Homemade Paneer

Homemade Paneer

Ingredients
1/2 Litre Milk
1 Lemon

Method
Boil fresh milk in a vessel and keep it aside for 5 minutes.
Squeeze lemon juice in a small bowl, discard seeds.
Take a clean muslin cloth and spread it on strainer with vessel under that.
Add lemon juice to warm milk, stir for 2 minutes and allow it to curdle for 30 minutes.
You can see whey after 30 minutes and strain the whey using muslin cloth.
Tighten the muslin cloth, after 3 - 4 hours water drains completly.
Homemade fresh paneer is ready.

Note
You can keep weight on cloth in which paneer is tied.
You can store it for 3 - 4 days in refrigerator.

Idli, Coconut Chutney and Puri Unde

Idli, Coconut Chutney and Puri Unde/ Murmura Ladoo

Here for chutney, I added dry red chillies instead of green chillies. Tempered by heating 1 spoon oil, add mustard seeds, urad dal and crushed 2 garlic cloves.

Recipe Link for Idli
https://palateobypushpa.blogspot.com/2018/02/idli-ingredients-2-cups-idli-rice-34.html

Recipe Link for Puri Unde
https://palateobypushpa.blogspot.com/2018/01/puri-unde-puffed-rice-laddo-ingredients.html

Pudina Chapathi with Dal Makhani

Pudina Chapathi with Dal Makhani
Breakfast

Pudina Chapathi
Add handful of  chopped pudina/ mint leaves to wheat flour and salt.
Make dough and prepare pudina chapathis.

Recipe Link for Dal Makhani
https://palateobypushpa.blogspot.com/2019/05/dal-makhani-side-dish-ingredients-1-cup.html

Sprouted Horsegram

Sprouted Horsegram

Learn how to sprout horsegram for beginners

Wash  horsegram in water and soak horsegram in water for 7 - 8 hours or overnight.
After 8 hours, drain the water and wash once in water and transfer it to dry bowl.
Leave it to sprout for 8 hours.
After 8 hours, you can see sprouted horsegram.
You can add this to sambar.
You can follow same method of sprouting for green gram, mote or moth bean, black channa.

You can store sprouts in refrigerator for 2 - 3 days.
You will find recipes related to sprouts in the blog.


Recipe for Sprouted Horsegram Sambar

Ragi - Jowar Thalipeth

Ragi - Jowar Thalipeth
Millet Recipe

Ingredients :
1 cup Ragi Flour
1 cup Jowar Flour
1 Onion chopped
2 Green Chillies chopped
8 Groundnuts (optional)
1 spoon Jeera
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves
1/2 cup Coconut (grated)
Salt
Oil

Method :
Boil 2 cups of water on a medium flame. Add ragi flour and jowar flour when water starts boiling, mix it and keep it aside.
Now add all the ingredients, chopped onion, chillies, curry leaves, coriander leaves, jeera, coconut, coarsely ground groundnuts and salt.
Add little water while mixing, make  dough and keep it aside for 10 - 15 mins.
Now make rotis on plastic sheet/ banana leaf with wet palms, cook rotis on medium flame on roti tawa. Add 1 spoon oil while cooking and cook both the sides for 2 minutes.
Ragi - jowar talipeth is ready to serve with chutney or butter.

Tips:
You can add grated carrot or chopped dill leaves to the dough.
You can even add 1/2 cup wheat flour, rice flour or any other millet flour.