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INGREDIENTS:- 1 (250/500g) of Amulya Milk powder. Cocoa powder. Powdered sugar. Ghee. Cup of warn milk. Procedure:  Pour the milk powder to a bowl /vessel which is broad and has depth. Add the cocoa powder till you get a light brown colour mixing the milk powder with cocoa powder.  Mix the two so that there are no lumps. Add the powdered sugar,mix well, add till desired sweetness is reached. Mix the contents well, add the warm milk little by little. Knead the content into a dough. Use ghee to get the glaze effect.  Roll it up like chappati and cut it to desired shapes. Alternatively, we can make small balls. If needed you can add dry fruits to the chocolate.

Ingredients:-  1 kothamali bunch (Coriander)  3-4 green chillies  1 lemon-sized tamarind ball.  little bit of jaggery (2 small balls size of pepper)  pinch of perungayam (Asafoetida )  salt for taste 2 table spoon cooking oil. Preparation:- Take the coriander bunch (remove the root portions) and clean it with water. Put it in the mixer and crush it. Add the tamarind, green chillies to the mixer and make it into a paste.If needed add some water so that we get a thick paste.  Now heat the kadhai and add cooking 1 tablespoon of oil to it. When it heats up , add the mustard seeds and pinch of asafoetida. Then add the paste to it. Add the jaggery and salt and stir the mixture. The remaining 1 tablespoon ofcooking oil can be added little by little till as required. Keep stirring and remove it from the flame when the chutney doesn't stick to the kadhai when stirred.   This chutney stays for a week when stored in refrigerator.It can mixed with...

Ingredients: -1 medium cup - grated dry coconut (copra's). -7-8 garlic pods. -1/2 medium cup -Bengal gram ( kadalai parupu ) -1/4 medium cup - Black gram Dal ( ulutham parupu ) -5-6 red chillies - tamarind - take 2 small strip of tamarind (approx size of lemon when rolled into a ball) - teaspoon of cooking oil. Preparation: Put a deep pan on flame and first add the grated coconut and saute it till it turns a little golden brown in color. Then put aside the coconut in a plate, add the garlic pods and saute till they turn a golden yellow. Remove this as well. Then add a teaspoon of cooking oil , add the Bengal gram, red chillies, tamarind, urud Dal to it and roast them till the Dal change in colour to orangish red colour.   First ground the fried Dal, chili and tamarind in the mixer/blender. Add salt as required, then add the coconut and blend them. Finally add the garlic and grind the whole thing. Remove the contents of mixer and mix it well in a b...

Rating: 4/5  I watched this movie long back in April I guess. Bon Appetit , bon appetit !! A movie based on women and cooking. How the old and the new generation find the common thread? Merilyn streep makes you wish you had the character she portrays. I saw glimpses of my maternal grandmother in her. I don't want to talk about the blogging about Julie. But the story connects with each women in some way be it the cooking or the family life. How the new generation has lost the understanding , patience and such qualities of the old gen ladies? We feel as if we are the one making the world move whereas they( the old ones) always thought they were a part of it. The enthusiasm of Merilyn streep just makes you wish everything works out for her while publishing the book. It also shows how today the media is behind people rather than the olden days when Julia had to search for a publisher.    It also inspired me to start preserving the food recipes of our traditional pract...

The carrot-cabbage-onion mixed rice Serves : 2 Ingredients : 1 cup of grated cabbage 1 medium sized carrot - grated 1 medium sized onion - grated Jeera Salt 1 medium-sized tumbler rice Pepper pow der Ghee Optional: 1-2 Green chilli 2-3 garlic pods. Method:  Soak the rice for at least 10 minutes before cooking . Put the pressure cooker on the flame. Add some teaspoons of ghee and put jeera in it. When you get the aroma of jeera , add the grated vegetables and garlic. Saute for 2-3 minutes. Add the rice to the cooker. Pour 2 glasses of water using the same tumbler you used to measure the rice. Mix the ingredients well and allow it to come to a boil. Add the required quantity of salt. Then close the lid and place the whistle.Allow 2 whistles and then set the flame to small for 5 minutes and then stop it. Now after you are able to open the cooker, add the pepper powder( depending on the level of spiciness you need). Mix it up well and now the rice is ready to be serv...

Food specially prepared for a new mother . If you are a Brahman and a Tambram at it, you would have heard these words in a household that has just been blessed with a new -born baby. The food items prepared under this category is mainly meant for the new mother, to help her out in recovering from the internal wounds that she would have after the delivery. The main ingredients used for flavouring are pepper, pepper and some more pepper, ladles of ghee, salt. It is the post-natal care for both the new mother and the baby, making sure they don't suffer from indigestion. Nowadays , however, either due to the lack of support system( elderly people or parents) many of us just about take the normal food we have during normal times. But you can actually feel the difference the specially prepared food has compared to the normal diet we follow.   The options one has for this particular food preparation might be a tad bit limited, but with new experiments you can prepare a variety...