RIDGE GOURD CURRY WITH MILK RECIPE (BEERAKAYA PAALU POSINA KURA)

    Ridge gourd curry is a simple, healthy and quick recipe which can be made in minutes.It is a delicious curry that has a slight sweet flavor because of milk,which goes well with roti's and steamed white rice.

Note:While chopping ridge gourd don't forget to taste a piece because some ridge gourd's taste bitter in taste.If we use that our curry will be spoiled.

    We can use ridge gourd peel to make chutney.It tastes great.serves 2 persons

Health benefits

• Rich in fiber
• Promotes weight loss
• Protects lever function
• Enhances vision

Ingredients

• Ridge gourd 2 medium sized finely chopped
• Half cup boiled milk
• cumin seeds
• mustard seeds
• Turmeric powder 1 tsp
• Green chili's 3
• Onion 1 medium sized
• Salt as per taste
• Red chili powder
• Curry leaves(optional)
• Coriander leaves

Steps to be followed

1. Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds,mustard seeds & curry leaves let them splatter.

2. Add green chili's, onions, turmeric powder stir fry them for about 2 minutes.

3. Add  Ridge gourd pieces to it. 

4.Add salt, red chili powder, cover it with lid.stir in between put it on medium flame for about 3 minutes.

5.Add creamy milk to it. 

6.Add coriander leaves.and switch off the stove.

PAINTING OF GIRL PLAYING WITH FIRE FLY'S IN THE FOREST

    Today let's draw a painting of a small girl playing with fire fly's in the forest.

    In the dark night she is enjoying herself in the beauty of the nature watching the twinkling light's of the fire fly's.

   

Thing's required 

• Drawing sheet
• Fine art painting brushes
• Masking tape
• acrylic paint's(lemon yellow, sap green, orange, Persian blue, cobalt blue, black,white, violet, yellow ocher,burnt umber)
• A piece of sponge
• Jar of water
• Tissue (waste cloth)

Step's to paint

1.Take a drawing sheet and stick the masking tape to the boundaries.

2.Take cobalt blue, sap green and yellow ocher color paint the back ground. 

3.Take Persian blue color dip the sponge in it and paint the forest by taping it.

4.Mix white,green,yellow draw the grass as shown.

5.Draw the trees with black and blue mixed with white color.

6.Take the fan brush and draw the bushes,grass with blue violet,yellow color's.

7.Draw the out line of the girl.

8.Paint the frock with white and white mixed with blue.

9.Paint the hands and legs with white mix with yellow ocher.

10.Paint the girl's hair with burnt umber,white and yellow ocher.

11.Paint the girl's tiara with black,white and violet.

12.Paint the lantern with black ,white, yellow ocher.

13.Paint the fire fly's with yellow and orange. Twinkle's with white color.

14.Remove the masking tape and our beautiful painting of a girl with fire fly's in the forest is ready.

BANANA FLOWER WITH MOONG DAL CURRY RECIPE (ARATI PUVVU PESARAPAPPU KURA RECIPE)

 Banana flower is an edible flower that blossoms in a banana plant. The inner petals also called as bracts are edible part's, It's starchy and bitter in taste.

    The Banana flower has a deep magenta color covering which is peeled as layers.The entire banana plant is very useful,the shoot, leaves, fruits,flower are used for cooking.

    My grandmother planted 4 banana trees in our garden and the bananas are big in size, tasted as sweet as honey.Instead of plates we used to eat in banana leaves.

Benefits of Banana flower

• Cures infection's
• Improves kidney function
• Overcoming diabetes and anemia
• Improves lactation
• Helps in menstrual problems and weight loss
• Rich source of vitamin and minerals
• Reduces neural disorders
• Treats stomach and digestive problems
  

Ingredients 

• Banana flower
• Moong Dal 1/2 cup (soaked)
• Green chili's 3
• Onion 1 medium sized
• Ginger (finely chopped)
• Garlic cloves 5
• Red dry chill's
• cumin seeds 1 tsp
• mustard seeds 1 tsp
• curry leaves
• Turmeric 1 tsp
• Red chilli powder
• Salt as per taste
• Oil 3 tbsp
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• Tamarind small piece
• water for boiling
• 1/4 cup of butter milk

Cleaning banana flower

Steps to be followed 

•  Apply cooking oil to your hands, so sap wont stick to your hands even though it is not harmful but takes some time to get ride off.
•  Wash the whole flower & gently peel off the outer bracts- Reddish leaf like portion.
  
•  Just pluck and gather all small flowers which is under the bracts. This can be done to certain limit only, then flower will be too tiny to pluck so leave the cone part.
•  Hold the flower between forefinger, middle finger and thumb. this position will be easy to remove petal & stamen.
•  Carefully open each flower or blossom, you can see the plastic textured petal & a hard stamen which must be snapped and removed entirely from the base. These parts cannot be cooked even in tender stage.
•  Discard the petal & hard stamen and collect all the soft flower.
  
  
  
• Can be stored in zip lock for later use in refrigerator.

 Before preparing banana flower for any dishes.

• Take 2 cups of water or required water and add 1/4 cup of buttermilk or 2 tbsp of curd to it and keep it aside.
• Chop the cleaned plantain flower and the cone in to desire size & immediately immerse the flower into the buttermilk water to avoid oxidation.
• Soak it for 1/2 hour.
• Drain & Squeeze the excess water & keep it ready to prepare the dish.

 PREPARATIONS

1. Boil the banana flower for 10 minutes adding little tamarind. keep aside.
   
2. Heat oil in a pan add cumin,mustard seeds,red chillis,curry leaves. let them splutter fry it for a minute.
   
3. Add green chillis, onion,garlic cloves, ginger, turmeric and toss them untill onions turn to pink color.
   
4. Add Banana blossom to it and saute it for a minute.Now add moong dal,lemon, salt and cover it with a lid.
   
5. Cook it for 10 minutes in a low flame. until it gets soft, Stir in between.
6. Add red chilli powder and garnish with coriander leaves (optinal)
   
7. Serve hot with steamed rice or roti's