Sunday, September 16, 2012

Drumstick Curry

Ingredients:
  1. Drumsticts - 3 (cut as shown)
  2. Potatoes - 2 (cut as shown)
  3. Ginger garlic paste - 1 sp
  4. Green peas - ½ cup
  5. Tomatoes - 3 (chopped)
  6. Red chilli powder - 2 sps
  7. Turmeric powder - ½ sp
  8. Daniya powder - 1 sp
  9. Onion - 1(chopped)
  10. Karipatha leaves
  11. Fresh coriander leaves
  12. Cooking oil - 2tbsps
  13. Rai and jeera - 1 sp
  14. Salt as per ur taste.

Method:
  1. Heat oil in a pan. Add rai and jeera. Now add onions and karipatha leaves.
  2. Fry till the onions are cooked. Then add potato pieces and ginger garlic paste.
  3. Fry for 3 or 4 mins. Add green peas and drum stick pieces. Fry for 3 more mins.
  4. Add red chilli powder, turmeric powder, daniya powder and salt. Fry for 2 more mins.
  5. Now add chopped tomatoes. Fry for 5 to 6 mins till the tomatoes are cooked.
  6. 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.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Mix Vegetable Upma

Ingredients:
  1. Semolina (Rava) - 1cup(roasted )
  2. Onion - 1 (sliced)
  3. Green chilli - 2 (sliced)
  4. French Beans - 4 sps
  5. Ginger - 1sp (grated)
  6. Carrot - 1(grated)
  7. Green peas - ½ cup
  8. Karipatha leaves
  9. Fresh coriander leaves
  10. Rai - ½ sp
  11. Jeera - ½ sp
  12. Chanadal - ½ sp
  13. Kaju - optional 
  14. Cooking oil - 4 tbsps
  15. Salt as per ur taste.

Method:
  1. In a pan, heat oil. Add rai, jeera, chanadal and kaju. Fry till they change their colour slightly.
  2. Now add sliced onion, green chilli, ginger and karipatha. Fry them 3 to 4 mins.
  3. Add all the vegetables and fry them for 5 mins. Add 2 cups of water and salt as per ur taste.
  4. Bring this a boil. Now reduce the flame and slowly add semolina (rava).
  5. Finally garnish with fresh coriander leaves.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Coriander Vadi

Ingredients:
  1. Kothimir (Fresh Coriander leaves) -1 big blow (finely chopped)
  2. Besan - 2 small cups (chana dal powder)
  3. Wheat flour - 1 small cup
  4. Rice flour - ½ cup
  5. Ajwani- ½ sp
  6. Thill- ¼ sp
  7. Cooking soda - 2 pinchs
  8. Onion -2 (finely chopped)
  9. Cooking oil - for deep frying
  10. Red chilli powder - 2sps
  11. Turmeric powder - ½ sp
  12. Daniya powder - 1sp
  13. Jeera powder - ½ sp
  14. Garam masala powder - ¼ sp
  15. Sump powder - ½ sp
  16. Salt as per ur taste.

Method:
  1. Mix all the above ingredients together in a bowl with water (as shown).
  2. Pressure cook the above mixture for 20 mins.
  3. Cut into cubes as shown.
  4. 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.
  5. Very innovative snack item is ready to be ravished :)

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Rice Kheer

Ingredients:
  1. Raw rice - less than ½ cup (soaked in cup of water)
  2. Milk - ½ liter
  3. Sugar - ½ cup or as per ur taste
  4. Cardamom powder - 2 pinchs
  5. Dry fruits - as u wish (or as shown)
  6. Ghee -1tsp

Method:
  1. In a thick pan boil some milk. Add soaked rice with water to the milk.
  2. Boil the mixture till the rice is cooked. Keep on mixing with a spoon constantly.
  3. Now when the rice is cooked add sugar and cardamom powder.
  4. Again boil for few mins and then switch off the stove.
  5. In another pan, heat ghee and fry dry fruits in it as shown.
  6. Mix these dry fruits with the kheer. Easy and simple sweet dish is ready to serve.