Tuesday, August 25, 2009

BEAUTY TIPS


1. Cucumber seed powder 100 Gms
Barley Powder 100 Gms
Sandal wood Powder 10 Gms
Pachai Karpooram 5 Gms
Milk 2 Tea spoon


Make a powder with all the ingredients. Take one spoon of this powder and add milk in that. Apply evenly in the face and other parts of the neck. Leave it for 15 minutes and wash with warm water.

Effective natural bleach is ready.

2. Take cucumber juice 2 tea spoons, lemon juice ½ tea spoons, and ½ gram flour ½ tea spoons. Mix it well. Apply it on the fact and other parts of the neck regularly. Wash with warm water. The sun pigmentation (black colour) will go soon.

3. For softness and freshness paste the coriander leaves and applies it on the face and other parts of the neck. Allow it for 10 minutes. Wash with cool water.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

GOTTU KUZHAMBHU



Ingredients

Any vegetable like bringal, Ladies finger 100 Gms
Tamarind 1 small lemon size
Mustard seeds ¼ tea spoon
Fenugreek seeds ¼ tea spoon
Bengal gram 1 table spoon
Red chili 1
Asafoetida 1 small pinch
Sambar Podi 1 Table spoon
Curry leaves
Salt

Prepare 250 Gms of tamarind water with enough water. In a pan, pour oil, add mustard seeds, Bengal gram, red chili, and asafetida. Fry it well. Add 150 Gms of tamarind water into it. Add the cut vegetable. Allow it to boil for 5 minutes. Then add the balance 100 Gms of tamarind water, sambar podi and salt. Boil it well for 5 minutes. Add curry leaves.

POTATO SUBJI



Ingredients:

Potato (cut into small pieces) ½ cups
Tur Dhal ¼ cup
Green Dhal ¼ cup
Green chili 3
Onion (cut into pieces) ¼ cups
Tomato (cut into pieces) ¼ cups
Sambar Podi ½ tea spoon
Mustard seeds ¼ tea spoon
Salt To taste
Oil
Coriander leaves

Put oil in a pan season with mustard seeds. Add onion, green chilies and fry it well. After it turns brown colour, add tomato, sambar podi and potato. Fry it for 5 minutes. Add 1 cup of water and boil it well. Then put both the dhal and add enough water and salt. Pressure cooks it and serves hot with coriander leaves.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

PARUPPU URNDAI (BALLS) KUZHAMBU


Ingredients:

Tur Dhal (Tuvaram Paruppu) 200 gms
Red Chilies 4
Tamarind 1 Big lemon size
Asafetida 1 small piece
Sambar podi 2 Table spoon
Salt 3 Tea spoon
Mustard seeds 1 tea spoon
Oil
Curry leaves


Soak tur dhal in water for 2 hours. Filter it nicely and add red chilies, asafetida and little salt. Make a nice paste. In a frying pan pour little oil and add the grounded paste. Stir it well for 2 minutes. Make small balls from that.

Soak tamarind in water and prepare 250 Gms of tamarind water. Add sambar podi,
Salt and allow it to boil. While boiling, put three dhal balls. After 5 minutes the balls will come up. After that add 3 more dhal balls into the boiling tamarind water.. Like that all dhal balls should be put into the tamarind water and allow them to boil well and come up. Season it with mustard seeds and curry leaves.

Photo Courtesy: Aayis recipes.com