Homemade Mozarella Cheese sauce

Ingredients:

1- 1.5 cups whole milk
1/4 cup unsalted butter
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 - 3 tb grated Mozzarella cheese
Pinch of nutmeg powder
Pinch of black pepper
Salt

Method

1. Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat; whisk flour into butter until smooth.
2. Pour milk little at a time into butter mixture and stir with a wooden spoon to combine. Make sure all the lumps are removed.
3. Cook and stir until mixture thickens, about 3 minutes. Add cheese and stir until cheese is melted about 3 minutes.
4. Lastly season with salt, pepper and nutmeg powder.

Note: You can use this as a dip for cooked cauliflower and broccholi

 

Banana Bonda (Banana Kueh)

Ingredients

Plain flour
A pinch of baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
Some bananas (I used 3)
5 tb red sugar

Method:

1. In a bowl, add bananas and mash well using fingers.
2. Add salt, red sugar, baking soda and some plain flour and mix them well.
3. Use a spoon and deep fry them in oil under medium heat.

 

Methu Vadai

Ingredients

1) Urad dhal
2) 1 tsp ginger garlic
3) Salt
4) Coriander leaves chopped
5) Curry leaves chopped
6) Onions finely chopped (about 2 as per to your taste)
7) 2 green chilli finely chopped

Method:

1) Soak urad dhal about 5 hours. Take the dhal removing as much water as possible from the water - dhal mixture. Grind the urad dhal adding little water. The paste should be a smooth paste and should float on water.
2) Add the ginger garlic paste to the urd dhal batter. Mix well
3) Add coriader leaves, curry leaves, onions and green chilli and mix well.
4) Deep fry them.

Note: The above is courtesy of my mom's recipe. I use ginger paste only excluding garlic. With garlic, the vadai acquires extra flavour.