Health for life

Am running from today onwards with an another super interesting theme for this weeks blogging marathon,do you want to know about the theme?? its Tea Kadai Menu, Tea kadai or tea stall have their important place in India and you can find them in every corner of the streets in most of the cities and villages. Its a place where peoples from village or city enjoy their cup of tea with snacks and have their routine discussions about cinema news, gossips,politics likewise. Seriously tea kadais are the ancestors of todays coffee shops.

Whenever we go to our grandmas village which is near to Tindivanam, our relative from my grandmas village who owns his tea stall in a main road between Tindivanam and Villupuram, never forget to serve his famous tea during our stay in the village bus stop as the bus service to our grandmas place are limited. The smell of fried masal vadais from his tea kadai,oh my god i cant forget it even today . When i picked this theme i know ill be making tea kadai style masal vadai coz this theme makes me nostalgic. The masal vadai am posting today is completely a village style masal vadai where most of the ingredients are grinded together and fried as vadais with chopped onions and curry leaves. Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#30.



2cups Channadal
2nos Dry red chillies
2nos Green chillies
1tsp Ginger
4nos Garlic cloves
1tsp Fennel seeds
2nos Onions (finely chopped)
Few curry leaves
Oil for deep frying
Coriander leaves (chopped & optional)

Soak the channadal for 3hours. Drain the water and keep aside.

Take the soaked channadal,ginger,garlic cloves,dry red chillies,green chillies,fennel seeds with salt in a mixie jar and grind as bit coarse paste.

Now add the chopped onions and curry leaves, mix everything well and make medium sized balls from it.

Heat the oil for deep frying, take a ball,flatten them in medium sized patties.

Drop them to the hot oil, fry on both side until they turns crispy and golden brown.

Drain the excess of oil with a paper towel.

Serve with a cup of tea or coffee.

As i told earlier,am running three days of blogging marathon with tea kadai menu as my theme for this weeks blogging marathon . For my todays post,am posting this famous tea kadai butter biscuits, i cant imagine a tea stall without these super buttery melt in mouth biscuits. In my earlier post, i have told few words about my relatives tea stall na, he will always have this butter biscuits in that famous huge tea kadai bottle. Whenever my maternal uncle or my grandma make a visit to our home, they will definitely come home with these butter biscuits which they never failed to bought them from that relatives tea kadai.

Butter biscuits dipped in warm tea or coffee, have you ever had this. I dont have words to say how delicious this coffee dipped butter biscuits will tastes. If you have never tried this, dont forget to make some butter biscuits at home and enjoy with a warm coffee or tea, am sure you will know the taste of this incredible pair.
Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#30.Sending this biscuits to Gurus Giveaway - Kids Special.



1cup All purpose flour
1/4cup Sugar
a pinch Salt
1/2cup Unsalted softened butter

Sieve the flour with salt and take it in a mixing bowl.

Powder the sugar, whisk together the softened butter and powdered sugar to make a creamy paste.

Now add the flour to the butter, knead as a soft stiff dough.

Roll the dough as a medium size log and wrap it in a plastic cling film,place it in fridge for an hour.

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Remove the chilled dough from fridge, cut them as 1/4inch thickness.

Arrange over a baking sheet line over a baking tray with enough space in between,with a toothpick poke the center of the cookie dough.

Bake them for 10-12minutes.

Let the cookies cool completely and store them in an air tightened box.

Serve with coffee or tea.