Beet Root Rice

My daughter like my pink (Beet root) rice.
Requirements:
Boiled Basmati Rice - 2 Cups
Beet Root -1 Cup(finely cut or grated)
Onion -1/4 cup (cut lengthwise)
Green Chili -1 no
Bay leaf - 1 no
Clove -2 no
Turmeric Powder -1/4 tsp
Red chili powder 1/2 tsp
Garam masala -1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil or Ghee for frying

For Grinding:
Cumin seed - 1/4 tsp
Whole Black Pepper - 1/2 tsp
Grated coconut -1/4 Cup

For Seasoning :
Mustard seeds, Urad dal, curry leaves and a pinch of hing.

Procedure:

• Heat ghee in a frying pan. Once it hot do the seasoning with mustard seeds, Urad dal, hing, bay leaf, clove and curry leaves.
• Saute the onions and green chili.
• Then add all the masalas like turmeric, red chili powder, garam masala and salt .
• Once the raw smell disappears add the grated beet root. If you chopped the beet root pressure cook for 10 minutes before adding. stir it well.
• Grind cumin seeds, Black Pepper and grated coconut without water. Add this grind mixture to the above beet root masala and fry until the raw smell of the coconut disappears.
• Once everything cooked well , mix the cooked rice thoroughly. Check the salt and garnish with coriander leaves.
• Delicious hot Pink rice is ready for school lunch.

Sweet Poori

Very tasty and yummy snack for all ages.

Ingredients:

For Dough:

All Purpose Flour - 1cup
Baking soda- a pinch
Salt to taste
Oil and water

For Icing:

Fried Chenna dal - 1/4cup
Icing sugar -1/4cup
Cardamom -2 pods

• In a large mixing bowl put all the requirements and start knead the flour with water and oil. Make it like poori dough. Keep it aside for an hour.

• Grind all the above icing ingredients together in a blender and keep it aside for spreading.

• Take small amount of the dough and press it like round with rolling bin. It should be very thin. Using cookie cutter cut small poori circles.

• Heat oil in the frying pan. Deep frying these poori. Make sure to poke the pooris with fork before frying.

• Take the fried poori's from the pan and spread them individually on a plate or large bowl. Immediately spread the icing powder so that the sweetness sticks to the poori.

Here hot and sweet poori is ready to eat.