Newspaper Craft

While tidying up the house, I needed some boxes and bowls to arrange the materials neatly, instead of buying a new container, I made this bowl using news paper. It came out beautifully than I expected. We can keep dry and lightweight things in this. Let us start with the easy and beautiful newspaper bowl.

Materials required:

1. News paper
2. Balloon
3. Fevicol
4. Punching machine 
5. Paint

Method:

      1) Cut the newspaper into small rectangle pieces

       2) Mix Fevicol with water.

       3) Dip paper pieces into fevicol and water mixture and stick on to balloon(start from half)

        4) Make it 4-5 layers. Once done keep it for dry. After it is dried completely (it turns hard)
            pin the balloon. Slowly it gets separated from the paper.  

         5) Now mark with pencil and cut the edges into required shape

          4) Make holes on the sides using punching machine

          5) Once done you can paint this bowl with your favorite color. I used 'Acrylic paints'.

Jackfruit Recipie (Gatti)

   Ingredients:
   
   Jackfruit 1 Cup
   Rice 1 Cup 
   Jaggery 1/2 Cup
   Coconut handful
   Teak wood leaves (it gives pinkish color) or Banana leaf


  Method:

 1) Soak the rice overnight( I used unpolished rice here for more taste)

 2) Grind rice, jaggery, coconut and jackfruit all together without water. Consistency will be
      thicker than idli batter.

3) Spread the cleaned leaf and pour batter on half portion of the leaf as shown in the picture.

4) Fold the leaf vertically

5) Steam this in idli vessel or steamer for 20 minutes.

6) Open lid 10 minutes after switching of the stow. Teak leaf turns to pinkish color after cooking.

 7) Serve hot with ghee

 

Palak Dosa

Palak Dosa

Ingredients:

Palak 1 bunch
Rice 1 cup

Wheat flour 1 cup

Ginger 1 inch

Green chili 1-2

Salt as required

Carrot, onion and coriander for toppings


Cooking method:

1)   Soak rice for minimum 1 hour to overnight

2)   Wash and saute palak for few minutes until it turns soft .

3)   Mix and grind palak, soaked rice, ginger and green chili.

4)   Mix  wheat flour to this mixture.

5)   Spread on tava and sprinkle carrot, onion and coriander.

6)   It can also be made like 'Neer dosa', so that it turns more crispy and thinner.

 

Palak Bath

Palak Bath

Ingredients:

Palak 1 bunch
Mint leaves Handful
Mutter half cup
Beetroot half (small)
Rice 2 cups( I used ordinary sona masuri rice)
Onion 1 big
Ginger 1 inch
Garlic 6-8 cloves

Black pepper 10-15
Salt as required


Garam masala 1 spoon
coriander powder 1 spoon
Turmeric powder 1/2 spoon

Bay Leaf 1
Cinnamon 6-7
Cloves 4-5
Star Anise 1
Cumin seeds 1 spoon
Cooking oil 1-2 spoons

Cooking method:

1)   Fry all the spices till the aroma comes.

2)   Fry onion till it turns brown.
3)   Mix ginger garlic and pepper coarsely grinded paste, fry till the row smell goes.

4)   Add palak puree, mutter, pudina and beetroot. Let it get cooked for 2 minutes.

5)   Add washed rice and fry for one minute.

6)   Now add 3 cups of water, salt and close the lid, wait for 3 whistles.( for basumathi rice 2 whistles and 2 cups water would be enough)

7) Serve hot