Carrot Laddu

Ingredients:

• Carrots - 1/4 Kg
• Bombay Rava - 1/4 Kg
• Cashewnuts - 25 gm
• Badams - 25 gm
• Pista Nuts - 25 gm
• Coconut - 1
• Ghee - 4 Table spoons
• Sugar - 1/4 Kg - If required more based on your taste

Procedure:

• First of all wash and peel off carrots. Now grate them.
• In the same way, grate one full coconut.
• Heat pan and fry cashewnuts, badams and pista nuts without oil. Now grind them well into fine powder.
• Heat another pan with 4 table spoons of ghee and slightly fry bombay rava.
• Now take a bowl. Add grated carrot, grated coconut, slightly fried bombay rava, finely grounded nut powder and sugar. Mix all the ingredients well. Now make laddus with the mixture.

* Serve them once they get dried for sometime.
* Easy to prepare and very good and healthy snack for children.

Pepper Rice

Ingredients:

• Boiled rice (pressure cook the rice) - 2 cups
• Oil - 2 to 3 Tea spoons
• Ghee - 2 Tea spoons
• Mustard (ఆవాలు) - 1/2 tea spoon
• Urud Dal (ఉదిపప్పు) - 1/2 tea spoon
• Channa Dal (సెనగ బేదలు) - 1/2 tea spoon
• Jeera Seeds (జీలకర్ర) - 1/2 tea spoon
• Peanuts - 1 Table spoon Roasted
• Onions - 2 - Large - Finely chopped
• Curry Leaves - 2 stems
• Red dry chillies - 2 
• Green chillies - 2
• Pepper Powder - 3 Tea spoons
• Garlic - 4 pieces pounded
• Salt - To taste
• Coriander - For garnishing

Procedure:

• Heat oil and ghee in a pan. Add mustard, urud dal, Channa dal, jeera seeds and peanuts. Fry them till the mustard pops down.
• Now add red dry chillies, green chillies, pounded garlic, Onions, curry leaves. Fry them till the onions become transparent.
• Now add salt and pepper powder to the mixture. Fry them for 2 seconds.
• Now add 2 cups of boiled rice and mix the total ingredients well on a low flame.
• Finally garnish with chopped coriander and serve it hot.

* Very easy to prepare.
* No side dish required.
* Will be little spicy, since we are adding pepper powder.

Lemon Rice

Ingredients:

• Boiled rice (pressure cook the rice) - 2 cups
• Oil - 2 to 3 Tea spoons
• Lemon - 1 - Big
• Turmeric Powder - 1/2 Tea spoon
• Mustard (ఆవాలు) - 1/2 tea spoon
• Urud Dal (ఉదిపప్పు) - 1/2 tea spoon
• Channa Dal (సెనగ బేదలు) - 1/2 tea spoon
• Jeera Seeds (జీలకర్ర) - 1/2 tea spoon
• Peanuts - 1 Table spoon Roasted
• Curry Leaves - 2 stems
• Red dry chillies - 2 
• Green chillies - 2
• Salt - To taste
• Coriander - For garnishing
• Methi Powder - 1/4 Tea spoon
• Inguva - A pinch
• Multigrain Powder - 3 Tea spoons

Method to prepare Multigrain Powder:

• Take all kind of grains (such as kandhi pappu, pesara pappu, udhi pappu, pachi senaga pappu) in equal parts and fry them separately without oil.
• Now fry 1 to 2 tea spoons of jeera seeds, dry chillies (based on taste - minimum of 3), curry leaves (1 to 3 stems), Nuvvulu (1 tea spoon) altogether separately.
• Now grind them altogether and make as fine powder. Salt shouldn't be added so that the powder can be preserved.
• Can be used for Bittergaurd fry, potato fry etc. based on your taste

Method:

• Take boiled rice in a bowl and mix with the juice of one lemon and put it aside.
• Now heat oil in a pan. Add mustard, urud dal, channa dal, jeera seeds and peanuts. Fry them till the mustard pops down.
• Now add red dry chillies, green chillies, curry leaves, methi powder, inguva and turmeric powder. Fry them for a while and now add the rice (which has been mixed with lemon juice already). 
• Now add salt and mutigrain powder and mix all the ingredients on a low flame.
• Finally garnish with coriander and serve.

* Side dish is optional.
* Tastes good with groundnut chutney and potato fry.

Multi Flour Chapathi

Ingredients:

• Wheat Flour - 3 Table spoons
• Maida Flour - 2 Table spoons
• Rice Flour - 2 Table spoons
• Ragi Flour - 2 Table spoons
• Oats Flour - 1 Table spoon - Grind oats into fine powder
• Roasted Peanut powder - 2 Table spoons
• Salt - To taste
• Chilli Powder - To taste
• Onions - 2 - Large - Finely Chopped
• Green Chillies - 4 to 5 - Finely chopped - Capsicum can be used instead of chillies
• Curry leaves - 1 stem - (Optional)
• Oil - 2 to 3 tea spoons - Used while making dough

Procedure:

• Mix all the flours, Roasted peanut powder, Chopped onions, Chopped green chillies, chilli powder and curry leaves with water, salt and 3 tea spoons of oil.
• Make it soft and smooth like a chapathi dough.
• Leave the dough aside for 15 to 25 minutes.
• Heat a pan, now prepare the entire dough into chapathis and fry them pouring little oil on both sides.
• Serve hot with ginger chutney or tomato chutney or pudina chutney, based on your choice.
• Tastes good with tomato ketchup as well.

* Very healthy breakfast as well as snack.
* We can take this for dinner occasionally, instead of having normal chapathi.
* Children will like it and can be sent in their lunch boxes.