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Ingredients: 2 ripe guava 2 fried red chilly 2 garlic cloves 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 tsp sugar(optional) salt to taste 1 pinch hing 1/2 tsp cumin and mustard seeds Preparations: Remove the seed and cut into cubed. In mixer jar add guava,red chilly, garlic,lemon juice salt and sugar. Grind to a smooth paste. For tempering, heat the oil, add cumin seeds ,mustard,  curry leaves and pinch of hing.  Add this tempering guava chutney.  Chutney is ready to serve with dosa or idli.

Ingredients:     Bread slice chopped in small peieces-1cup     corn flour-2 tbsp     Kashmiri red chilly powder- 1 tsp     Ginger-garlic paste- ½ tbsp     Salt- to taste     Water- 3 to 4 tbsp     Oil- enough for deep frying Preparations 1: Toast the bread slices in a toaster or in a  hot pan till it gets crispy and golden. Using a sharp knife, cut the bread to small cubed pieces. In a bowl, add the bread pieces along with all the above mentioned ingredients except oil. Add only very little water to bind the bread and corn flour, don’t make it watery.     Make small balls out of the bread-flour mixture,keep aside. Place a frying pan over medium heat, add enough oil for deep frying. Drop the bread mix balls into the hot oil, fry till it turns little brown.      Transfer to a kitchen paper towel. Ingredients 2: r...

Ingredients: 1 cucumber, sliced 1 tomato, sliced salt/pepper 4 white bread slices butter Preparations: Spread a thin layer of butter on the bread slices. This helps seal the bread to ensure no moisture from the cucumber or tomatoes seeps into it. Add the cucumber and tomato slices to cover the slice of bread, sprinkle some salt and pepper, add the top slice. Cut the sandwiches diagonally to form 2 triangles.

Ingredients:     Bottle Gourd -cut in cubed - 2 cups     Milk - 1/2cup     Oil - 1 tbsp     Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp     Zeera seeds -1/2 tsp     Urad Dal - 1 tsp     Curry Leaves - 1 spring     Hing - a pinch     Whole green Chili - 1 or 2     Salt - to taste Preparation: Heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard and zeera seeds. Add urad dal , hing, curry leaves and whole green chili and cook for a few seconds till the urad dal starts to change in brown color. Now add cubed lauki and salt. Mix well . Cook covered for 7-10 minutes till lauki is tender.No need to add water. Add milk to the curry and cook on low-medium flame until all the milk is evaporated. Serve hot with rice or chapati.

Prepare all  frying in advance of the stir-fry so  that nothing gets overcooked. Ingredients for scrambled egg: 5 eggs 2 tbsp milk 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp oil Break eggs into a bowl with salt and milk. whisk eggs for 1 min.,make sure eggs fully  mixed with the seasonings and keep aside. In a Kadhai poor oil over a high flame and Then pour the egg mixture over the oil, and fry until set. Slowly stir, gently lifting and folding uncooked and  cooked portions together.  Lift and fold , continue until the eggs have set  and are moist, fluffy, and glossy.  Do not overcook the eggs. Now remove from the pan and set aside.  Ingredient for prawn fry : Take prawn marinated with turmeric and salt.set aside. Add the oil to a same kadhai .  When oil is hot slowly place the prawns in it. Cook on medium flame for couple of minutes. Do not over cook the prawns as it will become rubbery. Remove the prawns on to...

Wash the fish and cut it into pieces.  Apply 1 tsp of turmeric and salt according to taste keep aside. Grind 1 onion, 1/2 cup of grated coconut,  5 garlic cloves, 1'' ginger,  10 curry leaves in a very fine paste. In kadai add grinded paste and saute it for 2 to 3 minutes. Now add a pinch of asafoetida, 1 tsp turmeric  powder,few curry leaves,two green chilly,  1/2 cup of fresh coconut milk,1 tomato  along with 1/2 cup of water and bring it to boil. Mix it thoroughly till it starts to leave out the oil. Now add fish pieces to it and let it boil for 5-10 minutes.  After adding fish do not over cook as the meat  will separate from the bones!, without cover any lid cook the fish pieces. Once the fish pieces are cooked. Remove the kadai from the heat.  Drizzle a teaspoon full of coconut oil and cover it. Serve with steamed rice.

Ingredients:     For the syrup: 1 cup water 1 cup sugar 1 lemon juice Ingredients:    For the cake: 1 cup semolina ½ cup sugar 1½ cup yogurt ½ cup vegetable oil 1 teaspoon vanilla extract ½ teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon cardamom powder ½ teaspoon salt Preparations: Preheat the oven. Grease a baking dish with cooking spray or vegetable oil and sprinkle some semolina on it. For the syrup.... Boil the water and sugar in a small saucepan until the sugar completely dissolves. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the lemon juice. Set aside and let cool completely. For the cake.... In a large mixing bowl, Add yogurt,sugar and oil and mix well . Add the remaining ingredients all at once and stir very well until all of the ingredients are evenly incorporated and the batter is smooth. Leave it for 5 min.After 5 min.give a nice stir and Bake 30 min. just until the center of the cake is set and the top turns brow...