Bread Bhaji

Ingredients:

• Bread -6
• Chilli powder - 1/2 tspn
• Oil - To Fry
• Salt - As required
• Asafoetida (perungayam) - 2 pinches
• Besan flour (kadala maavu) -  3/4 cups
• Rice Flour - 1/4 + 1 tbspn 
• Water - Little
• Baking soda (aappa soda) - 2 pinches
• Food color - 1 pinch (optional)

Procedure:

• Heat the oil in kadai 
• Once the oil is hot, put the stove on Sim.
• Mix besan flour rice flour, chilli powder,  Asafoetida, baking soda, salt
• Add water little by little making the mix not too watery and not too thick
• Cut the bread into different sizes that you would like
• Add these slices to the batter and mix it well
• Take out and fry it in the hot oil till it is cooked well
• Serve hot with tomato ketchup or Coconut chutney

Vazhakkai Bhajji (plantain bhajji)

Ingredients:

• Vazhakkai (plantain) -2
• Chilli powder - 1/2 tspn
• Oil - To Fry
• Salt - As required
• Asafoetida (perungayam) - 2 pinches
• Besan flour (kadala maavu) -  3/4 cups
• Rice Flour - 1/4 + 1 tbspn 
• Water - Little
• Baking soda (aappa soda) - 2 pinches
• Food color - 1 pinch (optional)

Procedure:

• Heat the oil in kadai 
• Once the oil is hot, put the stove on Sim.
• Mix besan flour rice flour, chilli powder,  Asafoetida, baking soda, salt
• Add water little by little making the mix not too watery and not too thick
• Peel the skin from plaintain
• Slice the plaintains to thin pieces using a shredder/cutter length wise
• Add these slices to the batter and mix it well
• Take out and fry it in the hot oil till it is cooked well
• Serve hot with Coconut chutney

Vazhakkai chips (Plantain Chips)

Ingredients:

• Vazhakkai (plantain) - 2
• Chilli powder - 1/2 tspn
• Oil - To Fry
• Salt - As required

Procedure:

• Heat the oil in kadai
• Peel plantain's skin .
• Using the chips maker (shredder) make round chips
• Add this to oil immediately (or directly slice the plantains to the oil)
• Fry till the chips look crispy
• Strain the oil, transfer it to a bowl
• Now add the salt and chilli powder and mix it gently
• Chips can be stored in a container for having it later.

VenPongal

Ingredients:

• Rice - 1 cup
• Yellow Moong dal - 1 cup
• Water -5 1/2 cup
• Ghee - 4 tspn
• Oil - 4 tspn
• Grated Ginger - 1 tspn
• Cumin seeds- 1/2 tspn 
•  Peppercorns - 1 tspn
• Broken Cashew - 2tspsn
• Salt - as required

Procedure:

• Heat the pressure cooker
• Add the oil and 2 tpsn ghee to the cooker
• Add cumin seeds, peppercorns, ginger and cashews
• Fry until cashew turns light brown
• Rinse the rice and moong dal and add it to the cooker
• Mix it with the ingredients for a minute
• Add 5 1/2 cups water (if you want the rice not to be watery, you can add less water)
• Add salt and close the pressure cooker and cook 
• Once cooked, add remaining ghee on top of it
• Serve hot with sambhar, coconut chutney

Pattani Sundal (Thenga Manga pattani sundal)

Ingredients:

• Pattani - 1/3 cup
• Onion - 1/4 cup
• Red Chilly -1
• Oil - 4 tspn
• Coriander leaves - little
• Sambar Masala - 1/2 tspn 
• Salt - as required 
• mustard seeds and urud dal - little 
•  grated coconut - 3 tspn
• Cut green mango - 3 - 4 tspn (optional)

Procedure:

• Soak the pattani overnight (for around 8 hours)
• Cook the pattani in the cooker for a whistle
• Heat oil in the pan
• Add mustard seeds and urud dal
• Add the onion and red chillies.
• Add the masala powders and salt
• Fry till the onion is golden brown
• Add the cooked pattani with only little water (do not add more water here)
• Add the grated coconut and coriander leaves to garnish 
• Mix and turn off the stove
• Serve Hot with sambar rice,curd rice, venpongal or as a snack

Tip: You could add the cut mangoes towards the end while adding the coconut and coriander leaves

Muttai Poriyal

Ingredients:

• Egg - 3
• Onion - 1/4 cup
• Green Chillies -2 (medium size)
• Oil - 3 tspn
• Coriander leaves - little
• Sambar Masala - 1/2 tspn or chilli powder + coriander powder+ turmeric powder - 1/2 tspsn
• ground pepper - 1/2 tspn

Procedure:

• Heat oil in the pan
• Add the onion and green chillies.
• Add the masala powders and salt
• Fry till the onion is golden brown
• Break the egg and add it directly to the frying onion
• Stir it and cook well till the eggs are cooked well
• Add coriander leaves to garnish
• Serve with Sambar rice, curd rice, chapatti

Nethili Karuvadu (kuchi Karvudu) kuzhambu

Ingredients:

• Kuchi Karuvadu - 3/4 cup
• Onion - 1/2 cup
• Green Chillies -2
• Garlic Pods - 6 (optional)
• Oil - 5 tspn
• Tamarind - little
• Sambar Masala - 1 tspn

Procedure:

• Soak the karuvadu in water for 10 minutes
• Heat oil in the pan
• Add the onion and green chillies, garlic pods (optional)
• Fry till the onion is golden brown
• Add tamarind water and the karuvadu
• Add the sambar masala and little salt
• Add little water and boil it till it becomes thick and oil oozes out 
• This goes well with Rice, dosa, chappati