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.

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 :)

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.

Pumpkin Curry

Ingredients:

1. Red pumpkin- ¼ kg (cut into cubes)
2. Onion-1 ( chopped )
3. Rai- ½ sp
4. Jeera- ½ sp
5. Hing -1 pinch
6. Red chilli powder- ½ sp
7. Turmeric powder- ¼ sp
8. Karipatha -5 to 6 leaves
9. Fresh coriander leaves
10. Cooking oil -1tbsp
11. Salt as per ur taste.

Method:

1. In a pan heat oil. Add rai, jeera, hing and fry them for ½ min.
2. Then add onions and katipatha fry them for 2 mins or till the onions are cooked.
3. Add pumpkin, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt.
4. Fry for 1 min and close the lid for 5 mins and continue to burn in a low flame.
5. That’s it easy & simple curry is ready. Best with roti & dal batti. Also can be quickly prepared for your child's lunchbox.