Achu's Recipes

Ingredients Urud Daal - 2 cups Rice Flour - 2-3 tbsp Onion - 1 small (finely chopped) Green Chilli - 2 nos: (finely chopped) Pepper Corns - 2 tbsp Curry Leaves - 2-3 tbsp (finely chopped) Salt - as required Oil - as required to deep fry. Thick Curd - 500 ml Roasted Cumin Powder - 2 tbsp Red Chilli Powder - 2 tbsp Chat Masala - 2 tbsp Tamarind Chutney - 4-5 tbsp Corriander Leaves - 2 tbsp (finely chopped)  Preparation Method Wash and said urud daal for 4-5 hours. Transfer the urud daal to a strainer and remove excess water. Crush peppercorns and keep aside. Grind the urud daal to a smooth paste. Add 1 tbsp water at a time if required to grind. Transfer the urud daal paste to a mixing bowl. Add rice flour, onion, green chili, curry leaves, salt, pepper; mix well. Leave the batter aside for 30-45 mins:. Heat oil in a deep bottom pan. Wet your hands, take lemon size dough, roll with your palm, gently press and flatten, make a small hole in the middle with your thumb an

Ingredients Banana Nendran (ripe) - 3 medium size Jaggery - 1/2 cup (grated) Corn Flour - 2 tbsp Cashew Nuts -  as required Raisins - as required Ghee -  5-6 tbsp Cardamom Powder - 1 tsp Preparation Method Grease a baking pan with ghee and keep aside. Remove the skin and thread of the bananas and cut into cubes. Make a smooth paste of the bananas using mixer and keep aside. Melt the jaggery in 1/4 cup water; drain the jaggery syrup and keep aside. Dissolve corn flour in 1/4 cup water without lumps and keep aside. In a pan heat 2 tbsp ghee in a thick bottom pan; saute the cashew nuts and raisins; remove from ghee and keep aside. Add banana mix to the ghee and saute in low flame for 5 mins: Add jaggery syrup to the banana and cook in low flame stirring continuously till it become thick. Add 2 tbsp ghee and mix well. Add cornflour and combine and cook in low flame. Add 2-3 tbsp ghee and mix well till the banana mixture start to leave from the sides of the pan. Add raisins an

  Ingredients Puff Pastry Sheet - 2 rolls Green Apple - 5 large (peeled and thinly sliced) Lemon Juice - 1 tsp Brown Sugar - 2 tbsp Cinnamon Powder - 1 tbsp Butter - 2 tbsp Plain Flour - 1 tbsp Preparation Method In a wide bottom pan heat butter and add apple slices and lemon juice. Add brown sugar, mix well and sauté for 5-6 mins: in low flame. When apple become soft (nut mushy) add cinnamon powder and mix well. Add 1 tbsp plain flour combine well and cook for 2 mins: (flour absorbs water oozed out from the apple slices). Preheat the oven at 200 degree C for 10 mins: Remove the apple filling from flame and keep aside. Brush 12 sized individual pie cups with butter and keep aside. Spread out the pastry sheet in a clean dry surface and flatten it using a rolling pin. Cut 12 portions from the pastry sheets. Each portion should be bigger than the size of the pie cups and should be sufficient enough to cover the sides as well. Gently press down the sheets to pie cups. Press tp the sides as