Coconut Rice

This rice is similar to lemon rice, but here we use coconut milk and grated coconut, it is the secret behind the good taste.




 Ingredients

 2 cups of rice,
 2 cups of grated coconut,
1/2 cup of coconut milk

Tempering 
Oil for tempering 
Mustard seeds 2 teaspoons
Groundnuts one tablespoon,
Ground nut seeds 25 grams 
Red chilles 2 to 3nos
Curry leaves 4 to 5 strands
Chana dal 2 tea spoons
Cashew nuts 10 for taste
Asafoetida a pinch

Method

Keep  250 gms of rice in the cooker,use coconut milk instead water to cook rice..... rice must not be too sticky..... keep it aside

Take a kadai, add oil, add mustard seeds once crackled, add chana dal, and groundnuts, cashew nuts, red chilles,curry leaves, asafoetida and then saute it till its done. Mix the cooled rice......and serve it with Avial or any curry.

Bread Pizza

As kids get attracted to junk food, we can try our best to create few home made snacks cum breakfast for them.........this was prepared by one of my friend Meenakshi who is a mother of my daughter's classmate......felt interesting and tried it at home.......

All you need for 4 servings one pound of bread (sweet) sliced...
Preparation time is less than 15 minutes.......
Serving while takes 10 minutes......

One pound bread
Onion finely chopped 1 medium 
Tomato Finely chopped 1 medium
capsicum finely chopped 1
Salt to taste
Butter 100 gms
Cheddar Cheese 50 gms
Oregano 2 tea spoons
Red chili flakes 2 teaspoons
Tomato sauce home made or you can buy it outside

Take bread slice and apply butter on it, 
spread vegetables chopped,
sprinkle salt, oregano and chili flakes, if one needs more flavor use more of oregano and chili flakes.

Finally, heat the pan keep the slice on it and grate cheese on it and close a lid and leave it to melt and serve it hot spreading sauce on the bread slice.

Be happy, when your kids are happy eating this...........