Medu Vada Recipe -- How to make Medu Vada Recipe -- Garelu Recipe

Hi, Good Morning, Thank you, friends and viewers. Today I will post how to make medu vada or gare.

Medu vada or garelu as Telugu people call them are round disc-shaped or donut-shaped fritters made with lentils are a very famous dish in South India. They are made during every festival. Urad dal or black gram or Minapapappu is the main ingredient in this. Soak it for one or two hours and grind it to a fine smooth batter. Softness of the vada depends on the batter itself. So we need to be very careful while grinding. We can use mixer grinder or wet grinder. But add very less water while grinding. Plain urad dal fritters are called as vada. Adding onions, chillies and cumin seeds are ones choice. Masala vada, Poha vada, Aratipuvvu vada, Bread vada, All flour vada are different variations among them.

These garelu or vada are the base dish for making pulusu garelu, sambar vada and dahi vada or perugu vada.
Making soft, crunchy and dry, non-greasy vada is an art. Only experts can make such kind of vada or garelu. I have learned this art from Susila my friend. She is an expert in making garelu. She makes very tasty and non-greasy garelu or vada.

Paneer 65 Recipe -- How to make Paneer 65 Recipe -- Paneer Recipes

Hi, Good Evening, Thank yo friends and viewers. Today I will post how to make Paneer 65 recipe.

Paneer 65 is yet another simple kids favourite snack item. One of our neighbouring aunts taught me how to make aloo 65. I just followed the same and made paneer 65. It is served in South Indian restaurants. It is served as starter and appetizer. It is delicious and spicy.

Paneer coated with spices, deep-fried and sauteed with onions and drizzled with lemon juice. Chicken 65 is the base for all different varieties of 65s like aloo65, gobi 65. Those who don't eat non-vegetarian paneer is the option. Of course, aloo and gobi also take its place.

Check out for more recipes with paneer -- paneer tikka, paneer butter masala, palak paneer and shahi paneer.

Coconut Ladoo Recipe -- How to make Coconut Ladoo with Condensed Milk Recipe

Hi, Good Morning, Thank you, friends and viewers, Today I will post how to make coconut ladoo with condensed milk.

This is a very simple and easy recipe, even kids can do. Rather they have to do according to their class 1 EVS - Environmental Studies - text book. When Sahiti and Itihas in their class 1 (now they are in class 5), they have this recipe and tips to follow while cooking and how to handle such hot vessels and protect themselves from burns while cooking.
I still remember that recipe and keep doing it regularly. Coconut is always available at every household during these festive season. These ladoos can also be offered to god during festivals specially Diwali-Festival of Lights.

Papdi Chaat Recipe -- How to make Papdi Chaat Recipe

Hi, Good Morning, Thank you all friends and viewers, Today I will post how to make papdi chaat recipe.

I have learned it from another food blog: spiceupthecurry. I followed most of it from this blog.
It is very tasty and simple recipe. But it involves lot of preparation. So I make it very rarely. Of course, if all the neccessary chutneys are readily available, we can make it easily. The preparation of chutneys can be done a day before. Now a days we are getting everything from the stores. So get them, prepare and serve them. Enjoy it with family members anytime.
Of course making all of them with our own hands is really different and gives immense satisfaction. For that we need to make all of them a day ahead, papdi, green chutney, tamarind chutney, sev, curd and boiled potatoes (of course they are always available in my refrigerator). Chutneys can be refrigerated in an air tight containers for a week. Sev and papdi can be served as normal tea time snacks also if not using them for chaat.

Pani Puri Recipe -- How to make Pani Puri Recipe -- Golgappa Recipe

Hi, Good Morning, Thank you all friends and viewers. Today I will post how to make Pani puri at home.

I made them long back, but could not post it immediately as I was writing other traditional recipes. Today I have no other recipes readily available, so this occupies.
Pani puri is a common street snack across India. It consists of small puffed, crispy puris filled with spice water and curry. We have to have each puri in one gulp.
It is one of the most favourite time pass street food for many people. We love to hang out and have a chit-chat with friends at chatbhandars(a small street food joints).
We can make puris also at home (that recipe will be posted soon), but it takes longer time. We can keep them readily available a day before making pani puri. I too made them at home and prepared pani puri. But for now I prepared it with store bought puris only.

Punukulu -- Simple Maida Punukulu Recipe -- How to make Punukulu Recipe

Punukulu is a very nice evening tea time snack. We like it very much, it goes very well with peanut chutney. There are two ways to make these punukulu, one is mixing maida that is all pupose flour with sour butter milk, and the other is soaking black gram and rice and grinding to a fine paste and making them. The second version takes a lot of oil, but the first one takes less oil. Of course it depends on the sourness of the buttermilk. If we use less sour buttermilk it takes less oil and vice versa.

Kandi Pachadi - Menthi Majigga -- How to make Kandi Pachadi -Menthi Majjiga Recipe

Combo Dish Recipe 1

Hi Good Morning Friends,
I am going to introduce some traditional combo dishes here. Passed on from generations, these recipes are as varied in taste and flavour as they are in the ease of preparation. They can each be had with an accompanying rice item, complimenting each other or all together in one lovely stew. Some of these dishes are listed here...kandi pachadi-menthi majjiga, kandi podi-chintapandu pachadi, pappu-majjiga pulusu, patoli-tiyya pulusu, patoli-menthi majjiga etc., if you know any more of these culinary treasures, then do inbox me or post a comment underneath. Enjoy!

Here in this post, I will write both the recipes, for easy reference. Just scroll down to get the text of other recipe.
Kandi pachadi is a chutney made with lentils. Menthi Majjiga is thin buttermilk with added spices. They both can be consumed with rice. Kandi Pachadi is served along with menthi majjiga in my house. They are good accompaniments to each other. Not every household follow this but those who like it surely follow it.

Mokkajonna Garelu Recipe -- Corn Vada Recipe -- How to make Corn Vada Recipe

Hi Good Morning friends, Thanks to all my friends and viewers. Today I will write how to make mokkajonna garelu or corn vada.

These are made with maize corn cob. This is the season we get them here in India. They are sold in every local market. We get tender cobs to pressure cook them, add them in sambar or sprinkle some red chilli powder and salt on them and enjoy. We can prepare different varieties of dishes with maize corn like dosa, vada, poori and pakodi. Vendors grill them on charcoal and apply little salt, red chilli powder and drizzle some lemon juice on it and serve. They are very tasty and have to be consumed immediately.
I buy a dozen of them and make almost all the varieties of them. And I grill them on stove top also. Making all of them is very interesting but preparing is a task. We have to deseed them from the cob. It is a time taking process, we do not get the deseeded one like sweet corn. We have to take some time and do it. It is a family job, kids also love to participate in that.
OK, Now is the time to talk about the recipe. These vadas are made differently by different people, some add chopped onion, green chillies and coriander leaves to the batter. Some grind all of them together and make vadas. Some do not add any flour and some add rice flour and besan to the batter. It all depends on the taste and their habits. But the main ingredient should be maize corn. This recipe I got it from my friend Geetha. This recipe is followed by most of the Telangana people, a state in India. They call it as Makka Vada or Makkai ki Vada.
Here in the recipe table, I gave corn measurement in cups only. I took approximately three cobs of corn. I deseeded all the five corn cobs and kept in the refrigerator, took only 2 and 1/2 cups of corn out of them. I still have some left in the box. So this number is only approx figure no the actual figure, please use them accordingly.