Sago/Sabudana wada

I got this recipe from Tee's blog.Made slight variation to it.It was really yummy.

Ingredients:

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• Sabudana/Sago - 200 grams
• Potato - 1 big
• Cilantro/Coriander leaves - 4 to 5 tsp of chopped leaves
• Salt - to taste
• Roasted peanut powder - 3 tbsp(Dry roast the groundnuts,clear off the skin and grind to a fine powder in a mixer)
• Jeera - 1 tsp,crushed between palms
• Lemon juice - just 1 tsp
• Oil - for deep frying
• Green chillies /cayanne pepper - as per taste(3 to 4)

Method:

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• Rinse the sago with water twice and soak them for 5 to 6 hours.Add water just to immerse the sago.After 6 hours,it would have puffed up and will be soft to touch.
• Drain the excess water completely .
• Pressure cook the potato,peel off the skin and mash well.(Do not over cook.Just leave 2 whistles on a high flame)
• Add soaked sago,potato,salt,lemon juice,cilantro,jeera,roasted peanut powder,green chillies/cayanne pepper in a wide opened vessel and mix well.
• (While making round balls out of it,it should not stick to your hand.Add roasted peanut powder ,if needed to get the consistency.But too much of it will make the vada extremely crispy.)

• Make round balls or flat vada or any shape you need.

• Heat oil in a kadai.When its medium hot,drop the balls gently into it and fry on a low flame till it becomes golden brown.

• Put them on a tissue paper to drain excess oil.

Serve medium hot with green chutney.

People in Maharashtra eat this during fasting.If you wish add finely chopped onions.But adding onions requires immediate deep frying once the dough is made.

Butter Corn with Italian seasoning

Ingredients:

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• Frozen American corn/Fresh American corn - 500 grams
• Cooking Butter/Salted butter - 2 tbsp
• Salt In case of cooking butter - to taste
• Pepper powder - 1 to 2 tsp
• Lemon juice - 2 tsp
• Italian seasoning - to sprinkle

Method:

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• In case of fresh corn,separate the corn kernels .
• Cook covered in a kadai with little water(just enough to immerse the corn) .
• Do not add excess water and strain it as the taste of corn goes away with water.Add little water and cook till it is sucked by corn.
• If you feel its not cooked,add little more water again.But normally the corn will be cooked in 5-10 min.
• Heat butter in a kadai.Add the cooked corn,salt,pepper and saute well for 5 sec on low flame.
• Switch off.Sprinkle italian seasoning(as per your taste) and add lemon juice.

Serve hot.

Tip: If you have a microwave you can cook the corn in that too.

You can try out various flavors like corn with Pepper and lemon alone,corn with butter and salt,corn with chat masala...

Moreappam/Kuzhi paniyaram

Moreappam is an excellent snack that is made of sour dosa batter that is 5 to 6 days old.When the dosa batter gets sour after a week ,it can be transformed into an yummy snack with little tadka and sour curd/buttermilk.You need a special vessel and spatula as shown in the pics below.

Ingredients:

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• Old dosa batter -
• Sour curd/buttermilk - 2 to 3 tbsp or 1/4 glass
• Coconut gratings - 1 tbsp
• Ginger,finely chopped - 1/2 tbsp
• Green chillies ,finely chopped - 2 to 3
• Curry leaves - a spring
• Onion,finely chopped - 1 (Optional)
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Oil - for frying and tadka
• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• Chana dal - 1 to 2 tsp
• asafoetida powder - 1/4 tsp

Method:

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Batter:

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• Add salt,ginger,green chillies,onions,curry leaves to the batter.
• Add little curd/butter milk to the batter.Make sure the consistency remains the same after mixing well with the above ingredients.
• Heat the kuzhi paniyaram vessel on a medium flame.(Apply oil to the holes if its not non-stick).
• Add oil into each hole,such that only 1/4th of the hole is filled with oil.

• When the oil is hot,Pour half a laddle of batter into each hole as shown below.Do not pour excess batter as it may overflow.

• Allow it to get cooked.This may take 5 to 8 min.
• Now using the pointed spatula,turn over the moreappams to the other side and leave for 3 to 5 min.

• Again turn over to other side and leave for 3 min to get roasted.After getting roasted,it will look as shown below.

• Check the video below to see how to turn over and take away the moreappams with the spatula.
• Place them on a tissue paper to absorb excess oil .Do not serve too hot.
• Serve with onion chutney.

Roasted Bread with Italian Sesame White sauce

Ingredients:
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• Milk Bread - 1 loaf
• Butter - 3 teaspoon
• Garlic pods ,peeled and crushed - 2
• Sesame seeds/White Ellu - 1 teaspoon
• Onion,very finely chopped - 1 big
• Baby Corn,chopped into thin round slice- 2(Sweet Corn Kernels can also be used-1 handful)
• Sugar - 1 teaspoon
• Salt - to taste
• Pepper powder - 1/2 teaspoon
• Italian seasoning - 1 teaspoon
• Maida/All Purpose flour - 2 heaped teaspoon
• Milk - 1 to 2 glass

Method:

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• Wash the sesame seeds and drain water.
• Heat a non-stick kadai,add butter,garlic pods and sesame seeds.Saute for 1 min.
• Add onion and saute till it becomes tender.
• Add corn and saute for a min.
• Add sugar,salt,pepper and sprinkle maida powder.
• Saute for 10 sec and add milk while stirring the mixture.
• Keep stirring till you get a thick consistency.(Like a bread spread).Switch off.
• Add Italian seasoning.Mix well.

• Make a sandwich with this paste (spread on one bread only) .

• Toast well in a toaster/tava.If using tava,spread little butter outside the bread.

• Yummy sandwich is ready.

If your kid is not having proper food,try some different presentation with the same bread and sauce.Some of them are Bread Nuggets and Bread sticks.Trust me...this will surely make them eat.

Bread Nuggets:

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Toast the bread.Remove the sides and slice them into small squares.Top each slice with a teaspoon of sauce in the middle and serve hot.That makes yummy Bread Nuggets.

Bread Sticks:

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Slice the toasted bread into lengthy sticks and serve hot with a cup of sauce.Dip the stick in sauce and enjoy your snack.