Suzhiyam/Maida Roll

This is an authetic dish, i adapted from my grandma. I made of list of recipes my son - sonu likes. He is very much excited and waiting everyday for his special dishes. I would like to thank pritya for conducting such wonderful contest Cooking for kids with Love

This recipe is also called as Thoopam in some towns of tamilnadu. Generally this recipe is made on any celebration.

Suzhiyam for sweet sonu

Ingredients:

For Inner Stuffing:

• Grated cocunut 1 cup


• Jaggery 1 cup


• Cardamom 1tsp

Outer Batter:

• maida 1cup


• Salt - Pinch


• Water - required

Method:
Poornam (stuffing):

• dissolve jaggery in 1cup water and filter.
• then boil this and add grated cocunut ,cardamom.
• Keep stiring it till it reaches a consistency to make balls
• Don't over cook it then the balls will become hard.

Outer Batter:

• mix maida,salt and water to make semi thick batter[Just like dosa batter]

Make even balls with poornam/stuffing and roll it on this batter and deep fry it in the oil.

Suzhiyam is ready for serve.

Milk Shake with Icecream

This is my kid's favourite desert, Whenever there is some party at my place. At least one glass of it is prepared just for my son sonu i got this recipe from my sister in law by name Mrs.priya Siva. He had already tasted the same in some indian restaurants and loved it very much, hence i thought i will try it at home, to my surprise it came out exactly the same way served in restaurants

I used to prepare different flavours, but strawberry is his favourite, so i thought i will add this as one among is favourite and submit this entry for Cooking for kids with Love. I tried this and served this to him, he just loved it. The recipe goes here:

Ingredients :

• milk - 1cup


• strawberry - 6


• sugar - 3tsp


• heavy cream - 1/2cup

Method :

• blend strawberry with sugar, milk


• Finally add heavy cream and blend for a second.


• garnish with 1tsp heavy cream


• Milk shake with ice cream is ready for serve

You can try the same with mango or apple.

Indian Style - Fried Rice

Ingredients :

• basmathi rice - 1cup


• carrot - 1/4cup


• beans - 1/4cup


• peas - 1/4cup


• red capsicum - 1/4cup


• white pepper - 1tsp


• salt- reqd


• ghee - 2tsp

Method :

• soak basmathi rice for 10mins and steam with ghee, 1tsp salt


• fry carrot, beans, peas, capsicum in ghee.


• add salt, pepper saute for a while.


• then add cooked rice, Mix well.


• garnish with coriander leaves.


• Fried rice ready.

Goes well with any manchurian gravy or Indian style gravy, I prepared channa masala as side dish for this. It tasted excellent. For people who are not ready to have garlic and other chinese sos varieties can try this. They will definetly get a different taste rather than preparing same dish again.

Stuffed Dry Jamun

I m really glad to present the second recipe for Cooking for kids with Love

This recipe i got from my mom Mrs. ponmodi Illagovan. My mom just loves her grandson tasting her recipe, She enjoys looking her grandson from Webcam as she is in India and i m in United states.

I tried this for the first time last month, My kid loved it and started asking for it whenever he remembers. I prepared it today, since he has been pinging to prepare it for long time.

Here it is for you. I believe every kid will definelty will love it.

Ingredients for Jamun Balls:

• Milk powder - 1 cup


• Maida - 1/4 cup


• Baking soda - 1/4 tsp


• Water - required

Make a thick dough [just like chappati batter]

Stuffing:

• Badam - 1 tsp


• Pista - 1 tsp


• Cashews - 1 tsp


• Dry grapes - 1tsp

Grate everything, mix it keep it aside

For Dusting:

Sugar powder - required.

Sugar Syrup:

• Sugar - 1 cup


• Water - 2 cups of water


• Rose water - 1/2 tsp

Method:

• In the Make medium balls, by stuff 1/2 tsp of stuffing mix.


• Heat oil in the pan, fry these balls to golden brown


• Keep it aside.


• Heat 2 cup of water in a pan, once it boils add the sugar.


• Keep stiring to make a thin sugar syrup. remove it from heat once all the sugar dissolves to get a thin syrup.


• Add the fried balls to the sugar syrup.


• Just wait for exactly 7 min, remove it from sugar syrup and keep it aside


• Wait for 10 min.


• Now add the jamun balls and dust it in the sugar powder, cool it for a while

Stuffed Jamun is ready for serve.

Soya veg pulav

Ingredients:

Basmathi Rice – 2cup

Onion - 1

Tomato – 3

Sour curd - ¼ cup

Red chilly powder – 1tsp

Ginger-garilc paste – 1tbsp

Mint leaves – reqd

coriander leaves – reqd

Salt – reqd

Veg – reqd (carrot,beans, peas, potato,cauliflower, corn)

Cashew - 5

soys chunks - 10

bread - 2 slices

panner - 4-6 cubes

To grind:

• small onion - 5
• cocunut - 4tsp
• saunf - 1tsp
• green chilli - 2

Tadka

• Cinnamom stick


• Cloves


• cardomom


• Oil


• Ghee


• Briyani Leaf

Method:

• soak Rice in 15 min alteast


• grind all ingrs specified under "To grind"


• wash and soak soya chunks for 1/2hr.


• Add oil and ghee,saute all the ingredients specified under tadka


• Then add ginger garlic paste,onion,tomato and required amount of salt


• Add 1/2 tsp of chilli powder and the grounded paste


• sprinkle water if necessary, mix till raw smell leaves


• Add all the vegetables, Soya chunks,panner,mint leaves and corriander leaves


• Add curd and fry for few min


• Add the soaked rice,


• Add 11/2 cup of water , taste for salt and close and pressure cook for 1 whistle


• Serve hot with raita or any gravy

Sweet idly/Karuppati idly

Sweet idly/Karuppati idly by Mrs. Poonmudi Illangovan

Sonu's all time favourite - Sweet Idly

I have seen my kid sonu eating this dish, without any problem from his grandma[My mom], Whenever i visit my hometown, she is ready with this dish, to serve her grandson. There is some special taste when my mom prepares this dish, More than me, my kid whose is 2 year old is ready to eat this anytime.

About this dish:

Whenever there is some special occasion at my place, you have definitely see this dish ready.This is famous among interior of south india @ places like Karaikudi,Chidambaram.

As for as i know this is my family's traditional dish. My mom prepares batter of this idly with the hand grinder made of stones, this gives a special taste to this recipe. I use only by blender for preparing the batter.

Karupatti/Jaggery is mixed in this idly, which is a rich source of iron and very nutritious for kids.

I am glad to present this dish for the contest Cooking for kids with Love conducted by pritya earlier intiated by sharmi

Ingredients:

• Boiled rice/Puzungal arisi – 1cup
  
• Urad dal – 1/2cup
  
• moong dal - 1/4cup
  
• Jaggery – 1cup
  
• cardamom powder– 1/2tsp
  
• Grated coconut – 1/4cup - for garnish
  
• moong dal - 4tsp - for garnish
  
• Ghee – 2tbsp

Method:

• Soak rice, urad dal, moong dal overnight and grind it next morning.
  
• The batter should be thick
  
• add 1/4 tsp of salt to the batter and allow it to fragment for 12 hours atleast.
  
• Once the batter is ready.
  
• Then dissolve jaggery and cardamom in 1/4cup water,allow it to boil,filter and take the syrup.
  
• add this syrup into idly flour.
  
• soak 4tsp moong dal for 1hr and roast it.
  
• grease idly plates with ghee and pour flour.
  
• Sprinkle coconut and roasted moong dal on each idly.
  
• Now steam it in idly cooker for 10 - 15 min.
  
• Remove the idly from steam and serve hot.

Sweet Idlly or Karuppati idlly ready.

Palak Panner

Ingredients :

panner - 100g

palak - 2cup

onion - 1

tomato - 1

red chilly powder - 1tsp

green chilli- 1

cumin powder - 1tsp

corriander powder - 1tsp

salt - reqd

Method:

• Boil palak & green chilly and grind it.



• Cut panner into cubes and shallow fry.



• Then kadai la oil vittu clove, cinnamon thalikkavum.



• Then add ginger-garlic paste, onion, tomato fry this.



• Now add chilly,cumin, coriander powders , salt, then add palak paste fry for 10 min.



• Then add fried panner.



• Palak panner ready.