Vada - regular

This a very simple quick item you can make for festivals.

Ingridients:
Urad Daal - 1 cup
Onion - 1 chopped (Optional)
Green Chillies - few chopped fine

Soak the Urad Daal for 4 hrs. Grind to a fine paste Do not add water much. The batter should be thick

In the urad paste add finely chopped green chillies and onion and salt.

Heat oil in a pan

Take water in a small bowl. Wet your left palm and take a lump of the urad paste and put in on te left palm, make a hole in the small ball and take it in the right hand and put it in oil.

Fry in oil in medium heat till the vadas are golden brown

Saggubiyyam semiya paayasam

This is the most typcal dish in andhra for any special occasion. Any festival, guests at home, birthday or even exam result:-)

Ingridients:-

Semiya - 1 cup

Sabudaana - 1/2 cup

Milk - 3 cups

Sugar - 1.5 cups

Kaju and Kissmiss

1. Soak Sabudaana for half and hour and wash and keep aside.

2. Take 2 cups water in a kettle and cokk sabudaana.

3. Fry Semiya in ghee till nice smell comes.

4. Add to boiling Sabudaana.

5. Once the Semiya and sabudaana is cooked take off from heat

6 Heat Milk and add sugar to it. Once mil boils add the cooked semiya and sabudaana

7. Fry Kaju and kismiss in ghee and add to the the milk

Serve hot or cold.

Chekkara Pongali (Sweet Pongal)

This is a sweet dish usually done in every house on Sankrathi.

Ingridients:-
Moong Daal - 1 cup
Rice - 1 cup
Jaggerry - 1 cup
Ghee - 0.5 cup
Kaju and Kishmiss
Elaichi - few

1. Mix rice and moong daal and pressure cook them
2. Finely grate Jaggery. Finely grind elaichi
3. Heat ghee in a pan and add cooked rice and daal
4. Add jaggery and elaichi powder
5. Fry kaju and kissmiss in ghee and add them to the pongal

Serve hot.

Zuchinni Masala

I recently tried this recipe. Actually here in bentonville its hard to

find all indian vegetables. So make a dish from whatever you get:-) and to my surprise zuchinni seems to be good vegetable I could use to regular subzi. here is a very simple recipe to a great spicy dish!!

Ingridients:-

Zuchinni - 3

Potatoes - 2 big ones

Tomatoes - 2 finely chopped

Onion - 1 big one finely chopped

1. Cut zuchinni into half circles. Cut potatoes into meduim peices

2. Take oil in a pan and add ginger and garlic (freshly chopped). Add turmeric, zeera and onion.

3. Once onions are golden brown add zuchinni and potatoes. After fring for 2 mins add tomatoes and some water Let the vegetables cook

4. Add little garam masala, salt and once cooked, serve hot with rice.