Nursery and Playroom Learn Cooking Recipe

Vatanyachi usal is a popular Maharastrian breakfast recipe.The usal is made using different varieties of lentils such as white peas,moth beans and mung beans. The usal is served as such or can be eaten along with rice and roti.If the usal topped with some farsan(mixture) and chopped onion,tomato and served with  pav  is Misal. This was in my to do list since long time.Couple of days back when I was looking my cook book collections to make something for Cookbook Challenge this recipe caught my attention. In the original recipe the entire cooking process was done using pressure cooker.But I cooked the soaked white peas in the pressure cooker for two whistles and the rest of the cooking in the pan.The usal came out very delicious and had it for our evening snack along with some homemade pav buns.It tasted heavenly after shoveling almost 30 inches of snow.It was bit quite filling snack and we skipped our dinner.Lets move on to the recipe.......            

I wanted to share my mom's signature surul appam recipe for day 3.But the coconut what I got was not good as surul appam needs fresh grated coconut.So decided to share the egg pepper fry. This recipe we makeoften to accompany with comfort rasam or dal rice.Mom used to make when she ran out of veggies.Here I halved the eggs and apply the masala and cook it both sides.It can be add to the masala and cook it.Off to the recipe..........                                                                                                                                           Egg Pepper Fry/Muttai MIlagu Varuval                                                                         Basic Information    Preparation time 10-15 minutes     Cooking time 25 minutes    Serves 3-4           Ingredients     Ingredient Quantity Egg/muttai (boiled) 4 Onion (finely chopped) 1 (medium size) Tomato (finely choppe

For the day 2 of Blogging Marathon #60,themed under family recipes is Vatha Kulambhu.Vatha kulambhu can be made in many ways with or with no onion and garlic,freshly ground spice powder or sambar powder. Already I have shared my mom's version of no onion garlic  vatha kulambhu  with manathathakkali vathal. Coming to today's version its made with sun dried turkey berry(sunda vathal) and mango(maa vathal).Also it is made with sambar powder.As we prefer our vatha kulambhu to be on the thicker side I made it slightly thicker.Consistency is personal preference and also the addition of maa vathal is optional. My mom used a little bit of red chilly powder along with sambar powder to get a nice color.I got my last batch of mom's homemade vathal during my India trip.While making this kulambhu I was so emotional and going to miss her home made goodies.Lets move on to the recipe...                                                                          

We are entering the 3rd week of Blogging marathon#60 and for this week I chose Family recipes.Today I sharing you a kottu curry made with baby eggplant and chickpeas.This is one of my mom's signature recipe and she calls this one as kottu curry.Usually kottu is made with lentil and veggies but here no lentil is used and she made this way.Whenever I make this kootu never able to get the exact taste of her. While drafting the post I was emotional and tears were rolling down.I lost my mother couple of months back and its hard to cope up with her loss.She was my friend,philosopher,guide,mentor,still couldn't believe she is no more.The cooking knowledge what I have is inherited from her. She was an amazing cook and tried to do lot of experiments in food. She worked as Tamil Teacher for 33 years.Though she was working never compromised on food and cooked an elaborate meal for us everyday.She made varieties when it comes to food.She loved painting,drawing rangoli and got a v

For the final day of regional recipes from Andhra cuisine for Blogging Marathon is chegolidu aka chekodi. I enjoy these crispy rings whenever my friend and her mom makes.I never made it myself and tried it for the first time with my friend's instruction. Its a perfect munching snack along with a cup of tea.As we heve the habit of  accompaning some murukku or mixture with our sambar rice,we had it with our meal.                                                                                                                                                                           Chegodilu/Chekodi                                                                         Basic Information    Preparation time 35 minutes    Soaking time 30 minutes     Cooking time 20 minutes    Makes 45-50 (medium size)           Ingredients     Ingredient Quantity Rice flour/arisi maavu 1 cup Yellow moong Dhal/paasiparuppu