Upma

Ingredients:

1 inch ginger cut into small pieces
2 green chilies cut into small pieces
1.5 cups rava
Water as needed

Coat the pan with 2 tablespoons of oil. Splutter mustard seeds, add green chilies and ginger, add 4 glasses of water to the pan and add salt. When the water boils, pour the rava into the water while mixing. Keep stirring for about 10 minutes. Sprinkle asoefetida, curry leaves and close the pan.

Upma ready!

Recipe courtesy: Jaya.

Idlis

Ingredients:
3 cups idli rava
2 cups urad dal
Soak this mixture in water overnight.

Grind the urad dal until fine. Separately grind the idli rava. Add salt and mix the two until smooth. Store in fridge.

Optional step: Take 2-3 ladles of the maavu in a container and keep slightly warm overnight.

The next day, oil the idli container, pour the maavu into the idli container and steam for 6 minutes. Move the pressure cooker away from the hot surface. Fluffy idlis will be ready in twenty minutes.

Recipe courtesy -- Jaya.

Tomato soup

Tried this for mom because she had a cold -- she loved it!

Cauliflower Milagupiratu

So, I discovered this super funny cookery show site: vahrehvah and have been trying out recipes from there. Today, it was cauliflower pepper mix! Like this guy -- makes me laugh :)

The only additional ingredients I added were a sprinkle of sugar and a little bit of turmeric.

Moong dal payasam (paitham parupu payasam)

Another one of my copy-cat attempts. Mom had a cup of cooked moong dal (broken yellow moong) left over and she asked me to make something out of it. Dal seemed too boring and so I tried a payasam from sailus food.


The only extra ingredient I added was saffron strands.