Plantain fritters (pakoda)

Wednesday, May 5, 2010 Posted by
  1. plantain pakoraCut plantain
  2. Plantain PakoraSoak the cut plantain pakora
  3. Besan mixed with spices
  4. Pakora Paste
  5. Deep fried Plantain dipped in Besan mix

Ingredients

Recipe: Plantain fritters

Ingredients

  • Green bananas (2-4 plantains) cut into thin long slices
  • Gram flour (chickpea flour or garbanzo flour)1 cup
  • Rice flour or all purpose flour 1/4 cup
  • Cilantro 2 tbsp
  • Red chilli powder 1/2-1tsp
  • Ginger 1 inch piece (fresh and finely chopped)
  • Ajowan caraway seeds 1tsp
  • salt to taste

Instructions

  1. Add two tsp of warmed cooking oil into the above mixture of flour and the other ingredients.
  2. Add water and mix well into a batter.
  3. Dip each plantain slice into the batter, soak for a few seconds.
  4. Drop into oil and deep fry while turning, until golden-brown.

Variations

Cauliflower can be used instead of plantain. Partially cook the cauliflower florets (mild boil), they still should be crunchy.

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Mango Pie

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Posted by

Recipe: Mango Pie

Ingredients

  • Keebler Graham Cracker Ready Crust 6oz/170g
  • Knox unflavored gelatin (use 1 packet)
  • Water 1 cup
  • Mango pulp 1/2 can of 800ml can
  • Sugar 1/2 cup for sweetenedd mango pulp or 1 cup for unsweetened mango pulp
  • Sour Cream 3 tsp

Instructions

  1. Boil water.
  2. Add gelatin and stir well until all the gelatin dissolves.
  3. Pour mango pulp into a bowl. Add 3 tsp sour cream and sugar.  Beat well until the mixture is unifom.
  4. Add the dissolved gelatin, mix.
  5. Pour the mixture into the pie crust.
  6. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

(As instructed by Dipa Bhaumik)

  1. Pie crust & gelatin
  2. Sour cream & Mango pulp
  3. Mango pulp with sour cream
  4. Dissolved gelatin
  5. Pour dissolved gelatin into the mango pulp mixture
  6. Pour mango pulp mixture into pie crust

A little treasure

Sunday, April 25, 2010 Posted by

In our constant search for stories to read together, my daughter and I read about a girl who visits her grandmother for the day.  After a nice day spent together, the grandmother gives the girl a recipe, one that has been handed down to the women in the family. The little girl, comes home, goes to her room and puts the recipe in her treasure chest.  This recipe, one more link in a long chain that connects these women together.

Bise bele bath

Saturday, April 24, 2010 Posted by
  1. Gather the ingredients - Besi bele bath
  2. Tamarind solutions
  3. Lightly fry mixture 1 & mixture 2 (separately) mixture 1 - whole Red chili, coriander seeds, cumin seeds mixture 2 - poppy seeds, cashew nuts & cinnamon sticks
  4. Grind mixture 1, mixture 2 & dried coconut
  5. Mixture after grinding
  6. Start by cooking Tur Dal and Rice
  7. add tamarind
  8. Add BBB Masala
  9. Stir in low to medium flame
  10. Prepare seasoning consisting of mustard seeds and asafoetida powder
  11. Add the seasoning