Mango Milkshake

Mango milkshake - Preparation time 5 to 10 mins
This is our favourite milk shake.Very simple tasty and healthy milkshake. Usually they say ripe mango is heat but when we blend with milk it is good for health. Already mambazham is available in store so you can enjoy the shake.

Ingredients:-
Ripe Mango (Mambazham) - 1 medium size, peel off the skin and take the flesh
Milk - 200 ml
Sugar - 3 or 4 tbsp (according to your taste level)

Preparation method :-
Add sugar, chopped ripe mango & milk in mixer and blend.
Serve mango milkshake chill. If you want to make this even more rich can add scoop of vanilla ice cream which is optional.
The color itself will be more beautiful.

Note:- You can make the pulp of ripe mango and sugar by blending together. Keep this refrigerated and mix the milk and pulp before serving. Don't store the pulp for more that 1 or 2 days

Raw banana or Plantain spicy chips - Method II (Vazhakai kara varuval)

Raw banana or plantain spicy chips (Vazhakai kara varuval) - preparation time 10 to 15mins
Spicy vazhakai chips goes well with any rice. Choose hard plantain (muthal vazhakai). You can also serve this as snack along with tea or some sweet. Kids love this spicy chips. My mom used to prepare this. It will be very yummy snack

Ingredients:-
Raw banana or plantain - 1
Oil - to deep fry
Chili powder - 1 tbsp
Salt - to taste
Bengal gram flour (kadalai mavu) - 1 tbsp
Rice flour - 3/4 tbsp
Asafoetida - a pinch
Water - little (to make thick sticky paste)

Preparation method:-
Peel the skin of plantain and cut the plantain to half.
Using chips grated slice the plantain to chips. Separate and keep the slices.
In a cup mix the flour's, salt, chili powder, asafoetida along with little water (it has to be thick paste slightly coat the raw banana slices (if you coat more paste it will become like baji take care :-)))
Heat the oil , Coat the paste slightly over the slices and drop into heated oil one by one.
When cooked and bubbles goes off remove from oil . Cook in slow flame or you will burn it.
This will be a filling and yummy snack.

Carrot rice (carrot sadam)

Carrot rice (carrot sadam) - preparation time 15 to 20 mins
This will be a colorful and interesting rice for kids. If you make it little spicy every one will like this rice. Healthy and simple to make.

Ingredients:-
Carrot - 1 cup (you can take 2 medium size carrot) grated.
Red chili powder - 1/2 tsp
Green chili - 2 (chopped)
Coconut - 1 tbsp (grated)
Curry leave - 2 string
Saunf seed - 1/4 tsp
Bay leaf - 1
Urad dhal - 1 tbsp
Cashew - 2 (optional)
Small onion - 5 (finely chopped)
Cooked rice - 1 cup (150 gms)
Salt - to taste
Sesame oil - 2 tbsp
Water - little
　
Preparation method:-
In a pan add sesame oil, Saunf to splutter,bay leaf and sortae one by one - urad dhal to golden brown, cashew to light brown, green chili, chopped onion, curry leaves and fry till the onion is cooked.
Add carrot, red chili powder to the pan. Fry till raw smell of carrot goes off. Now sprinkle little water and cook the carrot with little salt. You can also add turmeric which is optional.
Add the cooked rice (the rice should be not be sticky it should like rice which you cook for pulisadam) salt for rice. Mix the ingredients well with the rice.
Finally add the grated coconut, few more curry leaves and mix.
You can serve this with papad or any curd raitha.

Dry rice flour dosai ((kancha) aarisi mavu dosai)

Dry rice flour dosai (Arisi mavu or kootumavu dosai)- Preparation time 10 mins
When mom came home she prepared this dosai and gave I thought this dosai will not be tasty as other dosa. To my surprise it taste good. This is very simple and easy recipe. Surely we will be having dry rice flour and maida in our home which is the main ingredient for this dosai. You can try it.

Ingredients:-
Rice flour - 1 cup
Maida - 1 tbsp
Cumin seed - 1/2 tsp
Green chili - 1 or 2 (finely chopped)
Onion - 1 finely chopped (If you use small onion it will be much more tasty)
Curry leaves - 10
Sesame oil - 1 tbsp
Mustard seed - 1/4 tsp
Urad dhal - 1/2 tsp
Salt - to taste
Water - as required (The flour has to be in pouring consistency and little bit thin to make thin and crispy dosa)

Preparation method:-
In a bowl mix rice flour, salt, maida and little water. Take care that lumps should not exist. Add required water to make the dough for dosa consistency.
In a tawa heat oil. Add mustard to splutter, urad dhal to golden brown, chili and onion. Sortae for few mins.
Add the garnishing to dough along with chopped curry leaves & cumin seed.
Heat the dosa tawa add oil and pour the dosa flour and make nice tasty tawa. You can add water it the dough is thick.
While using ladle use very gentle else you want get dosa but you will end up in upma.
First try it out in little quantity. First or second time you might not get well don't worry surely you will get the next time.

Note : You can always adjust the consistency of dough by adding rice flour/maida flour. Just don't get upset or angry when cooking goes wrong we can always correct it and make it tasty and good looking.