Simple and Delicious !

Pazham nirachathu / Banana stuffed with a sweet mixture of coconut,egg and sugar is another Malabar dish, usually served during iftar (nombu thurakkal / breaking time of Ramadan fasting) or for guests. Preparing this dish was a challenge for me all the time. Making slits on the banana (4 or 2 ) without cutting the ends , stuffing them and deep frying the whole banana in oil was little bit difficult. I always ended up, making only 1 or 2 slits(it is enough ) and shallow fried.. :)



Pazham nirachathu / Stuffed bananas Ingredients
Bananas ripe 2
egg 1
cashew nuts few
raisins few
coconut grated 1 Tbsp
sugar 1 Tbsp
maida 2 Tbsps
cardomam powder 1 pinch optional
water

Easy Cookies for beginners from a beginner.. :) These cookies tasted like the tiny yellow egg biscuits that available in bakeries of Kerala.

Ingredients
Maida / All purpose flour 1 1/2 cups
sugar 3/4 cup
baking powder 1 tsp
vanilla 1/2 tsp
pure ghee 2 Tbsp
salt 1 pinch
egg 1



Method
Beat / blend sugar and ghee. Add egg and blend it again. Add the remaining ingredients and make a dough. If you find the flour is not enough (too soft to form dough), add little more spoons. This depends on the size of the egg used. Keep the prepared dough in the fridge. Better keep it overnight. Preheat oven for 15 minutes.
Take the dough out . Make small balls and press it between palms.(Or use a cookie cutter).Let them have 1/4 inch thickness. Grease baking sheet with little oil, place the prepared cookies on it, bake it for 15 minutes in 180 degrees. Check and if the bottom side is slightly brown take it out and let it cool..

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Banana fritters / Pazham Pori
Bananas - ripe / nenthrappazham 2
atta / whole wheat powder 3/4 cup
rice powder 1/4 cup
egg 1 optional
sugar 2 tsp
water
oil

Cut banana into three equal pieces. Chop each piece ( length wise ) into three equal pieces. Make a thick batter mixing all the ingredients above. Dip banana pieces in this and shallow fry in oil.



Dates fritters / Eithappazham Porichathu
Dates / eithappazham 15
cashew nuts or almonds 15
atta / wheat flour 3/4 cup
rice powder 1/4 cup
sugar 2 teaspoons
water
oil

Roast cashew nuts in little ghee. Or apply little ghee on cashew nuts and microwave it for few seconds.

Make a slit on one side of the date. Remove the seed through that. Replace a cashew nut or badam instead of the seed. Join the side by pressing gently. Do this for all the dates and cashews. Make a thick batter using water, atta, rice flour and sugar.
Heat oil. Dip the dates in the batter and deep fry them. you can fry 4 or 5 together. Let them not to stick to one another.
You can use maida instead of atta. Adding egg will make the banana fritters more crispy. I haven't tried egg for frying dates.
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How to prepare
Banana 1
ghee 1 table spoon
sugar little

Chop banana into thin pieces.Heat ghee in a pan. Fry banana pieces in this till golden brown. Flip over and fry the other side too.Remove from fire, sprinkle little sugar and serve hot.



For making this, chop bananas into small pieces and fry in ghee. Break an egg after the sides of banana slices are fried well. Stir well till the egg is cooked. Sprinkle little sugar and cardamom powder over it. Remove from fire. Serve hot.

Ingredients and Method
Unakka payar/ Red cow peas 1 cup cooked well
Jaggery 1 block
coconut grated 2 table spoons

Pound or chop jaggery.
Mix everything together. Should mix very well. You have to add little salt while cooking dry red beans. You can make this with cherupayar / Moong Gram also. This is a highly nutritious and a very simple snack.

Ingredients
Bananas (ripe) 3 medium
Coconut grated 3 table spoons
Cashew nuts few
Raisins few
Ghee 2 tsp
Cardamom powder ¼ tsp
Sugar 1 table spoon
Oil for frying

How to prepare
Cook banana in little water or steam cook it. Let it cool. Peel, remove black seeds. Mash it very well .

Heat ghee, fry cashew nuts and raisins. Add coconut, cardamom powder and sugar. Stir for a while. Remove from fire.

Apply little oil on palms. Take a little from the mashed banana and make a ball. Press between palms. Put 2 teaspoons of the above ghee fried preparation in this.(It depends on the amount of banana you take). Close it by joining edges. Roll in the shape of unnakkai with hands. Deep fry in oil. You can fry them after you shaped all the unnaikkais. Don’t choose over ripe bananas for this.

Ingredients
Bread slices 3
Milk or Coconut milk ½ cup
Egg 1
Sugar 1 table spoon or as desired
Cardamom 1 crushed
Oil or ghee for frying

How to prepare
Break egg into a bowl. Add milk, sugar and crushed cardamom. Mix very well. Chop the sides of bread slices and cut into triangle shape. Heat two tea spoons oil or ghee in a non stick pan. Dip bread slices in the above mixture and fry. Turn when one side is brown. Fry other side. Takes only few seconds.