)
Tamarind  Pulp 1/2 cup
Sugar or jaggery  2 tsp (depends on taste)
Onion 1 small
Sesame seeds powder 1 tsp (optional)
Red chilly Powder  1 tsp
Coriander Powder  1/2 tsp
Fenugreek & Cumin seeds Powder 4 pinches
Cumin seeds 1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp
Dry Red chilly  3 (broken)
Curry leaves few
Ginger Garlic paste 1/2 tsp
Turmeric Powder  1/4 tsp
Cilantro few sprigs
Oil 1 tbsp

Preparation :

Wash cucumber, cut and remove the seeds, cut in to 3 inch size pieces as shown in the pic.
Chop onion, add 1 cup (adjust) water to tamarind pulp.

Now heat oil in a vessel, add broken dry red chilly, let it change the colour (takes few sec),
add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, let them splutter .
Add curry leaves, chopped onion, ginger garlic paste and turmeric powder stir and saute
till onions are done.

Stir in cucumber pieces and put the lid on vessel, let it done for a couple of Min's,
then add tamarind water to it .

Add red chilly powder, coriander powder, sesame seeds powder, fenugreek & cumin seeds powder,
jaggery and salt as per taste.Stir and close it with the lid and cook for 15- 20 Min's till the cucumber pieces
are done on med flame.

Now taste it, adjust salt and jaggery as per your taste.
Garnish it with cilantro and serve it with rice and dal .

It makes more than 5 servings.

It takes 25-30 Min's to prepare.

Note : Sesame seeds powder is added to get flavour.
            Adjust tamarind pulp according to your taste.
            While cutting the cucumber, see whether it tastes bitter or sour or sweet, cook only
             sour or sweet ones.