Time Savers

 There are few recipes that can be prepared and stored and can be used whenever and wherever needed. 

• Instant Rawa mix
• Instant Rive Payasam
• Home made Badam mix
• Onion and Tomato paste
• Instant Idly mix
• Tamarind Paste
• Coffee Syrup
• Spiced Buttermilk
• Bhangra Pepsi
• Tomato Puree 
• Idly Upma using Idly milagapodi
• Jelly Vennila Shake
• Homemade Flours

Orange Carrot Moctail

Ingredients:
Orange - 2 nos (Nagpur vareity)
          or 
Mosambi - 4 nos
Carrot - 4 nos
Lime juice - 1/4 cup
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Honey - 1 tbsp
Mint leaves - 1/8th cup
Lemon slice- 1

Method:
Grind the carrot and make juice out of it. It will be close to 200 ml

Take juice out of mosambi which will be close to 150 ml. 
or
Grind the Nagpur Orange and take juice out of it which will be close to 200 ml
In a tall glass add 3 to 4 ice cubes. Add 100 ml of the carrot juice and 100 ml of the Orange or Mosambi juice and mix it thoroughly. Add 1 tbsp of honey and lemon juice to it and mix well. 

Garnish it with mint leaves and add the lemon slice to the tip of the glass. 
This makes a great party starter and a healthy summer cooler. It also makes a great after school drink for kids too. 

Kaichiya Moru

Kaaichiya moru or Moru kaaichiyathu is a simple recipe from Kerala just like Neer mor made in Tamilnadu. Just like the people of Tamil nadu the Keralites also end thier meal with rice and curd or buttermilk. This is a flavourful and aromatic dish. 

Ingredients:
Curd - 2 cups (Thick and Creamy)
Water - 2 cups
Shallots (Sambar Onion) - 6 nos
Ginger - 1 inch
Green chilli - 1 no
Salt - 1 tbsp
Turmeric Powder - 1 pinch
Hing - 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - 1/2 cup
Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup
Red chilly - 2 nos
Coconut oil - 2 nos

Method:
Take the curd in a big bowl and whisk it well. Add water slowly and keep whisking till it gels well and becomes a semi thick consistency.
Heat the coconut oil in a pan, add mustard seeds and let it splutter. Add the methi seeds, red chillies, chop the curry leaves and add it to the oil. To this add finely chopped shallots, green chillies and chopped ginger, turmeric powder and stir it well. Add the beaten curd to it and stir it in medium flame, till it gets warm and starts bubbling up. Dont boil it as the curd will curdle. 
Switch off the flame, add salt and mix well. Add finely chopped coriander leaves and keep it covered. 
This can be served as a summer cooler too.  

Dry Fruit Halwa

Another halwa which is healthy and nutritious that an be made as a prasad for festivals and functions and get togethers. 

Ingredients: 

Almods - 1 cup

Cashew nuts - 1 cup

Dates - 6 nos

Raisins - 6 nos

Pista - 6 nos

Milk - 1/2 cup

Sugar - 1 cup

Ghee - 2 tbsp

Method:

Soak the almonds and cashew nuts seperately over night. Next day morning remove the skin of the almonds and grind it along with the cashew nuts to a fine paste by adding 2 tbsp of milk. 

Chop th pista and dates finely and mix it with the raisins.

Add the paste to a hard botto pan and saute it by tossing it from bottom to up witout burning it but it should become golden colour. Add sugar,mixed dry fruits and 1 tbsp of ghee and keep mixinng it and stirring it constantly. Keep adding milk little by little. Let it thicken. Add the remaining ghee. Once it thickens spread it on a ghee greased plate. Let it cool cut into pieces.