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• If you want to get rid off the tears while cutting onions, keep the onion in refrigerator for 15min.
• If you are using turmeric and onions in cooking, add turmeric after onions fully cooked. Otherwise it is difficult to know whether onions cooked well or not.
  

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Poha mixture/chuduva/atukula mixture

This is a crispy snack item. You can prepare with in 15min.

Ingrediants:
1.Poha/atukulu/akalaki(thick one) - 3 cups
2.Green chilli - 4
3.ground nuts/pallilu - 1/4 cup
4.putnalu/sanagapapu (eatble) - some (optional)
5.curry leaves - 4 or 5 (optional)
6.turmeric - 1tbsp
7.oil - 4tbsp
8.salt - as much as required
9.red chilli powder - 1tbsp (optional)

Preparation :
1.Cut the grenchiils into small pecies.
2.Now take a pan and start heating it
3.put the oil into the pan let it heat for a min
4.now fry the groundnuts in the oil , till they change the color to litle brown(for 2min)
5.now add green chilles,putnalu,turmeric,curry leaves and salt to it
6.after green chilli fried, now decreas the flam to medium, mix the poha into this cooked mixture.
7.keep mixing it till all the poha get the turmeric color.
5.now add the redchilli poweder to it (this is options).switch off the flame
6.taste it and add salt or spicy according to your taste. Now take out from the pan, and store it in a container. Don't close the lid untill it cools down.you can store it for a week.

Our poha mixture ready.

Carrot Halwa

Carrot Halwa



My First post in the blog, i would like to start it with a sweet .. which we all like to taste all times.. That is Carrot halwa..

Ingrediants :

1. carrots - 4

2. sugar - 2 cups

3. Elachi/yalukalu - 2

4. Milk - 1 cup or less (optional)

5. casew nuts/jeedipappu - little

6. Ghee for taste - 4 tbsp

Preparation :

1. Peel the carrots and grate them .

2. Now take a pan , put the ghee and let it get hot

3. Fry the cashew nuts in the ghee , till they get little brown color.

4.Take out the Cashew nuts and keep it aside

5.Now in the same pan or in a different pan, start frying the grated carrot.

6.keep frying untill it looses it's raw smell..u can see the carrot a bit dry.

7.Now add the sugar , ( you can add more if you want ), and keep stirring it
8.Now add milk depending upon the thick ness you want.Let it cook for 5min.Millk is for extra taste

9.Now add the Elachi powder and cashwe nuts , ane let it cook for 5min.
Mouthwatering carrot halwa is ready.

It will be tasty even when it is hot and when it is cool also.You can even eat this with ice cream,gulab jam.