Creamy Spinach and Corn - Perfect for Roti

Ingredients: 1 bunch spinach 1 small can sweet corn 1 big onion chopped 3 chopped tomatoes 1 small onion thinly sliced 2 tbs ginger/garlic paste 1 tbs coriander/cumin powder 1/2 tbs red chilli powder 1/4 tbs black pepper powder 1/2 tbs cumin powder salt as per taste 1 tbs butter 3-4 tbs oil Method: 1. Blench spinach and keep it separate. 2. Heat 1 tbs oil, fry chopped onion till it gets translucent, added chopped tomatoes and stir it for few times and then blind it with blenched spinach. 3. Heat 2 tbs oil, add cumin, sliced onion and let onion get nice brown color, add ginger/garlic paste, cumin/coriander powder and fry it for couple of minutes in medium flame, add spinach paste and stir it properly. 4. Add salt and let it cook for a minute and corn, red chilli powder, black pepper powder and sauté it properly. Cover the lid and cook for 2 min, add butter stir it properly and ready to serve with your choice of roti.

My Hometown Sweet Lavang Lata

Ingredients: 2 cups Maida or Atta (level) 20 Cloves 2 tbs butter softened a pinch of Salt Oil or ghee - for frying Syrup: 1 cup Sugar(heaped) 1/2 cup Water 1/4 tbs Lemon juice Filling: 1 cup grated coconut 1/2 cup Powdered sugar 2 tbs chopped nuts Method: 1. Rub butter well on a plate and then mix with flour, salt gently 2. When it is mixed, sprinkle water and gradually knead into a stiff dough, cover with wet cloth and keep it for about 30 min. 3. Mix the ingredients under filling together in a bowl. 4. Make syrup with sugar and water of one string consistency than add lemon juice after removing from fire and keep it warm. 5. Prepare small balls from maida dough and roll out into very thin circles, keep 1 tbs of stuffing in the centre and fold both sides to the centre to cover filling, then fold other two sides to centre overlapping each other to form a square. Insert two clove on top, cover all lavang lata with a wet cloth. 6. Heat ghee or oil in a heavy bottom pan till it becomes moderately hot, reduce flame to low. 7. Deep fry few at a time till crisp on both sides, turning over gently and dip it in the syrup. Take it out from the syrup to a serving plate after about 15 min and enjoy. (Optionally you can flood color to make it more colorful)

Egg Drumstick Curry

Ingredient:
6 egg hard boiled
3 medium potatoes boiled
12 drumstick 2-3 inch long
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
¼ tbs mustard seeds
1 bay leaf
1 tbs garam masala (optional)
1/2 tbs tamarind paste
Salt as per taste
4 tbs oil

Make paste:
2 tomato chopped
2-3 red chilli
2 garlic cloves
1 inch ginger piece
1 tbs cumin/coriander powder (or whole coriander and cumin)

Method:
1) Boil drumstick with little salt, 1 cup of water and tamarind for 1 whistle and let it cool down.
2) Grind the ingredient listed under paste to a smooth paste.
3) Cut potatoes into 2 inch big pieces or you can cut into 2 inch size and then boil.
4) Take the shell out of the eggs and poke couple of times in each egg and keep it aside.
5) Heat 2 tbs of oil in a non stick frying pan and then fry the eggs, 2 at a time till golden brown. Keep stirring so that all side of the egg gets nice brown color.
6) Add remaining oil to the same frying pan and let it heat. Add the bay leaves, mustard seeds and let it finish popping.
7) Add the sliced onion and fry it and cover the lid and low the flame and keep it for another 2 minutes till it turns brown add the masala paste and fry it for about 5 minutes in medium flame.
8) Add 2 cups of water and let it boil for about 5 minutes, add salt, turmeric, boiled potatoes, drumstick along with the water and let it get cook for 4 minutes.
9) Add the boiled eggs to the grave and mix it and let it cook for another 5 minutes and sprinkle the garam masala and your egg drumstick curry is ready to serve with Rice.

Whole Moong Khichidi

Ingredient:
1/2 cup dal
1/2 cup rice
1/2 cup whole moong (preferred if soaked at least 2 hours) or sprout moong
1/2 cup chopped pumpkin
1/4 cup chopped beet root
1 tomato chopped
1 tbs ginger/garlic paste
1/2 tbs coriander/cumin powder
1/2 tbs red chilli powder
1/2 kasoori methi
1/2 tbs haldi powder
1/2 tbs mustard seeds
a pinch of hing
1 tbs oil

Method:
1)Heat oil in pressure cooker, add hing, mustard seeds, after finish popping add ginger/garlic paste, fry for a sec add red chilli powder, turmeric, coriander/cumin powder and add 3-4 cup of water and let it boil.
2)Add chopped beet root and pumpkin and let it boil add daal, rice, moong, chopped tomatoes and salt and stir well.
3)Cover the lid and let it cook for up to 3 whistle and your nutritious moong khichidi is ready.

Sweet and Sour Shrimp Pineapple

Ingredients:
3-4 tbs ginger/garlic paste

12-15 roasted peanuts

1/2 tbs red chilli powder

1/2 tbs paprika

1/2 tbs turmeric

1/2 tbs cumin seeds

2 tbs prawn curry powder

Half of a ripen pineapple (but not too over ripe), cut into 1.5 inch pieces

10 to 12 large shrimps(Shelled and deveined)

salt as per taste

oil to cook

Method:
1)Grind peanuts with few spoon of water to a smooth paste.
2)Heat 3/4 cup oil in a heavy bottom frying pan and add cumin seeds, ginger garlic paste, turmeric, red chilli powder and prawn masala and fry it for
about a 1 to 2 minutes and then add 3 cup of water and let it boil for about 15 minutes till the sweetness from pineapple is released into the gravy.
3)Add peanut paste stir it properly, add shrimp, paprika and salt and stir and let it cook for about 2 minutes and your sweet and sour shrimp pineapple is ready to serve hot with your choice of rice or roti.

Minced Dudhi Chana Daal

Ingredients:
1 cup chana daal
3 cup grated/minced dudhi
1/2 cup chopped onion
2 chopped tomatoes
1 stick of cinnamon
1 tbs red chilli powder
1 tbs turmeric powder
1 tbs garam masala powder
2 tbs oil
1 onion thinly slice
1/2 tbs cumin seeds
salt as per taste

Method:
1.Take daal, grated dudhi, onion, cinnamon stick, chopped tomatoes with 3-4 cups of water in a pressure cooker and cook in low flame till 1 whistle.
2.Open the cooker when it cools off, add garam masala, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and salt and mix it properly.
3.Heat oil in a frying pan, add cumin seeds and allow it to pop and fry sliced onion till nice golden brown and add boiled dudhi daal, mix it properly and cover the lid and let it cook for 2 minutes is medium flame and Minced Dudhi Chana Daal is ready to serve.

Egg Poach Curry

Ingredient:
4 eggs
2 Large Tomatoes made to a puree
1 Large Onion chopped finely
1 tbs Ginger and garlic paste
½ tbs Turmeric Powder
1 tbs Red Chilli Powder
1 tbs Garam Masala Powder
1 Bay leaf
Coriander leaves to garlish
Salt to taste
2 tbs oil

Method:
1) Make a paste with Turmeric, Chilli, Garam Masala powder and Garlic and Ginger paste.
2) Heat Oil in a non-stick frying pand, add bay leaf and chopped onion and fry till onion turn brown color.
3) Add the masala paste to it and fry for about a minute and add tomato puree and fry it for another minute and add 3 cups of water, stir it and bring it to boil and let it boil for about 5-7 minutes in high heat.
4) Now reduce the heat, add salt and carefully break eggs and pour in the boiling gravy.
5) Do it slowly to avoid too much spreading of the white and do it one by one.
6) Cook for about 5-7 minutes or till the yolk forms a farm a round shape.
7) Egg Poached curry is ready to serve, optionally you serve with chopped coriander leaves.

Dudhi Kofta Kadhi

Ingredients:
For the Koftas:
4 cup grated dudhi (1 lb)
2-3 tbs besan
1 tbs kasoori methi
2 tbs - chopped green chillies
1/2 tbs amchoor powder (optional)
oil to deep fry
salt to taste

For the Kadhi:
1 cup - yogurt
2 tbs- besan
2 chopped tomatoes
1 medium onion slice
2 inch ginger chopped
2-3 green chilli chopped
1 tbs cumin/coriander powder
1 tbs kasoori methi
1/2 tbs paprika powder
1 tbs - mustard seeds (rai)
2 dry red chilli(optional)
2 pinches - asafoetida (hing)
3 tbs oil
salt to taste
1/2 tbs garam masala powder
2 tbs chopped coriander (optional to garnish)

Method:
1. Mix salt to the grated dudhi and leave it for 1/2 hour and then sqeez out all the water and keep the water in a bowl.
2. Take sqeeze dudhi, besan, chopped grren chilli, amchoor powder, kasoori methi and mix it properly.
3. Take a spoon of this mixture and shape them into small oval shape koftas and deep fry them in medium heat till golden brown.

Kadhi:
1. Heat 2 tbs oil in a non-stick pan and add asafoetide, add chopped green chilli, ginger and sliced onion and fry for a minute.
2. Add chopped tomatoes, stir it cover the lid and cook on a low flame till tomatoes gets soft, let it get cool and then grind it with dudhi water to a smooth paste.
3. Whisk the curds along with the besan and 2 cups of water till it is smooth and lump-free and mix it with the tomato grind paste.

4. Add this mixture on the pan and continue stirring it in medium heat till it comes to boil, add another cup of water and let it coil for about 15 minutes.
5. Lower the flame and add the koftas, add crushed kasoori methi and garam masala. Garnish with coriander and dudhi kofta kadhi is ready to serve.

Note:This is not my recipe, once I went to my friend Rajani's house and she made it, it was so tasty that I had to ask for the recipe. I hope you will also like it.

Garlic Chatpata Fish(Tilapia)

Ingredient:
2 slice of tilapia fillet chopped
3-4 Tbs garlic choped
1 tbs tamarind paste
½ tbs turmeric powder
½ tbs red chilli powder
1 tbs Coriander/cumin powder
2-3 Green chilli chopped
4-5 tbs oil
4 cloves of garlic crushed
1 pinch of hing( Asafetida )
5-6 tbs chopped coriander leaves
Salt as per taste

Method:
1) Grind Tamarind paste, chopped Garlic, Turmeric powder, Coriander/cumin powder, Red Chilli powder and chopped green chilli with few spoon of water to a coarse paste, mix with 1 tbs oil and salt and and rub it to the fish and keep it aside for about 15 minutes.
2)Heat rest of the oil in a heavy bottom frying pan add hing and crushed garlic and fry till light golden color and then add marinated fish and stir well, after a minute turn the fish pieces to other side and let it fry for another minute or two and add chopped coriander.
3)cook for another 2 minutes and your Garlic chatpata fish (tilapia) is ready to serve hot with your choice of roti or nan.

Dudhi Garlic Shrimp

Ingredients:
1 Dudhi (about 1 lb)
1 cup shrimp(shelled and deveined)
½ tbs cumin seeds
3-4 cloves of garlic
1 tbs cumin and coriander powder
4-5 Black Pepper or Kali mirch
2-3 green chilli
½ tbs paprika
½ tbs turmeric
½ tbs corn flour
2 tbs oil
Salt as per taste
2-3 tbs lemon juice

Method:
1. Peel the skin and chop dudhi into 1 inch size and marinate with salt and turmeric and leave it for 5 min.
2.Grind, green chilli, garlic, black pepper, cumin/coriander powder with few spoon of water to a smooth paste.
3.Heat oil in a non-stick frying pan, add cumin and right away add marinated dudhi, stir it and let it cook for 4-5 minutes and add masala paste and stir it properly, cover the lid and let it cook till tender.
4.Add the shrimp, salt turmeric, paprika and ½ cup of water and cook for another 2-3 minutes
5.Add corn flour and mix it properly and your Dudhi garlic shrimp is ready to serve hot with rice.

Dudhi Masoor Daal Curry

Ingredients:
3 cup grated dudhi
1 cup whole masoor daal
1/2 cup chopped onion
2 tbs sambar masala
1 tbs turmeric powder
4 tomatoes chopped
1 tbs cumin seeds
4 tbs oil
salt as per taste

Method:
1.Heat oil, add cumin seeds and allow to finish popping, add sambar powder and 2 cups of water and let it boil.
2.Add turmeric powder, chopped onion, chopped tomatoes mix it properly and let it boil, add masoor daal, salt.
3.After it boils cover the lid and let it cook in low flame for about 10-15 minutes and switch it off when it's ready to get whistle.
4.Switch off the gas and open it when it gets cool and Dudhi Masoor Daal Curry is ready to serve hot with rice or roti. You can garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

Ginger Tomato Chutney

Ingredients:
4-5 inch ginger chopped
3 green chilli
1 tbs tamarind paste
1 tbs mustard seeds
1 chopped tomato
5-6 curry leaves
1 tbs coriander powder
1 tbs oil
salt as per table

Method:
1.Heat oil in a frying pan, add mustard seeds, curry leaves, tamarind paste and coriander powder and fry for a minute and let it cool down.
2.Grind chopped tomato, salt, fried tamarind paste, chopped ginger, green chilli to a smooth paste and your ginger tomato chutney is ready to serve.

Dudhi Veg Keema

Ingredient:
2 cups grated dudhi
1 cup crushed soya chunk washed in hot water
1 small can green pea
1 small onion chopped
2 clove garlic
1 piece of ginger
1 red chilli
1 tbs curry powder
1 tbs tomato puree
1 tbs lemon juice
1 tbs garam masala
1 tbs turmeric
1/2 tbs red chilli powder
1/2 tbs cumin seeds
salt as per taste
4-5 tbs oil

Method:
1.Grind onion, garlic, ginger, red chilli, curry powder with few spoon of water.
2.Heat oil in a frying pan, add cumin seeds and then grind paste, turmeric, red chilli powder and fry it for couple minutes.
3.Add tomato paste mix it properly and than add grated dudhi, soya chunk and saute it well and cover the lid and let it cook for 5 minutes in low flame.
4.Add green pea, 1/2 cup of water, salt, lemon juice and garam masala and mix it properly and your spicy dudhi veg keema is ready to serve hot with your choice of rice or roti.

Arbi Masala

Ingredient:
1/2 lb Arbi
1/2 tbs mustard seeds
1/4 cup roasted peanuts
1 tbs curry powder
1 tbs tomato paste
2 tbs yogurt
1 tbs lemon juice
1 tbs Turmeric powder
1 tbs chilli powder,adjust as per need
3 tbs oil

Method:
1. Washed and pressure cooked the arbi with salt till 1 to 2 whistles. Peel the arbi after it cools and cut them into small pieces.
2. Grind peanuts with few spoon of water.
3. Heat oil, add mustard seeds allow it finish popping and add curry powder, peanut paste, turmeric, red chilli powder, tomato, yogurt and mix it properly and fry for a minute.
4. Add the Arbi, salt and fry it well and close the lid and cook in low flame for 2 mins add lemon juice and your Arbi masala is ready to serve with rice or roti.

Coconut Walnut Ladoo with Jaggery

Ingredient:
2cups Coconut grated and roasted till dry
1 cup of walnut chunks
2 cups of jaggery

Method:
1)Dissolve jaggery in little water, heat and make a syrup till it is ready( when you drop few drops of this jaggery in a small bowl of water and it becomes a small ball instead of spreading).
2)Add walnut and roasted coconut and mix it properly and switch off the gas.

3)Make balls out of this mixture and coconut walnut ladoo is ready to serve.

Spinach Aloo cutlet

Ingredient:
1 bunch of spinach (palak)
2 potatoes
2 green chillies
2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
1 cup bread crumbs
salt and oil as required


Method:
1)Boil and mash potatoes.
2)Blench the spinach and grind with green chillies, ginger-garlic paste to a smooth or coarse paste and mix with mashed potato. Add salt and ½ cup of bread crumbs and mix it properly
3)Make small balls using the potato-spinach mixture and then coat with the bread powder, flattened it and keep it in the freezer for about 10 minutes.
4) Heat oil in a frying pan heat oil and add the cutlet and deep fry in medium heat. Make sure you don't have too much oil, it should not dip in the oil completely. Delicious spinach aloo cutlet is ready to serve.

Mushroom Stuffed Egg Omelet

Ingredient:
2 eggs
2 cheese singles
1 green chilli chopped
1/4 cup button mushroom slice
salt as per taste
3 tbs oil

Method:
1) Take mushroom and blench it with little salt and water, strain from water and keep it aside
2) Take a bowl and beat the egg with salt, chopped green chilli.
3) Heat oil in a frying pan, put the egg on pan, spread it and let it half cook. Spread mushroom, top with cheese slice and let it cook for 2 min and then fold the omelet.

Oats and Nuts Brittle

Ingredients:
2 cup - roasted oats
1 cup - Roasted nuts (peanuts, cashew)
1 and 1/2 cup jaggery

Method:
1. Break jaggery into small pieces and mix with little water (about 1/3 cup), filter to remove any dirt.
2. Boil jaggery on medium heat; stir in between till jaggery thickens a bit. Take a small bowl of water and drop jaggery syrup into water, if the syrup turns to a ball then it's ready to add oats and nuts, if it's like a string then you need to heat little more.
3. Now add roasted oats and nuts to the syrup, switch off the gas and stir it properly and lay this mixture on aluminum foil and spread flat and allow it to cool down and then break it into pieces and your tasty oats and nuts brittle is ready to serve.

I am sending this entry for Feb 10 – CWS: Oats

Dry Garlic Chutney Stuffed Puri

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup multigrain flour
3 tbsp. oil
salt to taste
1/3 cup gry garlic chutney
oil to deep fry

Method:
1. Mix flour, salt and oil, knead into soft pliable dough and keep it aside for about 30 minutes, divide the dough into even size small balls.
2. Using finger make small puri using finger and place 1 spoon of dry garlic chutney in the middle, gather edges and roll into a ball, press lightly and keep it for 5 minutes and roll into small puri.
3. Deep fry the puri on low flame till golden color, drain and repeat for all garlic chutney stuffed puri.

Cheese Stuffed Bread Pakoda

Ingredient:
4 slice of bread, sides trimmed
4 slice of cheese singles
1 medium onion chopped
1 medium chopped bell pepper
salt as per taste
1/4 cup besan
rice flour 1/2 of besan
1/4 tbs red chili powder
oil to deep fry

Method:
1)Take a slice of bread, put a slice of cheese, put chopped onion and bell pepper, sprinkle some salt, cover with another cheese slice and bread slice. Cut the sandwich into two pieces.

2)Make a paste of besan, rice flour, red chilli powder, salt and water into a smooth batter.
3)Heat oil in a frying pan, now dip the cheese stuffed bread in the batter and deep fry in medium-low flame, stirring and turning occasionally till it is golden on both sides. And cheese stuffed bread pakoda is ready to serve hot.