18 November 2015

RAVA ONION DOSA







Ingredients:
  1. 1 cup Rice flour 
  2. I/2 cup semolina (Rava) 
  3. 1 tbspn plain flour ( maida)
  4. 1 tspn cumin seeds 
  5. crushed black pepper 
  6. 1 Green chilli -finely chopped   
  7. 2 cups water ( batter should be thin consistensy)
  8. salt  
  9.  1 finely chopped Onion
  10. Butter or Ghee

Procedure                                                                                                                                                

  1. Add all Ingredients from 1-7 and mix well.
  2. Add salt as per taste
  3. Heat the tawa/ dosa pan on medium flame
  4. Add a little butter or ghee and spread chopped onion on the pan
  5. Now pour the batter over the pan starting on the edges first and then slowly pouring over in the miidle. The dosa will have some pores which will make it look  like a lace.
  6. If the batter is thick add some water and keep mixing every time you make a dosa.
  7. Allow it to cook till the colour changes evenly at teh bottom., sprinkle oil/butter if needed.
  8. Once evenly cooked remove the dosa from the pan and serve with  sambhar and coconut chutney.

VEGETABLE KHORMA



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Ingredients

  1. 2 cups chopped boiled vegetable (carrot, green peas, caulflower, brocolli, sweetcorn, potatoes etc)
  2. 1 tbspn oil
  3. 1 tspn mustard seeds
  4. 1 onion chopped
  5. 3-4 curry leaves
  6. 1/2 cup coconut grated( fresh/ frozen)
  7. 1/4 tspn turmeric,
  8. 1 1/2 tspn kashmiri chilly powder (1/2 tspn if want less  pungent)
  9. 1 tspn garam masala
  10. 1 clove garlic
  11. 3- 4 cashew nut
  12. a small ball of tamarind
  13. 1 /2 inch ginger chopped( use 1 tspn ginger powder)
  14. 1 inch cinnamon stick
  15. 3 cloves
  16. 1 cardomon
  17. 4 peppercorn
  18. 1 tbpn coriander seeds
  19. 1/2 tspn cumin seeds
  20. 4 methi seeds
  21. 1/2 tspn Aniseeds (badishep)
  22. 1/2 tspn poppy seeds (kuskus)
  23. 1 mace
  24. 1 bay leaf
  25. coriander leaves
  26. salt
  27.  
Procedure
  1. In a grinder add all the ingredients from 6- 24 and grind to paste adding a little water.
  2. In a pan add oil , mustard seeds and curry leave and fry until it pops.
  3. Now fry the chopped onion till it is golden brown
  4. Add vegetables and fry for few minutes.
  5. Add the ground paste and salt to the vegetables and let it boil until the veggies are thoroughly cooked.
  6. Add coriander leaves to garnish
  7. Serve hot with bread or roti.

12 August 2013

CHOLE MASALA


Ingredients:
  1. Boiled Chickpea/chole 2 cups (soak overnight and boil the next day)
  2. 2 large onions chopped
  3. 1 tomato chopped
  4. 1 tbspn ginger garlic paste( 2 clove garlic minced and 2 cm ginger chopped)
  5. 1 tspn chole masala powder( I used everest)
  6. 1 tspn chilly powder
  7. 1/4th tspn turmeric powder
  8. 1/2 tspn garam masala( whole spice powder)
  9. 1/2 tspn fennel seeds(badixep)
  10.  1-2 tbspn oil
  11. 1/2 inch piece Cinnamon 
  12. 2 Cloves 
  13. 4 peppercorns
  14. 1 Bayleaf
  15. 1 tspn salt ( as per your taste)
  16. 1/4th tspn sugar
  17. 2 tbspn coriander leaves chopped

Procedure:
  1. Add oil in a pan and saute 3/4th of onions, ginger garlic paste til transparent or slightly brown
  2. Add tomato and cook till it softens
  3. Add turmeric, chilly powder, garam masala, chole masala powder, fennel seeds, and cook for 2 min.
  4. Now once they cool , grind the above ingredients to a paste
  5. In the same pan add oil again fry cinnamon, bay leaf, pepper and cloves
  6. Add 1/4th of chopped onion and saute till golden brown.
  7. add boiled chickpeas and mix well
  8. Add the paste into this and allow it to boil( add a little water if required)
  9. add salt and sugar
  10. once cooked add chopped coriander leaves to garnish
  11. Serve hot with batura, puri, roti, naan, buns, bread or rice.

31 May 2013

CHEEESE PASTA



Ingredients
  1. 1 small onion chopped
  2. 1 garlic minced(optional)
  3. 1 tspn 0regano (as per taste)
  4. 1/2 cup milk
  5. 1 cup pasta
  6. salt
  7. sugar
  8. 1 tbspn plain flour
  9. boiled green peas( can use other veggies too)
  10. 1/2 cup soft cheese or grated cubed cheese
  11. tomato catch up(optional for people wanting tangy flavour)
  12. 1/2 tspn pepper as per taste
Procedure
  1. Boil the pasta untill just cooked or as per packet instruction and keep aside.
  2. In a pan add butter and fry the onions till translucent and keep aside
  3. Add milk in the pan and bring to boil
  4. To that add plain flour and stir til it thickens up
  5. Add  grated cheese salt and sugar and keep stirring till it thickens. (I usually add more sure as I like it sweet).
  6. now add oregano pepper, fried onions and simmer for sometime
  7.  Add green peas and pasta, mix well
  8. for tangy flavor add tomato catch up and mix well...
  9. serve hot sprinkling with grated cheese and some parsley/coriander

30 May 2013

MUSHROOM XACUTI


Ingredients
  1. 1 tbspn oil
  2. 1 cup grated coconut
  3. 2 cloves
  4. 1 inch cinnamon stick
  5. 4 peppercorn
  6. 2 tspn coriander seeds
  7. 1 petal star anise deseeded
  8. 1/4 tspn fennel seeds
  9. 1 mace
  10.  a pinch of nutmeg powder
  11. 1/2 tspn chilly powder
  12. 1/2 tspn turmeric powder
  13. 1 green chilly chopped
  14. 1 clove gralic crushed
  15. salt to taste
  16. 1/4 tspn sugar
  17. 1 small onion 
  18. 1/2-1 cup coconut milk
  19.  2 cups mushrooms
  20. coriander leaves to garnish 

Procedure
  1.   Fry or roast all the above ingredient from 1-14( till coconut becomes golden brown)
  2. Once they cool add onion ,garlic and a little water. Grind it to fine paste.
  3. In a utensil add mushrooms(chopped if too big) and coconut milk and boil til mushrooms are half cooked
  4. to this add the ground paste, salt and sugar and cook till the paste is cooked.
  5. garnish with coriander and serve with rice bread rotis etc.

PALAK PANEER





Ingredients
  1.  Fresh Spinach 2 bunch
  2. 1 tbspn Oil
  3. 2-3 cloves,
  4. 2 inch stick cinnamon
  5. 2-3 cardamons
  6. 1 Onions chopped
  7. salt to taste
  8. 1 clove garlic
  9. 1-2 green chillies chopped
  10. 1-2 tbspn Ginger Garlic paste
  11. 1 Tomato chopped
  12. 1 tspn  Red Chilly powder
  13. 1/4-1/2 tspn Turmeric powder
  14. 1 tspn Cumin powder
  15. 1 tbspn Coriander powder
  16. 1tspn fenugreek leaves crushed to powder
  17. Cream 3 tbspn
  18. 1 cup paneer cubes


Procedure:
 
  1.  Boil Spinach till it cooks it for at least 5-10 mins.
  2. Once cooked drain water and add in mixer/grinder and make a paste and keep aside.
  3. add oil in a pan and fry all the whole garam masala till aroma comes of spices.
  4. Now add onions, salt, crushed garlic, ginger garlic paste and green chillies and fry till onion becomes brown.
  5. Add tomatoes and allow it to cook till the tomatoes are mashed
  6. Add all the powder(chilly,cumin, coriander, turmeric) and cook for 2 min
  7. Into this pan now add the spinach paste and allow it to cook on low- medium flame till the colour kind of get changed of the spinach. 
  8. add fenugreek leaves by crushing it into this and cook for another 5 min.
  9. now add cream (optional) and paneer cubes and simmer for another 5 min.
  10.  Serve this dish with chapati roti nan bread rice.

07 March 2013

EGG FRIED RICE


Ingredients
  1.  1 Tbsp oil
  2.  3 medium spring onions sliced or chopped
  3. 2 green chillies chopped
  4. 2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
  5. 1 capsicum (long thin slices)
  6. 1 small carrot cut into thin rectangles
  7. 1/2 cup  cabbage chopped..
  8. 4-5 eggs scrambled
  9. leaves of spring onions finely chopped
  10. 1 tsp pepper powder
  11. soya sauce
  12. chilly sauce
  13. salt to taste
  14. azinamoto (optional)
  15. 1 cup  rice .(cooked and cooled like the one you use for biryani , drain water put oil and keep aside)

Procedure
  1. take 2 tablespoon oil in nonstick pan
  2. add ginger garlic paste and green chillies
  3. add onion fry till golden brown or at least translucent, 
  4. add capsicum carrots cabbage and fry till tender..(carrots should be cooked)
  5. add scrambled eggs, pepper and salt and (azinamoto optional) and stir fry
  6. add leaves of spring onion
  7. add chilly sauce
  8. add soya sauce
  9. last add cooked rice and mix well.
  10. serve hot, garnish with spring onion leaves