Yellow Pumpkin Adai | Poosanikai Adai Recipe

Yellow pumpkin adai is a spicy pancake which is a healthy option for a weekend breakfast. Yellow pumpkin contains antioxidants and vitamins which gives a lot of health benefits to the body.

Video Recipe in Tamil...

https://youtu.be/AEuryYF-RcQ
Ingredients

Yellow pumpkin - 50 grams

Onion - 1

Curry leaves - few

Boiled rice - 1/2 cup

Chana dal - 1/4 cup

Urad dal - 2 tbsps

Red chilies - 3

Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

Method


Remove skin and scrap the pumpkin.

Chop the onions and curry leaves

Soak the rice and dals separately for four to five hours.

Add the soaked rice to the mixer jar and grind coarsely. Then add the dals, red chilies, turmeric and cumin seeds and grind to a smooth batter.

Mix the chopped onions, scraped pumpkin and curry leaves to the batter and adjust salt. 

The batter should be little thicker than the dosa batter.

Heat a tawa and pour a ladle full of batter and spread it evenly.

Sprinkle a teaspoon of oil and cook both the sides till golden.

Serve hot with Onion garlic chutney or powdered jaggery.

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Sweet Potato Paniyaram | Kuzhi Paniyaram Recipe

Traditional kuzhi paniyaram recipe with healthy sweet potato. Sweet potatoes are rich in vitamins and antioxidants which protect us from chronic diseases.

For Video Recipe in Tamil

https://youtu.be/UsstE41cnaU


Ingredients

Sweet Potato - 1

Wheat flour - 1 cup

Rice flour - 2 tbsps

Grated Jaggery - 1/4 cup

Grated coconut - 1/4 cup

Dry ginger powder - 1/4 tsp

Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp

Baking soda (optional) - 1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil for frying

Method

Remove the skin and grate the sweet potato.

Mix the rice flour with wheat flour.

Add ginger powder, cardamom powder, baking soda (optional), and salt to the flour mixture. Mix well.

Add water little by little and make a thick batter. (Idli batter consistency)

Add the jaggery powder and mix well.

Finally, add the grated coconut and sweet potato.

Mix well and keep aside for five minutes.

Heat the kuzhi paniyaram pan with one teaspoon oil in each hole.

Pour the batter in each hole and cook in medium flame.

Flip over and cook the other side.

If you don't have a paniyaram pan you can fry the paniyaram directly in hot oil.

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Banana Kesari Recipe | Kesari With Tutti Frutti

For Video Recipe...https://youtu.be/Nk4xAZ8QSo0

You can use any ripe sweet banana for this kesari. I used Nendhiran pazham ( Kerala Banana) in this recipe.

Ingredients

Rava - 1 cup
Banana Big - 1
Milk - 1 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Cardamom - 3
Cashew - 15
Tutti Frutti - 1 Tbsp
Water - 1/2 Cup
Ghee - 3 Tbsp


Method

Cut the bananas into small pieces and keep aside.

Add 1 tbsp ghee in a pan, fry the cashews and keep it aside.

In the same ghee, roast the Rava till it starts to change colour and becomes aromatic. Reduce the flame, add a cup of milk and half a cup of water. Cook the rava in low flame until it's soft.

Once the rava is cooked, add the banana pieces, sugar and crushed cardamoms.

Mash the banana pieces with the back of the laddle.

When the mixture becomes sticky, add one table spoon of ghee and cook for two minutes.

Add the third spoon of ghee, mix well and remove from flame. Spread the kesari in a plate coated with ghee and level it with the back of the spoon.

Garnish with cashews and tutti frutti. This kesari can be served hot or cool.