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Vellarikka Pachadi ( Kichadi ) - Kerala Style Cucumber Yogurt Chutney

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Madras Cucumber, Manglore Cucumber or Vellarikka or Dosakaya  or South Indian Cucucmber looks big in size and dark yellow  in color. Totally this is a  wonderful vegetable contains full of water and nice flavor. We can make so many recipes with this vegetable. Today's my recipe is one my best friend's (Palakkad iyer's) Onam Sadya recipe. It is a delicious healthy vegetable yogurt chutney recipe in my way......

Grated Carrot Stir Fry

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Grated carrot stir fry is one of the easiest and simple recipe.This is my elder ones favorite and he himself experiment with this stir fry. Even i like this colorful,healthy recipe. Ingredients: Carrots                                3  Grated coconut                    2 table spoons Black gram                          1 table spoon Cumin seeds                        1 tea spoon Mustard seeds                     1 tea spoon Green chillies                       2(split it into half) Curry leaves                       few Vegetable oil                       1 table spoon Asafoteda                           1/2 tea poon Fresh coriander leaves         few Method: Clean the Carrots and peel the skin and grate it with grater and keep it aside. Heat Vegetable oil in a Pan.  Add Black gram fry for few min,then add cumin seeds and Mustard seeds fry for till seeds to splutter. Now add Asafoteda,curry leaves and split green chillies,fry for few min. Then add Grat

Aloo Bahar - Baby Potato Stir Fry

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Aaloo bahar is a mild spicy and delicious recipe from North India.  It is very well go with Rotis,Parathas,Nan and Piping hot plain Rice.

Banana Toffee

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Banana Toffee is a wonderful desert from China. Once I tasted this recipe in HongKong. Very simple and classic recipe's  source is from Arushi Mahajan's cook book. Ingredients: Ripe Bananas                   4 Refined Flour (Maida)      1/2 cup Baking Powder                 1/2 tea spoon Vegetable Oil                   2 tea spoons Powdered Sugar              1 Table spoon Lemon                             1  full  lemon of juice Honey                             2 tea spoons Milk                                1/2 cup(approx.) Vegetable oil                   For frying Normal Sugar                 1 cup Method: Peel and cut the Bananas into 2 pieces long or in rounds and crosswise to get 4 pieces from each Banana. Sprinkle the lemon juice and 1 table spoon sugar on Banana pieces. Make a batter with the Refined Flour,Vegetable oil,Milk,Honey and Baking Powder.(Batter should not be too thin in consistency. Mix the Flour Batter  well till smooth Heat