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Elanji
Evening snack

Loveletter | Elanji | Evening snack

Evening snacks are mandatory in my home from childhood. My mom used to prepare snacks for evening before I reaches home from school. Amazingly, my brother also followed my own tradition of having Evening snacks. I prefer easy and simple sweet snacks along with tea or coffee. The snacks should also be made with minimum ingredients so that all the ladies in the kitchen does not spent their whole time in the kitchen. I am here with a recipe of loveletter or Elanji which is most common in Northern parts of Kerala. This recipe occupies a space in your kids tiffin box as well. Here scraped coconut is rolled in a crepe. Do try this snack and let me know who all are craving for it.

Ingredients:

1.For Batter :

  • Egg – 1
  • All purpose flour/ Whole wheat flour – 2 cup
  • Water – 1 3/4 cup
  • Salt – 1/4 tspn
  • Sugar – 1/2 tspn

2.For filling :

  • Grated coconut- 1 3/4 cup
  • Sugar – 5 tbspn (as per your taste)
  • Cardamom powder – 1/4 tspn

Ghee – 1/2 tspn

Oil – 1 tspn

Method of preparation:

  • Heat a kadai and add ghee
  • Add Scraped Coconut and sugar to it
  • Mix well
  • Add cardamom powder
  • Switch off the flame when the sugar melts
  • Keep it aside in a bowl to cool
  • Mix all the ingredients mentioned under batter,to form a smooth batter without forming lumps(dosa batter consistency)
  • I had used All purpose flour
  • Heat a pan and brush little oil
  • Pour one big ladle of batter and roll like dosa
  • Cook both sides without changing the colour of crepe
  • Put 2 or 3 tablespoon of filling in each crepe and roll it
  • After rolling,put it again on the pan and turn it
  • Serve hot.

Unniyappam
Evening snack

Easy Unniyappam

This is a special and instant unniyappam recipe which do not have jaggery in it. Instead of Jaggery,I had used sugar. This special unniyappam is a small round snack made from flours, banana, sugar and cardamom powder. This is a super delicious evening snack which does not take much time to prepare. So, you can easily prepare for your kids who are way back from their schools.

Ingredients:

  • Whole wheat flour – 1/2 cup
  • All purpose flour- 1 cup
  • Rice powder – 2 tbsp
  • Semolina/Rava – 2 tbsp
  • Banana – 6
  • Sugar – 1/2 cup
  • Cardamom- 1/2 tspn
  • Grated coconut- 1/2 cup
  • Water – 3/4 cup
  • Oil – to fry

Method of preparation:

  • Cut the bananas into pieces and blend it using a mixer grinder
  • Transfer the banana paste to a bowl
  • Add all the remaining ingredients to the bowl
  • Mix well everything
  • Heat oil in a pan
  • Take out one spoon of batter and with another spoon detach the batter to the oil
  • Similarly add 5 to 6 spoons of batter
  • Adjust the flame to medium and flip the appam when the colour changes to brown
  • Transfer the unniyappam to a plate when the colour becomes golden brown
  • Serve hot with tea

Banana Fritters
Evening snack

Banana Fritters

From my childhood memories, one of the best thing coming up in my mind is having hot banana fritters and tea while coming back home from school in the evening. My mom used to prepare this snack almost every weeks. There are different ways to prepare this snack. The difference is in the preparation of batter. These are the perfect ways to use the ripe bananas before they go bad. Serve this lovely crispy treat to your family.

Banana fritters

Ingredients:

Banana – 4 no.

All purpose flour – 1 cup

Whole wheat flour – 1/4 cup

Rice flour- 1 tbspn

Sugar – 3 tbsp

Salt – 1/4 tspn

Turmeric powder- small pinch

Cumin seeds – small pinch

Water – 1.5 cup

Oil – to fry

Method of preparation:

  • Take a bowl and add all purpose flour,rice flour and whole wheat flour
  • To the bowl add sugĺar,salt,turmeric powder and cumin seed
  • Add 1.5 cups of water and mix well
  • Batter should not be too loose or too thick(should be thicker than dosa batter)
  • Taste and add sugar if needed
  • Peel and cut the banana into six slices
  • Heat oil in a kadai
  • Dip each banana slice in the batter one by one
  • Add 3 to 4 banana slices to the kadai
  • Fry the banana slice till both sides become crispy and golden brown
  • Transfer these banana slices to a tissue so that the excess oil is removed
  • Serve hot along with tea

Some things to note,

  • Oil should be hot before adding the banana slices
  • Batter consistency should not be too loose
  • Flame should be medium,else bananas will burn
Honey Chilli Potato
Evening snack

Honey Chilli Potato

First let’s see the ingredients for this preparation.

Ingredients:

2 medium sized potatoes chopped

Onion – 1

Capsicum- 1/2

Green chilli -2

Ginger – 1 tspn

Garlic- 1 tspn

Tomato sauce – 1 tspn

Chilli sauce- 1 tspn

Soya sauce – 1 tspn

Vinegar- 1 tspn

Cornflour – 3 tspn

Water – 1/2 cup

Pepper powder- 1/4 tspn

Salt – as per required

Oil – to fry

Preparation:

1.Boil the chopped potatoes by adding salt to the water

2.Marinate the boiled potatoes with 2 tspn of cornflour and 1/4 tspn of pepper powder

3.Mix it and keep aside for 15 min

4.Double fry the potatoes

5.Take a pan and add 2 tspn of oil

6.Add ginger,garlic and green chillies

7.Add chopped onion and capsicum.Saute well

8.Add 1 tspn tomato sauce,1 tspn chilli sauce, 2 tspn soya sauce and 1 tspn of vinegar

9.Add 1 tbsp of cornflour in half cup of water

10.Add 2 tbsp of Honey

11.Also,add salt as per your taste

12.Mix the fried potatoes to the prepared sauce mix

13.Saute well and our Honey chilli potato is almost ready

14.Garnish it with Sesame seeds or coriander leaves

Evening snack

Biscuit Treat

First let’s see the ingredients for this preparation.

Ingredients :

For fillings :

  • Cabbage- 2 tbsp
  • Carrot – 2 tbsp
  • Capsicum- 1 tbsp
  • Coriander leaves – 1 tspn
  • Salt – as required
  • Pepper powder- 1/2 tspn
  • Soya sauce – 1 tspn

For White sauce :

  • Butter- 2 tspn
  • All purpose flour- 2 tspn
  • Milk – half cup
  • Chesse – 2 tspn

Any salt biscuit- 8

Preparation:

  • Take a pan and add 2 tbsp of oil
  • Add the vegetables one by one
  • Add salt,pepper and soya sauce
  • Saute it and cook
  • Take another pan and add 2 tspn of butter
  • Add 2 tspn of All purpose flour to it
  • Saute well till it reaches golden brown
  • Add milk and cheese to it
  • Saute till the mix becomes a creamy sauce
  • Now add the cooked vegetables to prepared white sauce
  • With the help of a spoon,arrange the mix over the biscuits
  • Our tasty Biscuit Treat is ready
  • You can enjoy with Tomato sauce along with your evening tea.

Bon appetit. Hope you will enjoy this recipe!

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