Uppu Mirapa Kaayalu / Curd Chillies

Hi Friends,This recipe is from my Mother & Mother -In-Law. It's easy and we need to make sure we have a good sun .It's  good  to prepare it during the summer season.

Ingredients:

•  Fresh Green Chillies 1/2 Kg
• Yogurt / Buttermilk  slightly  Sour   1 litre ( neither thin or thick)
• Salt  to taste 
• Plastic Sheet or Cloth to Place the chillies to dry it  under the sun.

Method:

• Wash the green chillies and dry them on a kitchen napkin .
• Slit them vertically keeping the ends intact and also retain the stalks of green chillies.
• Remove the Seeds if they are spicy.
• Add salt to buttermilk and beat nicely,the consistency of buttermilk should neither be very thin nor thick.
• Add the green chillies to the buttermilk mixture.
•  Make sure they are well immersed in the buttermilk.
• Cover it and soak it for 3 days and leave it aside.They will slightly change in color after 3 days.
• After 3 days squeeze them slightly with hands and arrange them in a single layer on a plastic sheet and dry them under sun until evening.Keep the buttermilk don't pour it away.
• In the evening again add them to the left over buttermilk mixture and let it sit in the buttermilk mixture overnight.
• Next day morning squeeze them again and dry them until evening on the plastic sheet ,arrange the chillies neatly in rows space between them .
•  Follow the same process for the chillies until all the buttermilk mixture is finished.It might take few days 5-6 days.
• After the buttermilk mixture is finished you can dry them in sun for another few days until they are completely dried.
• Store them in an air tight container.It stays for more than a year.

Serving Style:

• You can fry it and serve this along with Rice ,Sambhar,Dal.
• Curd chillies can be tempered with cumin , mustard seeds and pinch of turmeric to be served with the meals.
• Fried curd chillies can be added to rice flour upmas & Senagala Mixture / Masala.

Home Made Sun-Dried Potato Chips

This is an very easy and interesting food item which can be eaten as a favourite snack as a whole .In the Super markets the ingredient is the same i.e;Potato and only the addition of flavours varies.Every kid passes their childhood  with some Sweet memories regarding many things.In the same way this chips also makes to enjoy while eating and make us fun.

I know this Home made preparing Potato chips when I was studying in school from my Mom.She makes a lot during the month of Summer and I enjoy them whenever I want it .One interesting thing I used to do is Never helped Mom while arranging the Potatoes in the sheet of paper under the sun,but used to run when mom says to bring the dried chips at evening time.Because I used to eat those dried chips few  from the sheet .It is my funny memory.

So friends,the availability of Potatoes is main and also the heat of sun.So plan to have on a Sunny day as it helps to dry the chips soon by 2days.You can also have fun with your kids if they help you.Any how they help  you once it was fried in the Oil and served means.For this Home made Potato chips the flavor you can mix them is the red chili powder & salt.

So friends hurry up those who want to try this and enjoy with your family and have Fun.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes - as many as you needed
• Salt
• Water
• A potato slicer
• Plastic sheet

Method:

• Wash the Potatoes under water and scrub them well to remove dirt.
• You can peel it if it is hard to remove dirt.
• Slice the potatoes in to thin round circles.Do not slice them very thin.
• Mean while ,boil the water by adding 1/2 tsp of salt for around 10 potatoes slices.
• Make sure that the water quantity should be enough for the slices and they should submerge in the water.
• When the water comes to a rolling boil with bubbles.
• Turn off the heat and set the water container a side.
• Now add the sufficient slices in to this salt water and cover it for about 10  minutes.
• Then drain all the water .
• Arrange the plastic sheet in the sun.Spread the potato slices and arrange the slice separately inorder not to be crowded.(This takes little time to arrange)
• This makes us to have individually when fried in oil without sticking the slices more than one.
• Let them dry in the sun and get them back in the evening time and check them if is dried completely in 1 day no need to dry them in the Next day.
• Once it was completely dried remove carefully the dried Chips and store them in an Air-Tight Container.
• Home Made Sun dried Potato Chips are ready!!!

These chips can be served by frying them in few seconds and can eat them whenever we want .

How to Cook them:

• Heat a pan with sufficient oil for the chips.
• Add a few dried chips ,take care not to be crowded.
• Fry them and it would take only a few seconds to fry.
• Take them in to a paper towel.
• Sprinkle some salt and the Chili powder on the fried chips.
• Serve it along with the meals or eat them as a snack.
• Enjoy it!!

Saggubiyyam Vadiyaalu

These are also one kind of Chips prepared mostly by Mothers & Grandmothers especially during the summer season in India.Its easy and almost a one day preparation and can eat it whenever we need.

When the grandkids arrive the Grandparents places for the summer Vaccation,they will enjoy a lot of food items prepared by their Lovely Grandmas!!When the Sumer Season starts,Everyone will concentrate to first to Prepare Vadiyalu and used to dry them for atleast 2to 3 days in the sun.Very interesting ,and even I used to help my Mother in my Child-hood by pouring the batter and spreading it on the sheet in the balcony or terrace where it can dried up quickly.

When my mom ask me to bring back the sheet of these Vadiyaalu in the evening,I used to test with my hand and eat it.Its tastes gud spicy and Smooth before it gets completely dried.So friends,People living in the US can aslo easily prepare these Chips and dry it and can store it and ready to fry whenever you need and can eat them along with rice as a side item or as a evening snack.I am posting these recipe by knowing it from My Loving Mother.Hope you can try and taste them!!

Ingredients:

• Saggubiyyam/Sago pearls/Tapioca-1cup
• Water-6cups
• Buttermilk-1 cup(optional)
• Cumin seeds-1/4tsp
• Greenchilies-3no
• Ginger-1/2 inch
• Oil-2tsp(optional)
• Salt to taste

Things Needed:

• Plain Plastic Sheet /Washed Cloth (Colored sheet may stick color to the Vadiyalu after drying)

Preparation:

• Firstly take a blender or in a grinding stone ,add the green chillies,cumin seeds,salt and ginger to make a paste.
• Keep this aside.
• Now in alarge vessel,wash the Tapioca under water twice.
• Drain the water and set them a side.
• Now add the water in a vessel ,heat water till it reaches to boil.
• Now add the washed tapioca and boil it.
• While boiling add the  oil and grounded ginger,chilli,paste and mix well.
• Cook on medium flame stirring frequently,inorder to avoid the sticking to the bottom of the vessel.
• Boil until you see the Saggubiyyam like soft and transparent stage.(Add buttermilk at this stage)
• Stir with the spoon in the middle of the cook.
• Add more water ,if you want the vadiyalu to be more flakey.
• While the mixture is hot,start pouring the mixture using a laddle on to a Plastic Sheet/Cloth .
• Allow it to dry completely in the red hot sun.
• Dry them till the vadiyalu comes out from the Cover/Cloth by themselves.
• Collect the dried Vadiyalu and store it in an air-tight container and fry it whenever u need!!
• Enjoy them along with Dal rice or with sambar.

Note:

• If the mixture becomes thicky while pouring on a sheet/Cloth,by adding the hot water can make it loose.
• Adding of Cumin &chillipaste ,the Vadiyalu appears in brown color.
• You can also add 1 cup of buttermilk at the end of boiling .This makes to get the Vadiyalu to appear in White color.
• Check the salt when water starts boiling and do not add excess salt.This may tastes too salty after frying vadiyaalu.