Mysore Bonda

Mysore bondas - Easy to prepare with a very few ingredients. A very popular snack in south India especially in Karnataka.  I tried out the recipe from Manjula's kitchen:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HkvfRUnvk&t=1s

Ingredients :
All purpose flour           1 cup
Rice Flour                      1/4 cup
Yoghurt                          1/2 cup (sour yoghurt recommended)
cumin /jeera                   1/2 Tsp
Baking Soda                  1/2 Tsp
Green chilly chopped    1Tbsp
Ginger finely chopped  1 TBsp
Curry leaves chopped    1 Tbsp
Coriander leaves            2 TBsp
Salt                                 As required
Water                              As required
Oil                                  for frying

Preparation :

Mix all the dry ingredients together. Mix it well and add sour yoghurt. Mix it well adding water gradually. Mix well to become a thick paste and add remaining ingredients like green chilly ginger curry and coriander leaves. combine well and allow the batter to sit for 30 minuets undisturbed.

Heat oil in a kadai. Keep the flame in medium.  Smear some oil to your finger tips. Make a round ball and drop into the hot oil. Keep stirring with a ladle while frying for to cook evenly. Make in batches. Drain it on a tissue paper. Enjoy mysore bondas with coconut chutney.

Mambazha Pulissery ( മാമ്പഴ പുളിശ്ശേരി )

Its an easy to prepare kerala traditional curry. In kerala we prepare this with chandrakkaran mambazham during mango season. its unique fragrance and flavor gives curry a heavenly taste. If this is not available use Alphonso or any other available small size nadan mangoes. Its indeed a nostalgic dish for many keralites. please add pepper powder since in many new generation recipes its absent but when i search in authentic traditional recipes its there. I asked with many cooking experts too. They have also suggested to include pepper powder which definitely adds a different flavor for the curry 

Chandrakkaran or nadan mangoes   3 Riped
 Sliced Green chillies                       4
Turmeric Powder                             1 Tsp
Chilly powder                                  1 Tsp
Black pepper powder                       1/2 Tsp
Jaggery (optional)                            Goosberry size
Salt                                                    as required
Curry leaves
Water                                              1 cup
Yogurt                                            1 1/2 cup
For grinding:
Coconut Big (grated)                      1/2
cumin seeds Jeera                          2 pinches
Turmeric powder                            1 Tsp
Water                                               As required

For Tempering :
coconut oil                                     3 Tbsp
Fenugreek                                      1/2 Tsp
Mastard seeds                                3 Tsp
Whole red chilly                             4
Curry leaves                                    3-4 sprigs

Preparation:

1)  Grind together grated coconut, turmeric powder and jeera to thick creamy paste adding required water. keep it aside.

2)  Blend yogurt in a mixing bowl to a smooth texture and keep it aside.

3) peel of the skin of mangoes and cut into pieces if required or else you can put as it is if its of small size. In a traditional clay chatti mix together mangoes, chilly powder, green chillies, turmeric powder, pepper powder, salt and add required water too. Cover with a lid and cook on a medium or low flame. until mangoes become soft. Add the coconut paste and combine well. Please switch off the stove after five minuets.
Add blended yogurt too and mix well.
Heat coconut oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds and fenugreek let it splutter and then add red chilly and curry leaves. Pour this to the curry on top and mix well. Relish it with brown rice.

Tutti Frutti Cake (Eggless)

 Childrens will love this cake which is easy to prepare as well.

Curd   1 Cup
Powdered Sugar 1 Cup
Vegetable oil 1/4 cup
Baking powder 1Tsp
Baking soda 1/2 Tsp
Orange essence 1/2 Tsp
Vanilla essence 1/2 Tsp
All purpose flour 1/1/2 cup
Tutti Frutti


In a mixing bowl mix curd and powdered sugar. Mix well and add baking powder and baking soda.
After sometime add oil, essence. Combine well and further add sieved flour gradually. Mix well then finally add tutti frootti which is already mixed with flour.. Pour the well combined cake mixture into a baking pan lined with butter and flour..  Bake it on a preheated 180 degree hot oven for forty minuets.

Oyster Mushroom coconut curry (മഷ്‌റൂം പീര വറ്റിച്ചത്)

Oyster Mushrooms  are common edible mushrooms found on land. They are tender and is with meaty / seafood flavor. Oyster mushrooms are high in vitamins, minerals, anti oxidants and statins which can lower cholesterol. 

Oyster Mushrooms   150 gm
water                         1/4 glass
Salt

For grinding:
coconut (grated)        1/2
Green chilly               2
Garlic                         a clove
Jeera (cumin seed)     a pinch
Aniseeds /Fennel seeds)  1 Tsp
Karuka patta (cinnamon)  small piece
Turmeric powder      1Tsp
Black pepper             7 No.s

For tadka (Tempering) : 
Mustard, Red chilly 2 and curry leaves

cook the chopped mushrooms adding adequate water. put a pinch of turmeric powder ,green chilly which is slit and sufficient salt.. Keep it aside once its cooked and dry.

Coarsely grind all above ingredients in a mixer.

Heat oil in a kadai. Add mastard seeds let it splutter. keep low flame.  then add dry red chilly and curry leaves.

Then add grinded coconut.  Add cooked mushrooms too and mix well.