Oats Pakoda / Oats fritters

Ingredients:

1.Oats - 1 cup

2.Besan/gram flour/Kadalamavu - 1 cup

   Rice powder - 1/2 cup

3.Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

   Chilly powder - 1/4 tsp

   Onion - 1, chopped

   Green chillies - 2, chopped

   Curry leaves - a sprig, chopped

4.Water as required

    Eno fruit salt - 1/4 tsp (or use baking soda)

5. Oil to deep fry

Preparation:

1. Powder the oats in a mixie. Transfer it to a bowl along with gram flour and rice powder. Combine well. Add ingredients listed as 3. Add enough water to make a thick batter. Add eno fruit salt and keep aside for 10 minutes.

2. Heat oil in a pan and drop the batter into oil using a teaspoon. Shape doesn't matter. Deep fry till golden brown and the pakodas are crisp. Drain to tissue paper.

3. The pakodas can be stored in an air tight container after it cools down completely.

Events:

Kerala Kitchen - May 2012 hosted by Jehanne of The Cooking Doctor. Check the Kerala Kitchen page here

ABC Series: GOURDS

ABC Series is back after a month's break. I enjoyed hosting the Kerala Kitchen event last month and would be posting the roundup soon. Thank you, Rose for providing me the opportunity to host this series.

From next month, ABC Series is open for guest hosting. Please mail me at events.ramyasrecipe@gmail.com if you would like to host the event for a month.

The theme for this month is Gourds. Gourds are very healthy veggies. The commonly used gourds I know are Bottle gourd (Lauki/Churakka), Ridge gourd(Tori/Peechinga), Bitter Gourd(Karela/Pavakka), Ivy gourd (Tindora/Kovakka), Snake gourd(Padwal/Padavalanga), Ash gourd(kumhada/kumbalanga), Chayote etc...If you know other gourds,let me know and I will add to the list.

Rules for the event:

1. Cook and blog any veg or non-veg recipe with gourd as main ingredient.The recipes must be posted on your blog between May 1 - May 31, 2012.

2. Please link back to this announcement page and use the logo above. The use of logo is appreciated as it helps spread the word about the event. To participate, all you need to do is to link the recipe using the inlinkz tool. 

3. You may send any number of entries. The more, the merrier ! Archived entries are most welcome. Please re-post it with a link to this announcement page and use the logo.

4. If you have any issues in linking, please post a comment or send a mail to events.ramyasrecipe@gmail.com. 

Cheesy Sweetcorn and Bellpepper sandwich

Ingredients:

Makes 5 sandwiches

Sweetcorn - 150 gms (I used frozen)
Green bellpepper/capsicum - 1
Onion - 1
Oil - 1 tbsp
Salt - to taste
White or black pepper powder - 1/2 tsp or to taste
Brown bread slices - 10
Butter - as needed
Cheese slices - 5

Preparation:

1. Thaw the sweetcorn. Remove the seeds of the bellpepper and chop finely. Peel the onion and chop it.
2. Heat oil in a pan and add Onion, sweetcorn and bellpepper. Add salt and saute for about 5 minutes. Add pepper and combine well.
3. Take a slice of bread and spread the sweetcorn mix. Place a cheese slice and cover it with another slice of bread. Brush a little butter on the outer sides of the sandwich.
4. Grill or toast the sandwich.Serve hot !

Events:
Cooking Concepts:Spring seasonal food hosted by Sravs
Souper Sunday hosted by Deb
Bon Vivant Moments #3 - Breakfast Ideas hosted at Sumee's Culinary Bites
Showcase: What's in your lunchbox hosted by Divya
Let's make sandwiches hosted at Simply Food
Guest Quest hosted by Amina

Meal of the month

Here's my Meal plan for Rosh's event Meal of the month

Breakfast-Rava Idli

  

Lunch - Chicken Biriyani

Dessert - Double ka meetha

Dinner: Egg kothu porotta