Verkadalai Saadam/Peanut Rice - Day 2 Blogging Marathon

The Second Day of Blogging Marathon, Love the rush to do the post before the day ends.  I Recently got my hands on Ms. Mallika Badrinath's Rice Delights.  What an amazing collection of Rice Dishes. I m Picking up Dishes, which is easy to make it during the Morning Rush!!! These ingredients can be Roasted and Powdered earlier and mixed up easily for your Lunch Box!!!!

Ingredients

2 cups Rice, Cooked

1 and 1/4 Cup Roasted Peanuts

1 tsp Sesame seeds

8 to10 Red Chillies

1/4 Cup Grated Dry Coconut

1/2 tsp turmeric powder

Salt to taste

2 tbsp Oil

For Seasoning

1/2 tsp Mustard seeds

3/4 tsp Gram Dal

Curry leaves a few

Method

Remove the outer skin of the roasted peanuts and pound it coarsely.  Heat a tsp of oil and fry red chillies and dry coconut till light brown.  Powder Separately.  Dry Roast sesame seeds till light brown and powder separately. Heat oil and fry the seasoning till golden brown.  Add turmeric powder and pour rice with salt and other powdered ingredients.  Mix well and Serve.


Sending this to MLLA-33, happening @ Ammalu's Kitchen, Event by Susan

Check out the bloggers doing the Blogging Marathon, along with me.. 
30 Minutes Meals:Priya Mahadavan, Pavani, 
Seven Days of Salad: lla, Divya Vikram, 
For Ongoing 7 Events: Priya Suresh, Harini,  Suma Gandlur, 
Kids Friendly: Vatsala, Jay, Kamalika, 
Seven Days of Rice: Veena Krishnakumar, Padma Rekha
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Mickey Mouse Cake

I made this Mickey Mouse Cake for one of our neighbors son's birthday party. First I was not sure how to make this cake, but as I started it came out so good and everyone at the party too liked it a lot. I made three round cakes with Vanilla cake box mix, assembled them to form the face and the ears. I did a base coat of the butter cream frosting so that the ears would stick to the face then placed the cake in the freezer so that it sets a bit. Then mixed black and face color to the butter cream frosting and with a start tip decorated the mickey mouse cake.

Star tip decoration is the most difficult ones i guess cos, my hands did pain a lot, but was happy to see the cake turned out good. 

VazhaiPoo Vadai ~ Banana Blossom fritters

Banana blossom/Vazhai poo is usually made into a pitlai or usli at home. Very rarely, I make vadai with these. I mainly cook the vazhai poo for its nutrients and I feel deep frying will not yield the same result.  But at times, you tend to throw all the nutrition and health benefits out of the window and decide to go for a deep fry indulgence.  This vadai is more popular in TamilNadu.

Yields - 12 nos

You need

• 1 medium sized banana flower - picked and finely chopped
• Chana dal / Kadalaparuppu - 1 cup
• Tuvar dal - 1 tblspn
• Red chill- 2 nos
• Saunf /Fennel seeds- 1 tspn
• Green chilli - 3 nos
• Curry leaves - few sprigs
• Turmeric - a pinch
• Salt to taste
• Oil to deep fry

 Method

 

Pick the florets, clean and chop them finely. Soak it in water mixed with buttermilk till you use it. Soak chana dal and tuvar dal for an hour. Drain.

Steam cook the chopped flower with a pinch of turmeric and salt for 10 minutes. You can microwave it for 5 minutes. Squeeze to remove extra water if any.

Grind the dal coarsely. Dry roast red chilli and saunf and powder it.   

Take a bowl. Add the ground dal, powdered red chilli and saunf, steamed banana flower, chopped green chilli, curry leaves and salt. You may not need to add water to prepare the batter. The moisture from dal and the flower will be  enough. Heat oil in a kadai. When hot, pinch lemon sized batter and pat into disc on your palm or greased plastic sheet or banana leaf. Slide into the hot oil and fry till it is brown and crisp.