Green Beans and Mushroom casserole.

Ingredients

• Mushroom                         1cup                             
• Green Beans                    1cup
• Chopped onion                 1/2 cup
• Cheese                             1/2 cup
• Bread crumps                   1/2 cup
• Fried onions                      3 tbsp.
• Butter                               1tbsp  
• Salt and pepper to taste                                     

Beans,mushroom casserole

Blanch the beans with salt to taste and keep

Sauté the mushrooms, with salt to taste.

Heat a pan one cube butter and add 3tbsp all-purpose flour and sauté  for a minute.

Add milk, salt and pepper, make it thick.

Add to the beans and mushrooms and mix well.

Preheat oven for 350 degree.

Take a baking pan pour the dough into it.

Add cheese and Spread them evenly.

Sprinkle bread crumps cover the pan.

Sprinkle fried onions (Optional)Bake it for 20 minutes.

Diwali Recipes

Diwali Bhakshanams
Diwali Recipes

Diwali Bhakshanams

• South Indian Spicy Mixture( Chivda)

• Diwali special marundu (Ginger Lehiyum)

• Maladu

• Kaju Burfi(cashew nut Burfi)

• Pal Kova (Milk cake)

• Anjir/Dates Burfi (Figs/Dates Burf

• Bundhi ladu

• Netrankai Upperi 

• Chakli( Like Murukku)

• Thenkuzhal

• South Indian Spicy Mixture( Chivda)

• Pasi Paruppu payasam

• Thattai (Snack),  

• Ribbon Pakodas

Chakka Upperi ( Jackfruit Chips)

Chakka Upperi is very famous in Kerala. 

Chakka Upperi

• Jackfruit / Chakkachula
• Salt to Taste
• Oil for frying

Method

• Clean the chakka, remove the seeds.
• Cut both top and botom
• Slice the chakka into long thin pieces.
• Heat a pan with oil.
• When the oil is hot, slowly add the chakka chulas
• Sprinkle salt water into the oil and  remove the chips when they evenly cooked and crispy.
• Fry till they become crispy

• Chakkaupperi is salted one and sweet one is called chakkattupperi.
• For Onam Sadya these two types of chips and upperi( banana chips) are always there.
• Typical Kerala's chips.

Focaccia Bread

Prepare Time            15 minutes
Cook Time                30 minutes
Serve                         4

Focaccia is  flat oven baked bread. with herbs. It is popular in Italy. It is similar to pizza dough. My daughter told me to make this bread. This is like pizza with herbs.

Ingredients

All Purpose Flour              2 cups

Active Yeast                      1 tsp

Salt                                   1 tsp

Olive Oil                            2 tbsp.

Sugar                               1ts
Rosemary                          2tsp

Black Pepper                     1/2 tsp

Focaccia Bread

Method

In a bowl mix all purpose flour,  sugar, yeast, salt black pepper.
Coarsely grind rosemary and tsp olive oil.
Make a thick batter mixing all.
Cover it and let it rise for 30 min
Preheat the oven 350 degrees.
punch the dough and spread in a greased baking sheet in rectangle.
Dimple the bread with your thumb. push in to half inch. add little oil on the top.
Put it in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes.

Potato Bajjias

Prepare Time       10 min
Cook Time             10
Serve                      5

Ingredients

Bengal Gram flour.(Besan)                 1cup
Rice Flour                                           1tsp
Red Chili Powder                               1tsp
Asafetida                                           a pinch
Salt to Taste

Method

Mix the flours chili, asafetida, salt with little water make a thick batter
Slice the potato thin
Heat a pan with oil, dip the potato slice in the batter and drop in the oil.
Deep fry them till golden
Serve with chutney