MUSHROOM SOUP....

Mushrooms are consumed for their nutritional and medicinal value. They are easily found in markets.Button
mushroom is the most common variety of mushroom consumed all over the world.The white button mushroom is sold as fresh mushroom or is canned and used for soups, sauces and other food products.

I am using fresh button mushroom for my soup, Its very tasty and easily can be made at home.

Ingredients
200 gm fresh button mushroom finely chopped
25 gm butter
one small onion finely chopped
one small potato chopped
parsley
2 cup milk
pepper
4 pod of garlic
2 tsp cornflour

Method

1. Melt half the butter in a pan and add half of the onions, garlic, 1/4 mushrooms, potato and gently fry until soft but not coloured. Keep it aside ,after it cools down grind it into a paste.

2. Again take the remaining butter in a pan, melt it. Add the remaining onions and mushrooms and fry until soft.

3.Add the ground paste and milk into the pan. stir it and add salt to taste.

4.Mix the corn flour in 1cup water. Add this to the pan.If soup is thick u can add little water or milk.

5. Cook till it comes to a boil. Add the pepper.

6. Garnish with parsley if desired.

Yummy delicious soup is ready.

TASTY IDLI

Idli is an ideal south indian breakfast and is famous all over India. It is light and nutritious and can be eaten by people of any age. Even doctors recommend this when one is sick as it is easily digested. Making Idlis is not at all difficult but preparing the batter takes a lot of time as it has to be fermented. Rice and urad dal are the main ingredients which goes into preparing idlis. 

INGREDIENTS

Ponni boiled rice 2 cups

Black gram(urad dal) 1 cup

fenugreek 2 tsp

salt

METHOD

Rice and urad dal(black gram) and fenugreek are separately soaked in water for atleast  6 hours, then it is separately  ground and then they are mixed together  ,salt is added to the batter. First batter for urad dal has to be ground with fenugreek, it should be in thick consistency, as it grinds the urad dal rises, take it out and put in a vessel..Add the rice in the grinder and it should be aslo ground in thick consistency, it should not be ground fine, take it out and put with urad dal batter. Then it is fermented for atleast 7 to 8 hrs. 

Then the batter is poured into special idli vessels after greasing them with oil and are steamed for 10 minutes in rice cooker. Butter knife is used to remove the idlis. This can be served with sambar, chutney and in chutney there are lot of varieties.

I love idilis and like to eat when ever I am hungry . Long time back people used to use mortar and pestle to grind idilis ,it was a tough job. After the invention of grinders it is very easy to make idli batter. As this recipe was limited to south india , after the grinders it has become one of the most popular recipe in whole of India.