Prethika's Space: January 2014

CornFlour-1/3Cup
Sugar - 1 Cup
Water - 1 1/3 Cup
Ghee - 2 Tbsp
Cucumber/Cashew/Almond seeds - few
Food Color- your choice

In a microwave safe bowl/Microwave safe glass bowl add the sugar ,water,cornflour and food color and mix well .Keep the mix in microwave HIGH for 3minutes.

After 3 minutes take out the bowl from the oven the mixture may look similar to the one in the first pic.Stir well and again place it in Microwave HIGH for another 3 minutes.

At the end of 3minutes,remove the bowl from oven and add chopped nuts of your choice and ghee ,Once again mix them well,and place in Microwave HIGH for 2minutes.Once done pour the halwa mixture to the greased plate or tin .Allow the halwa to cool down and run the knife to the cooled halwa and cut them into squares and serve them.

Pinky pink corn halwa is ready.

Chilli Idly

Left over idli - 4-5

Large Onion - 1

Green Chillies - 2 to 3

Spring Onions - 2 sticks

Coriander Leaves - few

Ginger-Garlic paste- 1.5 tsp

Red Chilli Powder - 1tsp

Soya Sauce - 1.5 tsp

Tomato Ketchup - 2 to 3 tsp

Cornflour - 1 tsp

Water - as reqd

Oil- as reqd (Here i used Hudson Canola Oil)

Sugar - 1/2 tsp

Salt - a pinch

If you have left over idlis take them and cut them in cubes.Also cube the onion's.Chop the spring onion and slit in crosswise the green chillies.Once done pour the oil(I used Hudson Canola Oil) .And fry the cubed idli's.

Fry all the cubed idli;s and place them in a tissue paper to let the tissue paper absorb the excess oil.In a kadai add oil and add the ginger garlic paste and saute them.Once the raw smell of the ginger garlic paste has gone off add the cubed onions.

Saute the cubed onions until it turns translucent ,then add the slit green chillies.Saute for atleast 30 seconds.Then add the sauces,red chilli powder,salt and sugar.Remember all the sauces have salt in it ,so add the salt accordingly.Saute for awhile.Meanwhile mix the cornflour with water and make a paste.

Mix the cornflour paste to the kadai and mix immediately.Allow the cornflour to cook for a while,or until bubble's start to show off.Don't leave the kadai mix on without leaving a gap.Then add the fried idli's and mix well.