Egg In Appam with chicken curry

Egg In Appam with Chicken Curry:

Ingredients :

Raw rice or idly rice - 2 Cups

Cooked rice             -  1/4 Cup

Coconut grated        -  1/2 Cup

Urad dal                  -  3 tbsp

Fenugreek seeds      -  1/4 tsp

Crystal salt  or salt - as per taste

Oil - <as required>
Egg - <as required>

Method:

1. Soak rice, urad dhal, fenugreek seeds for 5 hrs.  Wash and drain it.
2. Grind them with grated coconut, cooked rice, salt  to be in dosa batter consistency in grinder or food mixer.
3. Ferment it for 10 -12 hrs  depend on your weather condition.
4. Heat Appam kadai or your dosa pan on full flame and Appam batter should be in semi liquid consistency, just to pour batter from sides of Appam kadai .
5. Pour ladful of Appam batter to sides of kadai in clockwise direction and hang Appam kadai in clockwise to anticlockwise motion, further batter fills  space of   Appam kadai.
6. Break the egg  in to centre of Appam with little oil and close the lid 5-7 mins.  Check whether white should be fully cooked.  Half boiled egg in Appam is almost done.  Serve hot with chicken curry or mutton curry.          

Egg-in-Appam; Half-boiled one!

Egg-in-Appam with Chicken curry!  Ready to relish !!

Thanks to my friend, Hisanah Kwaja for sharing this mouth-watering dish.

Hope you all enjoyed preparing my dish.  Share your views and comments on this.

Till then good bye from Nardeena.  

Introduction to Baby Food

Introduction to 6 month Baby food

                       Newly moms are really confused when they are in starting solids . Each baby and mom is unique.At ths same time,each baby food   is different depend upon baby consuming the  quantity of food ,texture,taste .After 6 months,introduce solids in every 4 days once with keep tracking of any allergic reactions in baby .Dont overfeed.The baby will judge the required amount of food,water,milk .
Dont force to eat food . Donot add sugar ,salt,colouring agents,preservative substance  to any baby food .
Its the right time to start solids otherwise baby doesnt have interest on solids .



1.  Rice porridge.   
               

2. Sprouted Ragi porridge.

3. Idli -          pour little hot water  for semi solid consistency when feeding.Tomato chutney and        coconut chutney is  preferrable for little babies without using  of  chillies when grinding of chutneys


4. Mashed Banana - add liitle milk to be blend for enhancing the taste .

5. Milk Rice   -   mash rice well then  add little milk (cows milk) and water .
                        for little babies.

6. Curd Rice  -   mash rice well ,then add little  curd and water ,Preferably buttermilk consistency is              

                        good, if  you want to enhance the flavour, go with seasoning .


7.Apple Juice    -   put pieces of apple ,milk and water to blended and filter it.(little milk and water)

8.Orange Juice  -  preferably buy contrast colour oranges .squeeze out juice and dilute with water.

9 .Dal Rice       -  mix rice and dal (1 /4 ),(cook dal with apinch of turmeric pdr,cumin pdr) and mash well,go with seasoning .

8. Potato Rice   -    mix small baked or boiled potatoes with rice and mash well.potato should be in well cooked.

9. Carrot Rice   -     mix  well cooked carrot  with mashed rice .


8. BeetRoot Rice-    mix well cooked beetroot  with mashed rice


9. Rasam Rice


10.Green Leaves Rice -Preferably buy amarnath leaves for 6 month old  and try palak leaves
       too

11.Pongal -  plain pongal is best for babies  without adding of jeera and peppers

12 .Upma

13.Dosai  with chutneys or any other vegetable stews .

14. Carrot Puree .

17.  Vegetable soups


         

PineApple Pudding

PineApple Pudding :

Ingredients :
Pineapple  - 1 1/2 cup (chopped into small cubes)
Milk          -  1/2 litre
Condensed Milk - 4 tbsp
China Grass   - 1/4  strands of  china grass packet.
Custard Powder  -  1 1/2 tsp (Vanilla flavour)
Sugar  - 5 tsp
Vanilla Essense  - 1 drop
Ghee   - 1/2  tsp
Water -  1 3/4 cup

1. Heat ghee in non stick cookware,add chopped pineapple cubes with 2 tsp of sugar ,saute them very well,keep strring until sour taste of pine apple go away .The chopped pine apple turns very bright yellow colour ,make sure it gives sweet,switch off the flame.keep aside. I used fresh pineapple here .

2. Boil 1/2 litre milk with 1 cup of water.keep aside.

3. In another separate pan ,boil agar agar strands in 3/4 cup of water.Let it dissolves fully.

4. Add boiled milk,condensed milk, 3 tsp of sugar ,vanilla essense to the dissolved agar agar solution.Keep stirring. Let it comes to boil.

5.Add custard power to 2 tbsp of warmed milk,sitr well to make of liquid consistency without lumps and filter it.(Dont add hot milk to custard powder,otherwise it gives small lumps).

6.Finally,pour  liquid custard  to boiled milk,keep stirring for 2mins in medium flame .

7.Put pineapple cubes in serving dish (use wide open glassware or enamelware or stainless steelware).

8.Pour boiled mixture to serving dish.Serve cool after 6 or 7 hrs of fully set .


Thanks 2 cooking with thas of journey kitchen sharing this very yummy dessert.Of course this dessert gives most celebrity sweet of my kid birthday.More rich dessert.Whole people of my family loves it .

Coconut Milk Raita

Coconut Milk Raita :

Ingredients :
Thick coconut milk - 1 cup
Shallots (pearl onions) -15 to 20
Green Chilli - 1 (small)
Fresh Ginger - small piece
Lemon - 1/2
Coriander Leaves - few
Water
salt - as per taste



This can be served with coconut milk methi rice  accompanied by fish curry.Its mainly  yummy side dish for fish curry .Its very cool side dish (summer side dish) for fish curry lunch combo .

1 . Extract first milk from half a coconut to make 1 cup very thick milk using of very little water.

2. In a bowl,add finely chopped small onions,chopped ginger,chopped green chilli,coriander leaves,salt,
    squeeze out lemon juice,coconut milk . Mix together .

3 . Serve cool  accompanied by lunch combo coconut  milk methi rice and fish curry .

Sprouted Ragi Porridge -Baby food

Sprouted Ragi Porridge-Baby food

From 7 month onwards

Ingredients :
Ragi - 2 cups
Fried Channa Dal - 1/2 cup
Jaggery -  little
Water
Milk- 3 tsp(optional)


For Sprouting :


   1 . Soak  Ragi for 12 hours.Wash and drain water,rinse again until dust particles are fully removed .

   2. To sprout ragi, are moistened,at room temparature.You need of wide vessel with a piece of cloth(cheese cloth) for sprouting .

   3. Keep ragi in vessel and cover with cloth for 8 hours.Make sure it should be in moist.Preferably
        germination process good in night when compared from day.

4. After  8  or 10 hrs, a new growth from germinating seed.Little  white sprouts comes from millet .

5. Dry  ragi in sunlight. Add fried channa dal.Grind through mixie or food mill (use small jar of mixie for fine powder)  to fine powder.
6. Sieve flour .Store it in air tight container.Now its ready to preparing porridge.

7. Take 2 and half spoons of this powder ,dilute with water .  Make sure it  for  free of lumps.  Add a pinch of jaggery (In separate pan,boil in little water and filter it for removing dust particles) for iron content and for taste too.  keep stirring continously unless doesnot stick in bottom of the pan.Cook for 5 mins and serve it in semi solid consistency with warm .

8. If  you want to make enrich the taste ,add 3 or 4 tsp of milk as optional.

   


Note : 
   
          Ragi or finger millet should be sprouted while for preparing baby  food  for easy digestion   otherwise baby  gets constipated . 
     
         Always feed ragi  porridge in breakfast time upto 10 months .
         

Drumstickleaves upma

DrumStickLeaves Upma:(murungakeerai upma)


Ingredients:

Drumstick leaves - 11/2 cups

Rava  -  2 cups

Shallots(pearl onion)  - 6  or 8

Tomato  -  1(small)

Ginger - small piece

Green chilli  - 1(small)

salt   -as per taste
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Water - 3cups

Ghee- 1/2 tsp(optional)

For Seasoning:

Mustard  -  3/4 tsp

curry Leaves  - few

dried red chilli       -1

oil     -   limit to ur own

                        1. Dry roast rava for few seconds. when it gives light aroma,taken from flame.keep it aside.

                        2. Heat oil in pan,add pieces of dried red chilli,mustard  when splutters add curry leaves ( if u like  to add bengal gram dal ,add 1/2 tsp of  bengal gram dal- My kid doesnt like bengal gram dal as a whole so we are not  interested to add bengal gram dal in our dishes).

                         3. Add  chopped small onions,chopped tomato and chopped ginger,everything should be finely chopped.saute well.Add halved grrn chilli.

                         4. Add turmeric powder,drumstick leaves,salt and cook for 2 minutes. Add water and when it turn boils,keep flame in slow,add roasted rava.Add ghee for enhance the flavour atlast.When rava fully absorbs water ,close the lid.Keep simmer for  few minutes.   Serve  hot with coconut chutney or  curry leaves idli podi.      
                         
                       
                     It is quite easy  receipe to prepare for breakfast tiffin and slight different to make from normal upma. Its one of my kid favourite dish .I saw this receipe in TV show. This receipe is most  useful for working peoples who  want the dish healthy one.

  Benefits of Drumstick leaves::
                                                                            7 times of  Vitamin C of oranges
                                                     
                                                                            4 times of Vitamin A  of  Carrot
              Very tiny leaves      =====>>                      
                                                                            4 times of calcium of milk
                        
                                                                            3 times  of  potassium of bananas


                                                                            2 times  of protein of yogurt









                      

           

Rice Porridge

 Baby food-Rice porridge

RICE PORRIDGE(ARISI KANJI)


FOR 6 MONTH OLD BABY : FIRST SOLID FOOD



INGREDIENTS:

    RICE  -      2 CUPS
    FRIED CHANA DAL    -1/2 CUP (POTTUKADALAI)
    JAGGERY AS PER TASTE

1. Preferably buy boiled rice.  Boiled rice is good for tiny stomach and healthy too.
Soak Rice for 3 hours.

2. Dry it in sunlight .

3. Dry roast rice called it as poriarisi in tamil,which it splutters and turns brownish in colour.

4. Add fried channa dal with roasted rice.

5. Mixture to be grinded in mix-grind or in food mill.  Both gives good in fine powder. Store it in airtight jar at room temparature.  This mixture is ready to prepare porridge for small babies

6. Take 2 and half spoons of this powder mix with water.  Make sure it fo free of lumps.  Add a pinch of jaggery (boil in little water and filter it for removing dust particles) for iron content and for taste.  Cook for 5 mins and serve it in semi solid consistency.