Moong Vada/ Fried Moong Vada

Moong Vada/ Fried Moong Vada

While I am on my memories trip let me share with you what my MIL made many times these vadas and they were something she served with sauce. She also made some with rava but I just cannot remember them.

After a long time, in fact one Hindi movie with Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor reminded me of these vadas. I was on a look out to make them, as I said I could not remember how she made them for I was never in the kitchen when we fried stuff as I would start coughing.

She would fry them when I was away and keep some for me in the casserole. It’s been 18 long years since she has left for her heavenly bode but her memories still linger.

Then I found an old e-cookbook which had the recipe. Of course I have made adjustments in the ingredients to suit our taste. Needless to say these were first to disappear.

Moong Vada

Making time: 20 minutes (excluding soaking time)

Ingredients:

1 cup moong dal

 ½ cup coriander finely chopped

2 cloves garlic

3-4 green chillies finely chopped

Oil to deep fry

Method:

Wash and soak dal for 3-4 hours.

Keep 2 tbsp. dal aside, grind the rest, coarsely.

Mix all other ingredients, including whole dal.

Add 2-3 tbsp. hot oil to the mixture.

Heat oil.

Make small balls   drop carefully into the hot oil.

Fry first one side then the other till golden brown.

Serve hot with green chutney, tamarind chutney, or ketchup.

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Masala Vada/ Chana Dal Vada/ Chattambade

Masala Vada/ Chana Dal Vada/ Chattambade

Childhood memories are these hot vada and tea and rains! Added to Ajji or Grandmother admonishing us,” enough now! You will get a stomach-ache if you eat any more of these.”  Why she made them as snack when it rained I don’t know...

Else it used to be traditional meal served on the banana leaf when there were too many attractions to concentrate only on these beauties. Either way we hardly ate any...

Coming to Dal or pulses that we eat ...

Dal is a dried pulse (lentil, pea or various types of bean) which has been split.

Dal goes by various names called bele in Kannada and pappu, paripu or paruppu in Telugu and Tamil, daal in Marathi. Dal is a ready source of proteins for a balanced diet containing little or no meat.

To make the dal usually the outer hull is usually stripped off; dal that has not been hulled is described as chilka (skin), e.g. chilka urad dal, mung dal chilka.

The variety of dal we have are numerous we have chana dal, urid dal, toor dal, moong dal, masoor dal to name a few common ones…   

Masala Vada/ Chana Dal Vada/ Chattambade

Making time: 20 minutes (excluding soaking time)

Makes: 15 vadas (approx.)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup yellow gram (chana) dal
•  ½ cup coriander finely chopped
• 1 spring curry leaves
• 3-4 green chillies finely chopped
• Oil to deep fry

Method:

• Wash and soak dal for 3-4 hours.
• Keep 2 tbsp. dal aside, grind the rest, coarsely.
• Mix all other ingredients, including whole dal.
• Add 2-3 tbsp. hot oil to the mixture.
• Heat oil;
• Make small balls and flatten to with moist palm.
• Let carefully into the hot oil.
• Fry first one side then the other till golden brown.
• Serve hot with green chutney, tamarind chutney, or ketchup.

Masala Vada/ Chana Dal Vada/ Chattambade

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Fruity Popsicles

Fruity Popsicles  

So I have taken you through all my failures of making an ice cream that will be acceptable after the Chocolate and Coffee Ice Cream I made yesterday.

I was desperate to make a simple ice cream that met the expectations.

That was no problem as I had bookmarked some ice creams made by others, but time …
I need it by tomorrow.  

So I used Rajani’s recipe which she had copied from Vaishali !!!!

Fruity Popsicles  

Recipe Source: My Kitchen Trails and Ribbons and Pasta

Ingredients:

• Sprite /lemonade, as needed 
• Fruits of your choice, chopped (I used kiwi, peach)

Method:

• Slice the fruits. Fill the ice pop mould with the sliced fruits.
• You can add as many or as little fruits as you want. The more fruits you have in, the more packed it is and the better it looks. I was short on fruits, so I put only 3 pieces in each.
• Fill the mould with the liquid of your choice. Any see-through liquid is fine. 
• Freeze overnight. 
• Enjoy!

Fruity Popsicles  

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Chocolate And Coffee Ice Cream

Ice cream is a frozen food eaten as a snack or dessert.

 Ice creams are usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Generally commercial ice creams are sweetened with sucrose, corn syrup, cane sugar, beet sugar, and/or other sweeteners and flavoured and coloured they also have added stabilizers.  The mixture is stirred to incorporate air spaces and cooled below the freezing point of water to prevent detectable ice crystals from forming. The result is a smooth, semi-solid foam that is solid at very low temperatures (<35 °F / 2 °C). It becomes more malleable as its temperature increases.

Historically China had a frozen mixture of milk and rice around 200 BC. Apparently they knew about freezing mixtures of salt and ice.

In the Middle East the Arabs used an ancient type of ice house, a yakhchal, in Yazd, Iran. The major ingredient in the production of ice cream was milk and sweetened it with sugar rather than fruit juices. It was flavoured with rosewater, dried fruits and nuts.

 In the Persian Empire, people would pour grape-juice concentrate over snow, in a bowl, and eat this as a treat.  They used snow saved in the cool-keeping underground chambers known as "yakhchal", or taken from snowfall that remained at the top of mountains by the summer capital Ecbatana. In 400 BC, the Persians went further and invented a special chilled food, made of rose water and vermicelli, which was served to royalty during summers. The ice was mixed with saffron, fruits, and various other flavours.

The Roman Emperor Nero (37–68 AD) had ice brought from the mountains and combined it with fruit toppings to create chilled delicacies.

Closer home in the sixteenth century, the Mughal emperors used relays of horsemen to bring ice from the Hindu Kush to Delhi, where it was used in fruit sorbets.

In Europe Italian duchess Catherine de' Medici is credited with introducing ice cream into Europe in the 16th century.

Whatever the history we will all agree that ice creams make the blistering heat bearable and the lady of the house will agree that it keeps her out of the kitchen and the heat for some time.

Anyway if you are interested try reading Wikipedia that is where I have copied all this from.

For today I have tried making this Icecream from the Tupperware Booklet. Needless to say it was yum and all the ice creams that I tried after this one got compared with this one.

All of them were declared flop. 

So much that one I threw out and the other was made in a smoothie. After it was over hubby tells me why that was delicious. Anyway I have no pictures of it.

Chocolate And Coffee Ice Cream

Recipe Source: Tupperware

Ingredients:

• 1 tropical twin whipping cream
• ½ tropical twin condensed milk
• 2 tblspn un-sweetened cocoa powder
• 1 tblspn instant coffee mixed with hot water

Method:

• Whisk whipping cream until you get soft peaks and set aside.
• Whip condensed milk, coffee and cocoa powder till well blended.
• Fold gently the whipped cream and condensed milk.
• Pour on aluminium containers overnight.
• Serve topped with nuts or grated chocolate.( Mine had customers before the scoop was out so I did not add anything).

  

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