CARROT TAMARIND PULIHORA

DESCRIPTION

*Pulihora with a tamarind is a traditional  Andhra festival  meal .

*Its normally serves for breakfast,meals and even for dinner.it is tasty as well as healthy and nutritious dish.

*This is a homely recipe,perfectly cooked in the comfort of the home with cooked rice which is seasoned with tamarind and other basic ingredients.

*It is experimented with new twists b adding vegetables.serve with pickles like mango,gongura it gives a great taste to it.

*It will also one of the prasadam in god's temple.

*it is most prestigious dish in hindu gods temples.

INGREDIENTS

*Cooked rice-2 cups

*Tamarind pulp-1 cup

*Carrot(grated)-1/2 cup

*Turmeric powder-2 tsp(haldi)

*Red chilli(dry)-4

*Green chilli-4

*Curry leaves-1sprng

*Channadal-2tsp

*Urad dal-1 tsp

*Coriander-1 sprng

*Cumin seeds-few

*Mustard seeds-few

*Salt added to taste

*Oil-1/2 cup

*Ground nuts-few

*Cashew-few

*Asfoetidia-little 

   HOW TO MAKE CARROT TAMARIND PULIHORA

• wash and soak tamarind in hot water for 5 minutes  squeeze  and make a thick paste .pass it through a filter, discard stones and pulp.
• wash and cook rice till just done,dont make the rice mushy  grains must be separated .cool the rice on a wide plate.sprinkle salt and turmeric powder.
• Take a bowl add 2 cups of rice and add turmeric powder,oil 1 tsp,salt and mix evenly and add tamarind pulp then mix the juice to the rice.take a bowl and add oil keep it on stove at slow flame.
• add red chills it becomes fry then add urad dal,mustard seeds,cumin seeds,channa dal,ground nuts and splited green chillies it will turns to brown colour .add curry leaves then add  grated carrot and coriander leaves
• add hing,tamarind pulp,jaggery 
• cook the mixture till the mixture thickens otherwise pulihora will be very moist. 
• then finally add asfoetidia.then turn of the stove.keep this mixture pour in to the rice mixture then mix evenly 
• .serve to a bowl garnish with cashew nuts,carrot,coriander leaves.then yummy yummy carrot tamarind pulihora is ready to eat.enjoy the taste.
• serve with grilled papad or chips like potato chips .
• serve tamarind rice or pulihora with fresh home made curd.
• pulhora is served in breakfast ,lunch and dinner it is all time favourate dish.

RECOMMENDED

• Mostly pulihora is making by using citrous fruits.
• Lemon pulihora is take rice  and mix lemon juice instead of tamarind paste add carrot is optional 
• Mango pulihora is gives a grate taste using raw grated mango to the rice mix it evenly add salt turmeric and oil then keep it thalimpu mix all the ingredients.
• Citron pulihora is different taste of the pulihora recipe.citron is a seasonal fruit it is also known as dabbakaya in telugu.take citron and extract juice from it.
• And mix it in to rice and turmeric powder,salt sprinkle to the rice add rice in to popu or thalimpu.
• Adding more ground nuts gives fabulous taste

NOTE

• It will also prepared by using lemons,mangoes,citron and other vegetables.
• You can also add chopped beans,green  peas ,other vegetables along with carrot and other vegetables to make pulihora .
• For pulihora recipe,using jaggery enhances the taste without adding much sweetness to the rice.
• Using sesame seeds powder or mustard powder is optional.
• If you are looking for avapulihora also called as avapetina pulihora use mustard powder

BREAD HALWA

Bread halwa is a one of the famous sweet in all countries,it is also known as doubleka meeta.its very simple and tasty.mainly popular in all functions in india.

• Bread is probably one of the few ingredients that never fail to disappoint me.
• It is also versatile in characters that you can use it in many ways to create delightful dishes.
• One of my all time favourite is bread halwa.
• This european-indian sweet treat can be hard to picture,but take a spoonful of the dessert .
• In my opinion bread halwa is the indian take on the english classic-bread pudding.
• Texture is almost similar ,warm and gooey,comes loaded with nuts.
• Mostly cashews instead of pecans,and doused in desi ghee,much like butter which what makes the pudding so hard to resist digging in to.
• If you have a sweet tooth ,then you will love bread halwa,more so because it is ridiculously easy to make.
• Trust passionate indian cooks to  use common ingredient bread.
• It gives refreshing desi twist unlike other bread-based indian desert  shahi tukada.
• This one is lighter if you keep a check on the ghee.  

Ingredients to make bread halwa

• Bread slices-5
• Sugar-2 cups
• Cashew(jedipappu) nuts-50gm
• Kismiss-100gm

• Almond (badam)nuts-50gm
• Tarbhujaseeds-50gm
• Cardamom-4
• Milk-1 cup
• Kova(kalakand)-50gm
• Cherrys-5
• Ghee-1 cup

         How to make bread halwa

Take a pan add some ghee and place bread slices to it.roasted for both sides.it will turns golden brown color take another kadai add some ghee add cashew,badam,kismiss,tarbhuja seed it turns to golden colour.take a kadai add sugar and add some water it dissolves for 10 minutes.then add bread slices into it make it as a paste .then add milk boil for 2 minutes(boiled milk only).add kova or kalakhand to it.after one minute add 10tsp of ghee.add cardamom for a great taste.then turn of the stove.take it in to a bowl add above fried nuts and garnish with cherrys.i hope sweet lovers most love this sweet.


NOTE

• dont experiment with ghee quality as it may turns sticky.
• i used milk bread for this recipe.
• you store for this for 15 days keep it on refrigerator 

CHEESE SLICED SWEET

This is a great dish in south India .one of the new variety of sweets in India .you can prepare and taste of the dish you never forget the taste of the dish.

ingredients 

*Fresh 1st day milk of cow/buffellow  -1 liter

 *Jaggery-2 cup

*Sugar-2tsp

*Cardamom-3

How to make cheese sliced sweet

Take a bowl and pour fresh milk in to it .take idly making bowl and add some water to it and keep the milk bowl in to the idly maker steam for 15 minutes for slow flame.then take another bowl and add Jaggery and sugar and some water to it.keep this bowl in o a stove and dissolve the whole mixture for 15 minutes add cardamom in to it.after that take the steamed milk and  sliced it .then add to jaggery  solution .take a plate pour this mixture in to the plate spread evenly,cool for 10 minutes after that cut in to small pieces.serve to your dear ones .i will make sure that you can prepare in your home definitely you like the taste.i hope you can try.

NOTE

• Stir for some time in steamer
• It will becomes hard  not a loose mixture.
• Keep the lid in to steamer for steam cooking.

RECOMMENDED

• You can also taste the recipe in different manner it will be simple i will explain the procedure
• Take the fresh milk of cow or bufellow 1 st days milk.
• Add black pepper powder and cardamom powder to the milk.
• Then stir it evenly.
• Then add jaggery and dissolve the jaggery completely keep it for 15 minutes.
• Then filter the milk without any impurities .
• Pour it on a bowl and take idly making bowl and add water keep the bowl in to water and steamed for  20 minutes.
• After that keep it on refrigerator and cut it in to small pieces.