Vithya's Cook Book

Parupu Rasam Recipe Ingredients Tamarind 2 inch Toor dal mashed 1/4 cup Ghee 2 spoons Mustard seeds 1tsp Methi seeds 6-7 nos Curry leaves Hing Pepper 1/4 tsp Directions:  Soak tamarind for 5 mins and squeeze nicely Toor dal cooked and mashed well  Add tamarind filtered water along with toor dal  Mash tomato nicely in the toor dal pot.. don't use knife, just squeeze the tomato nicely by hand  Add some rock salt  Add turmeric powder  Add 1 spoon sambar powder  Mix well  Heat up the kadai and mustard seeds  Add methi seeds and 1 red chilli  Add the Rasam mixture to the kadai and bring it to boil  Once it's starts boiling add hing and check the taste  Add salt/ pepper powder/tamarind water Allow it to boil for 2-3 minutes.And now the Rasam is ready😀  Note: If you want to make it more spicy adjust the taste of red chillis/ pepper

Vendaikkai pachadi - Chettinad special Ingredients: Ladies finger / vendaikai250gms Small onion / Chinna vengayam10nos Country tomato / Natu thakkali 1large Tamarind lemon size / Puli  Rock salt / kal uppu 1 spoonful Toor dal / tuvaram parupu 2 cups Directions: I took ladies finger 250gms, small onion 10 nos and a country tomato We Chettinad people generally use small onions more than the regular onion..Even in my blog you can find more recipes using small onion..It will give you an extraordinary taste.. And one more important thing..  chop the ladies finger into a thin slices like ⬆️. If  you cut this into thick pieces then it will be like a Sambar but not pachadi Take a tamarind lemon sized and soak it with a cup of water along with a spoon of rock salt Heat up the kadai and add groundnut oil ( if not available you can use oil of your choice) Once the oil is heated up add mustard seeds, urad dal 1 spoon, methi seeds 1/4 tsp and curr...

White Sauce Pasta Recipe - kids Ingredients: Whole wheat kids pasta 1 largecup Maida 2 spoons Cheese 1 cube Butter 1 cube Milk 1 large cup Water 3 cups for boiling pasta Salt Directions:  Store bought kids pasta.. Generally I will buy whole wheat pasta only...too much maida is not good for kids  In a kadai boil 3 cups of water and add a spoonful salt so that your pasta will absorb salt while boiling  Add a large cup of pasta to boiling water  Allow it to boil for 10-15 minutes in a medium flame..don't stir too much your pasta will break.  You can see the pasta doubled its size.. taste it if you feel it's boiled 80% switch off the flame  Drain your pasta well.. By mistake if your pasta cooked more than 80% after draining just pour some cold water on top and drain.  In a separate kadai add butter and heat it up  Add oregano / pizza mix  Add chilli flakes and simmer it, let the aroma come out ...