Hagalkayi Sweet Sabji

Hagalkayi (Bitter gourd) is very healthy vegetable but hearing the name itself many people avoids to eat because the answer is bitter but hereafter you can’t say as you don’t like bitter gourd, if you taste this recipe. I prepared in such a way that you feel eating like other sabjis and asks for more and more, cook, eat and feel a different and yummy taste.

Preparation time: 15mins

Cooking time: 25mins

Serves: 6

Ingredients:

½ kg Hagalkayi (Bitter gourd) 

5tsp Tamarind pulp

1tsp red Chilly powder

3tsp vegetable oil

1tsp Mustard seeds

1tsp Sesame powder

3tsp Jaggery

½ tsp Turmeric powder

3tsp coarsely chopped Coriander leaves 

10 Curry leaves

Salt

Water

Procedure:

1.     Clean Bitter gourd in water, cut in to pieces of 2cm long by removing the inner stuff. Soak it in water with salt and turmeric. After some 10mins using palms squeeze the water from bitter gourd and keep it aside.

2.     Switch on the stove, keep a frying pan to heat.

3.     Add 2tsp of oil and Bitter gourd, fry continuously till bitter gourd turns dark brown and transfer into a plate.

4.     Take the same pan add 1tsp of oil followed by mustard seeds as its splutters add curry leaves and tamarind pulp, stir for 3 mins, then add bitter gourd and fry.

5.     Add salt, red chilly powder, jaggery and sesame powder and fry, you can add little water if the sabji is much thick.

6.     Switch off the stove and add Coriander leaves.

7.     Healthy and yummy Hagalkayi Sweet sabji is ready to eat with chapathi, roti and even with rice also.

Aloo Mutter Masala

Aloo (Potato) I think everyone likes this vegetable, that too in north they will use aloo more in their daily life. People say eating much Aloo leads to joints pain something something, but many doctos says eating any food in limit will not affects. So here is Aloo Mutter (Green Peas), Good combination right? This is a yummy curry people starts licking their finger while eating, test it you will believe…

Preparation time: 30mins

Cooking time: 20mins

Serves: 8

Ingredients:

1 cup fresh Green peas or frozen baby peas

4 Potatoes

2 tomatoes

½ cup grated Coconut

½ cup Cashew

½ cup sweet Curds

5 Green chillies

2tsp chopped Ginger

3tsp unsalted Butter or Ghee

1tsp Fennel seeds

1tsp Garam masala powder

½ tsp turmeric powder

½ tsp pepper seeds

½ tsp Sugar

4tsp coarsely chopped Coriander leaves

Salt

Water

Procedure:

1.     Cook the potatoes in cooker later peel the skin and cut into cubes.

2.     Boil the Green peas, using strainer remove water and keep peas aside.

3.     Grind Coconut, cashew, 2tsp coriander leaves, turmeric powder, pepper, green chillies, ginger and tomatoes, make a fine paste.

4.     Keep a pan to heat, add Butter or ghee followed by fennel seeds and sauté.

5.     Add the grinded paste and fry till it turns brown.

6.     Now add salt, red chilly and garam masala powder (Add little water if the gravy is very thick) and fry for a minute.

7.     Later add the potatoes and green peas and close the pan lid for 5 mins.

8.     Garnish with 2tsp of coriander leaves.

9.     Aloo Mutter Masala is ready to serve with roti and chapathi.

Bhindi Tomato Sabji

Ladies finger (Bhindi) is a very healthy vegetable, which sharpens the memory, so see to that your children will not miss any Bhindi dishes. Here I tried Bhindi with Tomato combination to make a sabji, the cooking process is very easy. Try it and i am sure you will like it.

Preparation time: 20mins

Cooking time: 20mins

Serves: 6

Ingredients:

½ kg Bhindi (Ladies Finger)

2cup chopped tomatoes

1cup grated Coconut

1tsp Bengal Gram dal

2tsp red  Chilly powder

3tsp vegetable oil

1tsp Mustard seeds

½ tsp Garam masala powder

3tsp coarsely chopped Coriander leaves

10 Curry leaves

Salt

Procedure:

1.           Clean Bhindi’s in water and cut as 1inch long.

2.           Switch on the stove, put a frying pan to heat.

3.           Add 2tsp of oil and Bhindi, fry thoroughly as bhendi will leave all the sticky, transfer bhindi into a plate.

4.           Use the same pan, add 1tsp oil for seasoning, followed by mustard seeds, Bengal gram dal, sauté till dal turns slight brown.

5.            Add Tomatoes and curry leaves, fry for 3 mins.

6.           Later add fried Bhindi into it, followed by salt, red chilly and garam masala powder and mix well.

7.           At the end add coconut and coriander leaves and swtich off the stove.

8.           Bhindi Tomato Sabji is ready to serve with chapathi, roti or puri.

Mixed Vegetable Curry

Vegetables which are very much required for a healthy body, but now a day’s intake of such fresh vegetables has reduced because of busy life no time to cut much vegetables, so people are going more for ready food items, here I used many vegetables and made a delicious curry, when I prepared this at home everyone appreciated a lot, its mouth watering so even you cook and get appreciations from yours…

Preparation time: 30mins

Cooking time: 20mins

Serves: 8

Ingredients:

1cup chopped Capsicum

1cup chopped Potato (Peel the potato skin before chopping)

1cup chopped Beans

1cup chopped Carrot (Peel the potato skin before chopping)

½ cup chopped tomatoes

½ cup grated Coconut

½ cup Cashew

½ cup sweet Curds

3 Tomatoes

5 Green chillies

2tsp chopped Ginger

4tsp vegetable oil

1tsp Jeera

1tsp Garam masala powder

½ tsp Sugar

6tsp coarsely chopped Coriander leaves

Salt

Water

Procedure:

1.           Switch on the stove put a bowl of water to heat.

2.           Add carrot, beans and potato and half boil them, later strain the water and keep the vegetables aside.

3.           Grind 3 tomatoes, 3tsp of coriander leaves, cashew, green chillies, ginger and coconut, make fine paste.

4.           Keep a frying pan to heat, add vegetable oil followed by jeera and sauté.

5.           Add the grinded paste in to pan and fry as the mixture turns slight brown (you can add little water if the paste is very much thick).

6.           Later add half boiled vegetables and capsicum fry for 5 mins.

7.           Add salt, garam masala powder, sugar and curds at the end.

8.           Add 3tsp of coriander powder mix well and switch off the stove.

9.           Spicy Mixed Vegetable curry is ready to eat, this can serve with roti, chapathi or puri.

Multi Dals Ladoo

Making our children to eat nutritional and healthy food has become a great task now because most of them love to have junk food, so here I tried to combine few dals and made as Multi Dals Ladoo sweet, experiment it surely you will get good results.

Preparation time: 45mins

Cooking time: 20mins

Number of Ladoos: 20(Medium Size)

Ingredients:

1cup Bengal gram dal

1cup Black gram dal

1cup Green gram dal

1cup Rice flour

1cup Chiroti rava (Semolina)

½cup Cashew

4cups Sugar

6tsp Ghee

½cup boiled Milk

3 cardamoms

Procedure:

1.             Switch on the stove put a frying pan to heat.

2.             Add 2tsp of ghee followed by Bengal gram, black gram and green gram dals, fry it thoroughly      as all dals turns to dark brown color and outputs a good smell. Now switch off stove and let dals cool, later using mixer blend this dal mixture with cashew and cardamom into fine powder.

3.             Put sugar into mixer and make fine powder.

4.             Take a pan and fry rice flour and chiroti rava with 4tsp of ghee.

5.             Add blended dals and sugar powder into the same pan and mix well.

6.             By sprinkling milk make the mixture into uniform sized ladoo.

7.            That’s it delicious Multi Dals ladoo is ready to eat.

Tomato Noodles

We have eaten plain noodles, noodles with many vegetables etc., here I tried with our favourite just tomato with noodles. Even my kid likes to have it, this is a mouthwatering dish, try to cook and serve your loved ones.

Preparation time: 25mins

Cooking time: 20mins

Serves: 6

Ingredients:

250gm Ata Noodles

5 ripen Tomato’s

2tsp vegetable oil

1tsp Jeera

1 Bay leaf

1tsp Black pepper powder

1/2tsp Garam masala powder

1/2tsp Sugar

3tsp coarsely chopped Coriander leaves

Salt

Water

Procedure:

1. Blend tomato’s in mixer and keep aside.
2. Switch on the stove keep a bowl of water to boil for 5 mins, then add noodles into it.
3. Let it cook for 5mins, take out the bowl from stove. Using a strainer remove the water and keep the noodles aside.
4. Put a frying pan on stove to heat.
5. Add oil followed by jeera, bay leaf, blended tomato syrup and stir constantly.
6. Now add salt, garam masala, black pepper powder and sugar.
7. As the gravy is ready add the cooked noodles in it and leave for 5 mins in low flame.
8. Switch off the stove take out the pan and add coriander leaves.
9. Hot Hot and spicyTomato Noodles is ready to eat.

Avalakki Puliyogre

Bored of eating same rice, chapathi, dosa, nothing to worry i come up with a old traditional breakfast Gojju Avalakki with slight changes as Avalakki(Flattened rice) puliyogre. Lets cook and taste this yummy dish.

Preparation time: 10mins

Cooking time: 15mins

Serves: 7 to 8

Ingredients:

500gms Flattened Rice

50gm Groundnut

25gm Bengal gram

20gm Black gram

100gm ripen Tamarind

100gm Jaggery

5tsp Vegetable oil

1tsp Mustard seeds

3tsp Sambar powder

5 dry Red Chillies

20 Curry leaves

5tsp shredded dry Coconut

3tsp coarsely chopped Coriander leaves

1pinch Asafoetida(Hing)

Salt

Water

Procedure:

1.       Clean flattened rice thoroughly in water and drain the water using a strainer, try to remove as much of water from it else it would become soggy.

2.       Soak tamarind in warm water and take out the pulp from it.

3.       Switch on the stove and put a frying pan to heat.

4.       Add oil for seizening followed by mustard, hing, red chillies, groundnut and curry leaves.

5.       Later add Bengal gram and black gram sauté till it turns golden brown.

6.       Add sambar powder, salt and prepared tamarind pulp, don’t stop stirring for some 5mins.

7.       Add jaggery to it, let it melt completely and then add coriander leaves and dry coconut.

8.       Now add the flattened rice in to the same pan and mix well.

9.       Delicious Avalakki puliyogre is ready to serve.

Akki Anna Rotti

You have left out or mashed cooked rice and does not want to throw it, then I will show how you can make rotti by using it, it’s really savory just try it you will believe me.

Preparation time: 10mins

Cooking time: 20mins

Serves: 5 to 6

Ingredients:

1 cup Rice flour

2 cups Cooked rice

1cup of Coriander leaves

¼ cup Curry leaves

8 Green chillies

1 tsp Jeera

15gms Ginger

½ cup finely grated Carrot

Salt

Water

Procedure:

1. Take a bowl add rice flour and cooked rice, mix well by using hands.
2. Blend green chillies and ginger.
3. Add the paste to same bowl.
4. Later add coriander leaves, jeera, carrot and curry leaves.
5. Add required amount of salt and water to it and make a thick batter.

6. Divide batter into equal parts and put each of them on tava as roti.

       7. Fry on both the sides. Rotti is ready to eat with ghee or coconut chutney.

Green Peas Rice

Are you in Hurry!!!! But still you need to prepare breakfast, don’t worry here is a receipe for you if you have green peas at home, it will be prepared in short time and not compromises with taste.

Ingredients:

1 cup fresh Green peas or frozen baby peas

1 cup chopped onions

2 cups basmati or other long-grain white Rice

5 Green chillies – split into 2 pieces

1 tsp Bengal Gram Dal

1 tsp Black Gram Dal

3 tsp vegetable oil

½  tsp Mustard seeds

10 Curry leaves

½  cup grated fresh Coconut

3 tsp coarsely chopped Coriander leaves

Salt

Procedure:

1. Clean the rice in water and keep it aside.
2. Switch on the stove and put cooker to heat up.
3. Put oil then mustard seeds once it started splitting add bengal  gram, black gram, onion and sauté till it turns golden brown.
4. Now add green chillies and curry leaves to avoid sprinkling.
5. Add Green peas to it and sauté.
6. Pour 4 cups of water to it and add required amount of salt.
7. Add  rice, coconut and coriander leaves.
8. Close the cooker and wait for 2-3 pressures.
9. After that switch off stove and let the cooker cool.
10. Open the lid and the dish is ready to serve.