Today's Recipe: Kinnathappam – Easy Steamed Rice Cake

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Ingredients

• 1 cup periyar rice flour (the type we use for making appam)
• 1 cup thick coconut milk
• 3/4 cup sugar
• salt
• 1/2 tsp cardamon powder
• cashew nuts (optional)
• jeera (optional)
• ghee / butter for greasing

Instructions

• Mix the rice flour, coconut milk, sugar and a pinch of salt. The batter should be watery.
• Taste and add more sugar if needed. Keep aside for 15 minutes.
• Grease a cake tin with butter or ghee and pour in the batter.
• Steam it for 5 minutes. Then put the cashew nuts / jeera onto the kinnathappam and again steam for 15 minutes.
• Serve with tea.

Today's Periyar Recipe - Avil Payasam

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Ingredients

1. Periyar Rice Flakes - 1/4 cup
2. Jaggery -1/4 cup
3. Milk - 2 1/2 cups (boiled)
4. Ghee - 2 1/2 tsp
5. Cashew nuts -5-6
6. Cardamom powder -1/4 tsp
7. Saffron -2-3 strands
8. Raisins - 8-10

Preparation

• Heat a teaspoon of ghee in a pan and fry raisins and cashew nuts separately. Keep it aside.
• Soak saffron strands in a tbsp of milk and keep it aside.
• If jaggery has impurities, dissolve it in little water (less than 1/4 cup) and filter it.

Method

• Heat ghee in a pan, add Periyar Rice Flakes and fry till it changes color.
• Add boiled milk to the aval, simmer and cook till milk reduces a little. Simultaneously aval will also become soft.
• Then add jaggery, cardamom powder, saffron, mix well and switch off the flame immediately.
• Garnish with cashew nuts and raisin and serve hot or cold.

Periyar Rice
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Marottichode, Kalady - 683547, Ernakulam, Kerala

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CONTACT US

Chirackal Agro Mills
Marottichode, Kalady - 683547, Ernakulum, Kerala

Ph : 0484 2463508, 2463751, 2460412, 2461263
Fax : 0484 2465009
Mobile : 9526177753

E-mail : mail@periyarrice.com
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CONTACT US :

Chirackal Agro Mills
Marottichode, Kalady - 683547, Ernakulum, Kerala

Ph : 0484 2463508, 2463751, 2460412, 2461263
Fax : 0484 2465009
Mobile : 9526177753

E-mail : mail@periyarrice.com
Website : www.periyarrice.com

Health benefits of Onion

• The phytochemicals in onions improve the working of Vitamin C in the body, thus gifting you with improved immunity.
• Onions contain chromium, which assists in regulating blood sugar.
• For centuries, onions have been used to reduce inflammation and heal infections.
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Periyar Rice
Chirackal Agro Mills
Marottichode, Kalady - 683547, Ernakulam, Kerala

Ph : 0484 2463508, 2463751, 2460412, 2461263
Fax : 0484 2465009
Mobile : 9526177753

E-mail : mail@periyarrice.com
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Periyar Rice

Chirackal Agro Mills
Marottichode, Kalady - 683547, Ernakulum, Kerala

Ph : 0484 2463508, 2463751, 2460412, 2461263
Fax : 0484 2465009
Mobile : 9526177753

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• Onion is Latin for ‘large pearl’.
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Periyar Rice
Chirackal Agro Mills
Marottichode, Kalady - 683547, Ernakulam, Kerala

Ph: 0484 2463508, 2463751, 2460412, 2461263
Fax : 0484 2465009
Mobile : 9526177753

E-mail : mail@periyarrice.com
Website : www.periyarrice.com

Today's Periyar Special - Neer Dosa

 “Break the fast like a king, have a lunch like a prince and dine like a poor person”

Easy Breakfast Recipe - Neer Dosa
Ingredients
Raw rice - 1 1/2 cups
Fresh coconut - 2 tbsps, grated
Salt to taste
Oil to grease pan

Method

• Wash and soak rice for at least 3-4 hours.
• Drain the water and grind the rice along with the grated coconut to a fine paste adding water as required.
• Add salt to taste and mix well.
• Grease an iron tawa and heat it on high flame.
• Place a lid over the pan and cook on medium high flame for approx a minute.
• The dosa will remain white and not brown. So do not overcook it.
• Remove from pan, place on a serving plate and serve the neer dosa with chutney of your choice, egg curry or chicken curry.

Happy Cooking!..

Periyar Rice
Chirackal Agro Mills
Marottichode, Kalady - 683547, Ernakulam, Kerala

Ph: 0484 2463508, 2463751, 2460412, 2461263
Fax:0484 2465009
Mobile:9526177753

E-mail : mail@periyarrice.com
Website : www.periyarrice.com

Did You Know these Cooking Tips?

• If you dip an onion in scalding hot water before peeling, it won’t cause your eyes to water.
• Bread will stay fresher longer with a celery stalk placed inside the bread bag.
• When microwaving baked potatoes, stick 3-4 toothpicks into one of the long sides of the potato before placing it in the microwave. --Stand it on the toothpicks and it will cook more evenly.
• If you just need a few drops of lemon juice, prick a fresh lemon with a fork and squeeze out the juice you need. Seal the skin with butter and return the lemon to the refrigerator.
• To brown chicken in the microwave, coat it with butter (not margarine — it’s the milk solids in butter that brown), then soy sauce, and paprika.

Periyar Rice
Chirackal Agro Mills
Marottichode, Kalady - 683547, Ernakulam, Kerala

Ph : 0484 2463508, 2463751, 2460412, 2461263
Fax : 0484 2465009
Mobile : 9526177753

E-mail : mail@periyarrice.com

Website : www.periyarrice.com