Nalla Kharam Podi

Ingredients:-

Red chillies 50 gms

Coriander seeds 50 gms

Jeera one table spoon

Tamarind ---a lemon sized

Salt to taste

Garlic flakes--four

Oil--one table spoon

Method

First fry the red chillies in a little oil and put them asid

Then in the same remaining oil fry the coriander seeds, then the jeera and lastly the garlic flakes

Clean the tamarind (without washing

Lauki Chutney

Ingredients:-
One small lauki (or sorakai in telugu)
Red chillies to taste
One table spoon of seseme seeds (white til ) roasted
One table spoon of peanuts roasted
One big spoon of channa dal
One spoon of Udad dal
Half a table spoon of mustard seeds
A 1/4 spoon of hing
a 1/4 spoon of haldi
4-5 fenugreek (methi) seeds
Lemon sized tamarind, soaked and water squeezed of it--should be thick
Salt as per taste
Two tablespoons of oil

Method:-
Grate the lauki and squeeze out the water from it.and keep it aside
Take a pan, pour the oil into it and when hot, lower the flame to medium first put the channa dal, then the udad dal, then mustard seeds and lastly red chillies and methi seeds.
Add haldi and hing to the oil
In a mixi grind the fried dals and chillies to a fine powder, add the til seeds and the peanuts to it.
Grind all that together and lastly add the grated lauki---add salt and tamarind paste to it
Seasoning:-
In a pan pour a little oil and add some mustard seeds, one red chillie broken to bits and a pinch of hing and curry leaves
Pour that on the chutney
Enjoy !!!

cabbage kheer

Ingredients:-
One medium sized white cabbage
Two tablespoons of pure ghee or if health conscious, then take olive oil
Two cups of thick milk
Two cups of sugar
A handful of Kashew nuts
A handful of raisins
A handful of soaked almonds
3-5 cardamoms
Any other dry nuts

Method:-
Cut the cabbage into thin slivers
Take the ghee/oil and fry the kashews, raisins, and almonds in it
Fry the cabbage too in the ghee
Take the thick milk and boil the fried cabbage in it till soft
Add sugar to it
Put the ground ilachi powder in it
Stir well
Garnish the kheer with the roasted nuts and raisins