THATTAI RECIPE/ SAVOURY RICE CRACKERS

INGREDIENTS:
1.  Rice flour - 2 cups
2.  Fried gram (pottukadalai) - 2 tablespoon
3.  Sesame seeds - 1 teaspoon
4.  Red chilli powder - 1 tablespoon
5.  Asafoetida ( perungayam) - 1 pinch
6.  Salt to taste
7.  Butter - 1 tablespoon
8.  Curry leaves - small amount
9.  Cooking oil - 1/4 kg
10. Warm hot water - 1 cup

METHOD:
1.  Take a bowl and mix all the ingredients except 9 and 10.

2.  Now mix them together with some hot water little by little and make a dough and keep it aside.

3.  Then make lemon sized balls and make shapes to prepare thattai.

4.  Take some tissue papers or a tracing paper and press the lemon sized balls one by by and keep it ready to fry them.

5.  Now take a kadai pour some oil when they gets hot add the pressed thattai in oil and fry them till golden brown.

6.  Then place them on a tissue paper and serve hot. Crispy thattai is ready to eat.

You get around 10 to 12 thattai's.

Note:

If you use tissue paper the dough wont get sticky. See that dont do more than three thattai's for a tissue.

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CREAMY CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE/ CHOCOLATE CAKE/ EGGLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE/

INGREDIENTS:
1.  Maida - 1 cup
2.  Condensed milk - 1/2 cup
3.  Butter - 1/4 cup
4.  Vanilla essence - 1 teaspoon
5.  Coco powder - 3 tablespoon
6.  Baking powder - 1/2 teaspoon
7.  Powdered sugar - 1 cup
8.  Soda powder - 1/4 teaspoon
9.  Cherries - 100g
10.Water - 1-1/2 glass
11.Chocolates - 2 bars
12.Cherry - 10 pieces
13.Cream - 170 g (you can get in super market)
14.Water 3 tablespoon
15.Boiled milk - 3 tablespoon
16.Sand - 1 bowl

METHOD:
1. Take a bowl mix the butter with 1/4 cup of  powdered sugar and mix till it comes to a creamy stage.

2. Then add the condensed milk and mix them till it becomes like a idly batter.

3. Now sieve the maida and add it to the mixture and add coco powder, baking soda and essence.

4. Mix them well with 3 tablespoon of water and boiled milk for 10- 15 mins.Now the mixture is ready.

5. After that  take an  idly cooker fill them with some sand. Place a lid on the sand and on that place a perforated plate and close the cooker and heat it for 10 mins.

6. Then take a bowl and grease it.  Fill the cake mixture in the bowl and after opening the cooker place the bowl in the middle of the perforated plate and cook it for 15-20 mins in a low temperature.

7. Meanwhile mix the cream in a bowl with 4 tablespoon of powdered sugar and whisk it fast for 10
mins and refrigerate the cream for 15 mins.

8. Keep the cherries and sugar syrup ready. Scrape the chocolate bars and keep them aside.

9. When the cake is cooked  remove it from the bowl carefully and cool it for 10 mins.

10.Now take a knife cut the cake into 2 or 3 layers. If the layers are not even, need not worry.

11. Take a plate and apply a little cream in the middle of the plate and place one layer of the cake
 in the middle of the cream and press it.

12.Pour a little sugar syrup on it and some cream and spread them evenly.

13.Likewise the same has to be followed by the 2nd and the 3rd layers and with a final touch
spread the cream evenly on all sides of the cake and decorate them with cherries and scraped chocolates.

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NEW YEAR SPECIAL CHICKEN ROAST RECIPE/ CHICKEN ROAST RECIPPES

INGREDIENTS:
1.  Chicken - 1/4 kg
2.  potato - 1
3.  Salt as needed
4.  Onion - 2
5.  Cooking oil - 2 tablespoon
6.  Ginger garlic paste

TO GROUND:
1.  Mustard - 1/4 teaspoon
2.  Spices like cinnamon (IIlavanga pattai), cloves (Krambu), saunf (sombu), elaichi (yellakai) - each little

3.  Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon

4.  Red chilli powder - 2 tablesoon

5.  Pepper and cumin (seeragam) powder

METHOD:

1.  First wash the chicken pieces and fry them with little oil and keep them aside

2.  Now cut the potato into large sizes half boil them with some salt and filter the boiled water and  keep them aside.

3.  Then ground all the above items and keep them ready to cook.

4.  Now take the half ground masala pour them in a kadai add salt, cut onion, ginger garlic paste, fried chicken pieces and a small glass of water and cook them till they gets thick.

5.  After they gets cooked take the chicken pieces from the gravy.

6.  Take a kadai pour some oil fry the cut onion and deep fry the chicken pieces again and mix the with  the gravy and add the potato boiled water and cook them till they become thick.

7.  When they are fully cooked switch off the flame and add the fried potatoes and serve hot.

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SEEDAI / SEEDAI RECIPE

INGREDIENTS:
1.  Maida - 1 cup
2.  Curd - 1 teaspoon
3.  Cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon
4.  Asafoetida / perungayam a pinch
5.  Sesame seeds / ellu - 1 teaspoon
6.  Butter - 2 tablespoon
7.  Chilli powder - 1 teaspoon
8.  Turmeric powder - 1/2 teaspoon
9.  Salt to taste

METHOD:
1.  Add all the ingredients together with a little water and make a dough.

2.  Now take a small amount of dough and make a small round balls like a grape.

3.  Keep a pan on flame pour some oil and add the seedai and fry them in oil till golden brown.

Now the seedai is ready take out the seedai from oil and serve after 10 mins.

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MAIDA BISCUIT /MAIDA BISCUITS RECIPE

INGREDIENTS:
1.  Maida - 2 cups
2.  Sugar - 2-1/2 cups
3.  Ghee - 8 teaspoon
4.  Cooking oil - 1/4 kg
5.  Salt a pinch
6.  Cooking soda a pinch

METHOD:
1.  Powder the sugar in mixer and keep it aside.

2.  Mix the powdered sugar with maida.

3.  Add cooking soda, ghee and salt little and make a dough with little water.

4.  Now roll them like chappathi and make slices like this with a knife.

5.  In a low flame keep a pan on flame and pour some oil , when they gets hot drop the pieces one by one and fry them till light golden brown.

6.  After they have been fried well take out the maida biscuit and remove the excess oil and serve after 10 mins

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KARA SEV / KARASEV RECIPE

INGREDIENTS:
1.  Besan flour / kadalaimaavu - 1 cup
2.  Rice flour - 1 cup
3.  Ghee - 1 tablespoon
4.  Pepper powder - 1 teaspoon
5.  Salt to taste
6.  Water - 1/2 cup
7.  Turmeric powder - 1/2 teaspoon
8.  Chilli powder - 1 teaspoon
9.  Cooking oil to fry - 1/4 kg

METHOD:
1.  Mix all the ingredients together by adding little water and make a dough like chappathi.

2.  Now take sev press and insert the dough like this.

3.  Keep a pan on flame pour some oil when they gets hot press the sev press and make shapes as you like and when the karasev is cooked switch off the flame.

4.  Place them in a plate and serve after 10 mins. Now the karasev is ready to eat

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KARA BOONDI / KARA BOONDHI RECIPE

INGREDIENTS:
1.  Besan flour / kadalaimaavu - 1 cup
2.  Rice flour - 1 cup
3.  Cashews - 3- 4
4.  Pistachios - 3- 4
5.  Peanuts - 2 tablespoon
6.  Curry leaves
7.  Asafoetida / perungayam a pinch
8.  Food colour a pinch
9.  Turmeric powder a pinch
10.Chilli powder - 1 teaspoon
11.Salt to taste
12.Cooking oil - 1 cup
13.Ghee - 1 tablespoon

METHOD: 
1.  Take a bowl and mix the besan flour, rice flour. ghee, asafoetida, salt, food colour, turmeric powder and chilli powder with little water like a idly batter.

2.   Now take a pan keep on a flame when it gets hot pour the oil and pour the batter in the perforated laddle and fry them in oil.

3.  Take out the boondi's and drain the excess oil.

4.  Fry the peanuts, cashews, pistachios and curry leaves in the oil and mix them with  boondi.

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