Mango Mousse! from Uma Mohan

Here are the ingredients:
1. Mango pulp (1 container)
2. Condense milk (1 container)
3. Whip cream (medium size)
4. Peach/Apricot flavor jello (medium size)

Preparation:
Prepare the jello and let it cool. Mix mango pulp, condense milk, and whip cream. After jello cools down and pour into the mango pulp mix. Allow it to set in the refrigerator over night.

Chicken briyani

3 Tbs ghee (butter melted with the scum skimmed off)
3 Tbs of oil
2 pounds chicken
1/2 cup coconut milk
2 inch stick of cinnamon
½ tea spoon of cloves
3 Tbs paste made up of 1/2onion , ½ cup garlic, 1inch ginger and 4medium size green chili
2 Tbs garam masala (red chili powder) or briyani masala
3 medium size tomatoes
¼ tea spoon of tumeric powder
medium size green chili
I cup coriander leaves and 1 cup mint leaves
3 cups of basmati rice

Fry cinnamon , cloves ginger paste with enough ghee and oil in a pressure cooker. It should turn a lovely rose-red color.

Add coriander and mint leaves, let is cook completely

Add tomatoes, salt and turmeric powder and let it cook for 10 minutes

Add chicken and garam/briyani masala and stir well so that they absorb the flavors evenly, then add the rice and coconut milk, stir fry until the grains become evenly coated too. Add chili powder and salt if needed

Add 6 cups of water and salt to taste

Put the lid on the pressure cooker and bring to the boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for 20 minutes (three whistles). Check your manufacturer's instructions (compare it to a pilaf).

You can also cook in a electric cooker.
add lemon juice if you needed at the end

Vegetable Briyani

Ingredients
2 Tbs ghee (butter melted with the scum skimmed off)
2 Tbs of oil
2 inch stick of cinnamon
½ tea spoon of cloves
3 Tbs paste made up of 1/2onion , 1inch ginger and 3medium size red chili
2 Tbs garam masala (red chili powder) or briyani masala
2 medium size tomatoes
¼ tea spoon of turmeric powder
medium size green chili
I cup coriander leaves and 1 cup mint leaves
2 cups of basmati rice
3 cups of vegetables (carrots, potatoes, green beans diced about an inch thick)
Water and oil (Canola or Sunflower).

Fry cinnamon , cloves ginger paste with enough ghee and oil. Bring this to a sizzle and stir fry the ginger paste . It should turn a lovely rose-red color.

Add coriander and mint leaves let is cook completely. Add tomatoes,green chili, salt and turmeric powder and let it cook for 10 minutes

Add the vegetables and garam/briyani masala and stir well so that they absorb the flavors evenly, then add the rice and stir fry until the grains become evenly coated too.

Add 4 1/2cups of water and add salt to taste.

Put the lid on the pressure cooker and bring to the boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for 20 minutes (three whistles). Check your manufacturer's instructions (compare it to a pilaf). add lemon juice if you needed at the end

Addai recipe from Amma

INGREDIENTS:

1 cups idly rice
1 cup split pea dal
1/4 cup tuar dal
2 table spoon ural dal
1/2 tea spoon red cilli powder
1/2 tea spoon fennel seeds
pinch of perungayam

Saok rice and all dalls together for 3-4 hours. Add other ingredients and grind them little corsely. You can use right a way .

Make a dosa and let it cook both sides to brown color.

Eat with coconut chuttny with sugar. Eat when it is hot

Banana Nut Cake

INGREDIENTS:

1/2 c butter at room temperature
3/4 c raw sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
2 lg ripe bananas mashed
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 c unsifted whole wheat flour
1 c coarsely chopped walnuts

Set the oven to 350 degrees and butter a 9-inch tube pan.

Put the butter into a large bowl and blend in sugar. Beat in the egg; add all ingredients except nuts. When well-blended, add nuts.

Bake about 50 minutes or a trifle longer. Just until the cake begins to shrink away from the sides of the pan. It should not be allowed to dry out in baking, but rather should have a moist, almost custardy texture.
Serve as is or with a blob of whipped cream and a few banana slices.

Tomato kulambu

Heat oil and fry ½ tea spoon of fennel seeds powder

Add 1cup of chopped onion and let it fry for 2 minutes. Then add 2 chopped tomato,
½ tea spoon red chili powder and ½ tea spoon of salt.

Cook for 10 minutes until the tomato is completely cooked. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Eat with rice …Make it hot by adding little more chili powder

Rava Vadai

1 cup – Rava
½ cup milk
1/2 water
1/2cup sugar
½ cup grated coconut
6 cardamoms
Pinch of salt
Pinch of baking soda

Soak all ingredients together for 1hour.

After 1 hour make the batter in such consentience that you can use spoon to drop the batter in oil.

Let if fry until it gets golden color

Very tasty and really good when you eat next day