Ingredients:
- Lima beans - 2 cups
- Onion - 1 (big chopped)
- Tomatoes - 2 (big chopped)
- Karipatha leaves
- Ginger and garlic paste - 1 sp
- Jeera - 1 sp
- Red chilli powder - 2 sps
- Turmeric powder - ½ sp
- Daniya powder - 1 sp
- Crushed groundnut powder - 3 tbsps
- Cooking oil - 2 tbsps
- Salt as per taste
- Fresh Coriander leaves for garnishing
- In a deep pan heat oil and jeera. After a min, add chopped onions and karipatha.
- Fry for 3 to 4 mins. Add ginger and garlic paste. Fry till the onions become brown.
- Now add Lima beans, salt and turmeric powder. Fry for approx.5 mins.
- Now add red chill ipowder and dhaniya powder. Fry for 2 mins.
- Add chopped tomatoes. Fry till the tomatoes are cooked.
- Add water approx. 2 glasses. Close the lid and let it cook in a low heat for 20 mins.
- Then now add crushed groundnut powder. Let it boil for 4 to 5 mins.
- Garnish it with fresh coriander leaves. Serve it with roti/naan.
Ingredients:
- Boiled and mashed potatoes - 3
- Capsicum - 1 (chopped)
- Carrot - 1 or 2 (grated)
- Green peas - boiled and mashed slightly - ½ cup (optional)
- Onion - 2 (chopped)
- Fresh coriander leaves (optional)
- Red chilli powder - 1 sp/green chilli finely chopped
- Salt to taste
- Boiled eggs - 3 (one egg should cut in to 4pieces)
- Butter as req.
- Bread as req.
- Cheese spread as req. (optional)
- Pudina chutney (pudina, garlic, green chilli and salt blend together)
- Mix together all the veggies above. i.e, boiled potatoes, capsicum, carrot, green peas, onion, coriander leaves, red chilli powder and salt. (As shown)
- On a bread slice spread "cheese spread"/pudina chutney, or else directly place the boiled potatoes mixture. (as shown)
- Now place 2 pieces of cut boiled eggs between the bread slices.
- Toast this in a sandwich toaster or tawa (pan). Enjoy with Maggie tomato sauce.
Ingredients:
- Whole garam masala - as shown
- Onion - 1 (sliced)
- Green chilli - 2 or 3 (sliced)
- Pudina leaves (as shown)
- Green pea - ½ cup
- Potato - 1 (cut in to cubes)
- Ginger garlic paste - 1 sp
- Rice - 2 cup
- Mugh dal - 1 cup (roasted)
- Cooking oil - 2 tbsps
- Ghee - 2 tbsps
- Salt to taste
Method:
- Roast mugh dal in a pan.
- Wash the rice and roasted mugh dal and soak in water for half an hour.
- Meanwhile in a thick bottom pan/pressure cooker heat some oil.
- Add whole garam-masala and fry for 1 min. Now add sliced onion and green chilli.
- Add pudina leaves and ginger and garlic paste. Fry till the onions become golden brown.
- Now add cut potato cubes and green peas. (U can even add carrot and other veggies if needed)
- Fry them for 5 mins. And add washed rice and mughdal. Add water in 1:2 ratio. And salt to ur taste.
- Cook till the rice is done. Best with curd and pickle.
Ingredients:
- Capsicum - ¼ kg
- Onion and tomatoes paste - (2 onion and 2 tomatoes)
- Goundnut - ½ cup
- Red chilli powder - 2 to 3 sps
- Turmeric powder - ½ sp
- Dhaniya powder - 1 sp
- Salt to taste
- Garlic flakes - 8
- Cooking oil - 2 tbsp
Method:
- Blend the following ingredients to powder - groundnut, Red chilli powder, Turmeric powder, Dhaniya powder, Salt, Garlic flakes (As shown)
- Wash and cut capsicum as shown.
- Stuff the above powder into the capsicum (as shown).
- Heat oil in a pan and place the capsicum in the pan. Close the lid and cook in a low flame.
- In another pan, pour the onion and tomatoes paste and fry for 10 mins; all the time mixing it with a spoon.
- Once the paste is cooked well, add some spices like red chilli powder, daniya powder and salt. Fry for 2 more mins.
- Now mix the onion and tomato paste with the capsicum. Mix it very gently.
- Goes very well with roti and rice.
Ingredients:
- Binjal - ¼ kg
- Putana dal - ½ cup
- Jeera powder - 1 sp
- Daniya powder - 1 sp
- Red chilli powder - 1 sp
- Garlic flakes - 10 to 12
- Salt to taste
- Cooking oil - 2 to 3 tbsps
Method:
- Cut brinjal from 2 sides (half-cut) as shown for stuffing.
- Blend all the above ingredients to powder; except binjal and cooking oil. (as shown)
- Stuff the putanan dal powder in to the brinjals as shown.
- In a pan, heat oil and place the brinjal pieces. (As shown)
- Close the lid and cook it on a low flame till the brinjals are cooked. If req. add 1 to 2 sps of oil.
- Great combination with dal rice/sambar rice.
Ingredients:
- Basmati rice - 2 cups
- Onion - 1 big (sliced)
- Green chilli - 2 (sliced)
- Fresh Pudina leaves (mint leaves)
- Carrot - 3 sps (chopped)
- Green peas - ½ cup
- French beans - 3 sps
- Ginger and garlic paste - 1 sp
- Lemon - 3 sps
- Kaju (optional)
- Cooking oil - 4 tbsps
- Gram masala, sajeera - 1 sp, lavang - 4 cloves, dalchini - 4 sticks, elachi - 3.
- Milk - 2 cups
- Salt as per ur taste.
Method:
- Heat oil in a pan and add all the garam masala’s and kaju.
- Now add onion, green chilli and pudina leaves. Fry them till the onions are cooked.
- Add all the vegetables and fry for 5 mins (as shown).
- In a rice cooker/pressure cooker mix rice and fried vegetables.
- Pour milk, water and lemon juice. (measure as shown or based on your experience).
- Add salt as per ur taste. Cook till the rice is fully cooked (as shown).
Ingredients:
- Vaal dal - 1 cup
- Onion and karipatha (as shown)
- Khus khus, thill and coconut (blend together in to paste)
- Jeera - 1 sp
- Turmeric powder - ½ sp
- Red chilli powder - 3 sps (as per urtaste)
- Daniya powder - 1 sp
- Garammasala powder - ¼ sp
- Fresh coriander leaves
- Cooking oil - 2 tbsps
- Salt as per taste
Method:
- In a pressure cooker heat oil. Add jeera and fry for 1 min.
- Add onion and karipatha. Fry them for 3 to 4 mins.
- Now add the coconut paste and turmeric powder. Fry till the oil separates.
- Now add vaal dal. Fry it for 2 mins. Now add red chilli powder, daniya powder, garam masala powder and salt. Fry for 2 more mins.
- Now pour 1 glass of water and cook for only 10 mins in the pressure cooker.
- Garnish it with fresh coriander leaves and serve with roti /rice.
Ingredients:
- Paneer - ¼ kg (cut as shown)
- Mushroom - 4 to 5 (boiled and cut as shown)
- Carrot - 1 (cut as shown)
- Green peas - 3 to 4 sps
- Onion - 1 (chopped as shown)
- Karipatha leaves
- Coconut and khus khus (blend to paste)
- Red chilli powder - 2 sps
- Daniya powder - 1 sp
- Turmeric powder - ½ sp
- Garam masala powder - ¼ sp
- Cooking oil - 1 tbsp
- Salt as per ur taste
- Fresh coriander leaves
Method:
- In a pan heat oil. Add onion and karipatha fry them for 2 mins. Add mushroom, carrot and turmeric powder. Fry them for 3 to 4 mins.
- Add green peas fry for 2 mins.
- Now add coconut and khus khus paste. Nicely fry for 5 to 7 mins.(till the oil seperates)
- Add red chilli powder, daniya powder and garam masla powder fry for 1mins.
- Add 1 glass of water (or more as per ur wish). Bring the whole curry to boil.
- Add paneer cubes boil the curry for 5 to 8 mins.
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
- Best combination with pulav, roti or naans.
Ingredients:
- Gavar - ¼ kg (cut as shown) (boil with a ½ sp of turmeric powder and req. salt)
- Thurdal - 1 cup (semi-cook dal with a pinch of turmeric powder and a pinch of hing)
- Onion - 1 (sliced as shown)
- Garlic - 5 to 6 (slightly mashed)
- Rai, jeera and red chilli take as shown (for tadka)
- Cooking oil - 2 tbsps
Method:
- Heat oil in a pan and add rai, jeera and red chilli. Fry them for 1 min.
- Add onion and garlic. Fry for 5 mins. Add the cooked gavar and boil it for 2 mins and add semi cooked dal.
- Cook for 5 mins and serve it hot with roti or plain rice.
Ingredients:
- French beans - ½ kg
- Onion - 2 (sliced)
- Garlic - 6 to 7 flakes (slightly mashed) as shown
- Karipatha
- Rai, jeera and red chilli (as shown)
- Chanadal - optional 1 tbsp
- Gound nut - optional 1 tbsp
- Cooking oil - 3 tbsps
- Turmeric powder - ½ sp
- Hing - 2 pinchs
- Salt as per ur taste
Method:
- Heat oil in a pan and add all the tadka stuff. As shown fry for 2 mins.
- Now add onion and karipatha. Fry till the onion become slightly brown.
- Then add beans and some salt. Fry for 2 mins.
- Now add ½ a glass of water. Close the lid and cook till the beans become soft.
- Goes best with Roti. U can also add grated coconut in the end or crushed groundnut powder.
Ingredients:
- Wheat flour - 2 cups
- Jowar flour - 1 cup
- Chanadal flour - ½ cup
- Bajari flour - ¼ or ½ cup (optional)
- Red chilli powder - 2sps
- Turmeric powder - ½ sp
- Daniya powder - 1sp
- Ajwani - 1sp
- Thill - 1sp
- Garlic flakes - 10 to 12 (mashed as shown)
- Salt as per ur taste
- Fresh coriander leaves (chopped)
- Cooking oil - as req.for deep fry
Method:
- Mix all the above ingredients into a puri dough, with the help of water and 2 sps of oil.
- RMake small balls of the dough and then roll them into puri-shape.
- Heat the oil and deep fry them as shown.
- Best suited for traveling and picnics :) Can be had without any curry or gravy.
Ingredients:
- Beetroot - 2 (chopped as shown)
- Carrot - 1 (chopped) optional
- Green chilli - 2 or 3 (as per ur taste)
- Karipatha
- Tamarind
- Dry daniya - 2 sp
- Jeera - 1 sp
- Chanadal - 1 sp
- Udit dal - 1 sp
- Garlic - 7 to 8 flakes
- Cooking oil - 2 tbsps
- Salt as per ur taste
Method:
- Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a pan. Add chanada, udit dal, jeera, daniya, green chilli, garlic one by one. Fry them till they are golden brown.
- Now add beetroot, carrot and karipatha. Fry them for 5 mins.
- Switch off the stove and let the mixture cool.
- Blend the above mixture by adding salt and tamarind.(the mixture need not be a smooth paste)
- If u wish then u can give tadka.
- For tadka - rai: ½ sp, jeera: ½ sp, chanadal: ½ sp, karipatha and kaju: 4 to 5 - in 1 sp of oil.
- Great combination with bread, roti, rice :)
Ingredients:
- Groundnut - 4 tbsps (crushed)
- Tamarind paste - 3 tbsps (soak in water and blend it)
- Turmeric powder - ¼ sp
- Daniya powder - ½ sp
- Jeera powder - ¼ sp
- Salt as per ur taste
Method:
- Mix all the above items (as shown) to prepare the masala paste.
- Wash the green chillies and slit them open. Remove all the seeds from it (this will reduce the spicyness of the mirchi)
- Stuff the above masala in the mirchi (as shown)
- In a bowl take 2 cups of chanadal flour, less than 1 cup of rice flour, cooking soda - 2 pinchs, red chilli powder - ½ sp, turmeric powder - ¼ sp, salt as per ur taste. Mix it well with water (as shown).
- Now dip one by one the stuffed mirchi in the batter and deep fry them in the oil (as shown).
- Serve with sliced onions and enjoy it hot:)
Ingredients:
- Chapathi (Roti) - 2 (tear into small pieces as shown)
- Onion - 1 big (or 2 small chopped)
- Karipatha
- Rai - 1 sp
- Jeera - 1 sp
- Groundnut - 2 sps
- Turmeric powder - ½ sp
- Red chilli powder - ½ sp (u can use greesn chilli chopped also)
- Cooking oil - 2 sps
- Salt as per ur taste
Method:
- Heat the oil in a pan. Add rai, jeera, groundnuts and karipatha. Fry for 2 mins.
- Add onions and fry till the onion are cooked. Add chapathi pieces, salt, red chilli powder and turmeric powder.
- Mix and fry for 2 mins and close the lid for 5 mins. Garnish with fresh coriander leaves and serve hot.
Ingredients:
- Ridgegourd-2 {peeled & cut in to pieces as shown }
- Chana dal - 1 small cup { soaked in water for ½ hr }
- Onion - 1
- Tomatoes - 2
- Red chilli powder-2sps
- Daniya powder - 1 sp
- Turmeric powder - ½ sp
- Ginger & garlic paste - ½ sp { not compulsory }
- Cooking oil - 2 tbsps
- Rai - 1 sp
- Jeera - 1 sp
- Karipatha - 5 to 6 leaves
- Fresh Coriander leaves for garnishing
- Salt as per ur taste.
Method:
- Pour oil in a pan and heat it. Then add rai & jeera, fry for ½ a min. Add cut onions & karipatha leaves and fry them till they change their colour.
- Add ginger/garlic paste if u wish or else add the ridgegourd pieces and soaked chana dal. Fry it for a min. Add red chilli powder, daniya powder, turmeric powder and then fry it for another ½ min. Add req. water (about 1 glass).
- Close a lid on the pan and keep the heat low. Let it cook for 10 mins.
- Remove in a serving blow, garnish with fresh coriander leaves. Simple & healthy home-made curry :) goes good with roti & plain rice.
Ingredients:
- Drumsticts - 3 (cut as shown)
- Potatoes - 2 (cut as shown)
- Ginger garlic paste - 1 sp
- Green peas - ½ cup
- Tomatoes - 3 (chopped)
- Red chilli powder - 2 sps
- Turmeric powder - ½ sp
- Daniya powder - 1 sp
- Onion - 1(chopped)
- Karipatha leaves
- Fresh coriander leaves
- Cooking oil - 2tbsps
- Rai and jeera - 1 sp
- Salt as per ur taste.
Method:
- Heat oil in a pan. Add rai and jeera. Now add onions and karipatha leaves.
- Fry till the onions are cooked. Then add potato pieces and ginger garlic paste.
- Fry for 3 or 4 mins. Add green peas and drum stick pieces. Fry for 3 more mins.
- Add red chilli powder, turmeric powder, daniya powder and salt. Fry for 2 more mins.
- Now add chopped tomatoes. Fry for 5 to 6 mins till the tomatoes are cooked.
- Add 1 glass of water and close the lid. Cook till the potato pieces and drumstick pieces are cooked. Add fresh coriander leaves to garnish and serve.
Ingredients:
- Semolina (Rava) - 1cup(roasted )
- Onion - 1 (sliced)
- Green chilli - 2 (sliced)
- French Beans - 4 sps
- Ginger - 1sp (grated)
- Carrot - 1(grated)
- Green peas - ½ cup
- Karipatha leaves
- Fresh coriander leaves
- Rai - ½ sp
- Jeera - ½ sp
- Chanadal - ½ sp
- Kaju - optional
- Cooking oil - 4 tbsps
- Salt as per ur taste.
Method:
- In a pan, heat oil. Add rai, jeera, chanadal and kaju. Fry till they change their colour slightly.
- Now add sliced onion, green chilli, ginger and karipatha. Fry them 3 to 4 mins.
- Add all the vegetables and fry them for 5 mins. Add 2 cups of water and salt as per ur taste.
- Bring this a boil. Now reduce the flame and slowly add semolina (rava).
- Finally garnish with fresh coriander leaves.
Ingredients:
- Kothimir (Fresh Coriander leaves) -1 big blow (finely chopped)
- Besan - 2 small cups (chana dal powder)
- Wheat flour - 1 small cup
- Rice flour - ½ cup
- Ajwani- ½ sp
- Thill- ¼ sp
- Cooking soda - 2 pinchs
- Onion -2 (finely chopped)
- Cooking oil - for deep frying
- Red chilli powder - 2sps
- Turmeric powder - ½ sp
- Daniya powder - 1sp
- Jeera powder - ½ sp
- Garam masala powder - ¼ sp
- Sump powder - ½ sp
- Salt as per ur taste.
Method:
- Mix all the above ingredients together in a bowl with water (as shown).
- Pressure cook the above mixture for 20 mins.
- Cut into cubes as shown.
- Heat oil and deep fry them as shown. You can keep the steamed mixture in the fridge for 2 day and fry them when req.
- Very innovative snack item is ready to be ravished :)
Ingredients:
- Raw rice - less than ½ cup (soaked in cup of water)
- Milk - ½ liter
- Sugar - ½ cup or as per ur taste
- Cardamom powder - 2 pinchs
- Dry fruits - as u wish (or as shown)
- Ghee -1tsp
Method:
- In a thick pan boil some milk. Add soaked rice with water to the milk.
- Boil the mixture till the rice is cooked. Keep on mixing with a spoon constantly.
- Now when the rice is cooked add sugar and cardamom powder.
- Again boil for few mins and then switch off the stove.
- In another pan, heat ghee and fry dry fruits in it as shown.
- Mix these dry fruits with the kheer. Easy and simple sweet dish is ready to serve.
Ingredients:
- Red pumpkin- ¼ kg (cut into cubes)
- Onion-1 ( chopped )
- Rai- ½ sp
- Jeera- ½ sp
- Hing -1 pinch
- Red chilli powder- ½ sp
- Turmeric powder- ¼ sp
- Karipatha -5 to 6 leaves
- Fresh coriander leaves
- Cooking oil -1tbsp
- Salt as per ur taste.
Method:
- In a pan heat oil. Add rai, jeera, hing and fry them for ½ min.
- Then add onions and katipatha fry them for 2 mins or till the onions are cooked.
- Add pumpkin, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt.
- Fry for 1 min and close the lid for 5 mins and continue to burn in a low flame.
- That’s it easy & simple curry is ready. Best with roti & dal batti. Also can be quickly prepared for your child's lunchbox.
Ingredients:
- Wheat - 1 kg
- Corn - 100 gms
- Powder the two above ingredients in a grinder until the flour is grainy like rava.
Method:
- In a bowl take required amount of batti mixture. Add 1 tbsp of cooking oil, 2 pinchs of turmeric powder, ¼ sp of ajwain, salt as per ur taste.
- Mix all of them together with req. water (as we mix for making rotis).
- Now make them into rolls as shown.
- Steam them as shown or in a pressure cooker.
- Cut them into pieces as shown.
- Deep fry those pieces in cooking oil. Ur healthy & tasty batti is ready now.
- This goes well with Dal Fry and Jaggery.
Ingredients:
- Dosa mixture - 1cup
- Chanadal- ¼ cup (soaked in water for 1 hr)
- Carrot- ¼ cup (grated)
- Capsicum - 1(sliced)
- Onion- 1(chopped finely)
- Tomato - 1 (chopped finely)
- Fresh coriander leaves
- Salt as per ur taste
- Ghee or cooking oil
Method:
- Mix all the above ingredients into the dosa mixture as shown.
- Heat the pan; pour one big round sp of mixture in the middle of the pan. Spread it gently.
- On medium heat fry both the sides of uttapam as shown.
- U can also use this same mixture to make steam uttapam pokodas as shown.
Ingredients:
- Aloo-2 cups (boiled and grated)
- Onion-1 (finely chopped)
- Carrot- ½ cup (grated)
- Kasurimethi - 1sp
- Ajvani-2pinch
- Amchu powder- ½ sp
- Turmeric powder- ¼ sp
- Red chilli powder- ½ sp
- Fresh coriander leaves
- Salt to taste
- For stuffing: Mix all the above ingredients together (as shown).
- Butter or ghee - as required to fry the paratha.
- Wheat flour - 3cups (mix the flour with water)
Method:
- Take some dough, press it into the size of a puri, place 1 sp of potato stuffing and fold it as shown.
- Press and roll that into paratha. Heat the pan. Fry this paratha with ghee or butter as shown.
- Tasty and mouth watering Aloo Paratha is ready to serve.
Ingredients:
- White bread - 1 packet
- Milk - ½ liter
- Sugar-2cups or according to ur taste
- Cardamom powder - ½ sp
- Dry fruits as per wish
- Cooking oil or ghee (for deep fry)
Method:
- First boil milk in a pan. Around ½ liter of milk should reduce to half due to the boiling.
- In a different pan, boil 2 cups of water and add sugar and cardamom powder. Boil for 10 mins.
- Meanwhile deep fry the bread pieces till they are golden brown in colour.
- Take all these fried bread pieces in a bowl and add the boiled milk and also the sugar syrup.
- Mix it well and garnish with fried dry fruits (as shown). Famous Hyderabadi sweet is ready to serve :)
Ingredients:
- Poha-1cup
- Onion-1
- Green chilli-2
- Groundnuts-2sps
- Rai & jeera-1sp
- Turmeric powder-1/2sp
- Karipath-7 to 8 leaves
- Cooking oil-2tbsps
- Lemon- 1/2
- Salt to taste
- Fresh Coriander leaves
Method:
- In a pan heat oil. Add rai, jeera and groundnuts. Fry them for 1 min.
- Add chopped onions, green chilli, turmeric powder and karipatha. Fry them till the onions are cooked.
- Meanwhile soak poha in water for 3 to 4 mins and then drain the water out.
- Now add poha to the fried onions. Add salt and mix well.
- Close the lid for 3 to 4 mins. Add fresh coriander.
- Take poha in a serving plate, add few drops of lemon juice and sprinkling of shev.
- Simple and light breakfast is ready to serve .
Ingredients:
- Marie biscuit - 1 packet
- Powdered Sugar - less than ½ glass (as per ur taste)
- Walnuts - 7 to 8 (finely chopped)
- Fresh cream - 2 to 3 tbsps
- Coffee powder-2 pinches (mix in 1 tbsp of milk as shown)
Method:
- Blend biscuits in a mixer as shown (they should NOT be finely powdered).
- Add fresh cream 2 tbsps, sugar and coffee mixed milk.
- Mix all together and make long rolls as shown (if req. add remaining cream too).
- In a plate, spread the chopped walnut and roll these rolls on them very gently.
- Put this into a freezer (fridge) for 1 hr. They will return hard and then u can cut them into pieces as shown.
- U can store this sweet in the refrigerator (freezer) for more than 20 days.
Ingredients:
- Pudina-1cup
- Fresh coriander leaves- ½ cup
- Green chilli-2
- Salt - ½ sp
- Blend the above ingredients into paste.
- Rice-2cups(washed and soaked for at least ½ an hr.)
- Onion-1 (sliced)
- Green chilli-2(sliced)
- Sweet corn- ½ cup
- Green peas- ¼ cup
- Potatoes-2 (cut in to cubes as shown)
- Pudina leaves-10 to 12
- Garam masala-as shown
- Gingergarlic paste-1sp
- Lemon juice-3sps
- Turmeric powder- ½ sp
- Cooking oil- 3tbsps
- Ghee-3tbsps
Method:
- In a pan, heat oil and ghee. Add garam masala, sliced onions, green chilli. Fry them for 5 mins.
- Add ginger garlic paste. Fry for 3 mins. Add sweet corn, green peas, potato pieces and turmeric powder. Fry for another 5 mins.
- Now pour the pudina paste into the pan. Fry till the oil separates. Turn off the stove now.
- In a rice cooker (or pressure cooker) mix rice and the above prepared mixture.
- The water level should be as shown in the picture or as per ur measurement.
- Cook till the rice is prepared and ready to eat.